Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-05-24
NUMBER 80.
TAX HILL--FURTuEn DETAILS.

The following rich and amusing talxe-eif
We recommend to the perusal of our read.
ers generally, and to those Of abolition
tendencies, in particular:
For smoking a cigar in the public streets
8 cents.
For leaning against lamp post while
smoking cigar, cents.
For every qu'd of tobacco, 3 cen.s-if
begged from friend, cents.
Picking ones teeth iu private, cents;
in front Of hotel 10 cents.
Calling for drink, ) cents with pep.
perrnint in it, ) cents extra.
Reading the speech Of a Congressman,
10 cents line, and three months impris-
onment.
Attending church, so cents an hour; if
member, - cents. At Beecher s, tho
prices are tho same as at q stclass
theatre.
On ministers Attending billiard matches
s. il enthusiastically received, twice that
SUM, aud drinks for the party.
Fer smiling on the Sabbath day, .
cents fer tie first one, and so cents for
each following one.
For bowling to a lady in the street, 10
cents
All unmarried ladies, $2j per year, Cal.
iforna widows, 80 per year.
For being poor, $l0 month.
White shirts, 20 cents month; colorod
ones 81
Backwheat cakes are to pay tax of 3
cents per dozen.
Buckwheat cakes with molasses on, )
cents per dozen.
For using an augur, 80 cents a month.
For using corkscrew, Is cents month
For looking over the fence, 10 cents.
For lcenco to catch bullheaas s.. 10
catch eelS, So. Shad, salmon aud sturgeon
3S 90.
To open oysters, IS. CLANS, 3, 50.
For privilege to sit on the dock and
catch sinners, 81 per month.
Ii the head leans against pole, Sl,5O.
Salt maskeral, il caught i'll fresh water
stream, cents each
TO sit on the curbstone and pcddle ap.
pies, So a month.
For the privilege Of gathering peach
pits. So month.
License to peddle peanuts, SIS year.
Snuff boxes are to pay a tax Of 81 per
year.
rr;onJ q co,ts 7NA W
For osLing a fr;and n sr;n,. q, .
For license to kill skunks, S. year
and one fourth Of the perfume.
Tax on mustaches, 50 month, if dyed,
the tax to be doubled.
On whskers, other than those belong.
ing to cats and dogs, s. month.
strests - ce,-s D' puo'''
In conn,rr ro,as "A .o..-
r, shno, ,,arhJ',s - r. .rl; !,
,ars" oro ns.d !, ,ho ,,r,o .nr.h ..i,.'s a.
of 40 cents - 'D'' '"N
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ars or ,rnrn,'s or. hn,4 s'.'he "o
% 1 c"n., 20 -" az -'' q ''' '.'S' TAX OF
IInrdv porjiss arc - nov .ox ors,,
toro ''N "a -
10 sneoza in the nuhr. h;ahm,u :.
oo,ts II oco,rno,;od ,r;,h nr,,-.'aI 40
>, ,csn.s Snorinr % ca,ts N0'''
T;conse "a nn64lc fr.w.,oa c1oo
month
I;cn,ss ;, h,,, c,l3 ,;..,als :, "a
i;con1o ~ aa1b,, Honos 20 ~'''''
Eyerv ners5r, takinr an n(raov;, sh,,l
be assessed 25 cents.
Ordinary cursing and swearing to pay 5
cents an oath, and swearing to be meas
ured by Cursometer to De furnished BY
the Secretary Of the Treasury.
Women, for dressing in men S clothes,
to oe taxed the value Of the breeches.
Men, fer dressing in womsns clothes
without a hoop skirt to be q 9 $40.
For neslectng to black your boots be-.
fore appearing before the ladies', 81
For appearing before ladies with your
eyes discolored, -.
Married men for being out later than
10 p. M, 3.
For eating Swiss cheese, 50cts. hunk.
For leaning over pow after midnight
$2,S1
For going to s'eep in company of ladies
So:
For filling in the gutter, s.