The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-07-27


Said ordinance being an ordinance
providing for leyying of a license
tax upon persons, firms and corpora
tions engaged in certain occupations
callings or trades in the CITY OF Chick
asha Oklahoma and providing pen
aIty for the violation Of such ordi-
nance.
Be it ordained by the mayor and
councilmen Of the city Of chickasha,
Oklahoma
Section ! That ordinance No S2l
Of the ordinances Of The city Of Chick
asha, Oklahoma, be amended 10 read
as follows:
There is hereby levied license tax
upon each and every business, calling,
occupation or profession hereinafter
mentioned within the corporate limits
OF the city Of Chickasha, Oklahoma,
and every person, firm or corporation
who shall engage in, exercise or pur-
sue or follow any of such callings. bus
mess. occupations or professions, shall
obtain and pay for a license therefor
from the proper officials Of the city
before commencing to engage therein,
and the amount of such license for the
different business occupations. avoca-
tions. callings or professions, shall be
as follows:
Each and every auctioneer. $500
per annum.
Each and every contractor, $12O0
per annum A contractor within the
meaning OF this ordinance shall be
any person, firm Or corporation who
shall make it business TO contract
for carpentery. brick layers. stone ma
sons plasterers. painters or paperers,
in the performance of which the labor
Of others is employed
Each bank, $500 per annum.
Each pawnbroker. $50 per annum.
From every merchant whose average
stock amounts to 100000 or less $500
per annuin, provided that upon those
stocks which amount to more than
100000 the tax shall be one dollar for
each one thousand dollars in excess,
additional
Each and every butcher. $500 per
annum. or $1,000 per quarter
Each and every automatic vending
placed upon sidewalks, streets
or alleys, s1.Oo per unit per year
Each restaurant. public eating house
and lunch counter, $1,000 per annum.
Each rooming house or lodging
house having ten rooms or less. $500
per annum. and fifty cents for each adj
ditional room
Each hotel having twenty rooms or
more $4,000 per annum
Each hotel having less than twenty
rooms, $500 per annum
Each opera house, theater or audi
torium, $4,000 per annum
Each billiard table pool table, baga-
telle table pigeon hole table or Shut
fle board; kept for hire or profit. $1,000
each for first three tables, per annum,
and $3.50 for each additional table.
Each bowling or ten pin alley main
tanned for profit. $500 per annum.
Each wagon carriage, automobile
or vehicle maintained for The purpose
sof transferring freight or passengers
for hire, $500 per annum, for each ve-
lhicle 50 used Or maintained
Each livery, sale or feed stable,
$1,000 per annum.
Each real estate agent Or agency,
$500 per annum.
Each life Or fire insurance agent,
$500 per annum.
Each express company, $1,000 per
annum
Each telegraph or telephone com
pany, $500 per annum.
Each auction sale Of goods, wares or
merchandise conducted within store
house or building, $1,000 per day.
annum.
Private loan agencies. $1,000 per an
mum.
All peddlers of dry goods, notions,
wearing apparel, household goods,
carpets, mattings, rugs grocer
les, fruits. toilet articles or 9th
er articles Of merchandise ex-
cept poultry animal products,
farm products, and vegetables raised
or produced in the state Of Oklahoma
and offered for sale BY a person, firm
Or corporation producing the same,
$4,000 per annum. payable in advance,
provided that no license under this sec
tion shall be issued for any period less
than six months.
Any transient Of itinerant merchant
who goes from place to place or house
to house offering for sale Or exposing
to sale, the goods wares and merchan-