AGENCY: Tooele County (Utah). County Clerk

SERIES: 26177
TITLE: Merchants' and peddlers' licenses
DATES: 1885-1893.
ARRANGEMENT: Numerically by license number

DESCRIPTION: Pursuant to"an act authorizing county courts to grant licenses," (passed by the Legislative Assembly in 1884) the Tooele County Court issued licenses authorizing any commercial activity within the county. Licenses were printed in duplicate in large books and then filled out doubly so that the merchant could have a copy and the county could also retain a stub copy in the book. Merchants' and peddlers' licenses were signed by the Tooele county clerk.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

All county court records are historically significant because few of them have survived.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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