The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-08-30


procuring patents shall pay ten dollars Every
person whose business it is to prosecute claims
in any of the executive departments of the |
federal government, or procure patents, shall
be deemed claim or patent agent, as the case |
may be.
Twenty four. Patent-right dealers shall pay
|tenrdollars. Every person whose business it |
is to SELL or offer for sale, patent rights, shall
be regarded as patent-right dealer.
/ Twenty-Five. Real estate agents shall pay |
Item dollars. Every person whose business 1t
is to sell or offer for sale real estate for Others,
| or to rent houses, stores, or other buildings,
FOR real estate or to collect rent for others, ex
cept lawyers paying special tax as such shall
be regarded as a real-estate agent.
| Twenty-six. COnveyancers shall pay ten dol
1 lars Every person, other than one having paid
| the special tax as a lawyer or claim agent,
| whose business it is to draw deeds, bonds,
mortgages, wills, writs or other legal papers,
or to examine titles to real estate, shall be re-
Egarded as a conveyancer.
Twenty-seven. Intelligence office keepers
Ishall pay ten dollars. Every person whose
lbusiness ii is to find or furnish places OF en-
Iployment for Others or to find or furnish ser
wants upon application in writing or other,
wise receiving compensation therefor, snail
be regarded as an intelligence office keeper.
Twenty eight. Insurance agents shall pay
ten dollars. ANY person who shall act as agent
of anv fire, marine, life, mutual, or other in
Isurance company or companies, or any person
who shall negotiate or procure insurance !or
which he receives any commission or other
com pensation, shall be regarded as an lnsur-
ance aren't: P10rided, That if the annual re-
ceipts of any person as such agent shall not
exceed one hundred dollars, he shall pay five
dollars only: And provided further, That no
special tax shall be imposed upon any person
for selling tickets or contracts of insurance
against injury to persons while travelling by
land or water.
Twenty nine. Foreign insurance agents shall
pay fifty dollars. Every person who shall act
as agent of any foreign fire, marine, life, mu-
tual, or other insurance company or compa-
panies shall be regarded rs foreign insurance
agent
Thirty. Auctioncers, whose annual sales do
not exceed ten thousand dollars, shall pay ten
dollars, and il exceeding ten thousand dollars
u shall pay twenty dollars. Every person shall
!, be deemed an auctioneer whose business it is
to offer property at public sale to the highest
! or best bidder: PrOpided, That the provisions
of this paragraph shall not apply to judicial or
! executive officers making auction sales by vir-
: tue of any Judgment or decree of any court,
nor public sales made by or for executors, adj
ministrators, or guardians of any estate held
by them as such.
Thirty-one. Manufacturers shall pay ten
dollars. Any person, firm, or corporation who
shall manufacture by hand or machinery any
goods, wares, or merchandise, not otherwise
| provided for, exceeding annually the sum of
one thousand dollars, or who shall be engaged
in the manufacture or preparation for sale OF
any articles or compounds, or shall put up for
sale in packages with his own name or trade
mark thereon any articles or compound, shall
be regarded as a manufacturer.
Thirty -two. Peddlers shall be classified and
rated as follows, to wit When travelling with
more than two horses, or mules, the first class
and shall pay fifty dollars; when travelling
with two horses, or mules, the second class,
/, and shall pay twenty-five dollars; when travel
ing with one horse, or mule, the third class,
;: and shall pay fifteen dollars when travelling
{ on foot, or by public conveyance, the fourth
class, and shall pay ten dollars. Any person.
except persons pcddlng only charcoal news
: papers, magazines, bibles, religious tracts, or
!, the products of his farm or garden, who sells
or offers TO sell at retail, goods, wares, or 9th
er commodities, travelling from place to place
D in the town or through the country, shall be
regarded pcddcr: Prooided That any ped
dler who SELLS offers to sell, distilled spirits,
i fermentcd liquors or Wines dry-gOOds, foreign
or domestic, by one or more original packages
or pieces, at one time, to the same person or
persons, or who peddles jewelry, shall pay tif-
ty dollars: PJ0ojoeI further, That manufac-
turers and producers of agricultural tools and
implements, garden seeds, fruit and ornamen-
tai trees, stoves and hollow ware, brooms
Il wooden ware, charcoal, and gunpowder, de
II livering and selling at Wholesale any of said
articles, by themselves or their authorized
agents, at places other than the place of man
ufacture, shall not therefor be required to pay
any special tax PrOrjded further, That per-
sons who sell shell or other fish or both tray-
cling from place to place, and not from any
shop or stand, shall be required to pay five
) dollars only; and no special tax shall be i'm
posed for selling shell or other fish from hand
carts or wheelbarrows.
