The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-04-16

TIE NEW PRIVILEGE TAX.



THE NEW PRIVILEGE TAI
Below is "a lew of the most impoI
tant items:
On each real estate agent, $40.
Each store where the stock neve
exceeds in value two thousand do
lars, So.
On each person travelling an,
selling goods or merchandise b
sample or otherwise in this State
&25.
Ga each person or firm dealin
in pistols or dirks OF sword canes o
other deadly weapons. (sbot gun
and rifles excepted 500.
On each transient vender of bee
springs for each county, $25
On each vontior OF elomargariu,
or siDil manufactured butter, $50
On each transient vender of truiI
trees or grape vines in each county,
So.
On each Tightening rod agent in
each county, $40.
On each transient vender o
stores, r ranges or clock in each
county, $25.
On each book agent, So.
Provided that the tax on book
agents shall not apply to any agent
or colpotier of any religious publish
ing house or bible society, aud,
provided further, books of no otner
nature than religious works be sold
by said agents.
On each lumber yard dealer in
lumber whose annual sales aggre-
gate five hundred thousand feet or
more and less than one million feet.
$40.
On same whose annual sales ae
gregate II million feet or more.
S25.
On each person or firm selling
patent medicines by sample or 9th
wise except licensed merchants or
druggists, S25.
On each store where a stock is
sometimes carried of fifty thousand
dollars or more, $3.50.
On each agency tor sewing ma
chIues, $50.
On each photograph gallery in "A
town OF over one thousand Inha6i-
tants, $40.
On same in town OF less than one
thousand Inhabitants, 50.
Each peddler Oh foot for each
county, 50.
Each peddler with one horse or
mule or other animal, tor each
county, $15.
Each peddler with Que horse or
mule or other animal or wagon or
wheeled vehicle, for each county,
$25.
Each peddler with ii wagon and
two horses or mules or other ami
mails, for each county, $50.
Provided, peddlers of tin ware
and pottery manufactured in this
State alone shall be exempt from
such taxes.
Each drug store shall be subject
to the same tax as other S ores, and
shall obtain license IN the same
manner, aud may sell vinous or
spirituOu 1,lipaoiS as other dealers
may.
On eacn person selling vinous or v
spirituous liquors or mixture of Z
which vinouS or spirituOus liquors
S the principle ingredient in il less ?
quantity than five gallons aud not y
ess than Que gallon, $3.50.
On each person selling such H. 10
luOys in quantities not less than
i've gallons, $3.50. e.
On each person travelling aud
such liquors at wholesale by fl
ample or otherwise, $3.50. ia
Each practicing lawyer, whether
'ra~cticing alone or associated with -
$40. 4
Each practicing dentist, whether
lone or associated with others, $40. r.
On each tavern or hotel with a ne
apacity for twenty-five guests III a St
ity or town of five thousand or
lore inhabitants, S75. NJ
On the same with the capacity in
IF less number of guests, $40. ella
On each tavern or hotel in city ES
town of two thousand and not Go
ore than five thousand inhabit. Sic
nts with the capacity for twenty ri
We guests, $40. g.
On same less capacity, $50. of
On each tavern or hotel IN city tur
town OF less than two thousand 81
habitants, $40. Sill,
On each private boarding house fac.
a city or town not boarding stu }
snts exclusively, So. anG
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