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38, Contractors. Any person, firm or corporation accepting orders or con- tracts for doing any 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, tin, lead, electric wiring or other metals 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, brick, stone, cement, wood or any composition, or who shall accept an order for or contract to excavate earth, rock or other material for foundation or any other purpose, or who shall accept an order or contract to con- struct any sewer of stone, brick, terra cotta, or other material, shall be deemed a contractor. The specific license tax oil 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 on every hundred dollars of the amount of materials purchased or used in excess of one thousand dollars; said ad- ditional 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 purchase on the first day of August, November, February and May of each year and pay the amount due on the date mentioned, and failure to do so shall be considered as doing business without a license, and shall be a misdemeanor and he shall be fined not less than $2,0 nor more than $5 for each day in default. 39. Conveyancers. See § 14. 40, Corn Doctors, etc. Every corn, cancer, eye, or other itinerant doctor or opti- cian shall pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per annum. Not transferable. No pro rata. 41. Creamery, Each person, firm or corlmration manufacturing butter for sale shall pay a specific license tax of $25 per annum. Not transferable. No pro rata. 42. Dance Halls. On every license to a person or firni to conduct a (lance hall in which dancing is to he allowed, where an admission fee is charged or a charge is made for participating in such dancing, the tax shall be $50, and no such license shall be granted until such person or persons shall have secured the consent of the Mayor, who shall satisfy himself that the person or persons ap- plying are proper persons to conduct such hall, and that the lo- cation is suitable for such purpose, and it is further provided that any such (lance hall shall be subject to such rules and regu- lations as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by the Council. Not transferable. This license may be pro ra!ed for a period of not less than three months. 43. Daguerrean and Photographic Artists and Canvas- sers for Copying Pictures. The specific license tax on any person engaged in Imsiness as a daguerrean or photographic artist, shall be thirty dollars ($30). All persons canvassing this city for copying pictures of any description shall pay a specific license tax of fifty dol - 4" ($50), Any itinerant daguerrean or photographic. artist, or any person taking orders in this city on the ticket or other plan for photographs to be delivered or furnished by photog- raPhers of this city, shall pay a specific license tax of fifty dol- lars ($50). Any license granted tinder this section shall not be transfer- able or pro rated. 44, Dealers in Pistols, Dirks and Bowie Knives. No person, firm or corporation shall sell pistols, dirks or bowie knives without having first procured a license therefor. Every person, firrn or corporation engagcd in the business If selling pistols, dirks or bowie knives, or who may hereafter engage to said business, shall pay for the privilege of trans - "ting 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 If the tax upon such license by reason of the fact that the per- p or persons so licensed shall have exercised such licensed calling for a period of less than one year. Applicants for li- cenSe to deal in pistols, dirks and bowie knives must have the 295 written consent of the Mayor. Dealers must report all sales to chief of Police monthly, giving names and addresses of purchasers. 45. Dentists. See § 14. 46. Dogs. See Acts 1918, pp. 622-624. 47. Dyeing Establishments. Each person conducting a dyeing establishment shall pay a specific license tax of ten dollars ($10) per annum. No pro rata. Not transferable. 48. Eating House. Every person who shall keep an eating house shall pay for the privilege twenty-five dollars ($25) and where the annual rent or rental value of the house and furniture is more than one hundred dollars, and not more than one thousand dollars, he shall pay an additional sum equal to five per centum of such rent or rental value, and where such annual rent or rental value exceeds one thousand dollars, he shall pay an additional sum equal to four per centum of such rent or rental value. 49. Exhibiting Electrical Machines, etc. Every person exhibiting for pay electrical machines for testing strength or weight, or other machines or implements on the streets or any location, for profit, shall pay a specific li- cense tax of five dollars ($5) per annum or two dollars ($2) per week. Not transferable. 5 0. Electricity. Every person, firm or corporation generating or selling or offering for sale or delivering electricity for light or power or heat or any other commercial uses shall pay a license tax of one half of one per cent. of the gross receipts of such person, firm or corporation, based upon receipts from such business during the period from the first clay of May, 1922, to the 30th clay of April, 1923. In applying for such license a statement of such receipts shall be submitted to the Commissioner of the Revenue. 51. Feed Stables or Wagon Yard. Each person keeping a feed stable or wagon yard shall pay a specific license tax of ten dollars ($10). No pro rata. 5 2. Flour - and Meal Manuf acturers. On every license to a manufacturer of flour, or meal, or chop, the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) each, or sixty dollars ($60) for the three. But when such manufacturer deals in flour, meal, or other grain products other than his own manufacture he shall be required to procure a merchant's license graduated by the amount of such purchases. 53. Fortune Tellers. Every person practicing the art of divination, fortune tell- ing, palmistry, or phrenology who shall practice the same in this city, shall pay a tax of fifty dollars ($50) per week. Not transferable. No pro rata. 54. Foundry and Machine Shops, On every license to a foundry the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) . On every license to a machine shop the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) . But if a foundry be con- ducted in conjunction with a machine shop the combined tax shall be forty dollars ($40). For the privilege of repairing automobiles and accessories a machine shop license shall be required. 55. Furniture Upholsterer or Repairer. On every license to a furniture upholster or repairer the tax shall be ten dollars ($10) . 56. Garage. Every person ,who shall keep a garage as defined in Sec. 19 of the State Tax haws, for the hire or storage of automobiles shall pay a tax of $25.00 and $1 additional for each vehicle for the storage capacity of such garage in excess of five. Shops for repairing automobiles or tires, whether conducted in connection with a garage or separately, shall be required to pay the license tax provided for in Sec. 54.