Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-05-30
Official.
License Law for 1901

| An ORDINANCE for imposing and collecting
Licenses within the city of Alexandria, Va.
for the year commencing on the LIST day of
June, 1910, and ending on the 31st day OF
May, 1911.
BE It Ordained By the City Council Of Aler-
| andria, That there shall be levied upon and
| collected from all persons required to be
listed as subject to g license tax, the follow
| Ing taxes, viz;
/. On every license to sell ardent spirits
OF wines at wholesale, there shall be Levied
| tax of one hundred and twenty dollars.
| This applies to persons selling In quantities
of FIVE gallons or more.
| GNoTE.-Any person desiring to carry on
the business OF wholesale liquor dealer and
also that of retail liquor merchant, shall OBJ.
tain a separate license for esch, but his retail
| license shall only be one.half of that required
/ by section three.
g. On every license to every brewer or
| wholesale dealer in malt liquors. fifty
| dollars.
3. On every license to sell wines, ardent
spirits, or malt liquors, or any mixture
thereof at retail, one hundred Al d ,wenty-
FIVE dollars. "a license to sell liquors by re-
| tail shall include the privilege to sell in
quantities not exceeding five ~ gallons at
| any one time to any individual; this shall in
clude the privilege to SELL to be delivered 10
| the purchaser in bottles, jugs and demU
| or other vessels and also the privilege to be
drunk where sold)
4. On every ordinary one hundred aud
| City dollars and the right to keep an
ordinary shall contain all the rights and
| privileges of retail liquor dealer.
Al. On every hotel or house of public en-
tertainment twenty dollars, and when liquors
are sold one huldred and fifty dollars.
| S. On every commission merchant or nrm
the specific license or tax shall be twenty.
/ five dollars.
6. On every person for the privilege OF
peddling or bartering, the tax shall be
| twenty dollars per year or three dollars per
month, and only the person named therein
shall DO privileged to peddle under this
| license.
| Provided any person or persons selling or
| peddling oil from vehicle or tank wagon shall
pay a specific sum of five dollars for each
| vehicle or tank wagon SO engaged.
| 7. On every person or corporation con-
Quoting the business Of real estate agent
or broker, there shall be levied specific
| tax of fifty dollars.
| 8. On every auctioneer forty dollars, and
no auctioneer shall sell real estate ut public
auction without taking out a license under this
| section.
8. On every person canvasslng to sell
books, maps, prints or pictures already pub
lished or pediling the same, ten dollars.
| 10. On every person canvassing for sub
scribers to any book or map, print or PIC
| ture not yet published, ten dollars
/ II. On ali agents for the salo of manu-
featured articles, sold by them on commits
sion. or otherwise, fifteen dollars.
1 II. On every junk dealer, seventy i've
dollars.
! 13. On every person canvassing or buying
auy Junk or any other matter for any JUNK
dealer, or for sale to any junk dealer doing
| business in bhis city, fifteen dollars, and
only one person can canvass under this
license
I 1871. Or every person or dealer selling
| antique or second hand furniture fifteen dol
| lars, provided such person or dealer IS not
taxed under some other section OF this law or
/ is charged with tax on capital.
ID. On every person who shall sell to-
\ bacco or cigars in quantities not less than
one box, except manufacturers, five dollars.
Is. On every ship broker, thirty dollars.
| 16. On every money broker, or firm OF
! brokers OF bankers, having an office within
the city, two hundred and fifty dollars.
IT. On every pawnbroker, fifty dollars.
IS. On every rectifier of distilled spirits
or wines by any process, eighty fvo dollars
i a.,
/ fined in the revenue laws of the State,
there shall be license tax Of forty dollars.
This does not apply to bucket shops.
20. On every proprietor of bucket shop
or dealer in puts, calls or futures on or
for flour, grain, cotton, pork, lard or oil, ono
hundred and fifty dollars.
81. On every person or persons acting as
agent or agents for any fire, marine life or
other insurance company, or companies, haV-
| ing an office in the city of Alexandria,
| fifty dollars on each company represented
| by such agent: and for each assistant or
| soliciting agent ten dollars On every person
seeking business for or soliciting for any
companies who have no agencies in the city
of Alexandria, fifty dollars for each COM
pany so represented.
agent or agents for furnishing sureties or
surety bonds there shall be levied specific
l license tax of ten dollars for each company
represented.
50. On every house of private entertain.
ment the license tax shall be five dollars,
and five per cent. on the rental value in
excess of two hundred dollars.
"a On every cook shop or eating house,
the tax shall be five dollars.
25. On every person or persons keeping
bowling alley, or saloon, the specific license
tax shall be ten dollars, and five dollars on
each alley in such house in excess of one.
&c. On every person or firm keeping
billiard table or pool table for public use,
whether charge be made for playing or
not, five dollars on each table.
81. On every person or firm keeping
bagatelle or other similar table for public
use, whether charge be made for playing
or not, five dollars on each table.
IS. On every theatrical performance, or
any performance similar thereto, panorama,
or any public performance or exhibition Of
any kind (except exhibition Of moving or
moving and talking pcu1eD lecture, lit.
erary readings and performances, except for
charitable or educational purposes, in any
hall or public room or other building, where
an admission fee is charged, for each week
Of performance of six consecutive days, i've
dollars if less than one week, thice dollars
for each performance. Any license issaed
under this section shall slso include tie
| right to operate moving or moving and
taking picture amusement as pa1t ct the
peIfo, nance.
2sa. On ev cry person, firm or corporation,
conducting place of amusement, commonly
called moving or moving and talking pic
lures. to which an admission fee is charged,
for each week of six consecutive days for con-
Quoting the same, three dollars. if less than
one week, one dollar fol each exhibition or
performance. license issued under this
section shall be for the privilege of moving
or moving and talking pictures only.
%. On every exhibition of circus or
menagerie or either of them, one hundred
dollars for each days performance, and for
every side show or exhibition connected
Herewith, or travelling Herewith, five dol
lars for each days performance. On every
exhibition or show where gifts or prizes are
distributed or promised, ten dollars for the
6rst days performance, and FIVE dollars for
each additional day, provided said perform.
snces are given within one week;
2g3. On every exhibition Of skill, whether