Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28

Licenses scithin the City of Alexandria, for
the Year commencing on the LIST day Of June
1898, and ending on the 31St day of May
1899.
BE it Ordained by the City Council Of Aler.
andria, That there shall be levied upon and
collected from all persons required to be
listed as subject to license tax, the follow
ing taxes, viz:
1. On every license to sell ardent spirits
or wines at wholesale, there shall be levied
a tax of seventy dollars. This applies to per-
sons selling in quantities of five gallons or
more.
lNoTE.-Any person desiring to carry on
the business OF wholesale liquor dealer and
also that of q retail liquor merchant shall OBJ
tain separate license for each, hut his retail
license shall only be one-half of that required
by section three
g On every license to every brewer or
wholesale dealer in malt liquors, twenty
five dollars.
3. On every license to sell Wines ardent
spirits, or malt liquors, or any mixture
thereof at retail, seventy-fve 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 demUohns or other vessels and also
the privilege to be drunk where sold.)
4. 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.
Is. On every person for the privilege of
hort 70 hal hn m
dollars, and only the person named therein
shall be privileged to peddle under this
license.
7. On every person or corporation con-
Quoting the business OF real estate agent
or broker, there shall be levied specific
tax of fifty dollars.
s. On every auctioncer forty dollars, and
no auctionccr shall sell real estate at public
auction without taking outa license under this
section.
o. On every person canvassing to sell
books, maps, prints or pictures already pub
lished or ped Hing the same, ten dollars.
10. On every person canvassng for sub
scribers to any book or map, print or pic
ture not yet published, ten dollars.
II. On all agents for the sale of manu-
featured articles, sold by them on commits
sion, or otherwise, ten dollars.
-. On every junk dealer one hundred
dollars.
13. On every person canvassing 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, and
only one person can canvass under this
license.
IA. 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 al office within
the city, one 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 the State,
there shall be license tax of forty dollars.
This does not apply to bucket shops.
20. On every proprietor Of bucket shop
OF dealer in puts, calls or futures on or
for -four, grain, cotton, pork, lard or oil, two
hundred and fifty dollars.
81. On every person or persons acting as
agent or agents for any fire, marine life or
other insurance company, or 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 ten 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
ment the license tax shall be five dollars,
and five per cent. on the rental value in
excess of two hundred dollars.
24 On every cook shop or eating house,
the tax shall be five dollars.
25. On every person or persons keeping
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
billiard table or pool table for public use,
whether a charge be made for playing or
not, five dollars on each table.
27 On every person or firm keeping
bagatelle or other similar table for public
use, whether charge be made for playing
or not, five dollars on each table.
2S. On every theatrical performance, or
any performance similar thereto, panorama,
or any public performance or exhibition of
any kind, lecture, literary readings and per-
formances, except for charitable or educa-
tional purposes, in any hall or public room
or other building, where an admission fee
is charged, for each week of performance
of six consecutive days, five dollars; if less
than one week, one dollar for each per-
formance.
% On every exhibition of q circus or
menagerie or either of them, fifty dollars
for each days performance, and for every
side show or exhibition connected Herewith,
or travelling herewith, five dollars for each
days performance On every exhibition or
show where gifts or prizes are distributed
or promised, ten dollars for the first days
performance, and five dollars for each addi-
tional day, provided said performances are
given within one week.
30. On the proprietor of any room fitted
up for public exhibition for which rent is
charged, twenty dollars; for assembly or
other halls, ten dollars.
81. On every person selling or offering to
sell refreshments in any such hail. room
or tent, during such performance, two dol
lars.
80. On every attorney at law, physician
or dentist, whose practice does not exceed
81 600 per annum, fifteen dollars; on those
whose practice is in excess of ST 600 and
less than $4,000, twenty do lars, and on
those whose practice is more than S2,0OO,
twenty ve dollars.
33. On every owner or keeper of a daguer-
rean, photograph or sun picture gallery, or
anv photographer doing business i'll this city,
fifteen dollars.
"a. On every person canvas5ing for the
purpose of enlarging photographs, or sun PIC
lures. or for making crayons, photographs,
naintinqs or other pictures, whether a charge