National Republican., 1876-11-21
Licenses.

The subject Of procuring licenses and the
law governing the case having become con-
ficted in the minds of the business men and
others who are amenable to the same, the
following is published for the guidance of
those persons required annually to take out
license in this District:
Section l9 Of the act of Congress approved
July ~, 1876, entitled Gan act for the support
Of the government of the District of Columbia
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1877, and
for other purposes, !" reads as follows:
THAT the twenty-third section of the act of
the Legislative Assembly of the District of
Columbia, entitled 'An act imposing license
on trades, business and professions practiced
or carried on in the District of Columbia ap-
proved August 2S, 1871, clauses twenty and
thirty five of the twenty-f1 first section Of said
act, and clause sixteen of said twenty first
section Of said act, as amended by the act
amendatory thereof, approved June 20, 1872,
and all other laws and acts, or parts thereof,
inconsistent herewith, be, and the same are
hereby, repealed"
From the above extract it Will be seen that
only specific section and specific clauses OF
another section have been abrogated, and the
other provisions Of the law regulating the
license tax remains in full force.
The ahrogated provisions are as follows:
Section twenty-three of the act of the Legisla-
tive Assembly, approved August 90, 1871,
reads as follows: THAT in consequence of the
increase in the rates of license over the old
laws and ordinances of Washington George
town and the Levy Court the tax on personal
property shall be seventy cents on each and
every hundred dollars: Provided, That the tax
on bonds, promissory notes and other securi-
ties bearing interest shall not exceed five per
ceEtum upon the income thereof"
Clause twenty of the twenty
first section of said license law reads: "Dealers
In merchandise of any kind whatever not
otherwise provided for, shall pay annually on
each thousand dollars, or fractional part
thereof, Of capital invested in business: Pro
Vided, No license shall issue for a less sum
than five dollars"
Clause thirty-five of said section twenty
first reads as follows: '.Real estate agents
shall pay twenty five dollars annually, and, in
addition, pay emi-annually tax of one per
centum on their commissions. Every person
whose business 1t is to sell or offer for sale real
estate for others, or to rent houses, stores or
other buildings or real estate, or to collect
rents for others, shall be regarded as real es-
tate agents: Provided, That license as real
estate agents shall not authorize any person
to act as auctionecr without license as such"
Clause sixteen of said twenty-frst section of
said Legislative enactment is the following:
" Sixteenth. Carts, wagons and drays shall
pay annually as follows: Wagons, s.; carts,
$3.50; drays, $3.50; hand carts, 81: Provided,
That no license shall be required for light
wagons kept exclusively for pleasure, nor for
carts and wagons used exclusively on a farm
or garden, or for bringing farm or garden pro-
duce TO market, and not kept for hire"
The above statement contains all that has
been altered aud abrogsted in the license regu-
lations, and the District government is now
collecting the revenue derivable by this kind
of taxation. The tax on merchandise will be
collected as personal tax. The assessors have
had the license records of this Llass of trade
under examination. Bue notice of the expira-
tion of licenses of remaining classes has been
given and attention called to the prompt re.
neual