The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-22
COUNCIL AND
MERCHANTS TAX
Took Up Proposed Ordinance
Again Last Nieht...StiII
Unfinished.
GAMBLING AND SALOON TAX
Pass Ordinance Making II Necessary
to Buy Dog Licenses-Pound-
mans Duties.

The council took up the license tax
ordinance again last night. They
passed upon the sections identifying
the meaning of the various terms
used in the first part of the ordi-
nance, such as restaurant keeper.
"hotel keeper" and the like.
Section No. 8, fixing pawnbroker's
bonds at $500, conditions for the
faithful observance of the state laws
and city ordinances, was also passed
Plumbers bonds were fixed at
$500.
There was considerable discussion
as to the amount to be fixed for Ii
censing telephone companies. The
figure first suggested was 25 cents
quarter for each phone.
Councilman Root rang up the tele-
phone Office and asked how many
phones there We're in the town. He
was informed there were 220 tele-
phones in Ely. The city fathers then
fixed the tax at 10 cents a telephone
a quarter.
The ordinance also makes it COM
pulsory for the company to make
quarterly reports to the council of
the number of telephones in the city
Chapter 4 of the ordinance regu-
lates the licensing of gambling of all
kinds as follows:
Faro, each table, $75; roulette,
each table, SIS; craps, each table,
SIS; seven and half or twenty-one
each table, $75; poker, percentage
Il <Ntb Il
ing game or banking game of chance
eacn $75; slot machines operated
wholly or in part by means of coin,
check, metal disk or slug and which
can be played for money, each ma
chine, 81, and any slot machine
where payment is made in trade, So
each.
Councilman Root brought up the
question as to whether the gaming
licenses could be changed. He took
the position that the state transfer
red the gaming licenses from the
state to the city.
Councilman Carbon stated that
since the ordinance does not change
the amount no question could be
raised as to that point
Councilman Hall called the at
tention of the council the fact that
the retail liquor license as fixed in
theordinance-$10 work
hardship upon the saloon men. Mr..
Root saidhe had conferred with Mr..
Hall and had found that the city tax
taken with other liquor taxes, would
make the amount he would have to
pay, $3,240 year.
The license tax ordinance was laid
on the table for further considera-
ton.
What are we going to do about
that dog license?" asked Councilman
Root said he had conferred with Mr..
times to see that it is passed as soon
as possible"
1--WE had better take it up" re-
piled the mayor.
The ordinances fixes dog licenses
for bitch at SO a year and dog at
50 year. 1t is the duty of the city
clerk to give the owners of the can
ines a tag, which must be placed on
the collar.
All dogs without licensese found
on the streets are to be impounded
and the pound-keeper shall charge
81, and 25 cents a day. After five
days and no call is made for the dog
it is the pound-man's duty to kill the
canine in a human manner.
Dogs in Ely will not be permitted
to go to church. They will be kept
out of theaters and all public places
If John Does dog bites Mary Roe
either Mary Roe or her husband or
brother, If she happens to have one,
can dispatch the bow-wow. A tagged
dog can't be killed without the per-
mission of the owner.
The council read the ordinance and
passed it.