DehiGon
of pawn
broker and
pawnine

transactions.

Ch. 31. No. 12.] Pawnbrokers.

for any process or operation to be performed thereupon
or therewith, and before the same are completed or
finished for the purpose of wear or consumption,

3. In order to prevent evasion of the provisions of this
Ordinance, the following persons shall be deemed to be
persons carrying on the business of taking g goods and chattels
In pawn, that is to say every person who keeps a shop tor
the purchase or cale of goods or chattels, or for taking in
goods or chattels by wi ay of security for money advanced
thereon, and who purchases or receives or takes in goods
or chattels, and pays or advances or lends thereon any sum
of money not exceeding forty-eight dollars with or under an
agreement or unde rstanding, expressed or implied, or to be
from the nature and character of the dealing reasonably
inferred, that those goods or chattels may be afterwards
redeemed or re-purchased on any terms; and every such
transaction, article, payment, advance, and loan shall be
deemed i pawning, pledge, and loan respeetively within
this Ordinance.

4. The provisions of this Ordinance relating to pawn-
brokers shallextend to and include the executors or admin-
istrators of deceased pawnbrokers, ‘xcept that an executor
or administrator shall not be answerable for any penalty
or forfeiture personally, or out of his own estate, unless the
same is incurred by his own act or neglect.

5. For the purposes of this Ordinance, anything done or
omitted by the servant, apprentice, or agent of a pawn-
broker in the course of or in relation to the business of the
pawnbroker shall be deemed to be done or omitted (as the
case may be) by the pawnbroker; and anything by this
Ordinance authorised to be done by a pawnbroker may be
done by lis servant, apprentice, or agent,

6. The rights, powers, and benefits by this Ordinance
reserved to ‘and conferred on pawners shall extend to and
be deemed to be reserved to and conferred on the assigns of
pawners, and to and on the execulors or administrators of
deceased pawners; but any person representing himself to a