The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-30
LICENSE FEES.
Various Sources From Which the Principal
Cities of the Country Derive Revenue.

Various Sources From Which the Principal
Cities of the Country Derive Revenue.
City Collector Onahan has prepared
and published a tabulated staten ent
showing in detail the different license
rates for the principal cities of the
United States. The comparison is made
with Chicago. From this statement it
appears that there are forty different
kinds of licenses in Chicago-viz.: for
amusements, auctioneers, bankers,
bakers, bill-posters, billiards, boats,
bowling-alleys, brewers, brokers, butch
ers, distillers, dogs, drays, druggists,
gunpowder, hacks, coupes, livery
hacks, gurneys and hansoms, intelli-
gence-olfices, junk dealers, wholesale
liquor-dealers, lumber yards, malt
liquors, pawn-brokers, peddlers, pool
tables, rendering establishments, hotel
runners, saloons, scales, scavengers,
secondhand dealers, shooting-galler-
les, soap factories, tanneries, wagons
Zone and two horse), and iunk-wagons.
No other large city has such a variety
of licenses. New York has only dozen
different kinds, Boston has twenty va
rieties, Brooklyn eighteen, Cincinnati
twenty-five, San Francisco twenty
three, Philadelphia fourteen, Denver
seventeen and st. Louis twenty-three.
As rule the saloon licenses bring
the cities the largest revenue. Pawn
brokers are also highly taxed; so are
theater-owners. The New York saloon
keepers get off very %eap; their feeiS
only $75 per annum. In Boston they
have to pay from $500 to $500. Min
neapolis and st. Louis liquor-dealers
pay the same fee as those of Chicago
$500. In Louisville the fee is $3.50,
and in Cincinnati, Duluth and Mil
waukee the fee is 5000. In Washing
ton, D. c., Charleston, S. c., st. Paul
and Vicksburg the fee is 800. In
Brooklyn, saloon-keepers pay from
$500 to $500. Denver has three grades
of saloons. Those that close at mid
night pay $500; those that close at two
a. m. pay $500; all night saloons pay
$500. In Pittsburgh and other towns
the license is a per centage on the gross
receipts.
Brooklyn and New York pawn
brokers pay $500 license; Chicago.
Detroit, New Orleans, Richmond and
Savannah pawn-brokers pay 5000 each.
In Charleston, S. c., Dubuque and st.
Paul the fee is $500; in Cincinnati,
Duluth and Washington, d. c., $3.50
Boston only charges 800. while St.
Louis exacts a fee of 5000 every six
months. The amusement license fee
for Cincinnati, San Francisco and St.
Paul is $500; in Chicago it is 5000 or
$500; Boston, Denver, Detroit and
Washington, d. c., charge but 800;
Brooklyn and St. Louis $3.50 each;
Louisville land Minneapolis each
charge 5000. Nearly all the big cities
tax auctioneers. Cincinnati charges as
high as $3.50 per annum; San Francisco
as high as $500, Philadelphia $500, st.
Louis $500 for each half year. In Chi
cago, Denver, Louisville and Richmond
the fee is $500. The fee is only 500
in Brooklyn and Washington, and but
50 in Boston. Charleston, Chicago,
Louisville, New Orleans, San Francisco,
st. Louis and Washington are the only
cities that tax bankers. Chicago's tax
for the business is 500; St. Louis taxes
800 every half year. In New Orleans
the tax varies from SIS to $1,750; in
San Francisco from $204 to ST. 04.
Boston and Chicago are the only two
cities that tax brewers and distillers
both. In Boston the tax is $400 for
each; in Chicago $500 for each. Louis
vile taxes distillers from $50 to So, 500,
according to capacity, Boston has a
wholesale liquor tax of $3.50; Buffalo
one of 1925; Chicago, $3.50; Hartford,
Conn, S175; Louisville, 5000; Mem
phis, 5000; Savannah, $500; Washing
ton, D. c., $25.
There seems to be surprising una
nimity among the municipalities as to
the desire of wagon tax New York,
New Orleans and Washington are the
only considerable cities that do not i'm
pose one. Most of the cities tax dogs
The fee is usually 50. This is the price
in Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Louisville, Milwaukee, New York and
San Francisco. ST. Louis taxes the
CANNES So, and Boston taxes the male
dog 50 and the female Chicago
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