Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-05-30
OFFICIAL.
J.ICENgE LAW.

LICENSE LAW.
an Ordinance for Imposing and Collecting
Licenses tcithin the Civ of Alexandria, for
the Year commencing on the LIST day Of June,
1902, and ending on the 31a day Of May,
1903.
Be Il Ordained by the City Council Of Aler-
andrid, That there shall be levied upon and
collected from all persons required to be
listed as subject 10 license tax, the follow
ing taxes, viz:
1. 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.
[NoTE-Any person desiring to carry on
the business OF wholesale liquor dealer and
also that of a re,ail liquor merchant, shall OBJ
tain separate license for each, but his retail
license shall only be half Of that required
| by section three
9. 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 demijohns or other vessels and also
| the privilege to be drunk where sold.)
| 4. On every ordinary ninety.five dollars,
| ard the right to keep an ordinary shall COR
tain all the rights and privileges OF retail
liquor dealer.
/ 5. On every commission merchant or firm
the s~eci6c license or tax shall be twenty
i've dollars.
6. On every person for the privilege OF
peddling or bsrtering, the tax shall be
twenty dollars per year or three dollars per
month, and only the person named therein
shall be privileged to peddle under this
license.
Provided. any person or persons selling OF
peddipg oil from vehicle CT tank wagon, shall
pay a spf cific sum Of Il ge dollars for each and
every vehicle or tank wsgon so err ged.
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.
| 8. On every auctioneer forty dollars, and
no auctioneer shall sell real estate at public
auction without taking out a license under tins
section.
9. On every person canvassing to sell
/
lished or ped Hing the same, ten dollars.
10. On every person canyassing 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 commis
sion, or other Sc, fft'en dollars.
II. On every junk dealer, seventy nv'
dollars.
13. On every person canvsssing or buying
spy Junk or any other matter for any juni
dealer, or for sale to any junk dealer doinI
business in this city, fifteen dollars, ant
only one person can canvass under thi
license.
Ia On every rerson or dta'er sellinI
sntique, or second hand furniture, hfteei
dollars; provided such person or dealer !
not taxed under some other action OF mi
law or is charged With tax on capital:
IA On every person who shall sell TO
bacco or cigars in quantities not less thai
one box, except manufacturers, five dollars
IS. On every ship broker, thirty dollars
16. On every money broker, or tirm o
brokers or bankers, having an office withil
the city. ono hundred and fifty dollars.
II. On every pawnbroker, fifty dollars.
. Is. On every rectiier of distilled spirit
or wines by any process, sixty dollars.
II 10 On every commercial broker; as dc
fined in the revenue laws of the state
there shall be license tax Of forty dolla-:
This does not apply to bucket chops.
20. On every proprietor OF a bucket $40
or dealer in puts, calls or futures on
; for flour, grain, cotton, pork, lard or oil, on
hundred and City dollars.
, 21. On every person or persons acting
agent or agents for any fire, marine life
other insurance company, or companies, hay
ing an Office in the city of Alexandra
f.ty dollars on each company representa-
bg such agent: and for each assistant
soliciting agent ten dollars On every perso
, seeking business for or soliciting for an
= companies who have no agencies in the cit
} Of Alexandria, 6fty dollars for each CON
pany so represented.
, u. On every person or persons acting
agent or ssel t. for furnishing suretes, {
surety bonds, there shall be levied speeih
license tax OF ten dollars for each compss
: repre'ented.
3 %. On every hotel, or house of public er
tertainment, twenty dollars. Liquors cal
not be sold under this section.
, %. On every house Of private entertain
ment the license tax shall be 1--WE dollar
and We per cent on the rental value /
excess Of two hundred dollars.
"a. On every cook shop or eating hous'
the tax shall be five dollars.
%. On every person or persons keeping
, bowling alley, or saloon, the specific hceus
tax snail be ten dollars, and five dollars o.
each alley in such house in excess Of one
26. On every person or irm keeping
billiard table or pool table for public use
whether a charge be made for playing o
. not, five dollars on each table.
, 81. On every person or firm keeping
bagatelle or other similar table FOR publ
3 use, whether charge be made for playin
or not, five dollars on each table.
, %. On every theatrical performance, o
any performance similar thereto, panorama
or any public performance or exhibition
any kind, lecture, literary readings and pei
formances, except for charitable or educs
!, tional purposes, in any hall or public ROOF
D | or other building, where an admission fe
= is charged, for each week of performanc
| of six consecutive days, five dollars if lie:
than one week, one dollar for each pei
, Torrance.
20. On every exhibition Of circus Q
. menagerie or either of them, one hundre
, dollars for each days performance, and 70
g every side show or exhibition connecte
q Herewith, or travelling Herewith, five do
4 lars for each days performance. On ever
. exhibition or show where gifts or prizes al
!, distributed or promised, ten dollars for tn
FIST days performance, and five dollars fc
: each additional day, provided said perform
0 ances are given within one week.
Q z91 On every exhibition Of skill, whetbs
q uuc OF canvas or not, which has seating CT
Q pstity Of less than fifteen hundIe1, fert
a dollars; II over fifteen hundred and less ths
three thousand, sixty dollars, and for all ov'
three thousand, seysDty-fve dollars.
u 30. On the proprietor of any room ftte
up 70 public exhibition for which rent
Q charged, twenty dollars; for assembly {
other halls, ten dollars.
@ 81. On every person selling or offering