Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-06-03

on the 31st day of Mdy, 1891.
Be il Ordained by The City Council Of Alexandria
from all persons required to be listed as subjec
to license tax, the following taxes, viz:
1. On every license to sell ardent spirits o.
wines at wholesale there shall be levied tax o
sixty dollars. This applies to persons selling IL
quantities of five gallons or more.
.. On every license to every brewer or whole
sale dealer in malt liquors. twenty dollars.
g. On every license TO sell wines ardent spirits
or malt liquors or any mixture thereof at retail
forty dollars This applies to persons selling IL
quantities of less than five gallons, and not to be
drunk on the premises.
4. On every license to sell wines, ardent spirits
or malt liquors, at retail, to be drunk on the
premises, or not, fifty dollars. This law applies
to bar rooms or where bar is kept.
Notc.-Any person desiring to carry on the
business Of a wholesale liquor dealer and also that
of retail liquor merchant, shall obtain aseparate
license for each, but his retail license shall only
be onehalf OF that required by section three.
B. On every commission merchant or firm the
specific license or tax shall be thirty dollars.
&. On every person for the privilege of ped
ding or bartering, the tax shall be ten dollars,
and only the person named therein shall be priv
ieged to peddle under this license.
Z. On every person or corporation conducting
the business of real estate agent. broker or
auctioneer. there shall be levied specific tax of
fifty dollars.
8. On every person canvassing to sell books,
maps, prints pictures already published or ped
ding the same, ten dollars
g. On every person canvassng for subscribers
to any book or map, print or pictures not yet
published, ten dollars.
TO- On all agents for the ssle of manufactured
articles, sold by them on commission, or other
wise, ten dollars.
II. On general auctioneer, forty dollars; but
general auctionecr shall sell real estate with
out, in addition, taking ont a license as real
estate agent broker or auctioncer
II. On every junk dealer, one hundred dollars.
13 On every person canvassing or buying any
Junk or any other matter for any junk dealer,
or for sale to any junk dealer doing business III
this city, fifteen dollars, and only one person can
canvass under this license
ii. On every person who shall sell tobacco or
cigars in quantities not less THAI one box except
manufacturers, five dollars
10 On every ship broker, thirty dollars.
10 On every money broker, or firm of brokers
or bankers, having an Office within the city, ono
hundred and fifty dollars.
IL On every common crier forty dollars.
IS On every pawnbroker, fifty dollars
49, On every rectifer of distilled spirits or
wines by any process, sixty dollars.
30. On every commercial broker, as defined in
the revenue laws of the State, there shall he a
license tax of forty dollars. This docs not apply
to bucket shops.
81. On every proprietor of bucket shop or
dealer in puts, calls futures or for flour,
grain, cotton, pork, lard or oil, tTo hundred and
fifty dollars.
%. On every person or persons acting as agent
or agents for any fire, marine, life or other IN
suranco company, or companies having an oillcc
in the city of Alexandria, forty dollars on each
company represented by such agent: and for each
assistant or soliciting agent ten dollars On evory
person seeking business for or soliciting for any
companies who have no agencies in the city OF
Alexandria fifty dollars for each company so
represented.
%. On every hOte ordinary or house of pub
lie entertainment sixty dollars.
2l. On every house of private entertainment
the license tax shall be five dollars, and five per
cent. on the rental value in excess of two hum
dred dollars.
%. On every cook shop or eating house, tho
tax shall be five dollars.
26. On every person or persons Keeping bowl:
ing alley, or Saloon the specific license tax shall
be ten dollars and five dollars each alley in
such house in excess of one.
q. On every person or firm keeping a billiard
table or pool table for public use, whether a
charge be made for playing or not fifteen dollars
and five dollars each table in excess of one.
%. On every person or firm keeping baga-
tellc or other similar table for pubicuse, whether
n Charge he made for playing or not, five dollars
on each table,
81. On every lHcilTlCdl VI any
performance similar thereto, panorama, or any
public performance or exhibition of any kind,
lecture, literary readings and performances, en-
ccpt for charitable or educational purposes in
any hall or public room other building, where
al admission fec is charged, for each week of
performance of six consecutive days, five dollars
if less than one week, two dollars for each per-
formanGc.
30. On every public show exhibition in any
hall, room or tent. where a charge is made for
admission, for every weeks performance or cx-
hibition of six consecutive days, ten dollars; II
less than one week. three dollars for each per-
Torrance.
81. On every exhibition of circus or menage
re or either of them thirty dollars for each day 8
performance, and for every side show or exhibit
tion connected Herewith, or travelling Herewith,
five dollars for each days performance. On every
exhibition or show where gifts prizes are dis
tributcd or promised ten dollars for the first
DAYS performance, and five dollars for each addi-
tional day, provided said performances are given
within one week.
80 On the proprietor of any room fitted UP for
public exhibition for which rent is charged,
twenty collars; for assembly or other halls, ten
dollars
33. On every PERSON selling or offering to sell
refreshments IN any such hall, room or tent,
during such performance, two dollars.
81. On every skating rink there shall be
levied tax Of five dollars per month.
80. On every attorney at law, physician or
dentist, whose practice does not exceed 81 600
per annum, fifteen dollars on those whose prac-
tice is in excess of 81 COO and less than 50, COO,
twenty dollars, and on those whose practice is
moro than 81 600, twenty-five dollars.
&c. On every owner or keeper of daguerrean,
photograph or sun picture gallery, fifteen dollars.
81. On every person canvassing for the pur-
pose of charging photographs or sun pictures,
:fteen dollars.
IS On every agent for renting houses or othcr
real estate, ten dollars.
80. On every person or firm except licensed
merchants, who shall sell or offer to sell, buy or
offer to buy for themselves others, grain ofany
kind or description whatsoever or other produce
on Change, there shall be levied specific tax of
twenty dollars.
40 On every merchant tailor, whose stock in
trade is less than $500, ten dollars, and those
whose stock is moro than $500, twenty-five dol
lars
Al. On every green grocer twenty dollars
meaning by this term any person or persons who
coll thnir nlaco nf busncSS butchers