Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-03-24
IN COUNCII-MARCH 90, 1880.
AN ACT for raising a Revenue for the Year
Eighteen Hundred and Thirty.

Eighteen Hundred and Thirty.
SEcr1ox /. Be It enacted by the Common
Council of .fleraadria. That the following taxes
be levied on the people and property Of the town,
to meet the current expenses OF the present year,
viz:
. On all Houses and Lots, at the rate of forty
cents on avery hundred dollars of their assessed
value.
On all Annuities or Rents in Fee Simple,
charged on or issuing out ofany tenement or lot
Of ground, the sum Of forty cents on every hum
dred dollars of their assessed value; to be paid by
the tenant, and retained out of the rent payable
to the owner of such annuity or rent ill fee: And
in making the assessment of such rents, they
shall be valued at ten times their annual amount:
Provided. That when, from the abandonment of
the property charged with such rent, and the in
solyency of the parties chargeable with the pay
ment of it. it cannot be received by the proprietor
for any one year, then for such year no tax shall
be payable.
On every Male Inhabitant over sixteen years
of are. one dollar and fifty cents.
On every Riding Carriage, kept either tor pri-
vate use or hire. with either two or four wheels,
the assessed value of which shall amount to four
hundred dollars or upwards, ten dollars.
On all such as may be assessed at two hundred
and fifty dollars, and not exceeding four hundred
dollars. seven dollars.
On all such as may be assessed at one hundred
dollars, and not amounting to two hundred and
fifty dollars, five dollars.
On all other Riding Carriages, the assessed va
lue of which does not amount to one hundred
dollars, four dollars.
On every Hearse, ten dollars.
On every Wagon. the wheels of which are less
than five inches in the tread, four dollars.
On every Cart and Dray, the wheels of which
are less than five inches in the tread, two dollars.
ON every Horse, Mare. or Mule, one dollar.
On every Cow, twenty-five cents.
ON every Insurance Company, fifty dollars.
On all Household Furniture, at the rate OF fifty
cents on every hundred dollars OF its assessed
value. except when the valuation on any one per-
sor does not exceed one hundred dollars.
On every Attorney at Law, ten dollars.
On every Physician, ten dollars.
On every Flour Inspector, twenty-five dollars.
On every Flour Merchant, ten dollars.
On every person whose principal business Is
the buying and selling of Slaves, whether as
PRINCIPAL or Agent, fifty dollars.
SEC. 9. find be it further enacted, That the
following taxes be levied, in addition to those
permanently imposed by law OF the Corpora
ton:
On every Tavern IlCeuSt, lWCuty NV uo'i"i''
On every Loaf Bread Baker, three dollars.
On every Biscuit Baker, four dollars.
On every Sugar Refner, four dollars.
ON every Brewer, four dollars.
I'm every Wholesale and Commission Mer-
chant, twenty-five dollars ;,
On every Wholesale Merchant, seventeen dol
lars. ,.n.,
On every Commission Merchant ant SEVEN seven dollars
On every shopkeeper, fifty cents;
On every occupant ola Lumber Yard twelve
On every Banking Institutions one hundred
Src, 2, ind be it further enacted, That to meet
the local expenditures of the several Wards ss Of
ton to the foregoing-that is to say:
Unon all Houses and Lots within the First and
Fourth Wards. comprising the Southern District,
at the rate of ten cents.
On all Annuities or Rents in Fee, according to