Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-07
COUNCIL WAS BUSY.
LARGE AMOUNT OF CITY BUSI.
NESS TRANSACTED.
New Occupation Tax License Is
Adopted Which Lets Out Nearly
All Local Business Houses Water.
Works Trouble.

Ihe city council met in regular
session last Monday and transacted 8
large amount Of business Of interest
to the city. All members were pres
sent except Upshaw. The usual list
Of bills was allowed, also $110 court
costs in the Wright case.
The Water company presented a
bill for IS, ops for water from July /,
1898 to Jan. /, 1897, being the old
contract rate. The council refused
payment and ordered the treasurer to
make q tender Of $125O, the amount
agreed on by the council some weeks
ago. This was done today. A letter
from Manger Rogers Of the company
was read. 1t said:
81 am instructed by the company
to inform you that they cannot ac-
cept $4,000 per annum in full pay
ment Of hydrant rental as per resolu-
ton passed by you at special meeting
Of council Dec. l2, 1896, notice OF
which received from G. F. Mead in
his letter of the 14th instant"
City Treasurer Giles made his re-
port for the period from Nov. "a to
Jan. l. 1t shows a balance in general
fund Of $4,156,44; in street fund
$500. "A; in interest fund $662.54; in
cemetery fund &955.6O; total Sc, 765. so.
This is the best showing the city has
made in long time, balance being
lin every department instead Of the
old time "overdrawn."
Il The new license tax ordinance
which was ordered drawn at the last
meeting was then presented and
unanimously adopted as follows:
Section l. That it shall be unlawful for
any person or persons, firm or corporation to
transact, engage in or pursue any business
or vocation or to do any act to make any ex-
hibition hereinafter named, described or
specified, in the said City Of Abilene, Kansas,
without having paid such sums and obtained
a license so to do, as hereinafter provided or
required.
Section 2. That a semi-annual license tax Is
hereby levied and shall be charged and col
lected for every license granted for every
business, occupation or object hereinafter
named or specified, as follows.
Section g. All telephone companies, twelve
dollars and fifty cents tsl25O).
Section 4. All transient and nonresident
euctioneers, ten dollars $1,000.
gSection s. All bowling and ten-pin alleys,
Irrespective of the number Of pins, pistol and
}Aooting galleries, merry-go-rounds and
skating rinks ten dollars $4,000.
Section g. All opera houses the sum Of
twelve dollars and fifty cents &l2.5); and all
public halls the sum Of six dollars and
twenty-five cents (s6,25.
Section l. All fire and life insurance COM
panies, loan companies and building associa-
ions, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents |
1850.
Section 5. A license tax Of twenty-five dol
ars ($25O0 is hereby levied and shall be
.harged and collected for each circus or me-
lagerie parade within the city limits: Pro-
Tided, however, that when any circus or me-
lagerie shall take out license to exhibit
within the city no additional license shall be
harged for parade,
Section o. A license tax of three dollars
1900 per day is hereby levied upon street
,eddlers hawkers, fakirs and all itinerant
md transient dealers by retail except by
uctlon and upon all transient shooting gal
eries:s sProviding, that this section shall not
c construed to apply to persons peddling or
elling books maps pictures, or any other
literary work, or farm products grown or
aised by himself.
Section 10. That license tax Of ten dol
ars $1,000 per day is hereby levied upon
uctioneers offering at public vendue any
took or assortment of merchandise of any
ind or any person disposing Of any bank
upt stock OF clothing or merchandise Of any
description, within this city whether at re-
all or by auction, public sale or otherwise,
rought to this city, or offered to be sold or
isposed Of thereat, by any corporation or
erson. Provided, this section shall not apply
o merchants residing in the city, who shall
ave been engaged in business In the city for
TX months or more.
Section II. That a license tax per day Is
ereby levied upon all shows theatres con-
erts and other exhibitions and entertain
tents, excepting circuses or menageries ey-
ibited or given in the city for pay, as fol- ,
,ws: Five dollars $500 for the first day or
ight; two dollars and fifty cents $3.50 for
ach day and night thereafter: Provided q
lis section shall not apply to public exhibl-
Itions or other entertainments given exclu-
vely by citizens Of Abilene, nor to literary
,ientifc or charitable entertainments OF
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