The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-09

livestock insurance agency, eacn COM
pany $500 per year
IL. Junk shops OF junk dealers, $500
per year.
IA. Keeping a billiard hall, 50 cents
per month or $500 per annum for each
table used.
Is. Merry-go-rounds, tent shows or
museums operated for profit, not other
wise mentioned or provided for herein,
each $500 per day, $500 per week,
$4,000 per month.
16. Opera houses and theaters, for
each house $500 per annum
IL. Persons engaged in selling or ad-
Vertising patent medicines, nOstrums
or specialties, $500 per day or S250.OO
per month.
Is. Pawnbrokers and the business of
receiving goods under chattel mortgage,
$1,000 per year.
10. PeddIers of cider of any kind,
$500 per year.
20. Peddlers of ready-made clothing.
textile fabrics, boots, shoes or house
furnishing goods, $1,000 per day, $4,000
per monh or $4,000 per year.
81 Peddlers of articles not otherwise
mentioned in this ordinance, $1,000 per
week, $4,000 per month, $4,000 per year:
Provided, that nothing herein shall re-
quire the payment of a license tax by
parties peddling grains, fruits, veg
etabies or meats of their own produc-
ton.
%. Shooting galleries, s1.OO per day.
$500 per week, $500 per month, $1,000
per year.
%. Slot machines which are not
gambling devices, each $1,000 per year.
"a. Soliciting business and exhibiting
goods, wares or merchandise or
samples Of same on the streets or other
public places in the city of Topeka.
$500 per day, $1,000 per week, $4,000 per
month: Provided, nothing in this sec
ton shall require a license tax~fOr ex-
hibiting samples in front of a building
or room as an advertisement of the
business as conducted in such building
or room.
%. Soliciting orders for the future
delivery of goods, wares or merchandise
taxed in the city of Topeka, $1,000 per
month or $4,000 per year.
26. Street stands, each $1,000 per
o. Ticket brokers. each 5000 per
Sec 3. Itinerant doctors, or doctors
who advertise their business or profess
sion on the streets by dodgers, placards.
lectures or operations, $4,000 per
month.
Sec. 4. Every person or firm engaged
in selling or offering for sale, goods,
wares or merchandise upon the INSTALL
ment plans to be delivered at the time
or at some future time shall pay
license tax of $4,000 per year.
Sec. 5. Persons selling or offering for
sale, trade or exchange goods, wares or
merchandise advertised or designated
as sheriff's, assignee's, creditors, con-
signee's or special sales or special bar
gain sales, or bankrupt, or damaged
stocks of goods, 81, 90 per year, pay
able quarterly This section shall apply
to all stocks of goods that are not as
sessed or taxed in the ely of Topeka:
Provided that this section shall not
apply to goods, wares or merchandise
which are actually under the control OF
the sheriff or an assignee, or to goods,
wares or merchandise which have been
damaged within the city of Topeka and
which are being disposed of in good
faith to close out the same.
Sec. 6. Every person, firm or corpora
ton engaged in any gift, enterprise or
in selling, giving or in any manner dis
posing of premium stamps, coupons or
tickets of any kind or in any way offer
ing prizes, rewards or any emOlument
for the purpose of stimulating or en-
HANGING his own or any other persons
trade, 100000 per year, payable quar-
terly.
Sec. 7. A street stand as understood
in this ordinance shall consist in haV-
ing a certain place upon or adjoining
a street or alley in the city of Topeka
from which goods, wares or merchan-
disc are sold to passers-by upon the
street, sidewalks or alleys of the city
of Topeka.
Sec. g. That any business that occu-
pies or is carried on on any of the
streets, alleys or public places in the
city of Topeka, shall at all times be
subject to such regulation as the mayor
and council shall from time to time
adopt, and any failure to observe such
regulations shall without further action
or proceeding of any kind whatever for
felt the license of the person failing to
observe said regulations; and no street
stand whatever shall be allowed out
side of the curb line.
Sec 9. That each junk-shop and
each secondhand store shall keep
book in which shall be registered a
description of each article purchased,
the time of receiving such article, and
the name and residence of the person
A4faln fEs
purchased and to whom sold, and shah
at all times keep such register open
for inspection by any person asking or
demanding the same, and any person
shall be shown and permitted to eX-
anime any article in said junk-Shop or
secondhand store upon demand.
Sec. 10. On and after the taking
effect of this ordinance all persons en-
gagged or intending to engage in any
calling, trade, profession, business or
occupation upon which license tax IS
levied by this ordinance, shall first pay
the tax upOn the same to the city treas
urer. who shall give duplicate receipts
therefor one of which shall be filed by
the applicant with the city clerk, where
upon said clerk shall, as hereinafter
provided issue to such person license
to carry on such business.
Sec IL All licenses shall be issued
by the city clerk and in pursuance or
this ordinance, and be attested by the
city clerk with the seal of the city
thereto attached, ana shall be nom
transferable; and all such licenses eX-
cept those granted by the day, Week.
month OF quarter shall expire on the
last day of April and October next after
they are issued: Providing, that any
person establishing in the city of To-
peka any permanent business tne
license tax of which is fixed by the
year and for no part thereof, may re
ceive a license by paying to the city
treasurer as herein provided, such pro-
norton of the license tax as cOrre-
| spends to the unexpired part of the
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