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<br />42, Dance Halls.
<br />On every license to a person or firm to conduct a dance hall
<br />in which Glancing is to be allowed, where an admission fee is
<br />charged or a charge is made for participating in such Glancing,
<br />the tax shall be $50, and no such license shall be granted until
<br />such person or persons shall have secured the consent of the
<br />Mayor, who shall satisfy himself that the person or persons
<br />applying are proper persons to conduct such hall, and that the
<br />location is suitable for such purpose, and it is further provided
<br />that any such dance hall shall be subject to such rules and reg-
<br />ulations as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by the
<br />Council. Not transferable. No pro rata.
<br />0, Daguerrean and photographic Artists and Canvas-
<br />sers for Copying Pictures.
<br />The specific license tax on any person engaged in business
<br />a, a daguerrean or photographic artist, shall he thirty dollars
<br />($30), All persons canvassing this city for copying pictures
<br />of any description shall pay a specific license tax of fifty dol-
<br />lars ($50). Any itinerant daguerrean or photographic artist,
<br />or any person taking orders in this city on the ticket or other
<br />plan for photographs to be delivered or furnished by photog-
<br />raphers of this city, shall pay a specific license tax of fifty dol-
<br />lars ($50).
<br />Am, license ;;ranted under this section shall not be transfer-
<br />able or pro rated.
<br />44. Dealers in Pistols, Dirks and Bowie Knives.
<br />No person, firm or corporation shall sell pistols, dirks or
<br />bowie knives without having first procured a license therefor.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business
<br />of selling pistols, dirks or bowie knives, or who may hereafter
<br />engage in said business, shall pay for the privilege of trans-
<br />acting said business a specific license tax of twenty dollars
<br />($20), and no such license shall be issued for any less period
<br />than one year nor shall there he any abatement in any instance
<br />of the tax upon such license by reason of the fact that the per-
<br />son or persons so licensed shall have exercised such licensed
<br />calling for a period of less than one year. Applicants for li-
<br />cense to deal in pistols, dirks and bowie knives must have the
<br />written consent of the Mayor. I)ealers must report all sales
<br />to chief of Police monthly, giving names and addresses of
<br />purchasers.
<br />45. Dentists.
<br />See § 14.
<br />46. Dogs.
<br />See Acts 1918, pp. 622-624-
<br />47.
<br />22624.X17. Dyeing Establishments.
<br />Each person conducting a dyeing establishment shall pay a
<br />Fpecific license tax of ten dollars ($10) per annum. No pro
<br />rata. Not transferable.
<br />% Eating House.
<br />Every person who shall keep an eating house shall pay for
<br />tilt privilege twenty-five dollars ($25) and where the annual
<br />rent or rental value of the house and furniture is more than
<br />one hundred dollars, and not more than one thousand dollars,
<br />lie shall pay an additional sum equal to five per centum of such
<br />rent or rental value, and where such annual rent or rental value
<br />exceeds one thousand dollars, he shall pay an additional sum
<br />equal to four per centum of such rent or rental value.
<br />49. Exhibiting Electrical Machines, etc.
<br />Every person exhibiting for pay electrical machines for
<br />testing strength or weight, or other machines or implements
<br />on the streets or any location, for profit, shall pay a specific li-
<br />cense tax of five dollars ($5) per annum or two dollars ($2)
<br />her week. Not transferable.
<br />60. Electricity.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation generating or selling or
<br />offering for sale or delivering electricity for light or power or
<br />beat or any other commercial uses shall pay a license tax of
<br />one half of one per cent. of the gross receipts of such person,
<br />firm or corporation, based upon receipts from such business
<br />during the period from the first day of May, 1918, to the 30th
<br />day of April, 1919. In applying for such license a statement
<br />of such receipts shall be submitted to the Commissioner of the
<br />Revenue.
<br />51. Feed Stables or Wagon Yard.
<br />Each person keeping a feed stable or wagon year shall pay
<br />a specific license tax of ten dollars ($10). No pro rata.
<br />52. Flour and Meal Manufacturers.
<br />On every license to a manufacturer of flour, or meal, or
<br />chop, the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) each, or sixty
<br />dollars ($60) for the three. But when such manufacturer
<br />deals in flour, meal, or other grain products other than his
<br />own manufacture he shall be required to procure a merchant's
<br />license graduated by the amount of such purchases.
<br />53. Fortune Tellers.
<br />Every person practicing the art of divination, fortune tell-
<br />ing, palmistry, or phrenology who shall practice the same in
<br />this city, shall pay a tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per week.
<br />Not transferable. No pro rata.
<br />54. 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 ($25). But if a foundry be con-
<br />ducted in conjunction with a machine shop the combined tax
<br />shall be forty dollars ($40). For the privilege of repairing
<br />automobiles and accessories a machine shop license shall be
<br />required.
<br />55. Furniture Upholsterer or Repairer.
<br />On every license to a furniture upholsterer or repairer the
<br />tax shall be ten dollars ($10) .
<br />56. Garage.
<br />Every person who shall keep a ' garage as defined in Sec. 19
<br />of the State Tax Laws, for the hire or storage of automobiles
<br />shall pay a tax of $25.00 and $1 additional for each vehicle
<br />for the storage capacity of such garage in excess of five.
<br />Shops for repairing automobiles or tires, whether conducted
<br />in connection with a garage or separately, shall be required to
<br />pay the license tax provided for in Sec. 54.
<br />57. 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
<br />($25) per week of six running days, for each machine oper-
<br />ated, but no license shall be issued for a less period than one
<br />week. Not transferable. No pro rata.
<br />58. Hotels.
<br />Any person who keeps a public inn or lodging house of more
<br />than thirty bedrooms where transient guests are fed or lodged
<br />for pay shall be deemed for the purpose of this act to be en-
<br />gaged in the business of keeping a hotel.
<br />A transient guest is one who puts up for less than one week
<br />at such hotel,, but such a house is no less a hotel because some
<br />of its guests put up for longer periods than one week.
<br />Any person conducting the business of keeping a hotel as de-
<br />fined in this section shall pay an annual license tax of one dol-
<br />lar for each bed room and fifty cents for each bath room, in
<br />said hotel.
<br />59. Ice Cream -Manufacture.
<br />Each person or firm manufacturing ice cream shall pay a
<br />specific license of $10 per year. Not transferable. No pro
<br />rata.
<br />60. Ice -Manufacture.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing ice for
<br />sale, or dealing in ice imported into this city, shall pay a license
<br />tax of $50.
<br />61. Itinerant Musicians.
<br />Every itinerant musician performing on the streets of this
<br />city, such as organ -grinders, bag -pipe blowers, etc., shall pay
<br />a specific tax of two d()Ilars ($2) per week or fraction thereof.
<br />62. 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).
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