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

dn Ordinance far Imposing and Collecting
Licenses withim the City Of Alexandria, for
the Year commencing on the LIST day Of June,
1897, md ending on the 31St day Of May
1898.
Bel Ordained by the Ciiy Council Of Alcr-
andria, That there shall DO levied upon and
collected from all persons required to be
listed as subject to a license tax, the follow
ing taxes, viz:
1. On every license to sell ardent spirits
or wines at wholesale, there shall be levied
q tax of seventy dollars. This applies to per
sons selling in quantities Of five gallons OF
more.
~[NoTE.-Any person desiring to carry on
the business OF a wholesale liquor dealer and
also that of retail liquor merchant, shall oh
tain a separate license for each, hut his retail
license shall only be one-half Of that required
by section three
3. On every license to every brewer or
wholesale dealer in malt liquors, twenty
five dollars.
5. On every license to sell wines, ardcnt
spirits, or malt liquors, or any mixture
thereof at retail, scventy-five dollars. "a
license to sell liquors by retail shall include
the privilege to sell in quantities not exceed
ing five (5) gallons at any one time to any indi-
vidual; this shall include the privilege to sell,
to be delivered to the purchaser in bottles,
Jugs and dcmijohns or other vessels and also
the privilege to be drunk where sold.)
d. On every ordinary ninety five dollars,
and the right to keep an ordinary shall cor
tain all the rights and privileges of a retail
liquor dealer.
5. On every commission merchant or firm
the specific license or tax shall be twenty
five dollars.
6. On every person for the privilege OF
pcddling or bartcring, tho tax shall be ton
dollars, and only the person named therein
shall be privileged to pcddle under this
license.
7. On every person or corporation con-
Quoting tho business of real estate agent
or broker, there shall be lowed a specific
tax of fifty dollars.
s. On every auctioncer forty dollars, and
no auctionccr shall sell real estate ut pubic
auction without taking out 4 license under this
section.
8. On every person ~canvassing to sell
books, maps, prints or pictures already pub
lishcd or pcdiling the same, ten dollars.
10. On every person canvassing for sub
scribors to any book or map, print or pic
turc not yet published, ten dollars.
II. On all agents for tho sale of manu-
featured articles, sold by them on commits
sion, or other wise, ten dollars.
10. On every junk dealer, one hundred
dollars.
13. On every person c~anyassing or buying
any junk or any other matter for any junk
dealer, or for sale to any junk dealer doing
business in this city, fifteen dollars, aud
only ono person can canvass under this
license.
II. On every person who shall sell to-
bacco or cigars in quantities not less than
one box, except manufacturers, five dollars.
10. On every ship broker, thirty dollars.
16. On every money broker, or firm OF
brokers or bankers, having an office within
tho city. ono hundred and fifty dollars.
II. On every pawnbroker, fifty dollars.
Is. On every ~rectifer of distilled spirits
or wines by any process, sixty dollars.
10. On every commercial broker, as de-
fined in the revenue laws of tho State,
there shall he q license tax of forty dollars.
This docs not apply to bucket shops.
20. On every proprietor of q bucket shop
or dealer in puts, calls or futures on or
for flour, grain. cotton, pork, lard or oil, two
hundred and fifty dollars.
ii. On every person or persons acting as
agent or agents for any fire, marine life or
other insurance company, OF companies, hav-
ing an office in the city Of Alexandria,
forty dollars on each company represented
by such agent; and for each assistant or
soliciting agent ton dollars. On every person
seeking business for or soliciting for any
companies who have no agencies in the city
of Alexandria. fifty dollars for each COM
pany so represented.
%. On every hotel, or house of public en-
tertainment. twenty dollars Liquors can
not be sold under this section.
%. On every house of private entertain-
mont the license tax shall be five dollars,
and five per cent. on the rental value in
excess OF two hundred dollars.
"a. On every cook shop or eating house,
the tax shall be five dollars.
25. IN every person or persons keeping a
bowling alley, or saloon, the specific license
tax shall be ten dollars. and five dollars on
each alley in such house in excess OF one.
26. On every person or firm keeping a
billiard table or pool table for nubiic use
whether a charge be INSIDE for playinp OF
not, five dollars on cach table.
81. On every person or firm keeninp 9
, bagatellc or other similar tsblc for mi,