San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-31

annual tax of five dollars.
From every auctioneer, an annual
tax of five dollars.
From every person, firm or associa-
ton of persons following the occupa-
ton of ship brokers or ship agents, an
annual tax of five dollars.
From every person or association of
persons selling on commission, five
dollars.
From every land agent there shall
be collected an annual tax of two dol
lars and fifty cents. The term land
agent" shall be construed to mean any
person, firm or association of persons
performing for compensation any of
the following services: purchasing or
selling real estate for others; purchas-
ing or selling land certificates for 9TH
ers. But this term land agent" shall
not be construed so as to levy a tax
upon an attorney in addition to the one
hereinafter levied.
From every person practicing law,
and from every conveyancer or other
person drawing deeds or other legal
instruments for pay, two dollars and
| fifty cents.
From every physician, surgeon, Oe-
culist or medical or other specialist Of
any kind, travelling from place to place
in the practice of his profession, an
annual tax of twenty-five dollars; from
every dentist, two dollars and fifty
cents.
From every local practicing physi-
clan, surgeon, veterinary surgeon or
any medical or surgical specialist, an
| annual tax of two dollars and fifty
cents.
From every person or firm keeping
shooting gallery at which a fee is
paid and demanded, an annual tax of
fifteen dollars.
From every person or firm keeping a
knife, cane or doll rack, or other de-
vice upon which rings are pitched, or
at which balls are thrown, an annual
tax of twelve dollars and fifty cents.
From every billiard, pool table, or
anything of the kind used for profit,
| ten dollars, and any such table used in
connection with any drinking saloon
or other place of business where intox-
| icating liquors, cigars or other things
of value are sold or given away, or
upon which any money or other thing
of value is paid. shall be regarded as
used for profit
From any person or persons who
shall sell pools on horse races or other
contests, two dollars and fifty cents for
each and every day they may so sell
said pools.
From every nine or ten pin alley or
any alley used for profit, by whatever
name called, constructed or operated
upon the principle of a bowling alley,
and upon which balls rings or other
| devices are used as substitutes there
| of are rolled, without regard to the
number of pins used, or whether pins
are used or not, or whether the balls,
rings or other device are rolled by hand
or with a cue or any other device, fifty
dollars. Any such alley used in con-
nection with any drinking saloon or
any drugstore, or with any drug store
where intoxicating liquors are sold, or
given away, or upon which money or
anything of value is paid, shall be re-
graded used for profit.
From all persons keeping or using
for profit any hobby horse, fiying-jen-
ny, or device of that character, with or
without name, seven dollars and fifty
cents.
From every foot peddler, two dollars
and fifty cents. For every peddler
with one horse or one pair of oxen,
the sum of seven dollars and fifty
| cents. For every peddler with two
horses or two pair of oxen fifteen dol
| lars. Provided that any blind. deaf
and dumb or any wounded person VINO
has lost hand or foot shall not be re-
/ quired to pay any tax for peddling;
provided that all ex-Confederate and
eX-Federal soldiers, who, from old age
or other cause, may be incapacitated to
do and perform manual labor, and vino
are actual residents of the state and
| are hui Inmates VI any SOlulclS
or drawing any pension from the Uni
ted States or state government, be and
are hereby exempted from the payment
Of any such peddler's occupation tax,
provided, such persons shall not be ex-
empt from such peddler's tax if en-
ployed in peddling for any other per
son or persons; nothing herein con-
tanned shall be so construed as to in,
clude travelling vendors of tin Of
earthen ware; provided further, tina;
nothing herein contained shall be sc
construed as to include travelling ven
doris of literature exclusively religious
in character, or travelling vendors OF
poultry, vegetables, or other country
produce exclusively, fruit and fruit
trees exclusively, if raised or produced
by the vendor or his family.
From every theatre or dramatic re-
presentation for which pay for admis
sion is demanded or received, two dol
lars and fifty cents per day for every