The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21
PROVIDES FOR LICENSES
Passed It's Second Reading in the
Council.
AN OUTLINE OF THE BILL
A New Measure by Which the Alder
men of Butte Expect to Secure
More Lite-Blood for the
City.

Council bill No. q, by Alderman vir-
tue, providing for the payment of Ii
censes to the city, has passed its second
reading. By its adoption ordinances
Nos. All, 492 and $40 shall be repealed
An outline of the provisions of the new
ordinance follows:
Auctioneers are divided into nine
classes, who are required to pay a
quarterly license of from 5000 to IS, ac-
cording to the amount of sales in each
quarter. Bankers and other persons
engaged in buying or selling notes,
bonds, etc, are divided into six classes,
$50 per quarter to So
Billiard tables, s3.75 per quarter;
bowling alleys, $40 for each alley.
The manager or lessee of every thea
ter (not variety or concert theater)
must pay IS for each day upon which
a performance or performances are
held, or in lieu thereof, a monthly IL
cense of SIS; for each variety or concert
theater, whether an Abundance fee is
charged or not, license of $40 per
month, and for each single exhibition
of opera or concert singer mot exhibited
in any theater where monthly license
is paid a license of So: for minstrels
legerdemain, or other shows not herein
provided for, a license of s. for each
single performance (when not in a
theater where monthly license is Ia
ken OUT for every circus or menagerie,
including sideshows, $125 per day; hut
no license must be collected for any
amateur exhibition or concert for
school or charitable or religious pur-
poses.
Pawnbrokers, $40 per quarter.
Intelligence offices, $40 per quarter:
shooting gallery, $40; keeper of doll
rack, cane rack, So.
General merchandise merchants are
required to obtain license for each
branch of the department. Sellers of
oleomargarine butterinP or imitation
of cheese must pay a license of 10 cents
per pound for all these articles sold.
Every person or persons engaged in
the business of selling cigarettes, cigar
cite paper, or the material used in
making cigarettes except tobacco, snail
pay a license of $40 per month.
Any person, corporation or ass 1cia-
ton of persons selling pools on horse
races, whether run in this city or state
or elsewhere, shall obtain a license so
to do and pay therefor the sum of
$500 per month. Brewers. from s25 to
S. per month. Retail liquor dealers, SIS
per quarter; wholesale, $780, distillers,
SIS per quarter; each telephone instru
ment, so cents per annum; lawyers, doc
tors, photographers, insurance and real
estate, $3.50 per quarter; feed and liV-
cry stables, $40; feed and selling sta
bles, S.; hacks, one horse $3.50 quar-
ter; for each additional horse, $3.50 per
quarter; restaurants, s.; lodging houses,
25 cents per room per quarter. Less
than four rooms, no license; aSSayerS,
$40, s. and SO per quarter, according to
amount of business done; skating Kinks
and -go-rounds, $25 per quarter;
steam laundries, SIS; other laundries,
$40; street railways. $50 per quarter;
architects, builders. contractors, $40 to
$3.50 per quarter; jeWelry peddlers, SIS
per annum.
Any person conducting any business,
trade or occupation, either in whole or
in part as a manager, clerk, servant or
employe of any person, association or
CO. partnership, for which business,
trade or occupation a license is required
by this ordinance and for the conduct
ing or carrying on of which business
no license has been obtained by the
party for whom said business is con-
Quoted shall be deemed guilty of a vio-
lation of this ordinance in conducting
the business without having a city IL
cense therefor, and upon conviction
shall be fined in any sum not less than
SIS nor more than $500
BARRIERS are required to pay 81 per
quarter for each chair used in the bust
ness, and 81 for each bath tub.