1891 private laws – Ch.243 Sec.57
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CHAPTER 243 An act to amend the charter of the city of Raleigh. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Every auctioneer licensed by the board of aldermen of the city, after he has given his bond for five thousand dollars, with approved security and conditioned as provided in section twenty-two hundred and eighty-one of The Code, shall be entitled to charge two and one-half per centum commission on the amount of sales unless otherwise agreed between him and the owner of the goods sold, and every person who cries or sells goods at auction shall be considered an auctioneer: Provided, that this section shall not for five years from the ratification of this act apply to auctioneers or tobacco warehouses licensed by the United States government.