—has recently decided, that a Interstate state law prohibiting peddlers, who deal in selling goods by going from place to place to sell the Commerce, Peddlers, License Tax same, from peddling without a license, which must state how the dealing is to be carried on, and must also be exhibited on demand to any sheriff, collector, constable, or citizen householder of the …

It is settled that such a statute imposes no burden upon interstate commerce which the Constitution interdicts

It has likewise sustained a fixed-sum license tax imposed on the agent of the interstate seller for the privilege of selling merchandise brought into the taxing state for the purpose of sale.

Case, therefore, there was no movement of goods in interstate commerce because of orders taken for their sale, but the specific articles carried about by the peddler, and none other, were sold and delivered by him.

Vendors' license taxes were valid if imposed upon vendors who brought their goods into the state directly for sale from their wagons.

—involved the validity of a statute of Missouri providing that peddlers of goods, going from place to place within the State to sell them, should take out and pay for licenses.

Even with regard to patents some laws of a kind that might destroy the use of them within the State have been upheld.

From earliest times, both in England and America, hawking and peddling have been considered a proper subject of police regulation and prohibition.

On the general question there should be compared with the drummer cases the decisions on the other side of the line.

The primary idea of a hawker and peddler is that of an itinerant or traveling trader, carrying goods about to sell them and selling them to purchasers, as distinguished from a trader who sells goods from a fixed location

[CITATION] Gannaway v. State of Arkansas

[CITATION] COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. PAUL v. SAME (two cases).