Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-03-26
THE NEW LICENSE LAW.
Provisions of the Act Providing for
the Payment of An OccuBatiOn Tax
by business Hen in New
Mexico.

Council bill No. AZ, which passed both
houses of the legislature and received the
governors approval and signature, fixes
the license to be paid by business men
other than liquor dealers, of different
kinds doing business within the terri
tory.
This act provides that the money re-
ceived from such licenses shall be equally
divided between the general school fund
and the general current expense fund in
the counties where the license are Issued.
Peddlers travelling on foot or with one
animal shall pay $3.50 per year; with two
or more animals, $500, each vehicle used
by the same peddler shall require sepa-
rate license, and the license is only good
for the county in which it is used.
Merchants whose sales exceed $4,000 and
do not exceed $4,000 shall pay $40 per
annum; from $4,000 to $4,000, shall
pay $40; from $4,000 to $4,000, shall
pay $50; from $4,000 to $4,000, shall
pay $4,000; from $4,000 to 100000,
shall pay 800; exceeding 100000, shall
pay $3.50.
Real estate or collection agents, or
those who buy or sell real estate on COM
mission, or engage in the collection Of
rents from real estate on a percentage OF
commission, shall pay $40 per aunum
Insurance agents, both fire and life, the
same amount. Keepers of hotels or inns
who provide food and lodging for hire
are taxed as follows: Receipts exceed
ing $1,000 per anpum, $40; exceeding ST.,
600 per annum, $40. All keepers of liv
cry or feed stables, and all owners Of
stage lines shall pay $40 per annum.
Pawubrokers or persons engaged in re.
ceiving by way of pledge or pawn any
kind of personal property as security fol-
the repayment of money loaned or ad
vauced, shall pay $3.50 per annum. This
does not apply to persons advancing
money on personal property not regu
larly engaged in the business of pawn
brokerage. All persons owning, con
trolling or managing any building o.
premises used as a place of Amusement
and renting same for theaters, public
balls or public entainments, where thu
seating capacity is 800 persons, shall pa.
$40 per annum; where the seating ca
pacity of such place or building exceed
800 persons, the tax is 1926 per annum
This does not apply to buildings used il
whole or in part as an educational insti
tuition.
All persons required by this act to pay
license tax fixed upon the amount o
business done, shall before beginning o
continuing business, make out an appli
cation, under oath, stating the characte
of business engaged or contemplated AM
location, and in case of merchants or hote
keepers, a statement of the amount 0
business done in the preceding year-il
case of beginning a new business the ap
propriate amount of business expecte
to be done--said application and state
ment becoming the basis for fixing tn
amount of tax to be paid. The appli
cant pays the amount OF tax fixed upon. t.
the county collect IT, taking the collector
receipt therefor, and the presentation o
said receipt to the county clerk obtain
the license. Any county clerk who vic
ates the provisions of this act shall b.
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convlc
ton shall be subject to a fine of not les
than $50 nor more than $500, and to re
moval from Office.
! All license tax shall be paid in aavanc
in the current funds of the United States
but licenses may be taken out quarterly
semi. annually, or annually. Any persol
or firm or corporation engaged in any o
the branches of business named in thi
act before paying the license required
shall be deemed gully of misdemeanor
and upon conviction shall be fined no
less than $50 nor more than $500, or i'm
prisoned in the county jail not more thai
six months.
This act in no manner annuls, repealt
reyokes, nor changes any of the laws 0
the territory in relation to the license
required of liquor dealers, nor the law
regulating games of chance, and takes 81
feet on July l, 1897