Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28
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thereof until distraint or sale hereinbe-
fore provided.
Par. IA. That private banks or bankers
not incorporated shall pay a tax of 500 per
annum. Every person, firm, company or
| association not incorporated having a place
of business where credits are 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 adj
vanced or loaned on stocks. bonds, bullion,
bills of exchange or promisSory notes, or
where stocks, bonds, bills of exchange or
promissory notes are received for discount
or for sale, shall be regarded as private
bank or banker.
Par. 10. General brokers shall pay a tax
of $3.50 per annum. Every person, firm
company or. association not incorporated
Except insurance and real estate brokers
acting as such) that solicits business from
the general public by advertisements or
otherwise, and that purchases. sells or ne
gotiates for other securities, shares, stocks
bonds, exchange, bullion, coin, money, bank
notes or promissory notes. or that deals in
futures on market quotations of prices or
values on merchandise. shares stocks
bonds or other securities, or accept mar
gins on prices or values of said shares
stocks, bonds. merchandise or securities,
shall be deemed a general broker Provided,
That the Washington stock exchange,
through its president or treasurer, shall
pay to the collector of taxes of the District
of Columbia sum equal to $500 per an
mum, in lieu of tax on the members there
off, for business done on said exchange:
Provided further, That any broker who is
a member Of a regularly organized stock
exchange located outside of the District Of
Columbia and transacting brokerage bust
ness therein. shall pay a sum equal to 800
per annum to the collector of taxes of the
District of Columbia: And be 1t further
provided. That If any person or firm shall
have paid the tax in this section provided
for banks and bankers such person or firm
shall not again be taxed as a broker or
brokers.
Cooperative Associations Exempt.
Par. 16. Note brokers shall pay a tax of
500 per annum Every person. firm. COM
pany, or association not Incorporated lex
cept private banks and bankers) that loans
money on promissory notes without real
estate or collateral security or advances
money on personal property as security
without possession of said personal proper
ty, shall be deemed a note broker: Provided.
That exceptions shall be made Of co-opera-
tive associations whose business is restrict
ed to the members Of such association.
Par. II. The taxes for said private banks
and bankers, general brokers, and note
brokers shall be paid to the collector of
taxes of the District of Columbia, and shall
date from the LIST day OF July in each year
and expire on the Both day of June follow
ing. Said taxes date from the first day of
the month in which the liability begins, and
payment shall be made for proportionate
amount.
Par. 49, ANN person or persons violating
any of the provisions of this section shall
be liable to a penalty of not exceeding $500
for each offense, said penalty to be i'm
posed, upon conviction in the Police Court
of the District of Columbia, as other fines
and penalties are imposed, and said court
is hereby invested with jurisdiction thereof;
and in default of the payment of said pen
atty the person or persons so convicted
shall be imprisoned, in the discretion Of the
court not exceeding six months.
Par. 10. That the Commissioners Of the
District of Columbia be, and they are here
by, authorized and directed to appoint a
clerk and assistant clerk to said board of
personal tax appraisers at annual salaries
of 81, 400 and 81, 900 each, and three in
spectors at annual salaries of $1,000 each,
all of whom shall perform such duties as
may be assigned to them by the chairman
of said board; and to pay the salaries of the
two assistant assessors. the clerk and
assistant clerk of said board Of personal
tax appraisers, and the three inspectors
aforesaid for the fiscal year beginning July
l. 1902, and Sc 600 for books, stationery,
printing means Of transportation. and other
incidental expenses, including the hire of
temporary clerks, not to exceed 81 600, the
sum of $4,000 is hereby appropriated.
COST OF LICENSES.
License taxes were fixed by the con-
ferees as follows:
Druggists, Sc; auct:cceers, 500; connn.s-
sion merchants, $40; cattle dealers, SIS; We
hicles, Sc and 80, automobiles and carriages
drawn by more than one horse coming
der the latter class; livery stables, $25. and
81 more for every stall in excess Of ten;
automobile establishments. $25, and 81 for
every vehicle in excess Of ten; public We
hicles operating on regular route, &c. and
$12 for each vehicle seating more than ten
people; real estate agents. $50; dealers in
500; railroad ticket brokers, SOS; proprie-
tors of hotels and lodging houses, 81 per
room, but no tax shall be less than $50;
victualers and restaurants, not including
hotel proprietors nor private boarding
houses, SIS; theaters 800. or s. day, or
$40 for first week and s. for each subse-
Quent consecutive week; exhibitions, same
rate; concerts entertainments or balls, 50
a day; base ball or any athletic sports, SO
a week or 50 a day; picnic grounds, lawn
fetes or musical attractions, same rate as
for theaters; skating Kinks fairs, earni-
walls, same rates as for theaters: shooting
galleries, fencing schools and gymnasiums
SIP; flying horses and kindred attractions
$12 for first week and SO for each subse-
Quent week, or 81 per diem: slot machines
or automatic machines 81 each, or $50 for
any one establishment: Turkish. Russian
or medicated baths. SIS: massage estab-
lishments, SIS; mediums clairvoyants and
fortune tellers. SIS; hucksters or produce
dealers, $12 for each, vehicle; fuel hucksters
Sc for each vehicle; peddlers, SIS; brewers
of fermented liquor, 1850; distillers or recti-
| fiers, $3.50; wholesale liquor license, $500;
bar room license, 1900: bill posters so;
structures and tanks for oil in excess of
five barrels. $40; iaundries not operated by
hand power. so: iaundries operated by
hand 1ovAr e10. fnfelif~enca nfy3ocS en-.