The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-09

tractor shall be paid the said amount of twenty
nye cents from the city treasury. And if an,
occupant, owner or agent, shall remove from
any house the number so placed thereon, h,
shall be subject to fine of fifty cents for eacf
day, after ten days notice, during which tn,
house shall remain unnumbered
- -, !, E. c. HOWARD,
my Tot r- .- city CLERK.
A ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND REOR
"A DAM CHAPTER XIII OF THE CITY
0KDMlNAMCES, M CONCERNING THE LEVY
b ~ Passed April Sth, 1871
BE ii Ordained By The Council Of The City o,
Richmond, That Chapter XIII of the ordinances
o. a lne cry n in hereby amended and re-ordained
There shall be levied and collected for each
nscal year, upon the persons and subjects EN-
braced In the ordinance, entitled "An ordinance
concerning the powers and duties of the Com
missioner of the Revenue" the taxes following,
to-wit: o.
!. On real estate not exempt from taxation.
one dollar and twenty five cents on every hun.
dred dollars value thereof; and herein shall be
lncinded All real estate, not exempt from taxa
tion, OF all incorporated joint-stock companies
savings Institutions and insurance companies
2. On all personal property one dollar and
twenty-five cents on every hundred dollars value
thereo1; on all moneys and credits, whether in
the city or not, one dollar and twenty five cents
on every hundred dollars value thereof; and
herein shall be included all the capital invested
or employed In any trade or business, and all
capital or STOCK ip any Incorporated institution
or company, located in or out OF the city not
specially taxed and not exempt by law and all
shares in national, state and other banks savings
BANKS, banking institutions and building fund
associations located In the city, and the cashier
Of every such bank or banking institution or AS.
sociation located within the city, is hereby re-
quired to furnish to the Commissioner the
amount of shares of every such bank, banking
Institution, or association; and such cashier shall
pay the tax OF one dollar and twenty-five cents
Oh each one hundred dollars market value
thereof " -
3. Commission merchants, bankers, brokers.
agents. auctoneers, Keepers OF ordnaries, houses
OF priVate entertainment, or private boarding
houses, keepers Of eating houses and cook shops
city scayengers, owners or keepers of wagons
dsays, carts, carriages or other wheeled vehicles
Kept or employed for hire, and wagons, drays
ana carts not Kept for hire, and all other busi-
ness which cannot be reached by the ad valorenp
system, shall be divided into eight classes, and
shall pay license tax, if in the first class, of
i've hu dred dollars; If in the second class, of
four hundred dollars if ia the third class of
Two hundred and fifty dollars; If in the fourth
class, Of two hundred dollars if in the fifth
class, of one hundred dollars; if in the sixth
class of fifty dollars If in the seventh class of
tWenty'fiYe dollars; If In the eighth class of ten
dollars ~ NJ
spirituous liquors, or q mixture thereof shall be
divided Into i've classes, and shall pay license
tax, If in the first class, OF two hundred and
afty dollars ii in the second class, of one hun.
"
one hundred dollars; if in the fourth class of
fty dollars, and II in the fifth class. of twenty
i've dollars; and this shall be in addition to any
tax he may pay as merchant, shop-feeper or
Buctioneer, or upon the capital he may have in
vested in business or the income derived there
from bHt apothecaries, who keep wine or
spirituous lqu i'll their stores, and only sell
the same by retail as medicine. upon the pre-
scription OF physician, shall not be required to
pay this tax. . o.
S. Practicing physicians, lawyers, dentists,
lfttstE veterinary surgeons. la rbarS
ehanics. architects, builders, carrying on bust.
hess for themselves others, and measurers |
or inspectors of lumber, shall be divided into six
classes, and pay license tax. If in the first class
of one hundred dollars; il in the secor d class |
of seyenty-five dollars; if in the third class, OF
hfty doilars If in the fourth GLASS; OF thirty dol
lars; II in the fifth class, of twenty dollars; If |
In the sixth class, of ten dollars ProUidet holo-
sosr, That instead of such license tax any such |
persons may be taxed on the capital employed |
in their business ii the Council so determine
O.. Agents and sub-agents of any insurance |
company, whose principal office is located in the |
city, shall, between the first and fifteenth of |
each year, make a return to the Auditor of the |
city, under oath, of the gross amount of premi-
ums received by said company for the past six
months, and shall pay to the Treasurer one and |
one-quarter per centum upon the amount thereof,
a u Agents and sub-agents of any insurance
company or office, whose principal office is To-
Gated out OF the city, shall be divided into four
classes and shall pay license tax, if in the
first class, of one hundred and fifty dollars; if
in the second class, of one hundred dollars if |
IN the third class OF fifty dollars, and if in the
fonrth class, of twenty-five dollars. And in adj
dition to the class tax, shall, between the first
and fifteenth of July and January of each year.
return to the Auditor Of the city, on oath, the
amount of premiums received for the past six
months, and shall pay to the Treasurer of the
city one and one-quarter per centum on the
amount thereof.
nies having place of business in the CITY shall
be divided into four classes, and shall pay
license tax, If in the first class, of five hundred
dollars If in the second class of two hundred
and fifty dollars; if in the third class, of one
hundred and twenty-five dollars, and If in the
fourth class, Of fifty dollars. gy.@I .gzf5
0. Any person who desires to commence a bu-
siness, winch is assessed with a class tax, may
apply to the Chairman of the Committee ON Fl
nance, and the committee shall determine the
class in which he shall be placed, and report the
same to the Council, and ii the Council approve
Tue same, upon payment of such tax in the mode
prescribed in the following section, he shall have
me privilege of doing such business.
TO- The aforesaid taxes on licenses shall go in
% the hands OF the City Collector, and be col
leeted by him from the 18th to the 3oth of
Aprii, inclusive, and his receipt shall be the
business which the tax Is levied. And all
parties conducting business after the first day
Of May without license, shall be liable TO
fine of not less than one dollar and no more
Jhan five dollars per day
IL. On each male resident of the city, twenty
one years of age or over, there shall be levied
Pou lh& Vi Hity ceiltS, 10 De kept separate ana
applied only to school purposes and no child
shall be entered at school, whose father, resident
In this city, shall not have paid this tax.
~. The Committee on Finance shall place each
person and firm employed in the trade or bust.
ness referred to in sections 8, 4, 8, and s, in
ihe class to which the committee shall be of
opinion such persons or firm properly belongs
looking to all the circumstances of the case; and
The Commissioner In making out his books, shall
De governed by the action of the committed
The classification so made, skall remain in the
otiee of the Auditor for one week; and the Au-
aitor shall give notice of the time not less than
one week from the date of the notice, in two or
more OF the daily papers of the city, when the
committee on Finance will meet to hear appi-
cations from all persons who shall think they are
placed In two high class; and the committee
may thereupon change their classification, If
shey find reason therefor; after which time, and
me adoption Of the classification by the Council
no change shall be made.
Published by authority,
......1. .-.zs...'. f. G, HOWARD,
my 4-ot City CLERK. +