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51.
<br />Dealers in Pistols, Dirks, and Bowie Knives.
<br />No person, firm or corporation shall sell pistols, dirks,
<br />or bowie knives without having first procured a license
<br />therefor.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the busi-
<br />ness of selling pistols, dirks, or bowie knives, or who shall
<br />hereafter engage in such business, shall pay for the privi-
<br />lege of transacting said business a speciffic license tax of
<br />five dollars ($5), and no such license shall be issued for
<br />any less period than one year nor shall there be any abate-
<br />ment in any instance of the tax upon such 'license by reason
<br />of the fact that the person or persons so licensed shall have
<br />exercised such license calling for a period of less than one
<br />year. Applicants for license to deal in piatols, dirks and
<br />bowie knives must have the written consent of the Mayor.
<br />Dealers must report all sales to the Chief of Police monthly,
<br />giving names and addresses of purchasers.
<br />52. Dentists.
<br />See § 14.
<br />53. Draperies or Braids -Manufacture.
<br />Each person, firm or corporation manufacturing draper-
<br />ies or braids shall pay a specific license of $100.00 per an-
<br />num.
<br />54. Dyeing Establishments.
<br />Each person, firm or corporation conducting a dyeing
<br />establishment shall pay a specific license tax of ten dollars
<br />($10) per annum. Not transferable.
<br />55. Electric Fuses -Manufacture.
<br />Each person, firm or corporation manufacturing Electric
<br />Fuses shall pay a specific license of $25.00 per annum.
<br />56. Electric Machines, etc. -Exhibiting.
<br />Every person exhibiting for pay electrical machines for
<br />testing strength or weight, or other machines or implements
<br />on the street or any location, for profit, shall pay a specific
<br />license tax of fifty dollars ($50.00) per annum. Not trans -
<br />f erable.
<br />57. Electricity.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation generating or selling
<br />or offering for sale or delivering electricity for light or
<br />power or heat or any other commercial uses shall pay a
<br />license tax of one-half of one per cent. of the gross receipts
<br />of such person, firm or corporation, based upon receipts
<br />from such business during the preceding calendar year.
<br />In applying for such license a statement of such receipts
<br />shall be submitted to the Commission of Revenue.
<br />'58. Flooring Manufacturing.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing floor-
<br />ing shall pay a specific license tax of $100.00 per annum.
<br />69. Florists.
<br />On every person or firm engaged as a florist, a specific
<br />license tax of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) shall be imposed,
<br />and if they engage in buying and selling, they shall be
<br />deemed merchants and shall pay accordingly.
<br />60. Flour and Meal Manufacture.
<br />On every license to a manufacturer of flour or meal, the
<br />tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) for each license. But
<br />when such manufacturer deals in flour, meal or other grain
<br />products other than his own manufacture he shall be re-
<br />quired to procure a merchants' license graduated by the
<br />amount of such purchases.
<br />61. Fortune Tellers.
<br />Every person practicing the art of divination, fortune
<br />telling, palmistry, astrology, or phrenology who shall prac-
<br />tice the same in this city, shall pay a tax of one hundred
<br />and fifty dollars ($150.00) per week. Not transferable.
<br />62. Foundry and Machine Shops.
<br />On every license to a foundry the tax shall be fifty dol-
<br />lars ($50) . On every license to a machine shop, the tax
<br />shall be ($50) . But if a foundry be conducted in conjunc-
<br />tion with a machine shop the combined tax shall be one
<br />hundred dollars ($100.00) .
<br />63. Furnace and Metal Furniture Manufacturing.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing metal
<br />furniture or furnaces shall pay a specific license tax of
<br />$100.00 per annum.
<br />64. Furniture Upholsterer or Repairer.
<br />On every license to a furniture upholsterer or repairer
<br />the tax shall be ten dollars ($10) .
<br />69. Hobby Horses, Merry -Go -Rounds, Ferris Wheels, etc.
<br />On every license to keep a Hobby Horse, Merry -Go -
<br />Round, Ferris Wheel or other like amusement, the tax shall
<br />be fifty dollars ($50.00) per week and no license shall be
<br />issued under this section for a shorter period than one week.
<br />And such license, shall be a personal privilege and only
<br />granted by order of the Mayor, except where conducted in
<br />connection with County Fairs, in which case no tax shall
<br />be imposed.
<br />70. Hotels.
<br />Any person who keeps a public inn or lodging house of
<br />more than ten bedrooms where transient guests are fed and
<br />lodged for pay shall be deemed for the purpose of this sec-
<br />tion to be engaged in the business of keeping a hotel.
<br />A transient guest is one who puts up for less than one
<br />week at such hotel, but such a house is no less a hotel be-
<br />cause some of its guests put up for longer periods than one
<br />week.
