Ordinance no. 3, §§ 1-5 & § 12, Common Council of the Town of White Salmon (1907) (White Salmon, Washington).

“ORDINANCE NO. 3.

    An Ordinance entitled 'AN ORDINANCE TO IMPOSE AND REGULATE LICENSES UPON CERTAIN TRADES OR CALLINGS AND REGULATING THE MANNER OF ISSUING LICENSES'

    Be it ordained by the Common Council of the Town of White Salmon:

SEC. I.    No person, firm, company or corporation shall be engaged in[,] prosecute or carry on any trade, business, occupation, pursuit or profession for which a license is required by this Ordinance or any Ordinance of White Salmon, until he or she have obtained such a license as hereinafter provided. 

SEC. II.    That any person, firm, company or corporation required by this Ordinance or any Ordinance of the Town of White Salmon to obtain a license, to engage[1] in any trade, business, occupation, pursuit or profession for which a license is required shall first pay to the Town Treasurer the sum or sums required by Ordinance to be paid therefor and thereupon with the receipt of the treasurer, (which receipt shall set forth the kind of business, for which license is required) they shall apply to the Town Clerk, who shall issue a license to the parties applying, in accordance with the receipt of the Treasurer. Every such license shall set forth the purpose, trade, business or profession for which the license is granted, and the name of the person taking out the same, the time for which the license is to run, the date of which same expires, and the date of issuing the license; and any person exercising or carrying such trade, business or profession or doing any act for which a license is required, shall on demand of any town Officer produce such license, and unless he shall do so, may be taken and deemed to have no license, and placed under arrest by the proper Officer for violating this Ordinance, and brought before the Police Justice to be dealt with according to law.

SEC. III.    In every case where more than one of the pursuits, employments, or occupation for which a license is required, shall be pursued or carried on in the same place, by the same person, at the same time, license must be taken out for each, according to the rates severally[2] prescribed. All licenses may be issued at any time, but no license shall be issued for less than the shortest time named and provided for such license in this Ordinance of the town. 

SEC. IV.    All licenses required by the Ordinances of the Town of White Salmon, shall be paid in gold or silver coin.

SEC. V.    Any person or persons, firm, company or corporation who shall engage in, prosecute or carry on within the limits of White Salmon any trade, business, occupation, pursuit or profession for which a license is required by this or any Ordinance of White Salmon without first obtaining such license herein provided, or who shall violate any provision of this ordinance, shall on conviction thereof before the Police Justice Court be fined not less than Five nor more than Fifty Dollars, or punished by imprisonment not less than two or more than twenty days, or both…

…SEC. XII.    Shooting galleries shall pay a quarterly license of Five Dollars every place or building where guns are kept, for shooting at targets whether for hire or not, shall be deemed a shooting gallery under this Ordinance.”