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24 ---COLD STORAGE On every license to a person or firm or corporation to conduct the business of Cold Storage, either separately or in conjunction with the manufacture of ice, the tax shall be twenty five dollars ($25.00). 25—COMMON CRIERS The specific tax on Common Criers shall be twenty five dollars ($25.), not, as such crier, give any evidence of sale or title to the purchaser. 26 –CONTACTORS. Any person, firm or corporation acceptin1; orders or contracts for doing work on or in any building or structure requiring the use of paint, stone, brick, mortar, cement, wood, structural iron or steel, sheet-iron galvanized iron, metallic piping __ lead, electric wiring or other metal: or any other building or decorating material; or who shall accept contracts to do any paving or curbing on sidewalks or streets public or private property using, asphalt, stone, brick, cement, wood, or any composition or who shall accept an order for or contract to excavate earth, rock or other material for foundations or any other purpose or who shall accept an order or contract to construct any sewer of stone, brick, terracotta, or other material, shall be deemed a Contractor. The specific is license tax on every person, firm or corporation for the privilege of conducting the business of contractor or builder, in this city, as described above, shall be ten dollars ($10.) on the first thousand dollars or less of material purchased or used, and an additional tax of ten cents (10 cents) on every hundred dollars of the amount of materials purchased or used in excess of one thousand dollars; said additional tax shall be paid quarterly, and every person, firm or corporation is hereby required to report under oath to the Commissioner of Revenue the amount of purchases on the first day of August, November, February and May of each year and pay the amount due on the dates mentioned, and failure to do so shall be considered as doing, business without a license, and shall be fined not less than $2. 50 nor more than $5.00 for each day in default. 27 - - CORN DOCTORS, ECT. Every Corn, Cancer Fye or other itinerant Doctor or Optician shall pay a specific license tax of twenty five dollars ($25.) per annum. Not transferable; no prorata. 28 - - DAGUERREAN AND PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANVASSERS FOR COPING PICTURES. The specific license tax on any person engaged in business as a Daguerrean or Photographic Artist shall be thirty dollars ($30.). All persons canvassing this city for coping pictures of any description shall pay a specific license tax of thirty dollars ($30). No pro rate, nor shall the license to canvassers be transferable and all itinerant Daguerrean or Photographic artists shall pay a specific tax of thirty dollars ($30.). 29-- DEALERS IN FUTURES Every person who shall conduct business of dealing in what is known as Futures in gain, or any produce or merchandise, or in railroad or other stocks or bonds, shall pay a specific license tax of three hundred dollars ($300.) but this shall not be deemed as interfering with the stock or bond dealing of regular bankers. At meeting of Council April 11,1907 this 29th, section was amended to read one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.). 30—DEALERS IN PISTOLS, DIRKS, AND BOWIE KNIVES. No persons, firm or corporation shall sell Pistols, Dirks or Bowie Knives without having; first procured a license therefor. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of selling Pistols, Dirks or Bowie Knives, or who may hereafter engage in said business all pay for the privilege of transacting said business a specific license tax of twenty dollars ($20.), and no such license shall be issued for any less period than one year nor shall there be any abatement in any instance of the tax upon such license by reason of the fact that the person or persons so licensed shall have exercised such licensed calling for a period less than one year. 31—DEKDS AND CONTRACTS RELATING TO REAL ESTATE On every deed or contract relating; to real estate situated in this city, which is recorded in the Clerks Office of the Corporation Court of this City, and is taxed by the state, a corresponding tax is hereby imposed, which shall be collected by the Treasurer at the end of each quarter. 32—DOGS. On every license to a keeper, custodian or owner of a dog, puppy or bitch, in this city, the tax shall be one dollar ($1.) on a dog or spayed bitch or two dollars ($2.) on a bitch, and the Treasurer shall provide at the expense of the city, and furnish without charge to all residents of the city, who shall apply therefor and pay said license, a metalic medal as provided for in the ordinances, such medal to be valid only for the current year. Anv person violating this section, by keeping an unlicensed dog, puppy or bitch in the city, shall pay a fine of five dollars ($5.), and in addition the dog, puppy or bitch mar be impounded until redeemed by the payment of the license tax hereby imposed; and if not redeemed within five days after such impounding such dog, puppy or bitch shall be killed in accordance with the ordinances of the city. 33—DYING ESTABLISHMENTS. Each person conducting a Dying Establishment shall pay a specific license tax of Ten dollars per annum. No prorata; not transferable. 34---EATING HOUSES. The specific license tax on any person to engage in keeping an eating House shall be twenty five dollars ($25.), and any person who shall cook or otherwise furnish, for compensation, diet or refreshments for casual visitors at his house, and sold for consumption therein, shall be construed to be the keeper of an Eating House. 35—ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANIES On each person, firm or corporation engaged in the business in this city of finishing electricity for power or illuminating purpose, three hundred dollars ($300.).