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the exercise of this privilege a special tax of one hundred and
<br />fifty dollars ($150) for a year or part of a year, but when two
<br />companies are operated jointly under the same agency and office,
<br />the combined license tax shall be two hundred dollars ($200).
<br />36. Feed Stables or Wagon Yard.
<br />teach person keeping a feed stable or wagon yard shall pay
<br />a specific license tax of ten dollars ($10). No pro rata.
<br />37. Flour and Meal Manufacturers.
<br />On every license to a manufacturer of flour and meal the tax
<br />shall be fifty dollars ($50) . But when such manufacturer deals
<br />it, flour, meal, or other grain products other than his own man•
<br />ufacture lie shall be required to procure a merchant's license
<br />graduated by the amount of such purchases.
<br />38. Fortune Tellers.
<br />.l�,very person practicing the art of divination, fortune telling
<br />or palmistry, who shall practice the same in this city, shall pay
<br />a tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) for one year or ten dollars
<br />($10) per month. Not transferable.
<br />39. Foundry and Machine Shops.
<br />On every license to a foundry the tax shall be twenty-five
<br />dollars ($25) . On every license to a machine shop the tax
<br />shall be twenty-five dollars. But if a foundry be conducted in
<br />conjunction with a machine shop the combined tax shall be
<br />forty dollars ($40).
<br />40. Furniture Upholsterer or Repairer.
<br />On every license to a fttrniturc upholster or repairer the tax
<br />shall be ten dollars ($10) .
<br />41. Hobby Horses, etc.
<br />The license tax on hobby -horse machines, merry-go-rounds
<br />and other like machines, shall be one hundred and fifty dollars
<br />($150) for the period of one year, or twenty-five dollars ($25)
<br />per week of six running days, for each machine operated, but no
<br />license shall be issued for a less period than one week. Not
<br />transferable. No tro rata.
<br />42. Hotels.
<br />Any person who shall for compensation furnish lodging, diet,
<br />and entertainment for travelers, sojourners, guests, or boarders
<br />in his house, and sell by retail wine, spirituous, or malt liquors,
<br />or any mixture of them, shall be deemed to keep a hotel, and the
<br />specific tax which shall be paid for keeping such hotel shall be
<br />four hundred dollars ($400), and an additional tax of two cloi-
<br />lars ($2) for each available room in such hotel, for lodging and
<br />accommodation of guests.
<br />43. Insurance Companies—Accident.
<br />On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or solici-
<br />tor for an accident insurance company not having its principal
<br />or home office in this city there shall be a specific license tax
<br />for doing business In this city of fifteen dollars for each com-
<br />pany represented.
<br />On all steam boiler insur,utce companies, the license tax shall
<br />be the same as on accident insurance companies.
<br />44. Insurance Companies—Fire, etc.
<br />On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or solic-
<br />itor for a fire insurance company not having its principal of-
<br />fice in this city, there shall be a specific license tax for doing
<br />business in this city of thirty dollars ($30) for each company
<br />represented. When there are two or more agents not acting as
<br />co-partners and representing the same company, each of such
<br />agents shall be required to procure a license. Every agent or
<br />solicitor paying the aforesaid license is allowed to employ can-
<br />vassers.
<br />45. Insurance Companies Guarantee.
<br />On every license to a persons ()r firm to act as agent or solic-
<br />itor for any company guaranteeing official or other bonds, not
<br />having its principal or home office in this city, there shall be a
<br />sNEcific license tax for doing business in this city of twenty-
<br />five dollars ($25) for each company represented.
<br />46. Insurance—Health or Aid Societies.
<br />On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or solic-
<br />itor of a health or aid society, paying daily, weekly, monthly or
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<br />annual benefits, for sickness or accident, and at death, there shall
<br />be a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per annum
<br />for each company represented.
<br />47. Insurance—Industrial and Prudential.
<br />On every license to an industrial or prudential insurance com-
<br />pany doing business in this city, or any person or firm, acting as
<br />agent for such company, there shall be a specific tax of thirty
<br />dollars ($30), for each company represented. The definition of
<br />an industrial and prudential insurance company in this section
<br />shall be a company that writes small policies on lives, the
<br />premiums on which are payable weekly. Any old line insurance
<br />company doing an industrial or prudential business shall pay the
<br />foregoing license tax in addition to the license tax imposed upon
<br />it by § 48 of this ordinance.
<br />48. Insurance—Life.
<br />On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or solic-
<br />itor for any life insurance company, not having its principal
<br />office in this city, there shall be a specific license tax for doing
<br />business in this city of thirty dollars ($30) for each company
<br />represented.
<br />When there are two or more agents, not acting as co-partners
<br />and representing the same company, each of such agents shall
<br />be required to procure a license. Every agent or solicitor paying
<br />the aforesaid license is allowed to employ canvassers.
<br />49. Insurance—Live Stock.
<br />On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or solicitor
<br />of a live stock insurance company, not having its principal office
<br />in this city, there shall be a specific license tax for doing busi-
<br />ness in this city of twenty-five dollars ($25) per annum for
<br />each company represented.
<br />50. Itinerant Musicians.
<br />Every itinerant musician performing on the streets of this
<br />city, such as organ -grinders, bag -pipe blowers, etc., shall pay a
<br />specific tax of two dollars ($2) per week or fraction thereof.
<br />51. Job Printing Office.
<br />On every license to a person, firm or corporation to conduct
<br />a job printing office the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25).
<br />52. Junk Dealers.
<br />On every license to a junk dealer the tax shall be fifty dollars
<br />($50) and on every person who shall engage in the business of
<br />buying junk or other matter for a junk dealer or for sale to a
<br />junk dealer, the tax shall be thirty dollars ($30).
<br />53. Laundries.
<br />Every person who operates a laundry shall pay for the priv-
<br />ilege of conducting such business, if it be a laundry operated
<br />other than by hand, in this city, the sum of twenty-five dollars
<br />($25).
<br />On every person operating a hand laundry the license tax
<br />shall be $10. But nothing in this section shall be construed to
<br />impose a license tax upon person who wash bed clothing, wear-
<br />ing apparel, and so forth, without laundry machinery, and who
<br />do not keep shops or other regular places of business for laundry
<br />purposes.
<br />54. Lightning Rod Agents.
<br />Every person canvassing for, selling or erecting lightning rods
<br />in this city, other than a regular licensed merchant, shall pay a
<br />specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) for a year or
<br />fractional part thereof. Not transferable.
<br />55. Liquor Dealers.
<br />For the privilege of selling or offering to sell by sample or by
<br />representation or otherwise, wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or
<br />any mixture thereof, alcoholic bitters, bitters containing alcohol
<br />or'fruit preserved in ardent spirits by wholesale, the sum of four
<br />hundred dollars ($400).
<br />For the privilege of selling or offering to sell by sample or by
<br />representation or otherwise, wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors or
<br />any mixture thereof, alcoholic bitters, bitters containing alcohol,
<br />or fruit preserved in ardent spirits, either by retail or to be
<br />drunk at the place where sold, or in any other way, the sum of
<br />four hundred dollars ($400).
<br />The said license to include only the privilege of selling in
<br />quantities not exceeding five gallons at any one time to any in-
<br />dividual, which shall include both the privilege of selling to be
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