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~areh <br /> <br />Each manicure and chiropodist, $5.00. <br /> <br /> Each bill poster, hand bill and card distributor and sign racker, $50. or $1~ per day. <br />This tax is not ko apply to merchants mn the City of Portsmouth for adv~rtmsmng their ou~mness. <br /> <br /> When any person, firm or corporation shall by use of signs, circulars or newspapers, <br />vertise any business in this City, it shall be considered prima facie evidence of their li~bil <br />ity under this ordinance, and said person, firm or corporation shall be required to take out a <br />lzcvnse for such business~ <br /> <br /> Each ss~men's shipping office, <br /> <br /> Each person, firm or corporation engaged in the laundry business, $i00~00. <br /> <br /> Each non-resident laundry or agent delivering in the Uity, $100.00. <br /> <br /> Each towel supply furnisher, <br /> <br /> Each person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of keeping a marble, granite~or <br />other kind of stone yard, or in manufacturing or selling grave stones, monuments, gr~nolithic <br />pavement, curbing or other stone work, either nttura% or manufactured, $25.00, in addition to <br />the tax on capital invested, <br /> <br /> Each person, firm or corporation en~ged in the business of fixing or wiring houses with <br />electrical a~paratus, $10.00. <br /> <br /> Each fortune teller, spirit medium, clairvoyant, or palmist <br /> <br /> Each person, firm or corporation,.~aether they be residents, non-residents, or mgents, <br />shall e~gage in the business of job printing or book binding, $25.00. <br /> <br /> Each <br /> <br /> E~ch <br />"pressing <br /> <br /> Each person or firm carrying on <br />over the first one, <br /> <br />who <br /> <br />person or firm carrying on the business of cold storage, $20~00o <br /> <br />person, firm or corporation carrying on the business of cleaning and dyeing, and each <br />club,~ $10.00o <br /> the business of shoeing horses, $3. for each anvil used <br /> <br /> Each person, firm or corporation who shall engage in the business of whmrf building and <br />piling, or contracting for same, $25.00. <br /> <br /> Each lightning rod agent putting up wo~ in the City, $10~00. <br /> <br /> Each person, firm or corporation who shall engage in the business of packing oysters, tL~0.00,~ <br />and for the pac~mn= of oysters and crabs ~er ~eh, or ami three kmnds, $75.00. <br /> <br /> Each shoe parlor and like places for blacking shoes, $5- mnd 7 per cent. additional on rent- <br />al value in excess of $100.005 and for bootblacks plying their bus~ne~s on the streets, $1.00. <br /> <br /> Second-hand shoes and boots brough, into the City to sell, $25.00. <br /> <br /> Each person, <br />office, and other <br /> <br /> Each per son~ <br />&c., $i0.00. <br /> <br />firm or corporation operating a ticket office, other than a cut-rite ticket <br />than such as may be at the depot or stmtion of Z~ausportation companies, $10~00. <br /> <br />firm or co~poration who shall engage in the business of.towing barges, boats, <br /> <br /> Each contractor or sub-co~tractor engaged in carpentry, brick or concrete work, concrete <br />flooring or paving, mud employmng one or more $q~rneymen, $25.00, <br /> <br /> Each contractor or sub-contractor doing Da&nting, plastering, paper ~h~n~ing or such other <br />work not herein specified, vlD.O0~ but if the contractor or sub-contractor engage in painting <br />and p~per hanging together, $20.00. <br /> <br /> Each person employing more than one workman for any one class of work who shall erect or <br />construct or repair houses for the purpose~of selling or rentingthe same, a~d not ~mploy%ng <br />therefor a oontractgr or person who shall act ~s superint~ndent.who h=s p~id the ~icen~ tax, <br />as mbove provided, $25.00. No license required unde~ this section shall-be tra~s~erre~. <br /> <br /> Each person, firm or corporation ~ho shall engmgs in the business of supplying '~te~ through <br />pipes or mains, not operating under contract with the City, one-half of one per cent. ~=om gross <br />receipts of <br /> <br /> Each horse kept for hire, not otherwise ~icensed, <br /> <br /> Each person, firm or corporation conducting the business of pium. bing, steam o~ hot water <br />fitting, or either, in s~i~ition to the merchant's tax required by ~his ordinance, $25.00. <br /> <br /> an~ rspalr of automo- <br /> Each person, firm or corporation conducting m garage for the storage <br />biles, $y5.00~ for the r~pair of automobiles only, $25.00; or agents for the sale of automobiles, <br />resident or non-resident, <br /> <br /> Each private automobile, 205 per horse power; said.~axto be in lieu of any other City <br /> <br />Each motorcycle, $2.20. <br /> <br /> <br />