the City of Oakland gas or electricity for illuminating or heating purposes, the license shall be for those whose gross receipts are more than $50,00 per quarter, $150 per quarter; for those whose gross recipts are not more than $50,000 and more than $30,000 per quarter, $100 per quarter; for those whose gross receipts are not more than $30,000 and more than $20,000 per quarter, $75 per quarter; for those whose gross receipts are not more than $20,000 and more than $10,000 per quarter, $50 per quarter; for those whose gross receipts are $10,000 or less per quarter, $40 per quarter.

[Intelligence Offices.]

Section 43. For every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of keeping intelligence offices, for each intelligence office the license shall be $10 per year.

[Jacks, etc.]

Section 44. For every person, firm or corporation who keeps a jack, ram of bull for the purpose of propagation, for hire or profit, the license shall be $10 per annum.

[Laundries.]

Section 45. For owners or keepers of laundries, or solicitors for laundry work or orders, whose receipts are over $200.00 per quarter, the license shall be $10 per quarter.

[Livery Stables]

Section 46. For every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of keeping or conducting livery or boarding stables, the license shall be for each livery or boarding stable whose gross receipts amount to more than $3000 per quarter, $8 per quarter; for those whose gross receipts amount to not more than $3000 per quarter and more than $1500 per quarter, $6 per quarter; for those whose gross receipts amount to $1500 or less per quarter, $4 per quarter.

[Messenger and Telegraph Companies.]

Section 47. For every person, firm or corporation engaged in supplying or furnishing messengers for the purpose of errand boys or engaged in the business of renting signal boxes, telephones, telegraph instruments or telegraph lines, the license shall be for those whose gross receipts are more than $10,000 per quarter, $50 per quarter; for those whose gross receipts are not more than $10,000 and more than $5,000 per quarter, $30. per quarter; for those whose gross receipts are not more than $500 and more than $2500 per quarter, $25 per quarter; for those whose gross receipts are $2500 or less per quarter, $15 per quarter. Provided, that separate licenses shall not be required for each branch office of any telegraph company or company supplying or furnishing messengers transacting business in the City of Oakland.

[Parks, etc.]

Section 48. For every person, firm or corporation who owns or

keeps any public garden or park where an admission fee is charged to such garden or park, the license shall be $5 per day, or $25 per quarter.

[Pawn Brokers.]

Section 49. For every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of pawn-broking, the license shall be for those whose total amount of business transacted is over $2000 per quarter, $75 per quarter; for those whose total amount of business is $2000 or less per quarter, $50 per quarter.

[Peddlers.]

Section 50. For peddlers the license shall be for each peddler engaged in purchasing or bartering for old junk or second hand articles, $2.50 per quarter; for each peddler of candy, confectionery, flowers, icecream or hokey-pokey, $5 per quarter; for each peddler of meat, fish, vegetables, fruits nuts, game, poultry, groceries, produce or dairy products from vehicles or baskets, $15 per quarter; for each peddler of any other articles or commodity, $15 per quarter where a vehicle drawn by animal power is used, and in other cases $10 per quarter.

Provided, that each peddler shall have securely fastened or attached to his vehicle, basket or pack a metallic plate or tag which shall specify the quarter for which said license shall have been issued; provided, that the Tax Collector shall designate the style and pattern fastened to said vehicle, basket or pack, said tags or plates shall be furnished to the Tax Collector by the Auditor, and shall be the only license issued to such peddlers, and shall date from the first day of the month in which the license is issued, and the Tax Collector shall keep a register in which shall be recorded opposite each number of the license sold the name of the person to whom the licnse is issued, his address and the months of the quarter for which the license is sold. All license and police officers are hereby authorized and directed to remove from any vehicle, basket or pack any tag or plate representing a license for an expired quarter, and destroy the same.

[Pile Drivers.]

Section 51. For every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of driving piles, the license shall be for those whose gross receipts from such business are more than $2500 per quarter, $20 per quarter; for those whose gross receipts are not more than $2500 and more than $1500 per quarter, $15 per quarter; for those whose gross receipts are $1500 or less per quarter, $10 per quarter.

[Powder Magazines.]

Section 52. For every person, firm or corporation who owns or keeps any gunpowder, blasting powder or giant powder magazine, the license shall be $30 per quarter. Those selling any gunpowder, blasting powder or giant powder shall pay an additional license for selling the same, of $2.50 per quarter.

[Race Courses.]

Section 53. For every person, firm or corporation who owns, keeps or conducts any race course, for each race course the license shall be $5 per day or $25 per quarter.

[Runners, etc.]

Section 54. For every runner or soliciting agent the license shall be $10 per quarter.

[Shooting Galleries.]

Section 55. For every person, firm or corporation who owns or keeps any shooting gallery, for each shooting gallery the license shall be $5 per quarter.

[Skating Rink.]

Section. 56. For every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of keeping or conducting shating rinks, for each skating rink the license shall be $5 per quarter.

[Solicitors, etc.]

Section 57. For every solicitor or order agent soliciting or taking orders in the City of Oakland for the sale or purchase of books, maps, charts or periodicals, with or without samples, the license shall be $10 per quarter; and for every one soliciting or taking orders for the sale or purchase of any other article or commodity, with or without sample, the license shall be for those whose total amount of sales or business transacted is $1500 or more per quarter, $150 per quarter; for every one whose total amount of sales or business transacted is less than $1500 per quarter, $100 per quarter.

