The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-15

person, $500; engineering, each person, So; entertainments, S5; feather renovating | Sl00; express companies, Si000. If less than ! 50 miles of road is operated the license | is S250 Tn addition to the state license the towns and cities may levy license tax ! ranging from $2.50 to $500. Eye glasses, each dealer, $5.
 1 Fertilizer factory, $50 to $250 bankrupt sales, $1O0; fireworks, $5 to $25; flying jen-
 nies, s20 to $30 for each month; fortune tellers $50; fruit stands, 8 and $10; horse dealers, $20.
 l Gypsies and traders, $20 for each county | in which they travel; hotels and lodging 1 houses, $l for each room and 50 cents for each bath room; insurance, 800 for domes-
 tic companies and foreign marine and fire | insurance companies, 150 for each slOo; and other companies E on the s10o of gross | premiums; junk dealers s20 to $50. i Laundries, s1O to $50; attorneys, s4 for | each person; legerdemain, each exhio1- | tion. s25; lightning rods, each person, $5c and $25 for each additional person. COAL AND ORE | Mining coal, cents on each ton payable ! by the 10th day of the month on coal
 mined the preceding month; iron ore , cents per ton; nenagerie or museum, s2o monument dealer, 5; money lender, $1oO;
 mortgages, .15 cents where amount does not exceed S10O, and on amounts in excess ot l s0O the tax is i5 cents on the $100 news companies each person on trains, 20 cents per mile travelled per annum; nickel-1n- ] slot machines, or other devices, $10; penny machines. $5 oil wells, one-half of i per 1 cent of gross sales for preceding year 1 newsstands, each person. $5; ocullsts, each | s5: osteopaths, each 5; pawnbrokers | each, $250; photographers, travelling, 50 to l s75; peddlers of medicine, s15 to s1o0; ped dlers of drugs itinerant doctors, $25o. Pig iron storage, $50 for each yard; pfs- l tols guns, etc, $15 to s75; pistol and pls- 1 tol cartridges, s100 and $50; piano and organ dealers each, s100; pool tables, eacn 1 table, $25; plumbers and gas htters, sio to s25; public utilities, mills on e@acn @ | dollar of gross receipts race trachs' sio0 | and s2o0, ticket brokers, $50 and $10O; res ] taurants. cafes, etc, $1O to $50; sewing ma chimes. each person, s25; shooting galleries
 each person, s5 a month; sleeping cars' | etc. S1o.Oe0: retail soft drinks, $o; skatlhS
 rinl<s, s25: stocks and bonds $oo
 TEI. .EGRAPH MILEAGE TAX 1 Te1eeraph companies operating llhes
 between points wholly within this | state are required to pay a incense based on mileage of lines operated, at 1 the rate of $10 per mile for less than
 150 miles. Where they exceed A'o llia1,s l tbe tax is $500 Counties are not al l lowed to levy license tax. Telephone l connanies 25 cents per mile where the l lines do not exceed 50 miles; o0 to loo miles 50 cents; 150 to 250 miles, $l per mile and where it exceeds Foo miles, ] s2 per mile Long distance telephone companies. $250 a year for each line. l Theatres, $50 year in clties wFh i over 500O0 inhabitants, ranging ooWh
 to s15 in smaller towns. Moving pie
 ture shows, $200 in cities having over l 35 0oO inhabitants 1000 to 35,0o0 in
 habitants. $50; in all other cities ana ! towns. s15.
 | Trading stamp companies, 5 per cent l of gross business, but in no event
 less than 5000.
 Cotton warehouses, s1o to s1oo- Wit ness scrip dealers, $25.
 | Shipbuilding companies are exempt | from taxation for period of 10 years, provided as much as s100,000 has been invested in the plant and water power
 companies developing hydroelectrlc i power are exempted for a period of Q
 years. This provision does not apply | to real estate owned by such com 1 panies
 Printed copies of act read that in case of a single person, or married person not living with husband or Wife,
 personal exemption of $2o00 is al-
 lowed
 1 The original bill allows an exemp- ] ton of $2000 to married person and
 5000 to single person,