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Except as hereinafter provided, all hawkers and peddlers desiring to sell or offer for sale as hawkers and peddlers, any article or substances within the town, and all persons desiring to sell or offer for sale any goods, wares, merchandise, ice cream, fruits, or vegetables, or other articles or substances on any street in the town, shall first obtain a license therefor to be issued by the town clerk and to that end shall make application to the chief of police for such license and upon the recommendation of the chief of police such license may be issued, to sell the articles or substances hereinbefore mentioned upon any street in the town for a period from the date of issue of such license until the first day of June next ensuing such date.
(Ch. 8, § 1, 9-6-27)