CHAPTER 254 AN ACT TO AMEND THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1887, CHAPTER 111, RELATIVE TO THE TOWN OF MOREHEAD CITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 12. Strike out all of section forty-five of said act and insert in lien thereof the following: Section 45 That in addition to the subjects of taxation for State purposes, the commissioners of said town shall have power to levy and collect a fair and reasonable special or license tax on the following subjects, to-wit: All itinerant merchants, peddlers or auctioneers who shall sell or offer to sell privately or at public outcry within the city limits, whether by ascending or descending bids; ail drummers or commercial travelers, each express company, each telegraph office, and each railroad company having a depot within the city limits; each photograph artist and person taking likenesses of the human face by whatsoever art; each broker, bank or bankers office; each dealer in cotton futures ; each dealer in patent rights ; each sewingmachine agent; all commission merchants and commercial brokers ; each livery-stable; every resident or non-resident huckster or trader or agent of such who buys produce on the streets for sale in other markets; each gift enterprise and lottery; each dray; each hack: each omnibus; each hotel; each boarding-house; each barber shop; each advertising agent; each architect or person employed to superintend any building or buildings in construction ; each bag factory ; each baker and dealer in bread or other products of a bakery; each dealer in confectioneries and fruits; each baggage transfer company; each barrel and crate factory; each bicycle dealer or bicycle repair shop; each bill poster; each bottler of non-alcoholic drinks; each brick-yard each broker in stocks or bonds other than banks or bankers; each broker in produce; each broom factory ; each buyer and shipper of nayal stores; each buyer and shipper of cotton: each buyer or dealer in leaf tobacco; each earriage, cart, wagon or other vehicle repair shop other than bicycle; each manufactory of vehicles of any description: each furniture factory ; each agricultural implement factory ; each cigar manufactory; each coal or coal and wood dealer; each contract builder; each cotton compress; each cotton factory; each cotton gin, cleaner or press; each cotton-seed oil mill; each truck, each wagon, each cart: each electric light business ; each flouring mill; each gas company; each fitter and plumber; each grist mill; each dealer in hides and furs; each ice-house; each ice factory; each junk shop; each laundry; each marble and stone yard; each market: each mattress factory ; each merry-go-round, or flying ponies, blowing machines, lifting machines. or any other exhibition whatsoever of like character; each oil company, or wholesale dealer in lubricating and illuminating oils; each peddler and _ transient dealer; each piano and organ tuner and repairer; each rice mill; each sash, door, and moulding factory ; each sausage factory; each blacksmith shop; each tin shop; each shoe shop; each carpenter shop; each tailor shop; each gunsmith shop; each shuttle-block factory; each steam saw-mill; each telephone company; each tobacco manufacturer; each tobacco warehouse ; each undertaker ; each cabinet shop; each upholsterer and paper-hanger; each warehouse company; each wood dealer; each lightning-rod agent; each auctioneer ; on every agency for the sale of steam engines, boilers and machinery not manufactured in the town of Morehead City; every dealer in buggies, wagons or other vehicles not manufactured in said town; each fire or life insurance agent; each and every dentist; each physician and each lawyer. optician, civil engineer, real estate agent or broker, aurist, oculist and chiropodist; on every dealer in horses or mules sold, bartered or exchanged ; every cattle, horse or mule drover or dealer; and every agency for the sale of snuff, tobacco or other articles of merchandise not manufactured in the town: and all other subjects taxed by the State.