/ Thirty three. Apothecaries shall pay ten dol
lars. Every person who keeps shop or build
ing where medicines are compounded or pre-
pared according to prescriptions of physicians,
or where medicines are Sold shall be regard
, ed as an apothecary. But Wholesale and retail
dealers, who have paid the special tax therefor,
1 shall not be required to pay tax as an apoth-
ecary; nor shall apOthecaries who have paid
J the special tax be required to pay the tax as
retail dealers III liquor i'll consequence fselling
alcohol, or of selling or of dispensing, upon
physicians prescriptions, the wines and spirits
: otticinal in the United States and other nation
al pharmacop9ias, in quantities not exceeding
half pint OF either at any one time nor eX-
ceeding in aggregate cost value the sum of
three hundred dollars per annum
1hlrty-fOur. Photographers shall pay ten
dollars. Any person who makes for sale pho
J tographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes or pic
| lures by the action of light, shall be regarded
a photographer.
Thirty five. Tobacconists shall pay ten dol
lars. Any person, firm, or corporation whose
business it is to manufacture cigars snuff, or
tobacco in any form, shall be regarded a to-
: baceonist.
: Thirty-six. Butchers shall pay ten dollars.
Every person whose business it is to sell butch
ers meat at retail shall be regarded as 4 butch
err: PrOTided, That no butcher having paid
hespecial tax therefor shall be required to pay
the special tax as retail dealer on account of
selling other articles at the same store, STALL
or premises Prorided further, That butchers
who sell butchers meat exclusively by them
selves or agents, travelling from place to place
and not from any shop or stand, shall be re-
CURED to pay five dollars only, any existing
law to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Thlrty-seven. Proprietors of theatres, mu-
seums, and concert halls, shall pay one hun
dred dollars. Every edifce used for the pur-
pose OF dramatic or operate or other represen-
tatlont plays, or performances, for admission
TO which entrance money is received, not in
Guiding halls rented or used occasionally for
concerts or theatrical representations, shall be
Regarded as theatre: P3'oVided, That when
any such edifice is under lease at the passage
OF this act the tax shall be paid by the lessee,
unless otherwise stipulated between the par.
ties to said lease.
Thirty eight. The proprietor or propretors
OF clrcuses shall pay lionel hundred dollars
Every building, Tent space, or area, where
Keats OF Workmanship or acrobatic sports or
theatrical performances are exhibited shall ba
regarded as circus: PrOcidcd That no special
tax paid i'll one State shall exempt exhibitions
from the tax in another State And but one
special tax shall be imposed for exhibitions
within any one State.
| Thirty nine. Jugglers shall paw twenty dol
lars. Every person who performs by slefght of
hand shall be regarded as a iuggler The pro
pr1etors or agents ofal other public exhibitions
or shows for money, not enumerated in this
section, Shall pay ten dollars: Proyided, That
special tax paid i'll one State shall not ex- |
empt exhibitions from the tax in another state |
And but one special tax shall be required for
eXhloltlons within any one State
Forty. Proprietors of bowling alleys and
billiard rooms shall pay ten dollars for each
alley or table. Every place or building where
bowls are thrown or billiards PLAYED. and |
open to the public with or without price shall |
respectively. 00''
Forty-one. Proprietors of Gift enterprises
shall pay one hundred and fifty dollars. Every
person, firm, or corporation who shall sell or
oHer Tor sale any real estate or article of mer
chandlse OF any description whatsoever. or anv
ticket OF admission to any exhibition or per-
tormancc, with promise, express or implied |,
to give or bestow, or in any manner hold ont
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