Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-27

use, whether q charge DC maze LOT pIaylh
or not, five dollars on each table.
2S. On every theatrical performance, o
any performance similar thereto, panorama
or any public performance or exhibition G
! any kind, lecture, literary readings and per
r formances, except for charitable or educa
{ tional purposes, in any hall or public room
or other building, where All admission fe
is charged, for each week of Performance
} of six consecutive days, five dollars if les
than one week, one dollar for each per
formance.
20. On every exhibition of a circus O.
menagerie or either of them. fifty dollar
for each days performance, and for every
side show or exhibition connected Herewith
or travelling Herewith, five dollars for cacl
days performance. On every exhibition OF
show where gifts or prizes arc distributed
or promised, ten dollars for the first day:
performance, and five dollars for each add
tional day, provided said performances arc
given within ono week.
30. On the proprietor of any room fitted
up for public exhibition for which rent i:
charged, twenty dollars; for assembly OF
other halls, ten dollars.
81. On ovcry person selling or offering tc
sell refreshments in any such hall, room
or tent, during such performance, two dol
lars.
30. On overy attorney at law, physician
or dentist, whose practice does not exceed
$1,000 per annum, fifteen dollars oa those
whose practice is in excess of 81 COO and
less than $1,000, twenty dollars, and on
those whose practice is moro than $1,000,
twenty-five dollars.
80. On every owner or keeper of a daguer-
rean. photograph or sun picture gallery, or
any photographer doing business in this city,
fifteen dollars.
81. On every person canvassing for the
purpose of charging photographs, or sun pic
lures. or for making crayons, photographs,
paintings or other pictures, whether a charge
be made or not for such enlarged photographs,
sun pictures, crayons, photographs. paintings
or pictures, fifteen dollars.
BIG. On every person canvassing for the
sale of picture frames, or holders of any kind,
fifteen dollars.
80 On every agent for renting houses or
other real estate. ten dollars.
36. On every person or firm except Ii
ccnscd merchants, who shall sell or offer to
sell, buy or offer to buy for themselves or
others, grain of any kind or description
whatsoever, or other produce on Change,
there shall he levied a specific tax of twenty
dollars.
81. On every merchant tailor, whose stock
in trade IS less than $500, ten dollars. and
on those whose stock is more than $500,
twenty. five dollars.
IS. On every green grocer, twenty dol
lars; meaning by this term any person or
persons who shall sell at his or their place Of
business butchers meats and vegetables.
And on every green grocer who does not sell
meats, five dollars.
80. On each and every butcher, or dealer
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lie market. five dollars.
10. On each and every butcher or dealer
in fresh meats, selling outside of the public
market, fifteen dollars.
al. On every person canvassing for the
purpose of buying any matter of subsist-
cnce, and who shall sell the same within the
public market, there shall be levied tax of
five dollars: Provided, That butchers, com
mission merchants or merchants shall nc OK
cmptI from this tax. This law applies TO
huckstcrs.
~ On every person for the privilege of
pcddling green groceries on the streets of the
city there shall he levied a tax 0~fiifiecn dol
lars. Provided, no license shall issue for a
shorter period than one year, and every such
poddlcr shall show his license on demand of
any police officer of this city, but this shall
not apply to persons who sell vegetables Of
thor own RAISING.
43. On every fish dealer, wholesale or
retail, ten dollars, but this shall not apply
to persons who sell the fish they themselves
have caught.
Al. On every person selling, on com
mission, horses, mules, cattle. hogs, live
stock or any of them, or buying or selling
the same for profit, fifteen dollars.
ID. On every person or firm selling ice,
coal, and wood, or either of them. where such
person or firm requires two or moro wagons or
carts in their business for tho delivery ard
sale of ice, coal aud wood, or either of them,
there shall be levied n specific license tax
of twenty dollars, and twenty-five cents OF
every hundred dollars of purchases in excess
of two thousand dollars, and on each person
or firm using one cart or wagon in thcir bust
ness q specific License Tux of ton dollars, and
twenty-five cents on each hundred dollars of
purchases in excess of two thousand dollars, and
on every person or firm selling at their place
of business ice, coal and wood or either of
them in small quantities a specific license tax
of five dollars.
46. On all agents for the sale of lager
beer, porter, or ale, manufactured out of the
city. twenty-five dollars.
Al. On each agent for the sale in tho city
Of ginger beer, pop, mineral water, catan ba
L ouid MdbGl, HIdilu ldCJIICu MltIlcul WI
city, fifty dollars, and said agent shall be
privileged TO distribute the same to his
,ustomcrs AID collect his bottles and fount-
aims without tax on the horse or wagon used
for the purpose.
Is. On every telephone company, the sum
OF one hundred dollars.
10. On every telegraph company receiving
messages in tho city of Alexandria, Virginia.
and forwarding or transmitting them to
points within tho State of Virginia, not in
GLIDING any business done for the Government
of the United States, its officers or agents,
and not including any business done 10 and
from points without the State or receiving or
transmitting messages from points within the
State of Virginia and delivering the said mes
sagcs in the city IF Alexandria, Virginia, not
including any business done for the Severn
mcnt of tho United States. its officers or
agents, and not including any business done
to and from points without the State, in adj
dition to the tax on tho assessed value Of
their property, one hundred dollars.
1919. On every express company receiving
goods, wares and merchandise, in the city of
Alexandria, Virginia, and forwarding them
to points within the State of Virginia, or re-
cciving goods, wares or merchandise within
tho State of Virginia, and delivering them
in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, and not
including any business done to and from
points without the State, in addition 10 the
tax on the assessed value of their property, |
there shall he levied and collected a license
tax of one hundred dollars.
30. On every livery stable, thirty-fivc
dollars, and for each stall therein fifty cents.
81. On every person keeping any house
ar IOt nr ward for ctOrinx ,rooI- ,-o a