The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-16

cniness and, provided, further, that no city or incorporated town shall exact a license exceeding one-half of the H. 1 cense tax levied by the State. Pro- vided, further, that said maximum H. cense hereinabove required may be l paid by any person. firm or corporation in which event no other license tax shall be required of him or them on any machine so leased or used by such | person, firm or corporation" be and l the same Is hereby repealed.
 Sec. II. Each person. firm or corr poration selling or delivering sewing machines either in person or through agents, and each person, firm or cor poration who engages in the business of selling or delivering lightning rods. stoves. ranges. buggies or other ve- hfcles. shall pay the State twenty | live dollars annually for each county 1 in which they may sell or deliver said articles; and for each wagon and team used in delivering or displaying the 1 same they shall pay Che State an ad- provided. this section shall not apply to merchants selling the above emu merated articles at their regularly es- tablished places of business.
 Sec. II 1-2. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business I of selling or delivering pianos or or- ! gans in this State, either in person or l by agent, or consigned. shall pay an annual license of one hundred dollars l for each county in which they may so sell. provided that this license shall l not aply to merchants or dealers hav- ing permanent place or places of bus | mess in this State and keeping said ! articles as part or all of their stock in trade. Such persons firms or cor i porations having a permanent place or l places of business Tn this State and keeping said articles as part or all of I their stock in trade shall pay to the | State an annual license of one hun dred dollars to be paid in the counties in which such permanent place or | places of business is established and the payment of such license in such counties as evidenced by the official certificate of the Judge of Probate shall be sufficient. notwithstanding 1 they may so sell in other counties
 Sec. 12. That each person, firm or corporation engaged in buying witness certificates, jury certificates, or claims 1 against the State or county, shall pay an annual license of twenty-five do1- lars in each county in which such bus mess Is done; but this shall not be held to legaiize such business in any county in which the same is now or may be hereafter prohibited by law.
 Sec. IS. That every person, firm or corporation operating a soda fountain l where non-alcoholic or soft drinks or l Tt- Qufred to pay an annual license of five dollars.
 Sec. IA. That any person who keeps | for hire or rent any automobile, To- comobile, or any like car, shall pay a license tax to the State as follows: In towns and cities or more than thirty thousand inhabitants, fifty dollars; in towns and cities of more than fifteen thousand and less than thirty thousand inhabitants. thirty-five dollars; in all other cities and towns. twenty five dol- lars.
 Sec. 16. That every person, firm or corporation, engaged In the business of bottling non alcoholic, carbonated or other soft drinks. shall be required to pay to the State an annual license tax as follows: In towns or cities of not
 more than 5000 inhabitants. or within
 four miles thereof, twenty-five dollars.
 And in towns of five thousand inhabit-
 ants and not exceeding twenty thous-
 and inhabitants or within four miles
 thereof, fifty dollars. And in all towns
 or cities having more than twenty
 thousand inhabitants Or within four
 miles thereof, one hundred dollars.
 Sec. 1s. That Subdivision 7s of Sec
 ton 4122 of the Code of 1896 as amend
 ed by an Act of the Legislature en-
 tiled "An Act to better provide for
 the revenue of the State" approved
 March 9th, 1903, be and the same is
 hereby amended so as to read as fol-
 lows: Theatres: 79. For each theatre
 fin towns or cities containing more than twenty thousand inhabitants, one hundred dollars; for each theatre in towns or cities containing more than
 eight thousand inhabitants, fifty dol
 lars; this amount. fifty dollars, shall also be charged for license for open air or summer theatres, such as at Mobile
 on the Bay Shore; East Lake in Jef- | nfxy
 Pickett Springs in Montgomery Coun- ty; in towns or cities containing less than eight thousand and more than three thousand inhabitants, twenty-five dollars; in towns and cities of less than two thousand inhabitants, twenty dollars; this license shall only extend to dramatic, legerdermain, acrobatic and operatic exhibitions given in the } building so licensed and if any doubt arises as to the character of the en- } tertainment proposed to be exhibited : in any theatre the Judge of Probate } of the county in which the theatre is situated shall determine whether or not
 it is covered by theatrical license. Sec. IT. That each person, firm or : corporation, either in person or through agents, who solcits orders for the 3 enlargement of photographs or pictures l of any character. or for picture frames 7 whether they make charge for such
 
 |, or corporation. either in person or , through agents, who sells or disposes , of picture frames, shall pay a license l tax of twenty-five dollars in each coun.
 ty in which they may do business; but this Act shall not apply to merchants or dealers having a permanent place y of business in the State and keepine . picture frames as a part, of all of theil e stock in trade.
 l, Sec. IS. That Subdivision S2 of Sec. y tion 4122 of the Code of Alabama al = amended by an Act of the Legislature j., of Alabama, entitled "An Act to better . provide for the revenue of the State e approved March 4th 1903, be and tn, . same Is hereby amended so as to reat j. as follows: Warehouses: S2. Ever, ,, person. firm or corporation, operating { t warehouse or elevator for the storag, { and handling of cotton. shall pay ar '. annual license tax to the State as fol @ lows: Every such warehouse storins . not more than ten thousand bales 1T = any one year, twenty dollar, n ($25.00.); more than ten thousand anC e not more than twenty thousand, lift, n dollars ($5O.O0); more than twenty f thousand and not more than thirty = thousand bales, seventy-hve dollars
 ($75.00); more than thirty thousand - bales, one hundred dollars ($100OO.) = Sec. 19. That each person, firm ol = corporation owning or operating an, r compress for the purpose of compress d ing cotton shall pay an annual licens g tax as follows: For each compress com b pressing not more than fifty thousan,