Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-16
five gallona, and not to be drunk on the


premises.
4. On every license to sell wines, ardent
spirits or malt liquors, st retail. to be
drunk on the promises, or not, sixty dol
lars. This law applies 10 bar rooms or wher3
bar is Kept.
(Note.-Any person desiring to carry on
the business Of a wholesale liquor dealer and
also that OF a retail liquor merchant shall
obtain aseparate license for each, but his re-
tail license shall only be one-half of that
quired by section three
5. On every commission merchant OF firm
the specific license or tax shall be twenty.
five dollars.
8. On every person for the privilege OF
peddling or bartering, the tax shall be ten
dollars. and only the person named therein
shall be privileged to peddle under this
license
7. On every person or corporation con-
Quoting the business Of real estate agent.
or broker there shall be levied specific
tax of fifty dollars
8. On general auctioncer forty dollars; but
no general aucti0neer shall sell real estate
without, i'll addition. taking out license as Il
real estate agent or broker.
8. On every person canvassing TO sell
books, maps, prints or pictures already pub
lishod or ped lling the SAME, ten dollars.
10. On every person canvassing for sub
scTibers to any book or map, print or pic
lures not yetpubiished, ten dollars
II. On all agents for the sale Of manu-
featured articles, sold by them on commits
sion, or other wise, ten dollars.
10 On every junk dealer, one hundred
dollars.
13. On every person canvsssing or buying
any junk or any other matter for ANY junk
dealer, Or for sale to any junk dealer dom.
business in this city, fifteen dollars, and
only one person can canvass under this
license.
II 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, ono hundred and fifty dollars
II. On every pawnbroker, fifty dollars.
Is. On every rectiicr of distilled spirits
or vines lay any process, sixty dollars
-. On every commercial broker. rs do
fined in the revenue laws Of the Stale,
there shall be license tax Of forty dollars
his does not apply to bucket shops.
20. On every proprietor OF 3 bucket shop
o. dealer in puts, calls or futures on or
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hundred aud fifty dollars.
II. On every person or persons acting IS
agent or agents for any fire. marine life n
. her insurance company. or companies, hsy-
ing an office in the city OF Alexandria,
farty dollars on each company Represented
| by such agent; and for eica staGt 81
soliciting Sg-nt teni:oiiHrs On every person
seeking business for or soliciting for Sly
companies who have no agencies in the citg
Of Alexandria, City dollars for each COM
pany SO represented.
ID On every hotel, ordinary or house Of
public entertainment, evenly dollars
%. On every house OF private entcrt.i
mcnt the license tx shall be nve dollars.
and fye per cent. OH tho rental value in
excess OF two hundred dollars.
24. On every cook shop or eating house
the tax snail be five dollars.
%. On every person or persons keeping 3
bowling alley or saloon. tins specific license
tax shall be ten dollars, and five dollars Oh
each alley in such house in excess Of ore.
20. On every person or firm keeping {
| billiard table or pool table for public use
whether charge be made for playing or
not, fifteen dollars, and five dollars Oh each
table in excess Of one
p. On every person or firm keeping 8
bsgatelle or other similar table for public
use, whether charge be mado for playing
or not, five dollars Oh each table.
%. On every theatrical performance, CT
any performance similar thereto, panorama.
or any public performance or exhibition Of
sny kind, lecture, literary readings and per
formances, except for charitable or educa
tional purposes. in any hall or public room
or other building, where rs admission fee
is charged, for each week of performance
q SIX consecutive daya, five dollars; If less
than one week, one dollar for each per
formance.
% On every exhibition OF circus or
mensgerio or either OF them, fifty dollars
for each days performance, and for every
side show or exhibition connected therewith
or travelling herewith, five dollars for each
days performance. On every exhibition or
show where gifts or prizes are distributed
or promised, ten dollars for the first days
performance, and FIVE dollars for eac! add
tional day, provided ssid performances are
given within one week.
50. On the proprietor Of any roOm fitted
up for public exhibition for which rent Is
charged, twenty dollars; for assembly OF
other halls, ten dollars.
81 On every person selling or offering to
sell refreshments in any such hall, room
or tent, during such performance two dol
lars.
81. On every attorney at law, physician
or dentist, whose practice does not exceed
$1,000 per annuna. fifteen dollars o. these
whose praotice is in czcos' Of 81 COO aud
less than $1,000 twenty dollars, and on
those whose practice IS more than $1,000,
twenty SO dollars.
3D. On every owner or keeper of daguer-
reau, photograph or sun picture gallery, or
any photographer doing business in this city.
fifteen dollars.
81. On every person canvassing for the
purpose of charging photographs, or sun pic
lures. or for making crayOns, photographs.
paintings or other pictures. whether 4 charge
be made or not for such enlarged photographs.
sun pictures. crayons, photographs, paintings
or pictures, fifteen dollars.
20 On every agent for renting houses or
Other real estate ten dollars.
SO On every person or firm except j.
ccnsd merchants. who shall sell or offer 10
sell, buy or offer to bug for themselves or
Others, grain of any kind or description
whatsoever, or other produce on Change,
there shall be levied specific tax Of twenty
dollars
81. On every merchant tailor. whose stock
in trade S lcss than $500 tea dollars. and
on those wto7c stock is more than so
twenty five dollars.
IS. On every green grocer. tw .ity dol
lars; meaning by this term any person or
persons who shall sell at hisor their place IF
business butchers meats aud vegetable.
And on every green grocer who does 20, sci
meats. FIVE dollars.
80. On each and every butcher or deater
in fresh meats. selling meat within e pub
lie market, five dollars.
40. On each and every butcher or dealer
in fresh meats selling meat outside Of the
public market, fifteen dollars.
II. On every person canvassing for the
purpose Of buying any matter of subsst-
enco. and who shall sell the same within the