Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-05-30

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table for public use, whether a oharge be mad
for PLAYING or not, fifteen dollara, and five do
lars Cd zach table in excess OF one.
%. On every person or firm keeping baga
telIe or other similar tables for public use
whether charge be made tor playing or not
five dollars on each table.
90. % every theatrical performance or 30!
performance similar thereto, panorama, or am
public performance or exhibition of any kind
lecture, literary readings, and performances
except for charitable or educational purposes
10 any ball, public room, or other building
where an admission fee is charged, for each
week of performance ten dollars; if less thar
one we five dollars for each performance.
80 o. every public show or exhibition il
apy hail, room or tent, where charge is made
for admission, for every weeks performance OF
exhibition ten dollars; If less than one week, five
dollars for each.
81. Ga every exhibition of circus or me.
nsgerie or either Of them, TOR the first a hours
thirty dollars, and fifteen dollars for every "a
hours thereafter, and for every side show OF
exhibition connected Herewith or travelling
Herewith five dollars for every "a hours
On every exhibition or show where gifts or
prizes are distributed or promised, fifteen dol
lars for the first performance and i've dollars
for each performance thereafter.
80 On the proprietor of any room fitted up
for public exhibition for which rent is charged,
twenty five dollars
80. % every person selling or offering to sell
REFRESHMENTS 10 any such hall, room or tent,
during such performance, two dollars
"a. o. every attorney at law, physician, or
dentist, fifteen dollars.
IS. Ga every owner or keeper of daguer-
resn or photograph or sun picture gallery, ten
dollars.
&c. On every agent for renting houses or
other real estate. fifteen dollars.
81. % every person or firm. except licensed
merchants, who shall sell or offer to sell, buy or
offer to buy, for themselves or Others, grain OF
any kind or description whatsoever, or other
produce, on Change, there shall DO levied
specific tax of twenty dollars.
SO. o. every merchant tailor there shall be
levied tax of twenty-five dollars
SO Ga each and every butcher selling meats
of auy kind within the Corporation limits, TWEEN
ty FIVE dollars.
40. On every green grocer twenty i've dol.
lars; meaning by this term, any person or per-
sons who shall sell at his or their place OF bust.
ness, butchers meats and vegetables. but no
green grocer shall sell meats within the market
square. And on every green grocer who does
not sell meat fifteen dollars.
Al. "a every person cauvassiDg for the pur
pose of buying any matter OF subsistence and
who shall sell the same within the public mar
ket or within the Corporation limits, there shall
be levied tax Of ten dollars: Provided, that
butchers-co commission merchants or merchants
shall be exempt from this tax. This law ap-
plies to buchsters
42. On every person selliog on commission,
horses mules, cattle and hogs, or any OF them,
or buying or selling the same for proit, fifteen
dollars.
49, Ga every person selling wood, ice and
COAL or either of them, there shall be levied
specific license tax of FIVE dollars, and forty
cents 90 every hundred dollars of purchases in
excess Of one thousand dollars. And this tax
shall be in lieu of all other tax tor Corporation
purposes 90 the capital ennlnp9d 10 Dusioo7s'
a On all aseuts Tor the sale OF lager beer,
porter, or ale manufactured out Of the city,
twonty dollars.
As 90 each agent for the sale 10 this city OF
ginger beer, pop. mineral water, catawba or
soda water, manufactured without the city,
twenty dollars and said agent shall be privileged
to distribute the same to his customers and
collect his bottles and fountains without tax on
the horse aud wagon used for the purpose.
46. Ga every telegraph office within the city
one hundred dollars.
Al. o. every express company not chartered
by the State of Virginia, specific tax OF one
hundred and fifty dollars 10 addition to the tax
On the assessed value of their property.
49, On every unohartered express company,
or person or firm doing an express business 10
the city other than such embraced 10 section
Al, fifteen dollars.
49, Ga every livery stable, fifty dollars, and
for each stall therein twenty five cents.
50. Go every person keeping any house or
lot or yard for storing goods. wares, merchan
disc, wood or coal, lime, salt, guaoo or such
like commodities tor compensation, ten dollars.
81. On every bill poster, ten dollars.
So. On every male dog, one dollar.
So. On every female dog, one dollar and fifty
cents.
Sd. % every license to a person or firm to
keep for compensation any house, yard or lot
as shooting gallery, the tax shall be five dol
lars per week.
SIS. For every license on four horse omni
bus or wagon, whether used for hire or not, ten
dollars.
Sc. On every license on two horse omni
bus used for hire or otherwise, eight dollars.
81. Two horse wagon, tour dollars
SIS. One horse cart, wagon, buggy, or other
vehicle of the like kind, two dollars.
SO. % two horse hack or carriage four
doars. But this shall not apply to licensed
livery stable keepers.
60. o. every hearse, ten dollars.
81. % every person selling uponthe public
streets any patent medicines, patent rights, re.
ceipts, prescriptions, or any drug or article OF
any kind or description, whatsoever. there
shall be tax Of one dollar per day or FIVE dol.
lars per week.
g.. On every packer ADD shipper Of oysters
there shall be tax of fifteen dollars
All persons embraced 10 this ordinance, are
required to make returos to the Commissioner
of the Revenue at his Office 10 the Market
Building. He shall assess the license tax
chargeabe in this ordinance, aud shall furnish
to the mayor, the auditor, and the finance
committee, the detailed amount of the assess
msnt made Oh license, the name of the person
or firm, and the period for which said license
is issued to each, aud shall duly certify the
anne on oath. The said amount of tax shall
b., paid to the Mayor before he shall Issue the
license, aud all licenses shall state the amount
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