The Letter Sent by Mail.

104 Breadalbane street, New Orleans, La., May 3, 1882. Mr. Robert Fleming,

St. Louis, Mo. Dear Sir:

We have to-day given a guarantee letter of credit upon you for Ten Thousand Dollars in merchandise, to be paid within sixty days after your receipt of this. The bearer of our letter of credit is Mr. Asahel T. Cox, an acquaintance of long standing and a prosperous hardware merchant at Baton Rouge, La.

Mr. Cox is twenty-nine years old, five feet four inches tall, with blue eyes, light hair, side whiskers of a darker shade, and has a hair-mole on his left cheek. -We commend him to your kind consideration.

Yours Very Respectfully,

GEORGE PROBITY & CO.

License

A LICENSE is a paper permitting a proper person, or persons, to sell certain merchan-dise, or transact other lawful and specific business with the public, within certain prescribed districts, on payment of a special tax or premium for such privilege.

Licenses may be issued, respectively, by national, State, county, or municipal governments, or by others in authority.

Licenses cover an indefinite number of objects, trades and professions, and are regulated by statutes and ordinances, providing restrictions and inflicting penalties for misrepresentations and other fraudulent practices.

Licenses are liable to be recalled, or annulled, by the parties who issue them, whether of a public or private nature, either by agreement at a particular date, or on account of some violation of good faith on the part of the licensed person.

A license may exist if only framed in words, without a writing, but in such a case it should only be uttered in the presence of competent witnesses.

The following are the forms of license, issued by the municipal authority, and are good general forms for use anywhere:

Form Of Peddler's License

By authority of the city of Buffalo, permission is hereby given to John Ryan to peddle green fruit, numbered 872, from the date hereof until the first day of May next, in said city, subject to the ordinances of said city in such cases made and provided, and to revocation by the Mayor at any time, at his discretion.

Witness the hand of the Mayor of said city, and the corporate seal thereof, this twenty-second day of May, 1882.

H. H. CARTER, Mayor. Attest: John Smith, City Clerk.

On the back of this license is printed the following: license no. 872. To Peddlers: - Your attention is directed to the following section from the ordinance relating to peddlers:

Section 5. - Any person who shall exercise the vocation of peddler, by means of a wagon, cart or other vehicle, shall cause his name, together with the number of his license, to be painted on the outside of his vehicle, the letters and figures not less than one inch in length. Any violation of this section shall subject the offender to a fine of not less than Five Dollars, and not more than Fifty Dollars.

CITY SEAL.

Licenses for other purposes, including taverns, saloons, etc., may be issued by the presidents and common councils of villages, supervisors of towns, or mayors and aldermen of cities, in States where such governments are permitted by the State and municipal laws, to license such business, within their limits.

Druggist's License from the Government to Retail Ardent Spirits.

$25.00. Series of 1881. No. 2071654. United States stamp for special tax. Internal revenue.

Received from George T. Meriton the sum of Twenty-five Dollars, for special tax on the business of retail liquor dealer, to be carried on at Freeport, State of Pennsylvania, for the periods represented by the coupon or coupons hereto attached. Dated at Philadelphia, 23 April, 1881.

THOMAS B. SMITH, Collector 1st Dist., State of Pennsylvania.

Severe penalties are imposed for neglect or refusal to place and keep this stamp conspicuously in your establishment or place of business.

U. S. REV. SEAL.

Form Of License To Sell Tobacco And Cigars

$5.00. Series of 1882. No. 6521075. United States stamp for special tax. Internal revenue.

Received from Andrew R. Phillips, the sum of Five Dollars, for special tax on the business of retail tobacco dealer, to be carried on at Albany, State of New York, for the period represented by the coupon or coupons hereto attached. Dated at Albany, N. Y., 6 June, 1882.

ARTHUR KELLEY, Collector 3d Dist., State of New York.

Severe penalties are imposed for neglect or refusal to place and keep this stamp conspicuously in your establishment or place of business.

U. 8. REV.

SEAL.