All persons licensed and engaged in the junk business shall keep in their place of business books or ledgers in which shall be kept, written in English and numbered consecutively, an accurate record of each purchase setting forth a description of the articles, goods and merchandise purchased and the time of receiving the same, together with the name and residence of the person selling or delivering the goods purchased by the dealer.
Every dealer shall also legibly write, in English, on tags numbered by the Chief of Police, the date or time the purchase was made and the name of the seller, which tag shall be firmly fastened on the property purchased and shall be numbered to correspond with the number of the description of the property in the book hereinbefore mentioned.
(1947 Code, Sec. 5-352.)