San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-30


From every fortune teller, five dol
lars; from every clairvoyant, or mes.
merist, who plies his or her vocation
for money five dollars.
From every person, firm or associa'
ton of persons engaged in discountins
or shaving paper, or engaged in bust,
ness as money brokers or bankers, OF
dealers in stocks, securities or bills
of exchange, or in buying and selling
bonds, State, County and City war
rants, or other claims against the Stale
an annual tax of twenty-five dollars
From every operator or owner of any
Daguerrean, photograph or other like
gallery, by whatever name called, an
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
sdollars.
From every land agent there shall
be collected an annual tax of two dol
lars and fifty cents. The term "1and
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
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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, oc-
cuist 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
a shooting gallery at which fee Is
paid and demanded. an annual tax Of
fifteen dollars
From every person or firm keeping
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
upon which any money or other thing
of value is paid. shall be regarded as
used for profit.
From any person or persons who
contests, two dollars and fifty cents fo-
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 as used for profit.
From all persons keeping or using
for profit any hobby horse, fying-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 peddlcr
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 VIVA
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 whc