Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-28
TAX OF $4,000 ON
GRAND OPERA HERE
ADOPTED IN HOUSE
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each county; merchandise auction
GERS, 500 for each county; live stock
auctioneers, $50 for each county; nom
resident real estate auctioneers, $100
for each county; resident real estate
auctioneers, $50 for each county.
The hour being l o'clock, the house
took recess until 8 o'clock, at which
time it will re-assemble.
Afternoon Session
Converting at 3 o'clock for the
first afternoon session, the house
adopted the following sections of
the bill revising the occupation tax
act:
Legislative agents, 500.
Laundries and dyeing establish
ments,- graduated taxes ranging
from $25 to 500.
Manufacturers and wholesale deal
ers in cash reisters, $10G.
Manufacturers and wholesale deal
ers in weighing machines, $25.
Manufacturers, wholesalers and
retail dealers in adding machines,
5000
Manufacturers, wholesale and re-
typewriters, 500 for each place of
business.
Slot machines, S. for each ma
chine set up.
Slot machines showing pictures
or playing music, SIS each machine.
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bicycles, $40.
Dealers in motorcycles and motor
attachments to bicycles, $50 for
each place of businss.
Manufacturers, wholesalers and
retail dealers in farm implements
as road building machinery, $40 for
each agent or salesman per year.
Merry-go-rounds, flying horses,
flying swings, etc, human roulettes,
etc, $25 for each place of business.
Motion picture supply houses;
film distributing agencies, ETC., 800
for each place of business.
Musical instruments, graduated
tax ranging from $40 to $50.
News dealers operating on rail-
road trains, $500.
Express, telegraph, telephone, rail-
road, street railroad, steamboat,
electric light, sleeping car, build
ing and loan companies, and gas
and water-poWer companies, $25
year.
Packing house agencies, graduated
tax ranging from $25 to $500, for
each place of business in each coun-
ty.
Pawnbrokers, 5000.
Photographers, $40, for the coun--
ty in which business is located, and
SIS for each other county in which
business is solicited.
PeddlerS OIL patent meQlclneS,
jewelry, drugs, soaps, ETC., $50 for
each county; peddlers Of stoves,
clocks, picture frames, ETC., 5000
for each county; peddlers of churns.
patent fences, agricultural imple-
ments and tools, ETC., $25 for each
county; peddlers of any goods using
waterways or boats for transporta-
tions, $50.
Picture and picture frame agents,
$40 for each county.
Monument dealers, motion picture
and vaudeville theaters, and thea
tiers showing motion pictures and
vaudeville combined, graduated tax
as follows: Towns up to 1000, $3.50
a month; towns from 1000 to 5000,
$275; towns from 5000 to 10000,
$6.25; towns from 10000 to $4,000,
$3.50; towns over $4,000, $3.50.
This schedule as adopted by the
house was a drastic reduction from
the schedule recommended by the
committee, which was from So to
500 a month.
Dealers in pistols, pistol cart,
ridges and rifle cartridges, and
other deadly weapons, in towns up
to 10000, $35 a year; over 10000,
$50 a year. On this section Repre-
sentative Davis, Of Oglethorpe. de-
livered an eloquent plea in favor
of a tax of 500 on all such deal
ers for the purpose of cutting down
the sale and use of deadly weapons.
The house voted down his amend