[Stallions.]

Section 58. For every person, firm or corporation who keeps a stallion and who permits the same to be used for the purpose of propagation, for hire or profit, the license shall be $20 per annum.

[Street Cars.]

Section 59. For every steam railroad passenger car, drawn or propelled by a steam locomotive engine, the license shall be $20 per annum; provided, that no car that runs and is drawn or propelled by steam which is operated exclusively upon the main or through lines shall be construed to be within the provisions of this ordinance; and provided further, that cars propelled by steam passing through the limits of the City of Oakland upon a railway line having a terminus in some other incorporated city, shall be excluded from the provisions hereof.

And for every street railroad passenger car which is propelled by means of a wire rope or cable attached to steam engines, or by one or more horses or mules, or by electric motors, the license shall be $10 per

annum.

Said license to be paid quarterly on the first days of January, April, July and October of each year and to date from the commencement of running of each and every car so used; provided that in case a car duly licensed shall be withdrawn for repairs, the owner or owners may substitute another car in its place, and shall receive a notice from the License Inspector, to be posted in such substitute car, stating such fact, and such notice shall contain the number of each car.

[Street Musicians.]

Section 60. For every street musician the license shall be $10 per quarter or $1 per day.

[Telephone Companies, etc.]

Section 61. For every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of telegraphing, telephoning or receiving messages by telegraph or telephone, the license shall be for those whose gross receipts are more than $10,000 per quarter, $50 per quarter; for those whose gross receipts are not more than $10,00 per quarter and more than $5000 per quarter, $35 per quarter; for those whose gross receipts are $5000 or less per quarter, $25 per quarter.

[Theatres, etc.]

Section 62. For theatres, concert halls and other places of entertainment, except those specified hereafter, the license shall be for those seating or accommodating five hundred or more persons, $5 per day, $10 per month or $25 per quarter; for those accommodating less than five hundred persons, $3 per day, $8 per month or $20 per quarter.

[Vehicles.]

Section 63 (Sub. A.) For every person, firm or corporation who owns or keeps any hackney carriage, stage, omnibus or other vehicle for conveyance of passengers, the license shall be, for each vehicle drawn by more than one animal and having seats for more than four persons, $8.00 per annum; for said vehicles having seats for four persons or less, $5.00 per annum; for said vehicles drawn by only one animal, $3.00 per annum.

(Sub. B.) For every wagon or cart drawn by two or more animals used in the hauling or carrying of rock, macadam, dirt, manure, sand, ashes, loam, gravel, $6.00 per annum; for said wagons or carts drawn by one animal, $4.00 per annum.

(Sub. C.) For every truck, dray, express wagon, brewery wagon, or bottle beer wagon drawn by two or more animals, $8.00 per annum, or $5.00 per half year. For said vehicles drawn by one animal, $5.00 per annum or $3.00 per half year.

(Sub. D.) Carriages for private use and hackney carriages and other vehicles for hire, kept in and rented from licensed livery stables only as part of the regular livery of such stables, shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.

Every hackney carriage used at funerals or for which custom is

solicited, or which occupies any place as a stand, or is kept in any place on the streets for hire shall be duly licensed and shall be included within the provisions of this section.

(Sub. E.) Provided, that each vehicle for which a license is required shall have securely fastened or attached to it a metallic plate or tag, which shall specify the particular term for which said license shall be issued; Provided, that the Tax Collector shall designate the style or pattern of said tag or plate and the place at which it shall be attached or fastened to said vehicle; said tags or plates shall be furnished to the Tax Collector by the Auditor and shall be the only license issued to said vehicles and shall date from the first day of January or July of the year in which the license is issued. And the Tax Collector shall keep a register in which shall be recorded opposite each number of the license sold, the name of the person to whom the license is issued, his address and the particular term for which the license is sold. All license and police officers are hereby authorized and directed to remove from any vehicle any tag or plate representeing the license for an expired term and destroy the same. (Amendment approved Sept. 11th, 1903.

Vol. 6, p. 109.)

[Warehouses.]

or

Section 64. For every person, firm, or corporation who owns keeps any warehouse used for the storage of any merchandise or goods, the license shall for those whose gross receipts are more than $1500 per quarter, $15 per quarter; for those whose gross receipts are $1500 or less per quarter, $10 per quarter.

[Water Companies]

Section 65. For any person, firm or corporation engaged in supplying or furnishing water to the City of Oakland, or to the residents thereof, the license shall be for those whose total receipts are more than $50,000 per quarter, $100 per quarter; for those whose total receipts are not more than $50,000 and more than $30,000 per quarter, $85 per quarter; for those whose total receipts are not more than $30,000 and more than $10,000 per quarter, $60 per quarter; for those whose total receipts are not more than $10,000 and more than $5000 per quarter, $45 per quarter; for those whose total receipts are $5000 and less per quarter, $5 per quarter.

[Term "Quarter" Defined.]

Section 66. The term "Quarter" whenever used in this Ordinance with reference to time shall be construed and is hereby declared to mean one quarter of a year.

Section 67. An ordinance entitled "An Ordinance Establishing and Regulating Municipal Licenses," passed over the veto of his Honor, the Mayor, June 30th, 1879, and all amendments thereto and all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed.

Section 68. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval.