Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-28
OFFICIAL.
LICENSE LAW.

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the Year commencing on the 1st day Of June,
1896, and ending on the 31st day of May
1897.
Be ii Ordained by the City Council of Aler-
andria, That there shall be levied upon and
collected from all persons required to be
listed as subject to license tax, the follow
ing taxes, viz:
1. On every license to sell ardent spirits
or wines at wholesale, there shall be levied
tax of seventy dollars. This applies to per-
sons selling in quantities offve gallons or
more.
[NoTE.-Any person desiring to carry on
the business OF q wholesale liquor dealer and
also that of retail liquor merchant shall OBJ
taiu separate license for each, hut his retail
license shall only be one-half Of that required
| by section three
q On every license to every brewer or
wholesale dealer in malt liquors. twenty
| five dollars.
3. On every license to sell wines, ardent
spirits, or malt liquors, or any mixture
thereof at retail, seventy-fve dollars. "a
| license to sell liquors by retail shall include
| the privilege to sell In quantities not exceed
| ing five (5) gallons tany one time to any indi-
vidual; this shall include the privilege to sell,
to be delivered to the purchaser in bottles,
jugs and domijohns OF other vessels and also
the privilege to be drunk where sold.
4. On every ordinary ninety.five dollars,
| and the right 10 keep an ordinary shall cou-
tain all tho rights and privileges of retail
| liquor dealer.
5. On every commission merchant or firm
| the specific license or tax shall be twenty
five dollars
9. On oyory person for the privilege Of
peddllng or bsrtering, the tax shall be ten
dollars. and only the person named therein
shall be privileged to peddlo under this
license.
7. On every person or corporation con-
ductipg the business OF real estate agent
or broker, there shall be levied a specific
tax of fifty dollars.
8. On overy auctionecr forty dollars and
no auctioneer shall sell real estate at public
auction without taking out a license under this
section.
8. On every person canvassing to soil
books, maps, prints or pictures already pub
lished or peddling the same. ten dollars.
10. On every person canvassing for sub
scribers to any book or map, print or pic
ture not yet published, ten dollars.
IL. On all agents for the sale Of manu-
featured articles, sold by them on commits
sion, or otherwise, ten dollars.
q -. 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 aale to any junk dealer doing
business in shis city, fifteen dollars, and
only one person can canvass under this
license.
ID 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.
IT. On every pawnbroker, fifty dollars.
1S. On every rectifer Of distilled spirits
or wines by any process, sixty dollars.
10. On every commercial broker, as de-
fined in the revenue laws of the State,
there shall be license tax Of forty dollars.
This does not apply to bucket shops.
20. On every proprietor OF q bucket shop
or dealer in puts, calls or futures on OF
for -four, grain, cotton, pork, lard or oil, two
hundred and fifty dollars.
II. On every person or persons acting as
agent OF agents for any fire, marine. life or
other insurance company, or companies, hav-
ing an Office in the city of Alexandria,
forty dollars on each company represented
by such agent; and for each assistant or
soliciting agent ten dollars On every person
seeking business for or soliciting for any
companies who have no agencies in the city
of Alexandria, Afty dollars for each COM
pany 80 represented.
%. On every hotel, or house of public en-
tertanment, twenty dollars. Liquors can
not be sold under this section.
%. On every house of private entertain
ment the license tax shall be fve dollars,
and five per cent. on the rental value in
excess of two hundred dollars.
24. On every cook shop or eating house,
the tax shall be five dollars.
25. On every person or persons keeping
bowling alley, or saloon, the specific license
tax shall be ten dollars, and five dollars on
each alley in such house in excess of one.
26. 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 on each
table in excess of one.
81. On every person or firm keeping
bagatolle or other similar table for public
use, whether charge be made for playing
or not, five dollars on each table.
%. On every theatrical performance, or
any performance similar thereto, panorama,
or any public performance or exhibition of
any kind, lecture, literary readings and per-
formsnces except for charitable or educa-
or other building, where an admission fee
is charged, for each week Of performance
of six consecutive days, five dollars; if less
than one wcck one dollar for each per
formance.
%. On every exhibition Of a circus or
mensgcrie or either Of them, fifty dollars
for each days performance, and for every
side show or exhibition connected Herewith,
or travelling Herewith, five dollars for each
DAVIS 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 each addi-
tional day, provided said performances are
given within one week.
80. On the proprietor of any room fitted
M for public exhibition for which rent is
charged, twenty dollars: for assembly or
other halls, ten dollars.
81. On every person selling or offering to
sell refreshments in any such hall, room
OF tent, during such performance, two dol
lars.
80. On every attorney at law, physician
or dentist, whose practice does not exceed
ST. 900 per annun, fifteen dollars; on those
whose practice is in o1cess of Sl,OOO and
less than $2,0OO twenty dollars, and oH on
those whose practice is more than S2OOo,
twenty-five dollars.
33. On every owner or keeper of dsguer-
rean. photograph or sun picture gallery. or
any photographer doing business in this city,
fifteen dollars.
81. On every person canvassing for the
purpose of enlarging photographs or sun pic
tures, or for making crayons, photographs,
paintings or other pictures, whether charge
be made or not for such enlarged photographs,
sun pictures, crayons, photographs, paintings
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