Pocahontas star herald., 1925-01-15


son. firm or corporation, whose prlnci-
pal or agent takes orders in the city
and supplies green meats by retail to|
IFS inhabitants. $500 per annum.
Item %. Hair dressing establish
mcnt and beauty parlors, $1,000 per
annum.
Item 26 Hides, furs or produce
dealers, $500 per nnnum.
Item 27 Ice factories, each person
firm or corporation operating an ice
fuctOry, S25OO per annum.
Item 2S. Lawyers: Each person or
where partnership, each member OF
the firm. $1,000 per annum.
Item 20. Livery and sales barns
S25.00 per annum.
Item 30. Marble or stone yards or
dealer, $500 per annum.
Item 81. Newspapers: Each per-
son, firm or corporation conducting,
$500 per annum.
Item 81 OIL Each dealer in lu-
brlcating, Illuminating, linseed and tur-
pentine oils, gasoline or grease, $1,000
per annum. for wholesale dealers and
$1,000 per annm for retail dealers.
Item 30. Ostcopuths, each $1,000 per
annum
Item 3L Optician or optomctrist,
each $1,000 per annum
Item 30. Oculist, each per annum,
$1,000.
Item 8G, Photographers, each $1,000
per annum.
Item 81. Plumbers, each $1,000 per
I9nnum
Item 3S Restaurant Each restaur-
ant, cafe or eating house, $500 per
annum
Item 30. Sawmills or timber mills,
same as in Schedule a"
Item 40. Slot or vending machines,
when not owned by the person, persons,
firm or corporation where said machine
is operated, $1,000 per annum.
Item Al. Sewing machine dealers
who sell directly, $2j.00 per annum.
Item ~ Transient physicians: Each
transient physician, or vendor Of spec
tacles or eye glasses or compounds sold
as medicine or otherwise, $500 per
day.
Item 43. Transient book canvassers,
$1,000 per annum.
Item A.. Transient merchants, sales
men or drummers engaged in selling
goods, wares or merchandise to other
than regular licensed merchants or
manufacturers, $1,000 per month, $25.-
90 per week.
Item A.. Watch maker or repairer
$500 per annum.
Item 49, Motion picture, or vaude
vile shows, S25.OO per annum.
Item n. Telephone Companies, $50
90 per annum.
Item 4S. Advertising, for each bill
board used by each person, firm or cor
poratiOn, $500 per annum.
Item 10. Cotton Gins. $25.00 each
per annum.
Item 80. Fruit and produce dealers
and peddlerS, nOn-residents of Ran
dolph county, $500 per day, and resi-
dents of Randolph county, $500 per
annum.
Item 81. Brokers and commission
merchants. $500 per annum.
Item 81 Ice cream peddlers, $500
per annum, each
Item 80. Flour or grain mills. S15.-
90 per annum. each.
Item 81. News dealers, $500 per
annum.
Item -. Persons, firms or corpor-
ations engaged i'm the sale Of Lumber
"a"
Item SO. Tin shops, $1,000 per an
mum, each.
Item 81 Veterinary surgeons, $1,000
per gunum each.
Item jS. Building contractors Sl0.-
90 per anuum each.
Item 3d. Transient life, fire or cas-
ualty insurance agents, S25u0 per gn-
mum, each.
Item CO. All persons, firms and corr
pnratious maintaining offices and not
covered by any of thc aforesaid items,
$1,000 per auum, each.
Section 3. BE 1t further ordained
that any person. firm or corporation
engaged i'm any office business and
offering no merchandise for sale though
engaged I'm two or more businesses or
callings shall he required to pay only
one tax. and that the highest tax APP
plicable, provided that only one Office
on place of business is occupied.
II is ordained that any person, firm
or corporation engaged in two or more
businesses or callings offering mer-
chandise for sale shall be taxed as per
Schedule a. where the same place or
room is used for the said two or more
businesses, but separate taxes shall
be paid for each room or place of
business. In case of a combination of
businesses where fat rate has been
levied. only the highest rate shall ap-
ply, if the tax will amount to more
than Schedule "A" otherwise Schedule
IA"
Section l. In all cases where the
amount to be paid for license depends
upon the capital invested or value of
goods or stock, it shall be the duty Of
the person applying for such license TO
render to the city clerk a sworn state
ment as 10 such capital stock or the
| volume of such stocks of goods, and
such other and further proof as the
city clerk shall demand tu show the
actual amount of capital invested,
value of goods or stock and the city
clerk shall not be- required To receipt
for any money until such proofs are
! furnished, provided that each person.
| firm or corporation. having more than
one place of business. each shall be
considered separate and distinct
place of business and assessed as pro
vidcd i'm this ordinance
Section . That all occupation taxes