Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-15

!O9S' ana emtHg on me 31St ddy 0t May
1900
BE it Ordained by the City Council of Aler-
ondi7d, That there shall be levied upon and
collected from all persons required to be
listed as subject to q license tax, the follow
ing taxes viz:
i. On every license to sell ardent spirits
| or wines at wholesale, there shall be levied
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 ora wholesale lquor dealer and
also that of a 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
,. On every license to every brewer or
wholesale dealer in malt liquors, twenty
five dollars
). On every license to sell wines, ardent
spirits, or malt liquors. or any mixture
thereof at retail, seyenty-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 demljohns or other vessels and also
the privilege to be drunk where sold)
4. On every ordinary ninety.fve dollars,
and the right to keep an ordinary shall con-
tain all the rights and privileges of retail
liquor dealer.
.. On every commission merchant or firm
the specific license or tax shall be twenty
five dollars.
g. On every person for the privilege of
peddling or bartering the tax shall be ten
dollars. and only the person named therein
shall be privileged to peddle under this
license.
/. On every person or corporation con-
ducting the business Of real estate agent
or broker there shall be levied specific
tax of fifty dollars
s. On every auctioneer forty dollars, and
no auctioneer shall sell real estate at public
auction without taking out license under this
section.
8. On every person canvassing to sell
books, maps, prints or pictures already pub
lished or ped iling the same, ten dollars.
10 On every person canvassing for sub
scribers to any book or map, print or pic
ture not yet published ten dollars.
IL. On all agents for the sale Of manu-
factured articles sold by them on commits
sion. or other wise, ten dollars.
II On every junk dealer one hundred
dollars.
13. On every person csnvassing or buying
any Junk or any other matter for ANY junk
dealer, or for sale to any junk dealer doing
business in shis city, fifteen dollars, aud
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 an office within
the city, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Il. 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 a bucket shop
or dealer in puts, calls or futures on OF
for Hour, grain, cotton, pork, lard or OIL two
hundred and fifty dollars.
2i. 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 eacn assistant or
soliciting agent ten dollars On every person
seeking business for or soliciting for any
companies who have no agencies i'll 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.
23. On every house of private entertain
mept the license tux 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 speclhc 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.
81. On every person or firm keeping
baqatelle 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 All admission ice
is charged, for each week OF performance
of six consecutive days, five dollars; II less
than one week. one dollar for each per
formance.
20. On every exhibition of a circus or
menagerie or either of them, fifty dollars
for each days performance, and for every
eide show or exhibition connected Herewith.
or travelling Herewith, five dollars for each
day's performance. On every exhibition or
show where gifts or prizes are distributed
or promised, ten dollars for the first day
nerformance, and five dollars for each addi-
tional day. provided said performances arc
given within one week. -.
30. On the proprietor Of any room fitted
nm 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 hall, room
or tent, during such performance, TWO ooi-
lars. ,,;o;o,
81. On every attorney at law, physician
or dentist, whose practice does not eAceeu
81 900 per annum fifteen dollars on those
whose practice is in excess oil oI'oo4 w. anu
Iess than $4,000, twenty dollars, and on
those whose practice IS more thah 9@'o0o'
twenty fl We dollars.
90 On every owner or keeper OF daguer-
-oon photograph or sun picture gallery, or
anv photographer doing business III this city,
fifteen dollars. ~.
a On every person canvassing for the
nurnose of enarging photographs, or sun PIC
tures or for making crayons, photographs,
,'a;nt;ngs or other pictures, whether charge
he m.de or not for such enlarged photographs,
snn nictures. crayons, photographs, paintings
or pictures, fifteen dollars. -.
:341S. On every person canvassing LOT lne
sale OF picture frames, or holders OF any Kihu'