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| act shall date from the 1st day of Novem-
| Der in each year Except hereinafter
| specified and expire on the 31st day of Oc-
| tober following. according to the provisions
| of section II, and the license of every per-
| son liable for a license tax after the 1st
days of November, April and July, respect
| lively, shall date from the 1st of the month
| in which the liability began, and payment
| shall be made for proportionate amount.
| Where the tax is less than 50 per annum
| the license shall terminate year from
| the 1st of the month in which the liability
| began. Except in the cases of peddiers,
| produce dealers. cattle dealers. the prOprie
| tors of wheeled vehicles. insurance solic-
| itors auctioneers or outside brokers or
| agents. etc, licenses authorized shall only
| be good for the business named and trans
| acted at the locations named therein.
| Any person, resident nonresident, of
| the District who may be properly licensed,
and who fraudulently suffers allows an
other person. chargeable with a separate
| license. to operate under his license. Is sub
! jected by section Is to fine not exceeding
$50
Section 16 requires the posting of all IL
censeS the premises, accessible to in
spection by the police other officers duly
authorized to make inspection, and sub
| jects offenders to a fine not exceeding S..
ltinerants, or those having no located
places of business, shah exhibit their IL
censes when requested by the proper Off
GERS, under a similar penalty.
Some New Provisionr.
Section II makes it unlawful for any per-
| son to set up, operate or conduct any busi-
| ness or device, by or in which any person
shall act. or animal. or living object be set
up exposed as a target for any ball,
projectile missile or thing thrown as test
| of skill or for amusement, for or in con-
sideration of pecuniary profit or gain, d.
rectly or indirectly, and imposes a fine of
SO upon the offender.
The assessor is required by section Is to
Keen a nf of a H.
tanning licenses for hacks, carriages. cabs
and all other licensed vehicles for the
transportation of passengers for hire. and
also of the proprietors Of vehicles used for
the transportation of merchandise and
other material. numbered to correspond
with The number of the license
By section 10 the solicitation of business
by the dis nlay of signs or advertisements of
the several branches of business taxed un
der the bill is deemed evidence of liability
for the rates of tax severally prescribed,
and proof of said fact may be accepted
evidence in the Police Court of the District
of Columbia.
Auctieneers and HOrseless Carriages.
Section % provides that apothecaries shall
pay s. annually, and regards every person
who sells patent medicines, or manufac-
lures, compounds, sells or dispenses med-
cines from located place of business by
prescription or otherwise, as an apothe-
cary.
Auctioneers are required by section 81 to-
pay 500 annually, and no person shall sell,
or expose for sale, at public auction within
the District of Columbia any merchandise
or property, real or personal, without hav
ing first obtained a license auctioneer,
or, in default, a penalty of not less than So
nor more than $50. This section also pro-
vides that if any factor auctioneer SELL
ing goods on consignment, or any agent,
clerk. servant of such auctioneer shall
convert to his own use any property
n nrncpe6S n he . nf
the same, or shall fail to pay over to the
proper person the proceeds of the sale of
any real or personal property, less the prop
charges, after receiving the money or its
equivalent from the purchaser or purcha-
sers, he shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be
fined not more than S1.O0o, or be imprisoned
not exceeding six months, or both, in the
discretion of the court.
The twenty-secOnd section of the bill pro-
vides that proprietors of all vehicles used
for the transportation of passengers or
merchandise for hire, profit gain, not
running upon railway tracks. and using
electricity, compressed air, gas. oils, naph-
tha, steam. or other approved agency
motive power, shall pay as follows: For
each vehicle with a capacity not to exceed
ten passengers, ST per annum: exceeding
ten passengers. So: for conveying nler-
chandfse, ST per annum; provided. that he
fore the issue of license the authority of
the Commissioners for the use of said We
hicles on the streets, avenues and roads of
the District must first be obtained. Licenses
shall date from July l in each year.
Brewers or brewers agents are required
by section % to pay $10o annually. Every
individual. firm, corporation or association
which makes. brews or manufactures fer
mented liquors of any name or description
for sale, from matt wholly or in part, or
from any substitute therefor, shall be
deemed a brewer: provided that an agents
license under this section shall only au-
thorize the goods of :he brewer represent
ed to be sold by the licensee: provided, fur
ther, that licensed brewers solicitor shall
not be liable for a license whose business
is confined to soliciting orders on his prin-
cipal or firm for merchandise on future
delivery.
Everybody Taxed.
Section "a directs that banks or bankers
shall pay 800 annually. Every person. firm
corporation or association, national savings
or private bank, having place of business
where credits opened by the deposit or
collection of moneys or currency subject
to be paid or RENTED upon draft, check
or order, or where money is advanced
loaned on stocks. bonds, bullion, bills of
exchange or promissory notes, or where
stocks, bonds. bullion, bills of exchange or
prOmissory notes are received for discount
or for sale, shall be regarded as a bank or
banker.
Brokers Shall pay 500 annually. Every
person. firm, corporation or association
whose business it is who negotiates the
purchase or sale Of shares stocks bonds
exchange, bullion, coin, money, bank notes
promisSOry notes or other securities or
deals in futures on market quotations Of
prices values on merchandise shares
stocks. Bonds or other securities or per
sOnal property OF any description for 9TH
ers in considera tion OF commissions, profit
gain shall be regarded a broker
Billposters shall pay 50 annually. The
inspector Of buildings is authorized to re-
fuse permit for erection of bill boards, etc.
when. in his judgment such construction
would be unsightly and detrimental to pub
lie interests.
Caterers or purveyors to residents ten
ants. or sojourners in flats. apartment
houses. or similar structures, who serve
food meals or refreshments as defined in
section 30 of the bill to casual visitors or
who serve customers with food or refresh
ments on orders, shall pay SIS annually
Cattle dealers shall pay S15 annually;
provided. That one person only shall be en-
titled to do business under each license.
Any firm. company, association. corpora
tiCn. or person soliciting or transacting the
business of loaning money on personal
property of any description not defined in
the laws regulating the business of a pawn
broker in the District of Columbia, pledged
upon the security of chattel or other mort
cages, whether secured by notes or other
wise, on said personal property, shall pay
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