The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-03-16
agricultural fairs and expositions.
STREET CAR COMPANIES

agricultural fairs and expositions.
STREET CAR COMPANIES.
Section g. From every street cal
company in this city, 81 90 per mile, on
each mile of track owned by said COM
pany, or corporation.
PHONOGRAPHS, ETC.
Section 49, From each owner or man.
ager OF every photograph, electric bat
terry, graphophOne, or other like ma
chimes or instruments, where fee is
charged, an annual tax of $780,; pro-
vided, that when an electric battery is
used by a regularly authorized physician
on patient, no tax shall be charged.
KINETOSCOPES, ETC.
Section a. From each owner or keep
er of every kaleidoscope, cinefograph. or
other similar machine, or instrument
used for profit, which shows the life-like
motions of persons or animals, an an
nual occupation tax of $12. so.
PANORAMAS.
Section S. From each owner. man.
ager, or keeper of every panorama. or
view show. used for profit, exhibited in a
wagon, room, tent, or elsewhere. an an
nual occupation tax of 500. A pauora-
ma, or view show, in the meaning of
this ordinance, is a show exhibiting
pictures, statuary, or other works of art
which are viewed through stereoscopic
Oh niagnifying lenses.
DEALERS IN COTTON SEED OH,
Section Sc. From every person. arm
or association who are wholesale dealers
IN cotton seed oil, or any of the products
OF cotton seed, selling such to the trade.
a tax of so; provided, that this tax
shall not apply to a merchant who sells
other goods and merchandise and pays
an annual occupation tax therefor.
EXHIBITIONS FOR SALE OF MED
ICINES, ETC.
Section 81. From each owner. man.
ager, or keeper of every show or COM
pany of persons giving exhibitions of I
music, songs, Rotations, sleight-of-
hand, gymnaStic, dancing, or other
kinds of performances in a tent, house.
or elsewhere, which said exhibitions are
used for profit by sale of medicines.
electric belts, or other articles of value.
whether charge is made only for seats
or not, an occupation tax of 81. so. for
every such performance, OF exhibition.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Section S. From every person firm.
or association of persons selling on COM
$3.50. This ordinance is in
tended to cover every person, firm. or
association of persons selling on sam
pies only, and who do not carry auv
stock, or merchandise, or any thing else
on hand; provided, that this shall not
apply to commercial travellers, or sales
men making sales, or soliciting trade
from merchants.
CIGARETTE DEALERS.
Section SO. From all dealers in cigar
cites in this city, the sum of $500. per
lnnum. A cigarette being, within the
meaning of this ordinance, the same as
defined by the laws of the United States
government; provided, that this tax shall
De III addition to the occupation tax
eived on merchants, and any other tax
evied under the law; and provided.
urther, that each dealer shall be re-
Iuired to procure an annual license
rom the City Clerk of the CITY. which
hall be granted for no shorter or longer
period than one year; and provided. fur
her, that the license shall describe the
louise and locality where the dealer
proposes to sell cigarettes
DEALERS IN Spurious. VINOUS.
OR MALT LIQUORS
Section 40. From every person. firm.
or association of persons
cling spurious, vinous, or malt liquors.
II medicated bitters, capable of produc-
ng intoxication, in this city, an annual
tax of $4,000, on each seper-
te establishment, as follows: n
For selling such liquors, or medicated I
filters in quantities of one gallon or less I
han one gallon, $4,000; /
For selling such liquors, or medicated
filters in quantities of one gallon, or Z
1ore than one gallon, $50 90; provided :
hat in selling one gallon, the same
nay be made up of different liquors in 5
nbroken packages, aggregating not
lore than one gallon; p
For selling malt liquors exclusively, n
500; provided, that nothing in the
rdinance shall be so construed as to
xempt druggists who sell spurious,
nous, or malt liquors, or medicated F
Itters capable of producing intoxication, r
4 the prescription of physician, from u
lie payment of the tax herein imposed:
rovided furthar, that this ordinance B
lall not apply to the sale by druggists n