The State guard., 1848-04-11

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 nent on three days previous notice. by motion of tue Solicitor for the Circuit, in
 which the county is situated, before the I Circuit Court of the county, in which the
 business or employment is alleged to have
 been followed one halfto the use of the l informer, and the other halfto the use of the Slate and the several sherifis shall settle within the tax collectors for money collec. ted under those provisions, under penalties provided for non-payment money collec- ted under writs of execution. For keep.
 ing billiard table. fifty dollars; for keeping a pool table fifty dollars; for keeping bagatelle table ten dollars foI 1 keeping a ten pin alley. twenty-five dol. lars, and this sum shall be required no matter what may be the number of pins
 used in the game or play for keeping any table, stand, alley Or place for any other game, not herein enumerated and ! not prohibited by law, ten dollars for keeping a racetrack fifty dollars for keep I ing theatre in cities hundred dollars for keeping a theatre in any town or vl- lage, thirty dollaIs for keeping a tavern or regular boarding house in any city, town, or village, or at any watering place on and after the rate of two per cent on the rent of the property so used and occupied, and in no case less than ten dollars; and by rent is to be understoo dthe annual value ofthe property, whether it be under lease or not. For the exhibition of museums, wax works or menageries, curiosities of any kind, for each, fifteen dollars, pain tings and statuary excepted for the exhi- bition of dwarls, or persons otherwise de- formed, twenty-five dollars, the payment of which shall authorize the exhibition in any part of the State; for exhibition of feats oI activity or of a circus, for each five dollars per day; for hawking and peddling, for each boat two hundred dol. lars for each wagon in each county, sey- enty-fye dollars for each horse in each county, when the business is pursued on horseback, forty dollars, and when pursu- cd on foot, twenty dollars. Prorided this shall not beconstrued to embrace any per son in the employment ot any charitable societies or society for the diffusion of knowledge, who may be engaged in the vending or circulating ofreligious books and tracts for following the business of dentistry by any person not citizen of this State, and this shall authorize him to practice his business any where in the State, one hundred dollars for keeping q livery stable in any city, thirty dollars and in any town or village, fifteen dollars for keeping a distillery of spirituous Ii. quors, three cents on every gallon of liquor distilled for concerts of vocal or instru. mental music, for each day five dollars; for each lecture not delivered before or at the request of any literary society or insti- tuition, and at which an entrance fee is charged, two dollars !; for each and every agency or depositary to sell patent drugs or medicines of any kind, five dollars on each and every kind offered for sale; and each person who shall act as agent or de- positary, shall be liable for the payment of the said tax, without reference to the na- ture of such agents or depositary's bu- siness; for retailing spirituous liquors in cities one hundred dollars; in towns or villages having fige hundred inha bitants or more, fifty dollars, in towns or villages having less than five hundred inhabitants, and in the county, thirty dollars; for the exhibition of each and every kind of rafile, or for putting up any kind or species of property to be rallied for, or to be disposed of by any manner of lot or chanre or in any other mode than by sale at auction or at private sale, five per cent on the value of the property so offered or put up; and the proprietor of the house in which such raifled shall be exhibited, shall be held liable for the tax thus imposed, as well as the person or persons exhibiting the raf. fle; for exhibiting hand organ, or other organ, or instrument of music of any kind | that is carried about, and for all street or way-side musicians, onc dollar; for re- taiiing cigars in cities, towns or villages having a greater population than five hun dred inhabitants, ten dollars; for keeping any resturat or eating house, twenty dol lars; for keeping confectionery, or es. tablishment for the sale of confectionery, cakes, candies or fruits ten dollars; for keeping bar, or retailing spirituous Ii. quors on board of any steam boat thirty dollars. d i uf aa.
 SEC. 90. And De t further enacted, That no license under the requirements of the preceding section shall authorize the carrying on ofthe business or trade in said l license named. in any other county, than the county in which such license was granted, except in case of steamboat retailers, nonresident merchants or deal CTS in goods wares and merchandise, whose license shall authorize them to do business in any part of this State, nor shall any retailer of sprituous liquors be allow. ed to retail in more than on building or place int county or State underline same l license.
 r SEc. 100. And De i further enacted, That the Clerks of the Circuit and Coun- ty Courts of this State shall each collect the sum of fifty cents as a State tax, for every certificate to which they affix the seal of office, except government pension CTS for their own llse and the Clerks Of