The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-10-08

reyish, aplear- IN lhr llrHAip this
morning,
Tux city council recently adopted all
ordinance entitled "An ordinance u
establish aud regulate license aud 90
oupntiOn tax In the city 0f Dallas"
which, when taken Into consideration
with The iact that property Ia the city
IN subjected 70 an al raiorenf tax, may,
at least, be said 10 be pretty sieer' ~
Stripping this ordinance Of the legal
vorbiage aud repetition In which u IL
necessarily clothed, We propose 10 give,
as briefly as We oail, u synopsis OF tho
different taxes imposed on the respec-
tive occupations " which the ordi'
nance takes cognl2ance,
The provisions of tho ordinance nrei
Clrouaea, one hundred dollars for each
performances side shows connected
with u circus, twenty-five dollars ioI
each performances all other kinds Of
shows, Ave dollars for each exhibition
or twenty-five dollars per week, OF
eighty dollars por month. All places
where vlnous or malt liquors are sold
IN quantities less than ono quart two
hundred aud nifty dollars for tho sale
OF Intoxicating liquors In quantities
less than Ave gallons aud not less than
one quart, lifty dollars; places where
malt liquors only are sold, one hum
drcd dollars; brewerIes, any dollars
dlstlllcrles, two hundred and flfty dol
lars; persons engaged In bottling malt
liquors, not 10 be consumed on the
premises where bottled, nifty dollars.
Every soda fountain or leo cream M
loon, not In connection with bai
room or confectionery, twenty-five dol.
lars; manu- factories of soda or mineral
water for sale In bottles, twenty-five
dollars; Ice companies or loo manufac.
tories, or agent of either, two hundred
dollars; soap, candle or candy factories,
ten dollars; billiard tables, twenty
five dollars each an additional twenty
five II they are used IN pool tables;
bagatelle, pigeon hole or Jenny Lind
tables, fifty dollars each; pin alleys, no
matter how many pins ARE used, five
hundred dollars each; skating Kinks,
flying horses, veloclpedes, 'yin or
amusement of like nature,u fifty
dollars each; clairyoyants astrolo-
gers, fortune tellers, spiritualists,
mesmerists, ltinerants, physicians,
doctors, surgeons, chiropodists, OF
persons following like avocations,
two hundred dollars each; fol
exhibiting any electrical machine
''being tester, or other machine oil
like character twenty-five dollars
provided the same Is not exhibited on
the streets for each and every chair
"employedp In a barber shop, Ave dol
lars bathing establishments, twenty.
five dollars itinerant photographers,
fifty dollars; photograph galleries,
twenty-five dollars; physicians, sur
geons, dentists, attorneys at law, and
real estate agents, ten dollars each ;
persons or firms doing business as
bankers, money or stock brokers', Eek
changers or other like occupation
two hundred aud fifty dollars; pawn.
brokers, two hundred dollars; dealers
in country produce, cotton, wool, hides
or pecans, fifty dollars; ''iirst-class
merchants those whose annual pur-
chases amount to one hundred thous-
and dollars, two hundred dollars
second-class merchants, those whose
annual purchases exceed fifty thous-
and and are under one hundred thous-
and dollars, one hundred ana twenty.
five dollars third.class MERCHANTS,
those whose annual purchases range
between twenty-five and fifty thous-
and dollars, seventy-five dollars F.;
courth-class merchants, annual pur-
chases between ten and Twenty-Five
thousand dollars, thirty-five dollars /;
fifth-class merchanto, annual pur-
chases between five and ten thousand
collars, twenty dollars; sixth.class
merchants, annual purchases less than
five thousand dollars, ten dollars gift
enterprises, one thousand dollars !;
commission houses and auctioneers,
one hundred dollars each; persons
travelling and selling patent rights,