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new REVENUE MEASURE
WILL HIT MANY
States Income Will Be Largely In
creased By Additional Revenues
Derived From Extension of Lii
cenSe Fees.

Derived From Extension of Lii
cense Fees.
Under a revenue measure, known
as Senate Bill No. 555, introduced
by Senator Richard Johnson, OF How
ard county, and passed by the last
LEGISLATURE, a large increase In the
States income will be secured by Ii
censing many branches of business
that formerly escaped such licenses.
The bill provides that Detective Ag-
encies and Agents, Moving Picture
Shows and Carnivals, garages, cash
registers and adding machines, type
writing machines, commercial, mer-
camille and mutual protective agen-
cies, junk dealers, trading stamp
companies, wholesale dealers in farm
machinery, soda water fountains, l1V-
cry stables, bowling saloons, storage
warehouses, check rooms, cleaning,
dyeing and pressing companies, shoe
shining parlors, and hat cleaning es-
Establishments, restaurants or eating
places, plumbers and gas filters, con-
struction firms or companies, nom
resident wholesale tobacco dealers,
and nonresident wholesale liquor
dealers shall take out licenses before
doing business in this State.
The law provides that the Clerks
of the various Courts of the State
and Baltimore city shall issue such
licenses, their fee being $15,and upon
conviction of any person or corpora
ton for doing business in the State
without first procuring such license
80 ho1 ho r1oao6
the guilty person or corporation, one
fourth of which shall be paid to the
informer and the balance to the State
Treasurer.
The law also provides that any
person, or company OF stage players,
ventriloQuists, sleight-of-hand per
formers, rope dancers, tumblers and
wire dancers shall before exhibiting
or performing for a reward In any
county, pay to the Clerk of the Cir
cult Court for such county $50 for
one year, or 81 for each exhibition.
Every person or company of circus
riders or equestrian performers who
shall exhibit for reward in any coun-
| ty of the State shall pay to the Clerk
the sum of $50 for one year, and are
expressly prohibited from obtaining
license for any less period; in 9th
er words, the single performance Ii
Icense provision shall not apply to
such performers. All persons exhib
iting for pay any animal or animals
or natural or artificial curiosities OF
any kind Except models of useful
inventions) shall pay a license free
of $25. -s@fe,-- r-s.-.-rrzs
Moving picture parlors, where an
admission fee of 10c. is charged shall
pay license fee of 500 a year for
houses of more than 1000 seating ca
pacity, while those that have more
than 500 or less than 1000, shall
pay $50. Moving picture houses
charging &c. admission with a seating
capacity of more than 1000 shall pay
a license fee of $50, and those with
a seating capacity of over 500 and
less than 1000 shall pay $45. An
additional section, however, provides
!. that all moving picture shows or
vaudeville shows or other perform
ances given where the operating in
dividual, firm or corporation, re-
iceives any portion of profit shall pay
a license fee of $50 week, but that
where such performances are given
for charity there shall be no license
fee. Carnivals, however, are exempt
from this latter feature and are re-
quired to pay 500 a week or any
fractional part thereof.
Garages for hire, storage or sale of
automobiles are required to pay the
following license fees:
/, Garage not exceeding 1900
SO. II ooo .........S W
1000 to 5000 So. tt. ..... 20 90
5000 to 1000 SO. #. .. 40 90
1000 to 5000 SO. #. ..... so 90
5000 to 1900 SO. #. Is 90
More than 1900 SO. #. $50. 100 90
Concerns dealing in cash registers
and adding machines are required to
take out license of 500 annually.
For typewriters and supplies an an
nual license fee of $40; laundries
employing less than five persons, SIS;
employing not less than five nor
more than ten persons, SIS; employ
ing not less than ten nor more than
twenty persons, $50; employing
more than twenty persons, 500.
These license fees do not apply to
persons who wash bed clothing,
wearing apparel, etc., without laun-
dry machinery, and who do not keep
shops or regular places of business
for public work, not to hotels laun-
dering their own supplies
Junk dealers in cities or counties
of 10000 to $4,000 inhabitants are
required to take out a license cost
ing $40 a year. Persons operating
soda water fountains are required to
take out license costing Sc annual
ly for each fountain operated. Liv-
cry stable owners are required to
take out a license costing Sc annual
ly for each stable operated. Bowling
alley operators are required to take
out license costing $40 for the
first alley and the additional sum OF
$40 for each and every other alley
operated. Storage warehouses in
cities not exceeding 10000 inhabi.
tants are required to take out a Ii
cense costing SIS annually. Each
person, firm or corporation, resident
or nonresident conducting a clean.