Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-05-04

: or agricultural commodities on every IL
cense to person selling goods by a sam
n pie, card or other wise than at some store
house or place of trade, one hundred dol.
lars on every license to sell or barter pa
tent, specific, or quack meicines; if by
wholesale twenty dollars; ifby retail on
ly ten dollars; on every license to hawker
or pedlar to deal in tin and pewter, .wen-
ty dollars; to deal in clocksp fifty dollars;
to deal IN goods, wares and merchandise.
or other articles Except tin. pewter and
clocks ninety-six dollars; to deal in
goods, wares and merchandise, except
clocks, when the license is issued in one of
the other counties bordering on the Ohio
river to trade on said river or at the shores
thereof. one hundred dollars, on every IL
cense to a ship broker or forwarding
merchant, twenty dollars and il the
cense be to continue the bushes after the
same has been carried on for year, the
tax shall be at the same rates ss tina. i'm
posed ON merchants or Firms Licensed to
sell provisions or agricultural commodi-
ties; on every license to person engaged
as ages for ,;ne renting of houses. ten
! Collars; on every license to person en-
gagged as agents for the hiring of negroes.
ten dollars; on every license to person
obtaining subscriptions to books dollars;
on every license to person selling prints.
five dollars: on every license to a pedlar
of pamphlets or periodical papers, five
dollars; on every license to person who
may receive rough frame work OF any de-
scrlption from other States and put togetb-
er IN this for the purpose of sale, thirty
dollars; on every licens toe the proprietor
OF a disitllery, ii a new beginner, and
said dlstilleIy is to be kept in operation
as much as four months in the year, the
tax shall be ten dollars; if for six months,
$50; ami II tor lou ser time than months,
nifty dollars; and II such distiliery has
been kept in operation as much as four
months IN the year next proceeding the
the time of obtaining such license, The pro-
prietor thereof shall pay, In addition to
the tax imposed On new beginners, one
fourth OF the per centum on the amount
OF sales ofsucn distillery TOR twelve months
next proceeding the time of obtaining
such license; on every license to the keep
er OF u livery stable, fifty cents for each
stall thereof.
SEC. IL. On every license to the owner
OF Il lackass or stallion tor the services
vi which compensation is received twice
the amount OF such compensation, when
the change Is tor such service by the sea-
son; anu when such services are less than
u season, twice what the commissioners
may Judge to be reasonable charge there
of; The tax, however, in no case to be less
than ten dollars; on every license permit
tlng theatrical performances in "a public
theatre, six dollars each week of such per-
tormances; on every license. permitting
Tor a year the sale of refreshments in u
theatre during such performances, 1000
dollars; ON every license permitting the
proprietor or occupier OF amy public room
ntted tor public exhibitions to the use the
same for such purposes tor year, sixty
dollars; on every license permitting any
public show, exhibition or performances
elsewhere for every twenty-iour hours, or
for such time OF performance, live dollars;
and tor every exnibition OF circus or
managerie during the same time, twenty
dollars; on every license permitting bill
lard table to be kept tor year, one hun
dred dollars; provided, that where there
are more than one such table kept in any
one room, fifty dollars each shall be chars
Ell for the excess over one; on every Il.
cense permitting bowling alley or saloon
to be kept tor IA year, thirty dollars; pro-
vlded, that where there are more than
one such alley kept in any one room, tif-
teen dollars each shall be charged tor the
excess over one.
Sec. 12. On every license to physi.
clan, surgeon or dentist, FIVE dollars; if
the yearly income derived from the prac-
tice oil any of said callings or professions
during the ear next proceeding TIE time
of obtaining license shall exceed four hun
dred dollars, and such excess be less than
six hundred dollars. there shall be an adj
ditional tax thereon of one half of one per
centum; 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 dollars. 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 at
torney at law. five dollars; if he practice
in district court ten dollars; and if he
practice in the court of appeals. fifteen dol
lars.
SEC. Is. On every license to the owner
Of daguerrean gallery, if in city or in
corporated town. twenty dollars; if else
where, five dollars; and if the yearly in
come derived from the practice of said art
shall exceed five hundred dollars, an ad-
ditional tax of one and half per centum
on such excess for the year next proceed
ing the time of obtaining license.
SEC. Ia. On the dividends declared by
any ban /. the tax shall be three and one
third per cent. upon the amount there
Of
SEC. Is. The tax on the estate of de-
cedent. prescribed By the thirty ninth