Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-02
OFFICIAL.
LICENSE la W.

An ordinance imposing and collecting IL
ccnses within the City Of Alexandria, for
the year commencing Oh the Ist day Of
June, 1881. and ending on the 3lsL day Of
May, 1855.
Be it ordained by the City Council of
Alexandria, That there shall be levied upon
and collected from all persons required TO
be listed rs subject to license tax, the fol-
loving taxes, viz
or wines at wholesale, there shall be levied
Tux of sixty dollars.
9 On every license to sell malt liquors at
| wholesale, twenty dollars.
s. On every license TO sell wines, ardent
spirits, or malt liquors, or any mixture
thereof at retail thirty dollars.
t. On every license to sell wines, ardent
spirits, or malt liquors, to be drunk on the
premises, thirty dollars.
s. On every commission merchant or firm
the specific license or tax shall be thirty
dollars.
G. On every person for the privilege of
peddiug or bartering the tax shall be r. -
dollars.
T. On every real estate broker and motion
eer, there shall be levied n specific tu~ IF
forty dollars, and in addition thereto one
half of one per cent. on inc an,ount of sales
made either at pull, or private sale.
.; vi ever person capvassing to sell
BOOKS, n...ps, prints or pictures already
..shed, or pedding the same, ten dol
! lars.
8: On every person canvassing for sub
| scribers to any book, or map, print or pic
lures, not yet published, ten dollars.
10. On all agents for the sale of manu-
faotured articles, oil machines made in
other States or territories, and sold by
them on commission, or otherwise, ten dol
lars.
II. On general auctioneers, thirty dollars
and one-half of one per cent. on their COM
mission, but no general auctioneer shall sell
real estate, without in addition, taking out
license as real estate broker or auction
eer.
II. On every junk dealer, one hundred
dollars.
10. On persons canvassing or buying any
Junk or any other matter for any Junk deal
er or for sale to any junk dealer, fifteen dol
lars.
IA. On every person who shall sell to-
bacco Or cigars in quantities not less than
one box, except manufacturers, five dollars.
10. On every ship broker, thirty dollars.
16. On every money broker, or firm of
brokers or bankers, having an Office within
the city, one hundred and fifty dollars.
II. On every common crier, thirty dol
lars.
is. On every pawnbroker, fifty dollars
10. On every rectitier of distilled spirits
or wines by any process, sixty dollars
90 On every commercial broker, as de-
fined in the revenue laws of the State,
there shall be license tax of one hundred
dollars.
21 On every person or persons acting as
agent or agents for any fire, marine or life
insurance company or companies, having an
Office i'll the City of Alexandria, forty dollars
on each company represented by such agent
On every person seeking busin ess for or So
Letting for any company or companies, who
have no agencies in the City Of Alexandria,
fifty dollars for each company so represented.
-. On every hotel, ordinary or house of
public entertainment, thirty five dollars, on
so much Of the yearly rental value thereof
as does not exceed two hundred dollars.
and on so much of the yea rly rental value
thereof as does exceed two hundred dollars
five per cent.
ment, the license tax s'lalI be five dollars
and five per cent. on ne rental value in ex.
cess of two hundred dollars.
81. On every coo * shop or eating house,
the tax shall be fv dollars.
%. On every pc ,rson or persons keeping
bowling alley, or saloon, the specific license
tax shall be tea dollars, and five dollars on
each alley in such house in excess of one.
20. On every person or firm Keeping
billiard table or pool ia BILE for public use,
ch9 rye be made for playing or
not, fifteen collars, and five dollars on each
aDle In eY ceSS of one.
q. Op every person or firm keeping
oagate' Ie or other similar tables for public
Use, V neither charge be made for playing
'r ot, five dollars on each table.
IS. On every theatrical performance or
any performance similar thereto, panorama,
or any public performance or exhibition of
any kind, lecture, literary readings and
except for charitable or edu-
cational purposes, in any hall or public
room or other building, where an admission
ZEE is charged, for each week OF performance |
en- dollars; if less than one week, three dol
ars for EACH performance.