Pennsylvania Statutes Title 72 P.S. Taxation and Fiscal Affairs § 2661. Vendors of foreign merchandise to take out license

Every person who shall deal in the selling of any goods, wares and merchandise, wines or distilled liquors, drugs or medicines, except such as are the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States, and except such as are sold by auctioneers, under licenses or commissions granted to them pursuant to law, and by licensed tavern keepers, shall, on or before the first day of September, 1830, and on or before the first day of May, in each year thereafter, take out from the treasurer of the proper city or county a license for vending such foreign merchandise or liquors, which license shall be in the following form, to wit: “______ county, ss.______ has paid to me, for the use of the Commonwealth, ______ dollars, which entitles him to wholesale or retail foreign merchandise and liquors as a wholesale dealer or a retailer of foreign merchandise and liquors of the ______ class, within the county of ______, for one year from the first day of September, (or May, as the case may be), 18__.

______, A. B., treasurer of ______ county:” Provided always, That the sale of liquors shall not be hereby authorized in measures less than those of one quart, and that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to physicians, apothecaries, surgeons or chemists, as to any wines or spirituous liquors which they may use in the preparation or making up of medicines for sick, lame or disordered persons: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be taken or construed so as to require the importer of foreign goods disposing of the same in the form in which said goods are imported, to take out a license for vending the same.