Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-11-17
THE NEW SUPPLY OF WATER.


ed to the City Council an ordinance for
regulating the use Of, and charges for the
water. The ordinance provides for the
election of a Superintendent, who shall also
be the engineer, and he shall be entitled to
an assistant. The following are the rates
for use reported in the ordinance. and
which are payable half yearly in advance:
BODYBUILDING PURPOSES.
If for the purpose of building or selling;
for each table used for brickmaking, SIS
per annum. When in building bricks are
laid, or stonework or plastering done, three
cents for each 1000 bricks; two cents for
each cubic yard of stonework, and Is cents
for each 100 yacds of plastering. But It
the water be conveyed by hose, barrels OF
buckets, and not along the cutters, the
charge shall be cents for each l, 700 bricks;
for each cubic yard of stonework, cent;
and 10 cents for each 100 yards of plaster
ing. A license shall be obtained from the
Superintendent for each building for which
the city water is wanted for any Of these
purposes.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS,
If for public building, at the following
rate per annum, to wit For public hall,
SIS, and if more than one water-cock So for
each additional one for church, S. Au-
gusta County Courthouse, $50; Augusta
County Jail, SIS; Staunton Gas Light
Company, 800.
SCHOOLS.
For schools, at the following rates per
annum, to wit For a boarding school, $40
and 2 per centum upon the actual OF estl-
mated rent of the premises used for that
purpose. Fora private school, So.
MANUFACTURERS, WORKSHOPS, sc.
For depots, manufactures, workshops
and warehouses, the following rates per
annum, to wit: For railroad depot, 500,
city water is used, making six trips week,
and in the same proportion for every such
locomotive m aking fewer than six trips in
week. This shall pay for all uses of wa
ter at such depot, except for stationery
steam engine, water-closets and baths.
For each stationery steam engine. four
dollars for each estimated horsepower,
but no steam engine shall be supplied ex-
cept where the water is taken in the build
ing where the engine is used for the usual
purposes for which water is used i'll such
building. For rolling mill Or a foundry,
and machine shop, or barrel factory, or
stemmery, five dollars, if not more than
fifteen persons be employed therein, for
each additional person, twenty cents; for
each spike machine, fifteen dollars; for
each manufacturing mill, twenty dollars;
for tobacco factory twenty cents for each
hand employed therein, but no charges to
be less than SIS. For tobacco warehouse.
or a currier shop, $40; for a rectifying es-
Enlistment, 500; for dyelng establish
ment; exclusive of the use of steam boiler,
So; for a lager beer, porter, soda, or
bottling establishment, $40. For black
smith shop, or printing office, or bar
Der shop, SIS; for carpenter shop, So; for
d tannery, $50; for daguerrean gallery,
So
BAKERIES, RESTAURANTS, TAVERNs,
BILLIARD SALOONS, &C.
Bakeries, restoratives. taverns, stables,
rate per annum, to wit: For bakery, $40,
if the tenement be used exclusively as such;
if besides being used as bakery, the ba-
kerry is also occupied as dwelling for the
family, then only So for the bakery; for a
house Of private entertainment, S., and
one per centum on the rent Of the build
ings used for such purpose; for an ordi-
oFx y:
restorative, $40, and two per centum on
the actual or estimated rent of the build
ing used for such purpose; for each bar,
whether kept in a hotel or elsewhere, $40,
in add ition to other charges on the pre-
misses; for livery stable, fifty cents for
each stall, whether nsed OF not; for pri-
vate stable, 81 for horse or mule, and all
over one, fifty cents for each horse, and ST
for private carriage; for a stable where
hacks or carriages are kept for hire 81 for
each horse, and So for each carriage or
hack, and 81 for each buggy or wagon; for
each horse or wagon lot, SIS, for each
stable where wagons, drays, or carts are
kept for hire, 81 for each horse or mule,
and no stable shall be charged less than
SIS. For billiard saloon, SIS.
STORES AND OFFICES,
Stores and offices, at the following rates
per annum, to wit. If tenement be used
exclusively as grocery store, hat store a
shoe store, or bank, $5 for each water
cock in such tenement; if besides being
used as store, the house be also used as a
dwelling for a family. then only So for the
store. If a tenement be used exclusively
as dry goods store, or a book store, So
for such tenement +; if, besides being used
as a store the house be also occupied as a
dwelling for family, then only 81 for the
store; for each apothecary store, SIS unless
soda water be there manufactured, i'll
which case there shall he paid SIS addition
al for each soda fountain ; for each con-
dictionary store. SIS if, besides being used
as q store the house be also occupied as a
dwelling, then only SIS for the store, and
when candy is made, S., additional for
each auction store, or other store not
mentioned above, So, for each office, not
otherwise provided for, So,
DWELLING HOUSES.
Dwelling houses when valued at 81 900
or less, So; for each additional family oc-
cupying the same house, So each; when
valued at more than 81 900 and not over
$4,000, 81; when the house is occupied by
more than one family, So each; when val
ued at $4,000 and not over $1,000, So when
the house is occupied by more than one
family, So each; when valued aJ $4,000 and
not over $4,000, So; when occupied by