Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-05-30


other real estate, fifteen dollars.
&c. On every person or firm except Ii
censed merchants, who shall sell or offer &c
sell, buy or offer to buy for themselves OF
others, grain Of any kind or description
whatsoever, OF other produce on Change
there shall be levied specific tax Of twenty
dollars.
81. On every merchant tailor, whose stock
in trade is less than $500. teu dollars, and
on those whose stock is more than $500,
twenty-five dollars.
80. On every green grocer, twenty dol
lars; meanirg by this term any person OF
persons who shall sell at his or their place OF
business butchers meats and vegetables.
And on every green grocer who does not sell
meats, FIVE dollars.
80. On each and every butcher, or dealer
in fresh meats, selling meat within the pub
lie market. FIVE dollars.
40. On each ard every butcher or dealer
in fresh meats, selling outside of the public
market, fifteen dollars.
Al. On every person canvas singfor the
purpose of buying any matter of subsist-
ence and who shall sell the same within OF
without the public market, there shall be
levied tax Of five dollars: Provided, That
butchers, commission merchants or mer-
chants shall be exempt from this tax. This
law applies TO hucksters.
AZ. On every person for the privilege OF
peddling green groceries on the streets Of the
city there shall be levied tax Of twenty Ave
dollars Provided no license shall be Issued
for shorter period than one year, and every
such ped6ler shall show his license on de.
mand Of any police officer Of this city, but
this shall not apply to persons who sell vege.
tables Of their own raising. Fresh meats
cannot be sold under this license.
43. On every fish dealer, wholesale or re.
tail, ten dollars. Persons who sell the fish
they themselves have caught are exempt
from this tax.
A. On every person or firm selling ice
there shall be levied a specific license tax of
fifteen dollars per annum upon each wagon
used for the delivery and sale Of ice, and on
every person or firm selling at his or their
places of business ice in small quantities a
specific license tax of five dollars shall be
levied.
40. On every person or firm selling
coal and wood, or either Of them, where such
person or firm requires two OF moro wagons OF
carts In their business for the delivery and
sale of coal and wood, or either of them
there shall be levied a specific license tar
of thiity dollars, and twenty-five cents on
every hundred dollars of purchases in excess
of three thousand dollars, and on each person
OF firm using one cart or wagon in T. cir bust.
ness a specific Ii ense tax of ten dollars, and
twenty-five cents on each hundred dollars OF
purchases in excess two thousand dollars, and
on every person or firm selling at their place
of business coal and wood or either OF
them in small quantities a specific license tax
Of five dollars.
as. On all agents for the sale of lager
beer, porter, or ale. manufactured out Of the
city, ssye atty five dollars.
AZ. On each agent for the sale in tho city
of ginger beer, pop, mineral water, cataw ba
or soda water, manufactured without the
city, twenty five dollars and said agent shall
be privileged 10 distribute the same to his
customers and collect his bottles and fount-
aims without tax on the horse or wagon used
for the purpose.
As. On every telephone company one dollar
on each one hundred dollars of their gross
receipts.
40. On every telegraph company receiving
messages in the city of Alexandria, Virginia
and forwarding or transmitting them to
points within the State of Virginia, not in
GLIDING any business done for the Government
Of the United States, its officers or agents
and not including any business done to and
from poiats without the State or receiving OF
transmitting messages from points within the
State of Virginia and delivering the said mes
sages in the city Of Alexandria, Virginia, not
including any business done for the Govern
ment of the United States. its officers or
agents, and not including any business done
to and from points without the State lin adj
dition to the tax on the assessed value Of
the property shall be taxed fifty dollars per
year.
49l5. On every express company receiving
goods, wares and merchandise, in the city OF
Alexandria, Virginia, and forwarding them
to points within the State of Virginia, or re-
reiyiDg goods, wares or merchandise within
the State of Virginia, and delivering them
In the city Of Alexandria, Virginia, and not
including any business done to and from
points without the State in addition to the
tax on the assessed value of their property,
there thall be levied and collected license
tax of one hundred dollars.
so. On every livery stable, thirty-fye
dollars, and for each stall therein fifty cents.
81. On every person keeping any house
or lot or yard for storing goods, wares,
merchandise, wood or coal, lime, salt, guano,
or such like commodities for compensation,
ten dollars.
80. On every bill poster or photographer
ten dollars.
53. On any person or persons distributing
illustrated papers or printed matter Of any
description, except regularly licensed bill
posters ten dollars, but this shall not apply
to residents of this city advertising their
business by hand bills, cards, circulars, pic
lures, &C.
54 On every dog, regardless of sex, one
dollar and fifty cents.
90. On every license TO a person or firm TO
keep for compensation a house, q yard, or
lot, as a shooting galley, the tax shall be
FIVE dollars per month.
90. On every license to a person to keep
a flying horse or swinging machine, run by
hand three dollars, by steam ten dollars per
month.
81. For every license on four-horse ON,
nibus or wagon, whether used for hire or
not, eight dollars.
So. For every license on two-horse om-
nbus, used for hire or otherwise, five dol
lars.
SO. On two horse wagon used for hire,
four dollars.
go. On a one-horse cart, wagon, buggy, or
other vehicle Of the like kind, used for hire,
two dollars, but this does not apply to
licensed livery stable keepers. ALI carts or
wagons for hire shall have a tag affixed
thereon to DO furnished by Commissioner of
Revenue when license is granted.
81. On two-horse hack or carriage, four
dollars. But this shall not apply to licensed
livery stable keepers.
81. On every hearse, ten dollars.
63. On every person selling upon the
public streets any patent medicines, patent
rights, receipts, prescriptions, or any drug
or article Of any kind or description what
soever, there shall be tax Of five dollars
per day, or twenty-five dollars per week.
"a. On every oyster dealer, there shall be
a specific tax of three dollars.
SO. All persons owning or hiring horses
and vehicles, and who make any charge for
hauling their own merchandise, or the
merchandise Of others, shall be liable to the
license tax Of two dollars on horses and We