Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-12

aad river nf n tbs shores thereof; one hundred dollars
On every license 10 ship broker or forwarding lner.
chant twenty dollars. and If the license be to continue
the business after the has been carried on for
year the shall be at the as that imposed
merchants firms licensed sell provisions agri-
cultural commodities On every license person en-
gagged agent for the renting of houses ten dollars On
every icenseto person engaged agent for the hiring
OF negroes, ten dollars. On every license person OBJ
tanning subscriptions to books, five dollars On every H.
cense to person selling prints five dollars On every
license to pedlar pamphlets periodical papers, five
collars On every license to person who may receive
rough frame work OF any description from other States
and put it together in this for the purpose of SALE thirty
dollars On every license to the proprietor OF dsery
liza new beginner and said distey is be kept ope
ration as much four months in the year, the shall
be ten doars for six months twenty dollars and for
longer time than SIX months, fifty dollars and if such
dstllery has been kept in operation much four
months IN the year next preceding the time of obtaining
such license the proprietor thereof shall pay. in add
ton to the tax imposed beginners one fourth of
one per eentum the amount of sales of such disery
tor the twelve months next preceding the time OF obtain
ing such license. On every license to the keeper of
livery stable, fifty cents for each stall thereof
II On every license to the OF iackass stall
hon for the services of which compensation received
twice the amount OF such compensation when the charge
is for such service by the and when such serv
ces are for less than then twice what the
missioner may judge to be reasonable charge therefor
the tax however be less than ten dol
lars On every license permitting theatrical performan
ces III public theatre six dollars each week of such per-
tormances On every leence permitting for year the
sale OF refreshments in theatre during such perform
ances forty dollars On every license permitting the pro-
public
hlbtlons to use the same for such purposes for year.
sixty dollars On every license permitting any public
show, exhibition performance elsewhere for every
twentyour hours, Tor each time of performance five
dollars and for every exhibition of circus or menaeere
during the same time twenty dollars On every license
permitting billiard table to be kept for year. fifty dol
lars II at mineral spring. and two hundred lars if
elsewhere: Provided That where there are more than
one such table kept in any room, if any mineral
spring. thirty dollars each shall be charged for the excess
and hundred dollars each for the excess
over one if elsewhere. On every license permtt;ng .
bowling alley orsaoon to be kept for year. fifteen dol
lars Ii at any mineral spring. and thirty dollars if else
where Provided That where there are more than one
such alley kept IN any fifteen dollars each shall
be charged for the excess over one.
49, On every license physician surgeon or dentist.
ve dollars; II the yearly income derived from the practice
OF any OF said cangs professions during the wear
preceding the time OF obtaining license shall exceed four
hundred dollars and such be less than six hundred
dollars there shall be additional tax thereon ofone
one per cent such excess be six hundred and than
one thousand dollars there shall be additional there
on OF three fourhs OF per such excess be one
thousand or there shall be additional tax tbreon
OF one per cent but in case shall such fax exceed c
dollars On every license to an attorney aft law five
dollars if he practice in district ten dollars; and if
he practice In the court of appeals, fifteen dollars
a. On every license to the of Daguerrean gal
lery lfln city incorporated town twenty dollars ese
where five dollars and if the yearly income derived from
the Pacce OF SAID art shall exceed five hundred dollars
an tax OF one and half per on such ex
cess the year next preceding the time of obtaining IL
cense.
Is On the dividends declared by anv bank. excent on
much thereofas stock bona fde held bv nerson
residing out OF this state by corporations not within the
the tax shall be three per cent upon the amount
thereof |
l6. The tax the of decedent prescribed bv
the thirty ninth chapter the Code of Virginia shall be
two per centum of such estate.
II. The taxes prescribedby the thirteenth fourteenth
fifteenth sixteenth seventeeth and eighteenth sections
OF said chapter shall be follows wit: When suit
is commenced IN county corporation court fifty cents
when an original suit appeal writ of or superse
IDEAS commenced if in the of appeals three dol
lars and fifty cents; if in district court two dollars and
fifty cents In circuit court seventy five cents when
the seal OF court OF notary public the seal of the
vded for by the fifteenth section of said chapter three
dollars for the state SEAL and dollar and seventy five
cents for OF the other SEALS proude tbat there shall
be tax for axng the seal of county or oorporaton
court to bond advertisements for the purpose of ex
ecumg the same behalf of the county or corporation
which such court is held and upon every deed will or
grant OF administration which tax be paid ac
cordng to the said chapter seventv-ve cents The first
section of said chapter is hereby repealed
49, FURTHER enacted That any person who shall vio
late the provisions OF this latter having been furnish
ed with certificate of by the commissioner
OF the revenue OF the amount of taxes imposed by law
by following any occupation profession without obtain
ing said licenses shall be subject the same penalties
as hawkers and pedars for trading without license
49, Be ther enacted That the licenses authorisedto
be issued by this act shall terminate the same time that
merchants licenses terminate; and if the license be
taken out for part OF year. the shall bear to that
the proportion which the PRED part of the year
bears to the whole year, and the for the succeeding
year shall be specific tax.
90 And be further en0cted That CHAPTER forty of the
Code of Virginia be and the same is hereby repealed
81 This act shall be in force from its passage