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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1916
Page
2
Saturday at 2:00 p m a valuable farm in the county lies on the Shepherd Grade Pike three miles north of Shepherdstown about 260 acres of limestone land improved. The notice outlines the auction details for the property with location and size.
The city sets annual license taxes for many trades including pop and soda fountains ten and five dollars respectively, public rooms seven fifty, storage seven fifty, railroad tickets three, scales twenty on street use ten on private, stock brokers sixty, private bankers one hundred, slot machines two fifty, stage lines fifteen to ten dollars, street vendors two fifty per day, street snacks one dollar per day, theatrical shows three per performance or twelve per week, tobacco five, trading stamps 150, and transient merchants restricted to bankrupt or fire-sale goods.
The document outlines license taxes for professions and businesses with fines for unlicensed operation, assesses taxes on banks lands tangible and intangible property, and details collection by the Commissioner of Revenue and City Treasurer. It sets sections on rates, penalties, assessments, and monthly reporting, plus appropriations for public debts streets schools water sewers and other city departments for the 1916 1917 period.
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