Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-04-19

others commission or for profit horses mules CATTLE
sheep and hogs, either them twenty doars and 1t
the license be to continue the business after the
has been carried for year. the tax shall be at the
same rates that imposed on merchants mercantile
firms licensedto sell provisions agricultural commodi
ties; every license to the owner of a feed stre.
twenty dollars and if the license be to continue the
business after the same has been carried for
year. the tax shall be at the rates at that imposed
on merchants mercantile firms licensed to sell provis-
ions agricultural commodities on every license to
selling goods by sample card otherwise than at
storehouse place of trade hundred dollars;
on every license sell barter patent specific quack
medicines; if by wholesale, twenty dollars; if by retail
oniy ten dollars every license hawker pedlarto
deal in tin and pewter twenty dollars; to deal in clocks
ty dollars to deal in goods aud merchandise or
other articles Except tn pewter and cocks nineysix
dollars to deal in goods and merchandise, except
clocks when the license is issued in of the counties
bordering the Ohio river to trade in sa or at the
shores thereof hundred dollars, everylicense to
ship broker forwarding merchant wenty dollars and
il the license be to continue the business after the
has been carried for year. the shall be ct the
that imposed merchants firms licensed
to sell provisions agricultural commodities every
license person engaged agent for the renting Of
houses ten dollars; every license to person engaged
agent for the hiring OF negroes dollars every
cense to obtaining subscriptions to books dol
lars every license to person selling prints dollars;
every license 10 pedlar OF pamphlets periodical pa
pers five dollars; every license to person who may
receive rough frame work ofany description from other
States and put together in this for the purpose of SALE
thirty dollars; every license to the proprietor OF DIS
tillery If beginner and said disteIy is to be kept
in operation much four months In the year. the tax
shall be ten dollars for six months twenty dollars and
if for longer time than six months fifty doa and if
such dstilery has been kept in operation much
four months ia the year next preceding the time of OBJ
tanning such license the proprietor thereof shall pay
addition to the tax imposed new beginners, four
of per tho amount of sales of such dste-
ry for the twelve months preceding the time OF OBJ
tainngsuch license; on every cense to the keeper OF
livery stable, ffty cents for each stall thereof
| SEC. IL. On every license to the owner of jackass
or stallion for the services OF which compensation is
received twice the amount of such compensation when
the charge is tor such service by the season. and when
such services less than season. then twice what
the commissioners may Judge to be unreasonable charge
therefor; The tax however in no case 10 be less than
ten doars on every license permitting theatrical per-
formances in public theatre six dollars each week OF
such performances; on every license permitting for
year the sale OF refreshments in theatre DUNG such
performances 1000 dollars, every license permitting
the proprietor occupirr OF public loom fitted Tor
public exhibitions to the for such purp Sc tor
year, sixty dollsrs every license permitting any
public show, exhibition performances elsewhere, for
every twenty tour hours or lor such ume OF Prfio.m
five dollars, and for every exhibition OF circus
or managerie during the same time, twenty dollars; on
license permitting billiard table to be keI Tor
year one hundred dollars, provided, that where there
are more than such table kept in any one room,
fifty dollars each shall be charged for the excess over
one every license permitting bowling alley or sa-
loon to be kept for year, thirty dollars provided that
where there more than one such alley kept III any
fifteen dollars each shall be charged for the
Sec. IL NOn every license a physician. surgeon or
dentist, five dollars if the yearly income derived from
the practice of any OF said ngs professions during
the year next preceding the time OF obtaining license
shall exceed four hundred dollars and such be
less than six hundred dollars, there shall be an add-
tlonal tax thereon of one half of per centum; if
such be six hundred and less than thousand
dollars, there shall be additional tax thereon of three
fourhs of per cent? if such be thousand
dollars or more there sha be an additional thereon
Of per cent; but IN case shall such tax exceed
fifteen dollars ON every license to attorney at law.
five dollars: fhe practice district court dollars
and if he practice In the court OF appeals fifteen dol
, lars.
rian gallery, If in city incorporated town. twenty
dollars; if elsewhere, five collars; and ifthe yearly in
come derived ON the practice of said shall exceed
five hundred dollars additional tax Of enc and half
per centum ouch excess for the year next preceding
, the time ofobtaining license.
SEC. a. On the dividends declared by any bank the
tax shall be three and one third per cent upon the
amount thereof.
SEC 5 The tax on the estate of decedent prescribed
by the thirty ninth chapter of the Code of Virginia. shall
be two per cenum ofsuch estate.
Sec is. The prescribed by the thirteenth, four
teenh, enth sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth
sections Of said chapter shall be follows, witt
When suit is commenced in county cooperation
court fifty CENTS when an original suit or appeal writ
of sapersedeas is commenced, if In the court
of appeals, three dollars and fifty cents; fn district
court, two dollars and fifty cents in circuit court,
seventy five cents; when the seal Of court noa.y
cnhc, the seal of State, is annexed any paper,
on provided for by the fifteenth sec
bounty laSd hodersss one dot
the other seals provided that there shall be tax tor
afixag the seal OF county or corporation court to
the same behalf of the county or corporation IN
which such court is held; and upon every Decd will
gran! OF administration on which atax is to be paid
cordng TO the said chapter, seventy FIVE The
first section OF said chapter is hereby repealed.
SIC n. Be it further enacted. that any rerson who
shall violate the provisions OF this act CATER having
been furnished with certificate of assessment by the
commissioner OF the revenue OF the amount OF taxes I'M
posed by law by follow any occupa tion or on
without obtaining said licenses, shall be subject to the
same penalties as hawkers and pediars ior trading
without license.
See IS. Be further enacted tflst the licenses au.
herized to be issued by this shah terminate at the
time prescribed by law, and il the license be taken
Tor part OF year the tax shall bear that sum the
proportion whioh the expred part of year bears
to the whole year. and the tax for the succeeding
shall be specific tax. sss- II ~
Sac. 10. And be it further enacted that chapter forty
OF the Code OF Virginia be and the same is hereby
! pealsd.
SEC 90 This act shall be in sArce from its passage.
Search, for Sir John FrankIin-Dr. E r.
| Kanc's Expedition.
/ By reference TO our Special Topographic Des-
patch from Washington, it will be seen that DR..
E. r. Kane, having just completed his arrange
ments and received his final Instructions from
the Navy Department, expects to sail for the
| Arctic Ocean again, on or before the LIST of Nav
in search of Sir John Franklin, and his company
of long lost navigaters. The enterprise in which
this intrepid officer and his gallant band have
Engaged with such SOULFUL ardor, commends it
| self with especial interest to every America
hear; and no statement of their hopes and Plans
| or the provision for their own comfort and safety
| Gf there eau be comfort and safety in any degree
I on such an occasion,) no matter how detailed,
1 can fail to be read with surprising interest.
The name and fame of the great Navigator,
whose fate is now sealed up in the icy confines of
the far north, the touching and eloquent efforts
| and sacrifices made and endured-nay, souqhk by
his noble wife, who, with woman's heart still
hopes against hope, that he may yet again be
restored to her; and the quite recent Grinpell
| Expedition, which shed so much honor upon its
protector and those who carried out his benevo-