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44. Dealers in Pistols, Dirks and Bowie Knives.
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<br />No person, firm or corporation shall sell pistols, dirks or
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<br />bowie knives without having first procured a license therefo .
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<br />Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of
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<br />selling pistols, dirks or bowie knives, or who may hereafter en-
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<br />gage in said business, shall pay for the privilege of transacting
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<br />said business a specific hall be issued for any less period than one year
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<br />nor shall there be any abatement in any instance of the tax
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<br />upon such license by reason of the fact that the person or per-
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<br />sons so licensed shall have exercised such licensed calling for a
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<br />period of less than one year.
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<br />45. Dentists.
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<br />See § 14.
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<br />46. Dogs.
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<br />See Acts 1918, pp. 622-624.
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<br />47, Dyeing Establishments.
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<br />Each person conducting a dyeing establishment shall pay a
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<br />specific license tax of ten dollars ($10) per annum. No pro
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<br />rata. Not transferable.
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<br />48. Eating Houses.
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<br />The specific license tax on any person to engage in keeping
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<br />an eating house shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) and an addi-
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<br />tional tax of $10 on every $1,000 of gross receipts from the
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<br />business in excess of $3,000 per annum and any person who
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<br />shall cook or otherwise furnish for compensation, diet or re-
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<br />freshments for casual visitors, at his house, and sold for con-
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<br />sumption therein, shall be construed to be the keeper of an
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<br />eating house. There shall not be sold under this license on Sun-
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<br />day anything but sandwiches and meals prepared on the prem-
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<br />ises and only where meals are regularly prepared and sold on
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<br />other days. Every violation of this ordinance shall he a mis-
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<br />demeanor and punishable by a fine of not less than $10.
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<br />49. Exhibiting Electrical Machines, etc.
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<br />Every person exhibiting for pay electrical machines for test-
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<br />ing strength or weight, or other machines or implements on
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<br />the streets or any location, for profit, shall pay a specific license
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<br />tax of five dollars ($5) per annum or two dollars ($2) per
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<br />week. Not transferable.
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<br />50. Electricity.
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<br />Every person, firm or corporation generating or selling or
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<br />offering for sale or delivering electricity for light or power or
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<br />heat or any other commercial uses shall pay a license tax of
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<br />one half of one per cent. of the gross receipts of such person,
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<br />firm or corporation, based upon receipts from such business dur-
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<br />ing the period from the first day of May, 1918, to the 30th day
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<br />of April, 1919. In applying for such license a statement of such
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<br />receipts shall be submitted to the Commissioner of the Revenue.
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<br />51. Feed Stables or Wagon Yard.
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<br />Each person keeping a feed stable or wagon yard shall pay
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<br />a specific license tax of ten dollars ($10). No pro rata.
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<br />52. Flour and Meal Manufacturers.
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<br />On every license to a manufacturer of flour, or meal, or chop,
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<br />the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) each, or sixty dollars
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<br />($60) for the three. But when such manufacturer deals in
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<br />flour, meal, or other grain products other than his own manu-
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<br />facture he shall be required to procure a merchant's license
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<br />graduated by the amount of such purchases.
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<br />53, Fortune Tellers.
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<br />Every person practicing the art of divination, fortune
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<br />telling, palmistry, or phrenology who shall practice the same in
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<br />this city, shall pay a tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per week.
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<br />Not transferable. No pro rata.
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<br />54. Foundry and Machine Shops.
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<br />On every license to a foundry the tax shall be twenty-five
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<br />dollars ($25). On every license to a machine shop the tax shall
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<br />be twenty-five dollars ($25). But if a foundry be conducted in
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<br />conjunction with a machine shop the combined tax shall be forty
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<br />dollars ($40). For the privilege of repairing automobiles and
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<br />accessories a machine shop license shall be required.
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<br />55. Furniture Upholsterer or Repairer.
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<br />On every license to a furniture upholsterer or repairer the tax
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<br />shall be ten dollars ($10).
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<br />56. Garage.
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<br />Every person who shall keep a garage as defined in Sec. 19
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<br />of the State Tax Laws, for the hire or storage of automobiles
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<br />shall pay a tax of $25.00 and $1 additional for each vehicle for
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<br />the storage capacity of such garage in excess of five.
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<br />Shops for repairing automobiles or tires, whether conducted
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<br />in connection with a garage or separately, shall be required to
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<br />pay the license tax provided for in Sec. 54.
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<br />57. Hobby Horses, etc.
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<br />The license tax on hobby -horse machines, merry-go-rounds
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<br />and other like machines, shall be one hundred and fifty dollars
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<br />($150) for the period of one year, or twenty-five dollars ($25)
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<br />per week of six running days, for each machine operated, but
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<br />no license shall be issued for a less period than one week. Not
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<br />transferable. No pro rata.
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<br />5 8. Hotels.
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<br />Any person who keeps a public inn or lodging house of more
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<br />than thirty bedrooms where transient guests are fed or lodged
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<br />for pay shall be deemed for the purpose of this act to be en-
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<br />gaged in the business of keeping a hotel.
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<br />A transient guest is one who puts up for less than one week
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<br />at such hotel, but such a house is no less a hotel because some
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<br />of its guests put up for longer periods than one week.
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<br />Any person conducting the business of keeping a hotel as de-
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<br />fined in this section shall pay an annual license tax of one dol-
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<br />lar for each bed room and fifty cents for each bath room, in
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<br />said hotel.
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<br />59. Ice Cream -Manufacture.
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<br />Each person or firm manufacturing ice cream shall pay a
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<br />specific license of $10 per year. Not transferable. No pro rata.
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<br />60. Ice -Manufacture.
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<br />Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing ice for sale,
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<br />or dealing in ice imported into this city, shall pay a license tax
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<br />of $50.
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<br />61. Itinerant Musicians.
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<br />Every itinerant musician performing on the streets of this
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<br />City, such as organ -grinders, bag -pipe blowers, etc., shall pay a
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<br />specific tax of two dollars ($2) per week or fraction thereof.
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<br />62. Job Printing Office.
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<br />On every license to a person, firm or corporation to conduct
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<br />a job printing office the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25).
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<br />63. Junk Dealers.
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<br />On every license to a junk dealer the tax shall be fifty dollars
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<br />($50) and on every person who shall engage in the business of
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<br />buying junk or other matter for a junk dealer or for sale to a
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<br />junk dealer, the tax shall be thirty dollars ($30).
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<br />64. Laundries.
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<br />Every person who operates a laundry and every agent of a
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<br />non-resident laundry shall pay for the privilege of conducting
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<br />such business, if it be a laundry operated other than by hand,
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<br />in this city, the sum of fifty dollars ($50) .
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<br />On every person operating a hand laundry the license tax shall
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<br />be $20. But nothing in this section shall be construed to impose
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<br />a license tax upon persons who wash bed clothing, wearing ap-
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<br />parel, and so forth, without laundry machinery, and who do not
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<br />keep shops or other regular places of business for laundry pur-
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<br />poses.
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<br />6 5. Lightning Rod Agents.
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<br />Every person canvassing for, selling or erecting lightning
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<br />rods in this city, other than a regular licensed merchant, shall
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<br />pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) for a year
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<br />or fractional part thereof. Not transferable.
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<br />66. Live Stock Brokers, Dealers, etc.
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<br />Every dealer in live stock who shall buy f or the purpose of
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<br />selling, or who shall sell, any of the live stock purchased by him
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<br />shall pay a license tax of $25. Butchers and farmers buying
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<br />for their own use, or selling, shall not be subject to this tax.
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