Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-03-26

amend the several acts reldtlnS 10 the QutleS OF
Clerk and Auditors" which was read first time
and laid on the table.
AN ACT for raising Revenue for The year
eighteen hundred and thirty-four
SECTION |. Be 1t enacted By the Common COu11-
Gil of Alexandria, That the following Taxes be
levied on the People and property the Town,
to meet the current expenses of the present
year, viz:
On all houses and lots at the rate of fifty-two
cents on every hundred dollars of their assess
ed value.
On all annuities or rents in fee simple, charg-
ed on or issuing out of any tenement or lot of
ground, the sum of fifty-t cents on every hun
dred dollars of their assessed value, to be paid
by the tenant and retained out of the rent pay
able to the owner of such annuity or rent in
fee; and on making the assessment Of such
rents they shall be valued at ten times their an
nual amount, provided that when, from the
abandonment of the property charged with such
rents and the insolvencies of the parties charg-
ed with the payment of it, it cannot be received
by the proprietor for any one year, then for
such year no tax shall be payable.
On all household and kitchen furniture at the
rate of seventy five cents on every hundred dol
lars of its assessed value, except when the va
uatlOn on any one person does not amount to
one hundred dollars
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 more
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 dol
lars, seven dollars.
On all such assessed at one hundred dollars,
and not amounting to two hundred and fifty
dollars, five dollars.
On every riding carriage, the assessed value
Of which does not amount to one hundred dol
lars, 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 or dray, the wheels of which
are less than five inches in the tread, two dol
lars.
On every horse, mare, mule 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 shall reside
within the limits of the Corporation, or keep an
Office therein ten dollars.
On every physician ten dollars
On every inspector of flour twenty five dol
lars.
On every -four merchant fifteen dollars.
On every commission merchant fifteen dol
lars.
on his own account OF as agent for others who
are not subject to this tax, one hundred dollars.
On every person keeping house OF private
entertainment twenty dollars
SEC g. Ind be 1t 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 dollars.
On every loaf-bread baker who shall sell
bread within the Corporation, four dollars and
fifty cents.
On every biscuit baker seven dollars.
On every brewer seven dollars.
On every wholesale and commission mer
chant thirty five dollars.
On every wholesale merchant twenty-five dol
lars.
On every retail merchant ten dollars.
On every shopkeeper one dollar and fifty
cents.
On every occupant of lumber yard twenty
dollars.
On every banking institution one hundred
and ninety-tWO dollars.
On every vender of lottery tickets, in addi
ton to the sum payable to the Mayor for Ii
cense, fifty dollars.
SEC g. And be 1t further enacted, That every
measurer and Inspector of lumber, and every
measurer Of wood and bark every inspector of
fish, and every inspector of tobacco, shall pay
into the Treasury in quarterly payments,-on
the first day Of May, the first day of August the
first day of November, and the first day of Fee
bruary next,-the following sums of money:
that is to say,
Each measurer and Inspector of lumber one
hundred dollars;
The measurer of wood and bark three hum
dred dollars;
The inspector of fish seventy-fve dollars;
The inspector of tobacco two hundred dollars:
and shall, within ten days from the days APP
pointed for payment as aforesaid, produce to
the Mayor the Treasurers receipt for the same;
and on every such failure the Mayor shall re-
port the delinquency to the Common Council.
SEC. 4. and be it further enacted, That to
meet the local expenditures Of the several wards
ofthe town, the following taxes be levied, in adj
dition to the foregoing; that is to say: