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An Act supplemental to An Act to amend An Act to amend An Act to amend an Act amendatory of the Laws to Raise Revenue by Taxation. 1863 25 (1863.2)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0122 and id is 1 raw text is: CHAPTER XXXITIL A ACT supplenental tS An Act to amend An Act to amend An Act to amend An Act amendatory of the Laws to Raise Revenue by Taxation, approved Feb. 16th, 1858R and to amend An Act entitled At& Act to amend An Act amemdatory of the Laws to Raise Revente by Taxation, approved Feb. 16th, 1858, approved Aprl 8th, 1861, approved the 6th day of March 1803. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas That the 3d section of the above reciled act, approved April 8th, 1801, shall hereafter read ati follows: SEc. 3. That the Oth section of sail act shall hereafter read as follows: There shall be assessed and collected of each and every person pursuing the occupation of hawker, pedlar of goods, or other articles not man- ufactured in the State, an annual direct tax of llfty dollars in each county In which he may pursue such occupation; of each and every person o firm keeping a billiard table, an annual direct tsix of fifty dollars for esch table so kept; of each and every person or'firm keeping a nine or ten pin alley, in an- nual direct tax of forty dollars for each alley so kept; of each and every person or firm keeping a hotel in towns of five hundred inhabitants or less ten dollars; In any town with over live hundred and under two thousand Inhabitants, fifteen dollars; in any town with over two thousand and ander five thousand inlbitants, twenty dollars; in every town with five thousand or over inaabitants, thirty dollars; on each and every person or firm keeping any re,tanrant cook shop, or eating house, for pay or einolomoiit, fifteen dollars; on each and every person or firm keeping any brewery, twenty dol- lars; on each and every person or firm keeping any beer shop, it which no vinous or spirituous liqumrs are vendel, twenty-Ive dollars ; on each 'and every person or firm keeping any distillery of spirituous liquors, one thousand dollars on each and every still used by them in the distillation of any spiritu- ous liquors from any kind of grain; on each and every person or firm keeping any storage warehouse, ton dollars; on each and every person pr firm engag- ed in re-pressing cotton, twenty-five dollars; on each Insurance company, flity dollars ; on each and every pt rson or firm keeping a livery stable, fifteen dollars ; on each and every toll bridge or ferry kept and used for Jay as much as sili moths in each year, ten dollars ; on each and every person engaged in the practice of dentistry, for pay or enolumnnt, ten dollars; on each and every person having a fixed annual salary, whether as a public officer or by private contract, twenty-ive cents on each hundred dollars of such salsry over and above five hundred dollars ; upon each and every firm or Person keeping a race track, forty dollars; on each and every person or firm pnutu- ing the occupation of real estate broker, ship broker, cotton broker, or any commission business, for each and every such establishment, twenty dollars ; on each person or firm engaged in the business of underwriting, or selling dry goods, groceries, or drugs and medicines, ten dollars ; on each and every pawn-broker, forty dollars; on each and every person engaged in negro trad- ing, for each negro pold, five dollars. It shall be the duty of every person or firm engaged in the oLcupation of hawker or pedlar, billiard-table keeper, keeper of nine or ten pin alleys, cook shop, eating house or restaurant, race track, auctioneer, hotel keeler, pawn broker, or distillery, before entering upon any such occupation, to flrst call upon thi Assessor and Collector of the county in which he may intend to follow such occupation, and pay the tax required, and take a receipt for the same, setting forth the occupation and the amount of tax, p id, which receipt he shall file with the Clerk o the County Court, who shall thereupon issue to him a license to follow such orcu- pation for the term for which the license tax has been paid, and any person

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