Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-06-30

or forwarding mefcnant, twenty uollAIs
and ifthe license be to continue the bust
ness after the same has been carried on
for year, the tax shall be at the same
rates as that imposed on merchants or
firms licensed to sell provisions or, agri-
cultural commodities. On every license
to person engaged as agent for the rent
ing of houses, ten dollars. On every Ii
] cense to person engaged as agent for the
hiring of negroes, ten dollars. On every
license to a person obtaining subscriptions
to book, Ave dollars. On every license
to person selling prints, five dollars
On every license to Pedlar of pamphlets
or periodical papers, five dollars: On
every license to person who may re-
ceive rough frame work of any descrip-
ton from other States, and put it together
in this for the purpose of sale, thirty dol
lars. On every license to the proprietor
of distillery, if new beginnef, and said
distillery is to be kept in operation as
much as four months in the year, the tax
shall be ten dollars if for six months,
twenty dollars and if for longer time
than six months, fifty dollars and if
such distillery has been kept in operation
as much as four months in the year next
preceding the time of obtaining such Ii
cense, the proprietor thereof shall pay, in
addition to the tax imposed ON new begin
ners, one fourth of one per centum on the
amount of sales of such distillery for the
twelve months next preceding the time
of obtaining such license. On every IL
cense to the keeper of livery stable, fifty
cents for each stall thereof
On every license to the owner of q jack
ass or stallion, for the services of which
compensationis received, twice the amount
of such compensation, when the charge is
for such service by the season and-when
such services are for less than a season,
then twice what the commissioner may
judge to be reasonable charge therefor;
the tax, however, in no such case to be less
than ten dollars. On every license per-
hitting theatrical performances in a pub
lie theatre, six dollars each week of such
performances. On every license permit
ting for year the sale of refreshments in
theatre during such performances, forty
dollars. On every license permitting the
proprietor or occupier of any public room
fitted for public exhibitions, to use the
same for such purposes for year, sixty
dollars. On every license permitting any
| elsewhere, for every twenty four hours,
or for each time of performance. five dol
lars, and for every exhibition of a circus
or menagerie during the same time, TWEEN
ty dollars. On every license permitting
billiard table to be kept for one year,
fifty dollars at a mineral spring, and two
hundred dollars if elsewhere Provided,
That where there are more than one such
table kept in any one room, if at any mi
neral spring, thirty dollars each shall be
charged for the excess over one, and one
hundred dollars each for the excess over
one, if elsewhere. On every license per-
hitting bowling alley or saloon to be
kept for year, fifteen dollars if at any
mineral spring, and thirty dollars if else
where : Provided, That where there are
more than one such ally kept in any one
room, fifteen dollars each shall be eharg-
ed for the excess over one.
10. On every license to a physician,
surgeon or dentist, five dollars if the
yearly income derived from the practice
of any of said callings or professions du-
ring the year next preceding the time of
obtaining license shall exceed four hun
bred dollars, and such excess be less than
six hundred dollars, there shall be an ad-
ditional tax thereon of one half of one per
cent if such excess be six hundred and
less than one thousand dollars, there shall
be an additional tax thereon of three
fourths of one per cent; if such excess be
one thousand or more, there shall be an
additional tax thereon of one per cent
but in no case shall such tax exceed fifteen
dollars. On every license to an attorney
L., Joll he in
district court ten dollars and if he prac-
tice in the court of appeals, fifteen dol
lars.
IA. On every license to the owner of a
Daguerrean gallery, if in a city or incor
porated town, twenty dollars if else
where, five dollars and if the yearly in
come derived from the practice of such
art shall exceed five hundred dollars, an
additional tax of one and half per cent
UNI on such excess for the year next pre-
ceding the time of obtaining license.
Is. On the dividends declared by any
bank, except on so much thereof as is on
stock bona .tide held by persons residing
out of this state or by no corporations not
within the same, the tax shall be three
per cent. upon the amount thereof.
16. The tax on the estate of decedent
prescribed by the thirty-ninth chapter of
the Code of Virginia, shall be two per
centum of such estate.
II, The taxes prescribed by the thir-
teenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth,
seventeenth and eighteenth sections Of
said chapter shall be as follows, to wit ::
When suit is commenced in a county or
corporation court, fifty cents when an
original suit or appeal, writ of error or
supersedeas is commenced, if in the court
of appeals, three dollars and fifty cents !;
if in district court, two dollars and fifty
cents if in circuit court, seventy five
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