San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-23

association of persons engaged in dis
counting or shaving paper, or engaged
in business as money brokers or bank
ers, or dealers in stocks, securities OF
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. 6. From every operator OF
owner of any daguerrean, photo
graph or other like gallery, by what
ever named called, an annual tax of
ten dollars.
Sub. Z. From every auctioneer, an
annual tax of ten dollars.
Sub. s. From every keeper of a toll
bridge, an annual tax OF seven dol
lars.
Sub. 9, 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 Oh COM
mission, ten dollars.
Sub. IL. From every land agent
there shall be collected an annual tax
of five dollars. The term land agent"
SAic'iA NC SOhStA uCu " lllCSih dHy pGESOIl,
firm or association of persons perform
ing for compensation any ii the fol-
lowing services: Purchasins 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
addition &C the one hereinafter levied.
Sub. u. From every pecsv1 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.
ouDs 10. IOlIl every ptASOh VI III III
keeping 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 a 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 |
saloon or other place of bu- |
siness where intoxicating liquors, ci |
CARS 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 fo-
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-
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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
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,
or device of that charac-
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 |
he 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 occupation; pro-
vided, that any blind, deaf and |
dumb, or any wounded person who |
has lost hand or foot, shall not be |
required to pay any tax for peddling; |
provided, that all ex-Confederate ard |
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