Every person, firm or corporation, either as principal or agent, who shall in any manner engage in, or conduct a public auction sale, without having first obtained a license as hereinbefore provided, or who shall knowingly advertise, represent or hold forth any sale of goods, wares or merchandise to be conducted contrary to the provisions of this act¹ shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum not less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) and not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), to which may be added imprisonment of not less than thirty (30) days and not more than one hundred eighty (180) days.