Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-04-07
AN ORDINANCE ~
assessing tdres jort City Of Wheeling,

49, 1or The gear 1858.
it ordained by the Council Of The City OF Wheeling
9 .hss Tor The year 1893 there shall be levied collected
subjects taxation within said city as foWs shS wise several
stc on me value OF real estate subject taxation,
lars: sssti i - - r. '"''N '' ~ aoi
on every ;itheablc " cents. The on real estate
next. IS + - - sA 80 A' vi juno
sEo2 On every license to any venler of goods. wares
cetm on the value OF the stock goods wares and ne
cnandze held by such time OF le wing such
SEC g. On eysry license to commission or forwarding
second class twenty dollars and shall be duty Of
merchants and report iistthereo t. the Council
SE On every license 10 aueoneor lorty dollars.
he same be for the whole, any part ola year len
holasi anu no such license shall be transferable shall
IMAM one person be permitted TO business
under sucl license.
Size g. On every license to sell wines and sprituous
Wei sold u by retail tax Of forty doars If by
one humid rcd aud htee.l dollars.
sEc On every license to keep wharf boat the pub
lie landing three hundred dollars.
skc o. On every theatrical Ferformunce, the OF
Fn aicense for such performances three mouths
'hstL!y dollars ia, and for year, Sky dollars
of sas IAN leafs thirty THIRTY dollars;
GERS or 1ugglery or poppet shows, len dollaIs.
sEG IL ON az other shows, concerts exhibitions the
lectures and exhibitions paintings ofaTt and
SEC l2. oMeveTy license to keep an ordinary within
the .lty Of Wheeling, ,h;re paid city as
1.-THE value OF such ordinary does not ex
ced two hundred dollars tax OF seventy five dollars.
II exceed two hundred dollars and do exceed six
hundred dollars seventy1ive dollars the first two
hundred dollars land seven per cent on the
IL II exceed six hunuTet dollars
thousand dollars one hundred and three dollars the
first siX hundred dollars aud five the excess
IT such annual rental value exceed thousand dollars
then one hundred and twenty three dollars the first
one thousand dollars, amt three per cent the excess.
SEc 49, On every license to keep house private
tertanmaint, ten dollars.
SEC Ii On every license TO keep coffee house
rst class within the city OF Wheeling there shall paid
TO said city as follows, viz:
inc annual rental value OF such coffee house does
exceed two hundred dollars tax OF hundred fIIy
dollars.
lit exceed dolars and do not coed three
hundred dollars, tax of two hundred and twenty-five
dollars.
II such annual rental exceed three hundred dol
lars, tax OF three hundred dollars shall he paid.
SEc To- Ii shall be the duty the assessors assess the
annual rental value which coffee houses OF the
rst class shall be kept and to report such
SEC 49, On every license TO keep house OF the
second class OF the first grade the sum OF fifty dollars;
il OF the third grade, the of dollar.
SEC H. On license to keep billiard table
use or ete OF persons not owners thereof three
hundred dollars
SEC IS. every license to keep bowling alley or ten
pin Saloon thirty dollars for each alley kept such
loon.
SEc 49, onevery license for wheel carriages kept
hire, the following rates, viz: -
every our horse Tour wheel carriage, hive dollars;
On every two horse four wheel carriage, three dollars;
On every horse four wheel rriuge, dollars;
Onevery four horse wagOn three doliars;
On every three Or two lu wagon, two dollars;
On every ono or two horse cart or dray, dollar.
SEc a. The taxes above mentioned, shall be levied, COL
lectcd and paid in addition to any tax which may be
BILE on the subjects OF taxation the commonwealth
OF Virginia.
Passed March 22d, 1853.
Read approved, signed and attestch March e9,h. 1883
GEo ". Stairs, Clerk VIA. ap5-d3t