Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-06-15

not agreed to. This Board then amended the
bill by fixing the salary of the Superintendent
of Gas at $500, by the following vote: Ayes,
Messrs. Moore, Harlow, Herbert Scbofeld,
Latham, Brodels, and Mr.. Presidont-3 The
bill WAS further amended by making the salaries
Of ali tho ui!cers the same as those in the salary
! bill for the fiscal year commencing July Is,
1915 The bill WAS then put upon its passage,
| and lost by the following. vote Ayes, Mcssrs.
Latham, Moore, Harlow, Herbert. Sch field,
Evans, and Simms-7. Noes, Mcssrs. Broders,
Hughes, and Mr. Prcsident-3
The vote by which the consideration of the
revenue bill was postponed until the Finance
| Committee and the Commissioners or the Sink
! ing Fund shall have made their annual reports
WAS reconsdered and the bill taken up and
passed by the following vote: Ayes, Messrs.
Latham, Moore, Hopkins, Broders, Harlow,
Herbert, Schcfeld. Beckhsm, Evans, Simms,
and Mr. Presidential. Noes, Mr. HUI shes-l.
| The Board then adjourned
! Ioste HAROLD SNowDEN. Clerk.
AN ct for raising the revenue for the next fs-
cal year commencing June l, 1876, and end
ing May 81, 1877
Sec. Be it enacted by the City Council of
Alexardria, That the following taxes he levied
upon the people and property of the city of AL
exandris to meet the current expenses and &c,
mands upon the corporation for the next fiscal
year:
Upon al properly, both real and personal, of
every Kind AMI description, held or owned By
citizens Of Alexandria, or located within the
atty, or subject TO taxation Il der tn constltu-
toh OF the State and under the State laws there
sha!l he levied two dollars and tweaty cents on
every hundred dollars Of .heir assessed value ::
Provided, That the machinery and capita en-
ploved By the manufactures shall be exempt
from taxation.
Or ali ground rents where the lands are an
improved the lax shall be on the assessed "a ue
of the lands where the lands are improved the
tax shall be on the income Of the ground rents
and on the Improvements separately:
On every male inhsbitsnt Of ssid city who has
attained the age OF twenty lone years, who shat!
not Lave passed the age Of three score ana ten,
3 cspitaton tax of Etty cents
Sec Be- it further enacted, That there snai!
be levied upon and collected from all persons
required to be listed as subject to license ts1
the following taxes. viz:
On every person or persons acting as agent or
agents for any fire, marine or life insurance
! company or companies having an ctDce ID the
city of Alexandria forty dollars on each com
! pany or companies repr scented by such agent OF
agents, and on every person or persons seeking
business for or soliciting for sny company OF
companies who have 10 agency in the city Of
Alexandria fifty dollars for each company sc
! represented.
On every person keeping billiard table fol
public use flt"en dollars: Provided, II more
than one be kept in any one house or room live
than one.
On c7erv person or persons keeping bags
tclle table or tables Tor pubic use i've dollars Oh
each table.
or every prs or persons keeping {" bowl
ils, al ey or saloon for pubic use fifteen dollars
ard where there shall oe more thsn one :ucn
ailey III any room or house i've dollars snail DC
paid on every alley more than one.
Gin every sttorney at law, physician or DENTS.
fifteen dollars.
On every owner or keeper Of s agueTTen1 oT
photograph or sun picture gallery twenty dol
lars.
On every hotel, ordinary or house of public
entertainment thirty five dollars OH 80 MUCH OF
the year y value thereof ss does not exceed two
hundred dollars and on go much of the Ja:rsy
: value thereof as does exceed tTo hundrcd dol
} lars five per cent
On every cook shop five dollars.
G On every person canvassing for the purpose
OF buying Any Matter or subsistence, and VINO
) shall sci. thn same within the pubic market or
within the corporation limits, there shall De lev
2 led tax of twenty dollars: Provided tlst
butchers, commission merchants or merchants
shall BE- exempted from this Lax This sW APP
plies TO hrlcksters
J On each and every butcher selling NESTS o!
) any kind within corporate limits twenty fTe
} dollars.
On every telegraph office within the city one
} hundred dollars
On every money broker or firm Of brokers OF
y rG1ncrS having al ONE Nl.Hln the CITY one
J hundred and fifty dollars.
On every pistol and shooting gallery ten dol
lars
= On pawnbrokers one hundred dollars.
) On every. rca! estate &Tokr! and 81 tioAeel
there shall be levied q specific tax OF ipr.y dol
lars, and III addition thereto one hal: .; one pei
cent on the amount Of sales made either at pub
lie suction or private sales.
On general auc.ioneers forty doilsrS. and one
half Of one per cent OF their commissions.
On every ship broke: or commission Gacrchan
thirty dollars.
On every person csrvsssing to sell books
MAPS prints or pictures already published 81
; peddling the same thirty dollars
On every person canvassing Tor subscribers Il
any book or map, print or pictures not yet pub
liShed ten dollars.
On every exhibition of men"garir or circu:
or either OF them for the first twen.yionr hour:
thirty dollars, and fifteen dollars for every
twenty four hours thereafter, aud for every sid,
} show or exhibition connected herewith fvt
dollars for every twerIy-four hours.
On all agents Tor the sale of lager beer. porter
} or sle manufactured out Of the city one hundred
dollars.
} On each agent for the sale in tai: city OF gin.
ger beer pop, mineral water, catswba or s"ds
J water, manufactured without the city, sixty dol
) lars, and said agent shall be privileged 10 dis
tribute the same to his customers and collect his
bottles and fountains without tax OF the horse
} and wagon used for the purpose
oH every Theatrical performance III any nail
or public room where an admission fec is
charged tor each week of performance twenty
i've dollars; i; less than one week five dollars
for each performance
For every person selling or offering to sell re-
Treatments in sny such hall during such per
Torrance two dollars
On the proprietor or proprietors Of any room
fitted up for public exhibition Tor which rent il
Charged fifty dollars.
On every pubic snow or exhibition in any
hail. room or text where s charge is made Tor
admission Tor every weeks performances OF eA-
hlhtlon twenty-five dollars; i: less than on"
week tive dollars for each
On every exhibition or show where gifts or
prizes are distributed twenty five dollars for the
frs performance and ten dollars for each pet
! Torrance thereafter.
On every license to sell ardent spirits or wines
at wholesale there shall be levied tax Of sixty
dollars
On every license to sell wines, ardent spirits
or malt liquors or any mixtures thereof st retail
thirty dol.a7s
| On every license to sell wines, ardent spirits
or malt liquors to be drunk on the premises
thirty dollars
| In IL