San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-22
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/ III DuSlHSSS as money DTOherS or Dank-
ers, or dealers in stocks, securities or
bills of exchange, or in buying or sell
/ ling bonds, State, county, or city war
! rants, or other claims against the
State, an annual tax of fifty dollars.
Sub. g. From every operator or
owner of any daguerrean, photo
graph or other like gallery, by what
ever named called, an annual tax of
ten dollars.
Sub. T. From every auctioneer, an
annual tax of ten dollars
Sub. s. From every keeper of a toll
bridge, an annual tax o. seven dol
lars.
Sub. 8. From every person, firm or
association of persons following the oc-
cupation OF ship brokers or ship
agents, an annual tax of ten dollars.
Sub. 10. From every person, firm or
association of persons selling on COM
mission, ten dollars.
Sub. II. From every land agent
there shall be collected an annual tax
of five dollars. The term "land agent
shall be construed to mean any person,
firm or association of persons perform
ing for compensation any ii the fol-
lowing services: Purchasing or selling
real estate for others: purchasing or
selling land certificates for others.
But this term "land agent
shall not be construed so
as to levy a tax upon an attorney in
edition &C the one hereinafter levied.
Sub. II. From every pecs1l practic-
ing law, and from every conveyancer
or other person drawing deeds or
other legal instruments for pay. five
dollars; provided, that attorneys-at-
law shall only pay county occupation
tax in the county of his or their resi-
dence.
Sub. Is. From every physician, sur
geon, oculist, or medical or other
specialist of any kind, travelling from
place to place in the practice of his
profession, an annual tax of fifty dol
lars; from every dentist, five dollars.
Sub IA. From every local practic-
ing physician, surgeon, veterinary
surgeon, or any medical or surgical
specialist, an annual tax of five dol
lars.
Sub. Is. tFrom every person or firm
keeping a shooting gallery at which a
fee is paid or demanded, an annual tax
of thirty dollars in each county.
Sub. 16. From every person
or firm keeping knife
cane, or doll rack, or any
device upon which rings are pitched.
or at which balls are thrown, an an
nual tax of twenty-five dollars.
Sub. II. From every billiard, pool
table, or anything of the kind used for
profit, twenty dollars; and any such
table used in connection with any
drinking saloon or other place of bu-
siness where Intoxicating liquors, CT
gars or other things of value are sold
or given away, or upon which any
money or any other thing of value is
paid shall be regarded as used for
profit.
Sub. is. From any person or per-
sons who shall sell pools on horse
races or other contests, five dollars for
each and every day they may so sell
said pools.
Sub. 10. From every nine or ten pin
alley, or any other alley used for pro-
fit, by whatever name called, con-
structed or operated upon the princi-
pie Of bowling alley, and upon which
balls, rings, or other devices are used
as substitutes thereof, are
rolled, without regard to
the number of pins used, or
whether the balls, rings, or other de-
vices are rolled by hand or with cue
or any other device, one hundred dol
lars. Any such alley used in connec-
ton with any drinking saloon,
or any drug store, 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 regarded as used for profit.
Sub. 20. From all persons keeping
or using for profit any hobby horse
flying-jenny, or device of that charae-
ter, with or without name, fifteen dol
lars for each county wherein the same
are kept or used.
Sub. q. From every foot peddler.
five dollars in each county in which
ne peddles. For every peddler with
one horse or one pair of oxen, the sum
of fifteen dollars in each county where
he peddles; for every peddler with two
horses or two pair of oxen, thirty dol
lars in each county in. which he may
pursue his occupation; for every pei
dler with sail or other boat, in streams
or along the coast or bays of this state,
thirty dollars in each county in which
he may pursue such occupations; pro-
vided, that any blind, deaf and
dumb, or any wounded person who
has lost a hand or foot, shall not be
required to pay any tax for peddling;
provided, that all ex-Confedsrate and
ex-Federal soldiers, who. from old age
or other cause, may be incapacitated
to do and perform manuel labor and
who are actual residents of the State
of Texas and are not inmates of any
soldiers home, or drawing any PEN
sion from the United States or any
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