<br />Any person conducting the business of keeping a hotel
<br />as defined in this section shall pay an annual license tax of
<br />two dollars for each bedroom and fifty cents for each bath-
<br />room in said hotel.
<br />71. Ice Dealers or Distributors.
<br />A specific tax is hereby imposed on each person, other
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<br />65. Garage -Storage.
<br />Every person who shall keep a garage for storage of
<br />automobiles shall pay a tax of $25.00 and $0.50 additional
<br />for each vehicle for the storage capacity of such garage.
<br />Shops for repairing automobiles whether conducted in
<br />connection with a garage or separately, shall be required to
<br />pay the license tax provided for in Sec. 104.
<br />66. Garment Manufacture.
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<br />Every person, firm or corporation, manufacturing gar-
<br />ments shall pay a specific license tax of $100.00.
<br />67. Gasoline.
<br />See § 85.
<br />68. Gasoline and Other Petroleum Products.
<br />Any person, firm or corporation whose storage tanks are
<br />located outside of the corporate limits of the city who trans-
<br />ports gasoline or other petroleum products of like nature
<br />on or through the streets of this city for sale or delivery to
<br />wholesale or retail merchants for resale in this city shall
<br />pay a license tax for the privilege of doing such business in
<br />this city, the same to be graduated by the amount of sales
<br />or delivered price made by him or it of such commodities
<br />sold or delivered in this City during the next preceding
<br />year, or, in the case of starting business during the year,
<br />the estimated amount of sales which will b-3 so made during
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<br />the balance of the license year, the amount to be paid to be
<br />the same as that required of a retail merchant.
<br />This section shall not apply to a person, firm, or corpora-
<br />tion who or which has paid or is assessable a business
<br />license under some other section of this ordinance.
<br />69. Hobby Horses, Merry -Go -Rounds, Ferris Wheels, etc.
<br />On every license to keep a Hobby Horse, Merry -Go -
<br />Round, Ferris Wheel or other like amusement, the tax shall
<br />be fifty dollars ($50.00) per week and no license shall be
<br />issued under this section for a shorter period than one week.
<br />And such license, shall be a personal privilege and only
<br />granted by order of the Mayor, except where conducted in
<br />connection with County Fairs, in which case no tax shall
<br />be imposed.
<br />70. Hotels.
<br />Any person who keeps a public inn or lodging house of
<br />more than ten bedrooms where transient guests are fed and
<br />lodged for pay shall be deemed for the purpose of this sec-
<br />tion to be engaged in the business of keeping a hotel.
<br />A transient guest is one who puts up for less than one
<br />week at such hotel, but such a house is no less a hotel be-
<br />cause some of its guests put up for longer periods than one
<br />week.
<br />Any person conducting the business of keeping a hotel
<br />as defined in this section shall pay an annual license tax of
<br />two dollars for each bedroom and fifty cents for each bath-
<br />room in said hotel.
<br />71. Ice Dealers or Distributors.
<br />A specific tax is hereby imposed on each person, other
<br />than an ice manufacturer, who sells or distributes ice in the
<br />city, of fifty dollars ($50.00) .
<br />72. Ice Manufacture.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing ice for
<br />sale, or dealing in ice imported into this city, shall pay a
<br />license tax of one hundred 'dollars ($100.00).
<br />73. Ice Cream or Sherbet -Manufacture.
<br />(a) On each and every establishment .for the manufac-
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<br />turing of and selling at wholesale or wholesale and retail,
<br />ice cream or sherbet ......................................................$100.00
<br />(b) On each and every establishment for the manufac-
<br />turing of and selling at retail in his own establishment, ice
<br />cream or sherbet.............................................................$10.00
<br />74. Junk Dealers.
<br />On every license to a junk dealer the tax shall be fifty
<br />dollars ($50) and on every person who shall engage in the
<br />business of buying junk or other matter for a junk dealer
<br />or for sale to a junk dealer, the tax shall be thirty dollars
<br />($30) . Where such a dealer engages in buying and selling
<br />of wool, hides or furs, he shall pay a merchants' tax in ad-
<br />dition.
<br />75. Laundries.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation who operates a laun-
<br />dry shall pay for the privilege of conducting such business,
<br />if it be a laundry operated other than by hand, in this city,
<br />a license tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00), and in addi-
<br />tion thereto, if the gross receipts of such person, firm or
<br />corporation, for the preceding calendar year, exceeded
<br />$50,000.00, an additional sum of ten cents (10c) for each
<br />$100.00 of excess of such receipts over $50,000.00.
<br />On every person operating a hand laundry the license
<br />tax shall be $20.00. But nothing in this section shall be con-
<br />strued to impose a license tax upon persons who wash bed
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<br />clothing, wearing apparel, etc., without laundry machinery
<br />and who do not keep shops or other regular place of busi-
<br />ness for laundry purposes.
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