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Scope and ContentBlank license forms for retail business, City of Hoboken, for years 1912-1913. Printed forms, two-up, with perforations; received as removed from record book. Leaf with two forms: 6-7/8" high x 7-7/8" wide. Inkstamped with serial number for badge no. that was issued. Sheet 1: numbers 115 + 116 Sheet 2: numbers 117 + 118 Intended for peddling merchandise, but not for street peddlers working from mobile carts, etc., Restrictions stated excluded the selling on the street of several broad categories of items and usual methods of transporting or displaying such items for sale. Licensing year ran from July 1912 to first week of June 1913. Text: No. [inkstamped number] Hoboken, N.J. ________________ 191 Received from _________________________ of _______________________ Street, the sum of Seven Dollars for License to Peddle Merchandise, Excepting the hawking, peddling or selling of dry goods, wearing apparel, jewelry, ornaments, crockery, woodenware, or tinware from stands, wagons, pushcarts or otherwise, on the public streets of the City of Hoboken, until the first Monday in June 1913. $7.000 Badge No. [inkstamped number] ____________________ City Clerk ---- [vertically at left] Countersigned: _____________________ Comptroller ==== ====