Pennsylvania Act 1883-80 — PATENT MEDICINES - LICENSING OF MANUFACTURERS AND VENDORS

Act text

PATENT MEDICINES - LICENSING OF MANUFACTURERS AND VENDORS
                   Act of Jun. 5, 1883, P.L. 87, No. 80               Cl. 72
                                  AN ACT

     Amendatory of the license laws of the State determining the
        license fee to be paid by manfacturers or venders of nostrums
        or patent medicines, and repealing the twenty-fifth and
        twenty-sixth sections of the act of April tenth, one thousand
        eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An act to create a
        sinking fund, and to provide for the gradual and certain
        extinguishment of the debt of the Commonwealth."

        Section 1.  Manufacturers and vendors of patent medicines to
     be licensed
        Hereafter every individual or copartnership, who shall engage
     in the business of manufacturing or vending nostrums or patent
     medicines, of whatever class or character, shall, for the
     purpose of taxation, be deemed and taken to be dealers in
     merchandise, and shall be classed and rated for a yearly license
     in the same manner, except as is hereinafter provided, as other
     dealers in merchandise are now by law classed and rated:
     Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as
     to exempt any manufacturer of nostrums or patent medicines from
     the payment of the proper license fee, or any part thereof, on
     the grounds that he is selling goods of his own manufacture,
     from the place where the same were manufactured.  1883, June 5,
     P.L. 87, Sec. 1.