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38, Eating Houses.
<br />The specific license tax on any person to engage in keeping
<br />an eating house shall be twenty-five dollars ($25), and any per-
<br />son who shall cook or otherwise furnish for compensation, diet
<br />or refreshments em shall casualor visitors,
<br />construed to be the keeper lof for
<br />consumption they
<br />eating house. There shall not be sold under this license oil Sun-
<br />day anything but sandwiches and meals prepared on the prem-
<br />ises and only where meals are regularly prepared and sold on
<br />other days.
<br />39, Exhibiting Electrical Machines, etc.
<br />Every person exhibiting for pay electrical machines for test-
<br />ing strength or weight, or other machines or implements, on
<br />the streets or any location, for profit, shall pay a specific license
<br />tax of five dollars ($5) per annum or two dollars ($2) per
<br />week. Not transferable.
<br />40. Express and Transportation Companies.
<br />Every express company or railroad doing an express busi-
<br />ness, having an office or doing business in this city, shall pay for
<br />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 of-
<br />fice, the combined license tax shall be two hundred dollars
<br />($200).
<br />41. Feed Stables or Wagon Yard.
<br />Each person keeping a feed stable or wagon yard shall pay
<br />a specific license tax of ten dollars ($10). No pro rata.
<br />42. Flour and Meal Manufacturers.
<br />On every license to a manufacturer of flour, or meal, or chop,
<br />the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) each, or sixty dollars
<br />($60) for the three. But when such manufacturer deals in
<br />flour, meal, or other grain products other than his own manu.
<br />facture he shall be required to procure a merchant's license
<br />graduated by the amount of such purchases.
<br />43. Fortune Tellers,
<br />Every 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) per week. Not transferable.
<br />No pro rata.
<br />44. 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 />45, Furniture Upholsterer or Repairer.
<br />On every license to a furniture upholster or repairer the tax
<br />shall be ten dollars ($10).
<br />46. Garage.
<br />Every person who shall keep a garage for the hire, storage or
<br />sale of automobiles shall pay a tax of $100 and $1 additional for
<br />each vehicle for the storage capacity of each vehicle over five.
<br />47. Hobby Horses, etc.
<br />The license tax on hobby -horse machines, merry-go-round.,;
<br />and other like machines shall be one hundred and fifty dollars($150) for the period of one year, or twenty-five dollars ($25)
<br />per week of six running days, for each machine operated, but
<br />no license shall be issued for a less period than one week. Not
<br />transferable. No pro rata.
<br />48. Hotels.
<br />Any person who shall for compensation furnish lodging, diet,
<br />and entertainment for travelers, sojourners, guests, or boarders
<br />in his house' m
<br />and sell by retail wine, spirituous, or alt liquors,
<br />y
<br />or an 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 dol-
<br />lars ($2) for each available room in such hotel, for lodging and
<br />accom1110dation of guests.
<br />49, Ice Cream—Manufacture.
<br />Each person or firm manufacturing ice cream shall pay a spe-
<br />cific license of
<br />chant's $10 per year, unless doing business under a mer -
<br />license. Not transferable. No pro rata.
<br />50. Insurance Companies—Accident.
<br />On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or solic-
<br />itor 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 insurance companies, the license tax shall
<br />be the same as on accident insurance companies.
<br />51. 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. livery agent or
<br />solicitor paying the aforesaid license is allowed to employ can-
<br />vassers.
<br />52. Insurance Companies—Guarantee.
<br />On every license to a person or 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 />specific license tax for doing business in this city of twenty-
<br />five dollars ($25) for each company represented.
<br />53. 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
<br />annual benefits, for sickness or accident, and at death, there
<br />shall be a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per
<br />annum for each company represented.
<br />54. 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 pre-
<br />miums 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 § 55 of this ordinance.
<br />5 5. 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 pay-
<br />ing the aforesaid license is allowed to employ canvassers.
<br />56. Insurance—Live Stock.
<br />On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or so-
<br />licitor of a live stock insurance company, not having its prin-
<br />cipal office in this city, there shall be a specific license tax for
<br />doing business in this city of twenty-five dollars (S23) per an-
<br />num for each company represented.
<br />57. 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 />58. 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 />59. Junk Dealers.
<br />Oil 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 />60. 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).
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