Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-10-06

.dn ordnance imposing tICdS III the COTpUWWit
Of Sta,mto,,, for The fiscal gear, ending on the
last day Of January, 1853:
Be it Ordained, &c.,-that the taxes for the said
Corporation for the year 1852, shall be as follows
to wit:
On all improved lands and lots not exempt
from taxation under the laws of the State, forty
cents on every hundred dollars value thereof.
On all unimproved town lots and out lots
used as appurtenant to improved lots, not exempt
as aforesaid, forty cents on every hundred dollars
value thereof.
On all the personal property moneys and credits;
not exempt, as aforesaid, thirty cents on every
hundred dollars value thereof.
On so much of the interest or profit received OF
converted into principal to bear interest, or
otherwise appropriated, within the year ending
February |, 1852, arising from the bonds and
certificates of debt of this or any other State OF
County, or of any public corporation; as exceeds
SIX dollars, two per cent.
On so much of the income OF fees received du-
ring the year 1851, as exceeds 100 dolars-one
half of one per cent.
On every free male person who has attained the
age of 10 years-one dollar and thirty cents.
On every Slave over IL years of age-one dol
lar and thirty cents.
In every case in which license for any thing
to be done in the corporation is required under the
law of the State, tax as herein after prescribed
is hereby imposed for the same privilege-and the
Sergeant shall set forth in his receipt for said tax
that the person or persons paying the same is OF
are hereby Licensed for the same purpose, and fol
the same period of time-that is to say,
To keep an ordinary or house of public enter
tanment one-fifth of the amount paid to the State
for such License.
To keep house of private entertainment, or a
private Boarding house, two dollars on so much Of
the yearly value thereof as does not exceed, and
two per cent on so much as does exceed fifty dol
lars,
TO keep cook shop or eating house, five dol
lars.
To an agent or sub-agent of a fire or life Insur-
ance Company, five dollars.
TO merchant or mercantile firm, paying spe-
CITED tax, five dolars-provided, that if the capt.
tai employed ne shown by affidavit to be less than
five hundred dollars, the tax shall be two dollars
and when the tax is in proportion to the sales there
shall be paid, one-ffth of the amount paid to the
State for such License; and in every case in
which the License to the merchant or mercantile
firm includes permission to sell Wine, ardent spir-
its or mixture thereof, by wholesale and retail
or by retail only, an additional tax OF twenty dol
lars.
TO an auctioneer, ten dollars.
TO Merchant Tailor paying specific tax, five
dollars and if the License is to continue the bus
mess after the same has been carried on for year
the tax shall be at the same rates as that imposed
on Merchants or Mercantile firms.
| To Lumber Merchant, ten dollars.
To keep feed store, two dollars
! To sell goods by samples, ten dollars.
TO sell or barter patent, specific or quack med
icines, by wholesale, six dollars, and by retail
three dollars.
To hawker and pedlar, ten dollars.
TO forwarding Merchant, three dollars
70 obtain subscriptions TO Books, two dollars.
To pedlar of pamphlets periodicals, two
dollars
| To the OWNER of "a Jackass or Stallion, twice
the amount Of the highest compensation received
for his services.
To keep Billiard table for year, fifty dol
lars.
To keep bowling alley or saloon, for year.
fifty dollars provided that where more than one
such alley is kept in any one room;ten dollars shall
be charged for the excess.
To the owner of a Daguerrean Gallery five dol,
lars.
To an Attorney, Physician or Dentist, in aa-
diton to the tax imposed onncomes,a specific tax
of two dollars year. -u...e =
On every person or firm, for selling by retail
Beer, Ale or Cider, ten dollars.
On every male dog fifty cents-on every female
doc five dollars and where such dog is reported
to have no owner, the housekeeper where he OF
she generally stays shall pay the tax.
On motion of Mr.. Bell, the following resolution
was adopted
| I.oI 10 l., Gov Il, of he
Poor of this Corporation for the present year, be
ninety cents on each tithable within the Corpora
ton; and that the Sergeant do collect and account
for the same according 10 law.
The following allowances for the present yea
were levied for, TO wit:
For the salary of the Mayor Sl5l
For the salary of the Clerk S5t
For the Sergeant for attending the Council .Slt
The Mayor submitted an ordinance entitled
IAN ordinance to amend an ordinance in rela
tion to Slaves free Negroes and Muattoes," which
was passed.
Mr. Skinner, from the Committee appointed
on the 9TH OF July to inquire into the expedency
OF reducing the grade Of Beverly Street over Cos
pei Hill, submitted a report, which on motion o
MIR. Kinney was laid on the table.
A petition signed by William Craig and other;
asking for an appropriation of twenty five dollars
to make sidewalk from the Virginia Hotel tc
tie residence of Mi. Snapp, was presented ant
read, and on motion of Mr.. Skinner, laid on the
table.
The following resolution was submitted by MIR
Kinney:
Resolved, That the salary of the Mayor of this
Corporation from and after the fist Wednesday in
April next shall be fifty dollars, instead of the sal
airy now allowed.
Which on motion of MIR. Bell, was laid on the
table.
On motion of Mr.. Bell the board adjourned.
Teste,
JAMES f. PATTERSON, elk.
Oct. s, lS42.-lt.