The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-17
CHANGES MADE IN LICENSE SCHEDULE City Council Increases Some
 and Lowers Others THE NEW PRIVILEGE TAX Automobile Dealers, Hair Dressers and Traders in Assignment of Wages
 Among Those Who Have to
 Take Out License.
THE NEW PRIVILEGE TAX

The city council last night made num- Der of charge in the annual license sche- dule of the city of Birmingham for the year 1903. The schedule. as usual, was prepared by the miscellaneous committee of which Alderman John Forney is the chairman. The committee was assisted in its work by Attorney Edward D. Smith.
 Under the new schedule few classes of business not heretofore licensed will be required to pay a privilege tax for doing business during the coming year.
 The Increases. The following increase were made:
 Abstract and title guarantee companies, increased from $1OO to $50 per annum. Advertising by means of vehicles on the streets, increased from s25 per annum to $5 per week. Advertising by other means on the streets increased from s25 per annum to s per week. Auctioneer. each transient, (merchants license not includedD. increased from s1OO per annum to s25 per week. Bill posters. increased from $50 to $50 per annum. Bowling alleys, increased from $l5 to s25 per annum. l Civil engineer or surveyor, increased from s1o to s15 per annum. Fruit stand, when principal stock in trade Is fruit, increased from s20 to $50 per annum
 Hotels with fifty rooms, not including restaurant, increased from slO0 to $50 per annum.
 Hotels, with one hundred rooms, not including restaurant, increased from $50 to s20O per annum. Insurance agents, life, increased from s1OO to $500 per annum. Insurance agents, plate glass or boiler, increased from s25 to $50 per annum Land company, where capital stock is less than s5o,ooo. increased from $15 to $50 per annum.
 Land company, where capital stock Is $5o.0OO and less than s1OOOOO. increased from $50 to $1O0 per annum. Land company, where capital stock is s1Oo, 900 or more. increased from s1OO to $500 per annum. Laundry steam increased from $50 to s75 per annum.
 Liquor Dealers.
 Liquors, each wholesale dealer, not in- cluding beer, increased from s4OO to $500 per annum.
 Liquors, each retail dealer, increased from $500 to $500 per annum.
 Liquors in hotels or boarding houses. increased from s1OO to s2OO per annum.
 Livery and feed stable. increased from $50 to $5 per annum.
 Livery and feed stable, where horses and mules are handled for sale, increased from s1OO to $50 per annum.
 Mercantile or commercial agencies, in- creased from $50 to s2OO per annum.
 Oils, wholesale dealer. when gross bus mess does not exceed s1oooo. increased from $500 to $500 per annum.
 Railroads. keeping an office or place of business in Birmingham, increased from s75O to 5000 per annum.
 Railways, consolidated street, increased from s6oo to $500 per annum.
 Telephone company, long distance. in- creased from 25O to $500 per annum.
 The following reductions were made:
 Express companies, commercially en- gagged in the business in the city of Bir- mingham, where packages are delivered free within the corporate limits reduced from $500 to s25O per annum The license of s6OO of which was in effect this year for express companies charging to deliver packages was taken of.
 Slot machine, reduced from SIP per an- mum to s1 per annum.
 New Privilege Tax.
 These new privileges taxes were added to the old schedules:
 Automobiles. dealers in, s1o0 per annum. Hair dressers, $10 per annum.
 Hand laundries, $25 per annum
 Peddlers of rags, carpets, clothing, etc., on instalment plan or retaining title, $50 per annum.
 Assignment of wages, firm whose prin- cipaI business is trading in, or taking and buying assignment of wages already earned or to be earned In the future by an employe, in addition to other license fixed by the schedule, $z9u per dnnum when this is not the principal business in addi- ton to other business, s100 per annum.
 Electric wiring. plumbing or steam heat ing inspecting firms. s1oO per annum. Meat markets in the city limits outside of the fire limits. s15 per annum. Sleeping car companies. s10 per annum. Steam heating companies, s25O per an- mum. Seeds, wholesale dealers, s10 per annum
 Posters on Buildings.
 The schedule provides that no firm can place bills or other advertisements on buildings and fences without securing a permission from the mayor and aldermen | and paying $500. This license however, will not apply to firms upon whom other | license for revenue has been imposed and | from whom the same has been collected.
 Grain Dealers.
 The following schedule of license for | grain dealers was adopted
 Where stock averages less than 5000, $35 per annum.
 Where stock averages 5000 or over and less than s2OOO $50 per annum.
 Where stock averages over 5000 and less than $SOOO $75 per annum.
 The following sections of the schedule relate to haberdashers:
 Where principal stock in trade and 1t averages less than s2500 and is not includ-