The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-23

1 chine or any other size or type operated
 at any time during license year, $50
 per annum for the first foot power
 pacity, and an additional s10O for each ad-
 ditional foot power capacity.
 Sec. l9. Each building and loan asso-
 citation organized under the laws of this
 state, or any other state or county do-
 Ing business in this state, shall pay in
 advance on the first day of each year. to the state treasurer, privilege tax of 60 cents on each s100O of its capital stock Issued. And every such association, for l eign or domestic, shall also be assessed i for taxation and shall pay taxes upon
 It's real and personal property in this
 state. No municipal corporation shall
 charge or collect license or privilege
 tax on building and loan associations in
 excess of 75 per cent of the state license.
 Sec. 20. For bowling alleys or 1o-pin
 alleys for the use of which money or
 other compensation is charged s2o for
 each alley.
 Sec. 2l For each commission merchant
 or merchandise broker other than produce
 dealers for commission in towns and cities
 of less than 25o0 inha bitants $5; in towns
 and cities of 2500 and less than 5000 in
 habtants, S10: in cities of 5000 and less
 than 10000 inhabitants, sio; in cities of
 10000 and less than 25,o0o inhabitants, s25;
 in cities of 25,000 inhabitants, or more, $50.
 Sec 22 For each dealer in playing
 cards, s10.
 Sec. 2S. For every person selling at re-
 tail in any quantities less than quart, i drinks known as elders, or any similar : drink. where the same is permitted to be
 drunk by the glass. or single drink, in, on or about the premises where sold, $50. l Any person who sells such elders or similar drinks in quantities greater than quart, shall pay an annual license of $10O Sec "A. Every dealer who may sell or give away cigarettes. cigarette pa- per or cigarette tobacco, or who fur nishes their customers with cigarettes cigarette paper or cigarette tobacco in connection with any other purchase oi transaction, or who may keep in their places of business any of said articles. whether sold or given away in con nection with other purchases, in any place outside of incorporated towns or villages, $5 in incorporated towns and cities of 5000 or less inhabitants, $1O; in cities of more than 5000 and not ex-
 cceding 10000 inhabitants, $20; in cities of more than 10000 and not eX- . ceeding 20,000 inhabitants. $25; in all cities having more than 10000 inhab- itants, S35
 Sec 25. Each person operating cir GUS shall pay for each days exhibition, where the seating capacity of such circus is 1000 or less, $25; where the seating capacity is more than 1000 and
 less than 2000. $50; where the seating capacity is more than 2000 and less
 than 4000, $1Q0; where the seating ca pacity is more than 4000, $200 and the
 license hereinabove provided for shall include the license for menagerie ac- companying the circus. For each days
 exhibition of each side show accom- panying such circus. and for each rygo-round or flying jenny accom- panying such circus, $10 per day, and lon xx-l, roi shall be kept or deposited with the
 doorkeeper, gatekeeper of ticket re- ceiver, whose duty it shall be to ex- hibit the same on demand to the sher- tiff of the county or his deputy and 1t shall be the duty of the sheriff in
 person, or by his deputy, to call on
 such doorkeeper, gatekeeper, or ticket receiver, and inspect the license or
 licenses taken out for such circus,
 show, exhibition or merry y-go-round be-
 fore the performance begins, and 1T
 the proper license or licenses have not
 been taken out and paid for as here Iinabove provided to prohibit such cir
 GUS exhibition or performance until the
 proper license is taken out in accord
 ance with the provisions of this act,
 and it shall be the duty of the sheriff
 to arrest the owner proprietor, or
 manager or other party or parties in charge of such circus, exhibition, or
 
 tion without the payment of the license
 herein required, and take him before the proper court for the trial of such
 offense. and any sheriff failing to per
 form the duties herein required of him 1s guilty of a misdemeanor.
 Sec. 26. Whenever any circus gives q street parade over any of the streets.
 roads or thoroughfares in this state.
 the following license shall be paid: In towns or cities of more than 100000 in-
 habitants, $50; in towns and cities or Hess than 100000 and more than 3D.
 OO0 $35; in towns and cities of less
 than 50,000 inhabitants and more than 25,OO0 inhabitants, $25 in all other | places, s15. And it shall be the duty of the sheriff to see that the proper | license has been issued before such
 parade shall start. This license Is in
 addition to the license provided in the preceding section.
 Sec. 27 Every horse, dog and pony show where an admission is charged shall be considered a circus and shall pay the license provided In the two preceding sections, and every exhipi- tion of athletic or acrobatic feats or or horsemanship in every building, space, x tent or. arena shall be regarded as a | circus, provided that this section shall i not apply to such exhibition in thea \ Ire paying a theatrical license, nor ohall it apply to athletic games ex- N hibitions or contests by students of any school or college
 Sec 2S. Each person dealing In coal | or coke in towns or cities of 5000 in- | habitants or less, $5; in cities of 5o00 | and not more than 10000 inha bitants l Sl0; in cities of 10000 or more inhaD- itants, $25; but this shall not apply to persons who sell in quantities or less than one ton or to persons who mine their >own coal and sell the same Tn ! wagonload lots only.
 4 Sec. 29 Each person engaged Tn the 4 cold storage business shall pay an an nual license according to the loiiowihs echedule: For refrigerating capacity of K0. 900 and not more than 100000 cubic feet. s25; for refrigerating capacity or ! 00. 900 and not more than 100000 cubic | feet, $50; for refrigerating capacity or ,0OO cubic feet. or more, $1O0; each | person, firm or corporation operating a ! rsfrigerating pipe line for the purpose . of refrigerating the rooms, premises goods, wares or merchandise of others 3 for profit, $75.
 Sec. 30. Each collecting agency in 9 towns and cities of 10000 and more in- 9 habitants, $1O0; in towns and cities of ' less than 10000 inhabitants, $25. Each { person. firm, association of persons. or I corporation which shall employ agents I to solicit claims for collection, or shall send out circulars or other notices so- ' liciting claims for collection from per | sons firms or corporations in the state.
 shall be deemed collecting agency
 within the meaning of this section.
 Sec 31. Each person, firm or corpo- ration, or association whose principal
 business is inquiring into and reporting