Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-03-23
IN COU.NCu-JNarch II, 1882.
AN ACT for raising Revenue for the Year
eighteen hundred and thirty two.

AN ACT for raising a Revenue for the Year
eighteen hundred and thirty two.
SECTION 1. Be ii enacted by the Common
Counclof alexandria, 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
seven cents on every hundred dollars OF their
assessed value.
On all Annuities or Rents in fee simple, charg-
ed on, or issuing out of, any tenement or lot OF
ground, forty seven cents on every hundred dol
lars of their assessed value, to be paid by the te-
nant and retained out Of the rent payable to the
owner uf such annuity or rent in fee; and on
making the assessment of such rents. they shall
be valued at ten times their ANIMAL amount: pro-
vded, that when, from the abandonment OF the
property charged with such rent and the lnsol-
vencies of the parties chargeable with the pay
ment of it, it cannot be received BY the proprie-
tor for any one year; then, for such year, no tax
shall be PAYABLE.
On all Household Furniture, at the rate Of Sc
twenty-five cents on every hundred dollars OF its
assessed value, except when the valuation on any
one person does not amount to one hundred dol
lars.
On every Male Inhabitant over sixteen years
of age, one dollar and fifty cents.
On every Riding Carriage. kept either for hire
or private use, and with either two or four wheels,
the assessed value of which shall amount to four
hundred dollars or upwards, ten dollars
On all such assessed at two hundred and fifty
dollars, and not exceeding four hundred dollars,
seven dollars.
On all such assessed at one hundred dollars,
and not amounting to two hundred and fifty dol.
lars, five dollars.
On every Riding Carriage, the assessed value
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 dolars
On every Cart or Dray, the wheels of which
are less than five inches IN the tread, two dollars
On every Horse, Mare, Mule or Colt over one
year Of age, one dollar.
On every Cow, twenty-five cents.
On every Insurance Company, fifty dollars.
On every Attorney at Law, who ahalI reside
within the Corportion Or keep an office therein,
ten dollars.
On every Physician, ten dollars.
! On every Flour Inspector, twenty five dollars.
On every Tobacco Inspector, five dollars.
On every Flour Merchant, fifteen dollars.
On every Commission Merchant, fifteen dol.
lars.
On every person traficking in Slaves on his
own account, or as agent for others not subject
to this tax, one hundred dollars.
On every person keeping a House Of Private
Entertainment. twenty dollars.
SEC. Q. find be it further enacted, That the
following Taxes be levied in addition to those
permanently imposed by the laws of the Com
mon Council, viz:
On every Tavern License, twenty seven dol
lars.
On every Loaf.B Bread Baker who shall sell
bread within the Corporation, four dollars and
fifty cents.
On every Biscuit Baker, seven dollars.
On every Sugar Refiner, seven dollars.
On every Brewer, seven dollars
On every Wholesale and Commission Mer.
chant, twenty.nine dollars.
On every Wholesale Merchant, twenty dollars.
On every Retail Merchant, four dollars
On every Shop.keeper, one dollar and fifty cts.
On the occupant of every Lumber Yard, fifteen
dollars.
On each Banking Institution, one hundred and
ninety-two dollars.
On every vender of Lottery Tickets, fifty dol.
lars.
SEQ 8. ana oe II Jnrther endctea, lhat every
Measurer and Inspector Of Lumber every Mea.
surer of Wood and Bark, and every Inspector OF
Fish, shall pay into the Treasury, one moiety on
the LIST day Of August, and the other moiety on
the LIST day of January next, and produce to the
Mayor the rreasurer's receipt for the same, the
following sums, to wit: each Measurer and In.
spector Of Lumber, fifty dollars; each Measurer
of Wood and Bark, one hundred and fifty dol
lars; each Fish Inspector, fifty dollars.
SEC. A. lind be it further enacted, That. to
meet the local expenditures Of the several wards
of the Town, the following taxes be levied in ad.
dtion to the foregoing; that is to say. upon all
Houses and Lots within the Southern and North.
ern Districts, respectively. at the rate of ten cts
on every hundred dollars of their assessed value
On all Annuities or Rents in fee, within the
Southern and Northern Districts respectively.
according to the provisions Of the LIST section of
this act, ten cents on every hundred dollars Of
the assessed value.
Sec. 5. find be it furt6sr enacted. That the
Assessors be, and they are hereby, authorised to
raouira from eyery Ownpr mr. nOsSessOr Of hOuse. |