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sion, or using, or holding or exhibiting the articles herein named, without the required license:

For each hawker, huckster or peddler, not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars per annum. For each attorney or counsellor-at-law, physician or surgeon, not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars per annum. Should any of the foregoing parties be associated in a firm, each member of the firm shall pay a separate license tax. For any theatrical exhibition, museum, street musician, street musical bands, cyclorama, panorama, street exhibitions, exhibitions, lectures and concerts at other than regular places of amusement, public dance house, public ball room, concert, concert hall, lecture, lecture hall, shows, circus, flying dutchman, merry-go-round, menagerie, ball, dance, entertainment or performance in the city for pay, not less than five (5) dollars nor more than two hundred and fifty (250) dollars per day, as the General Council shall by ordinance prescribe; but a yearly license may be granted to a theatre, museum, public dance house, public ball room, concert hall, lecture hall, or any place where public entertainments are held or given, at not less than two hundred (200) dollars nor more than five hundred (500) dollars per annum.

For each dancing school or academy, not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars per an

nuin.

For each billiard table, pool table, bowling alley or shooting gallery, not kept exclusively for family use, not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars per annum.

For each real estate office or agency, house agent, loan broker, intelligence office, claim agent, mercantile agent, collecting agent or agency, employment agency or information bureau, commercial agent, stock and

bond broker, merchandise broker, street broker, exchange broker, financial agent, promoter, claim broker, not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars per annum.

For each rendering or tanking house, not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars.

For each dealer in live stock, or butcher, not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one thousand dollars per annum.

For each pawnbroker, not less than three hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars per annum.

For each insurance adjuster not regularly employed by a licensed insurance company in said city, not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars per annum.

For each veterinary surgeon or veterinary dentist or chiropodist, not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars per annum.

For each laundry office, other than the laundry itself, branch laundry office, or laundry agent or agency, book agent, soliciting agent, bill poster, master builder, contractor, advertising agent or scavenger, not less than ten dollars nor more than five hundred dollars per annum.

For each restaurant or eating house, not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars per an

nun.

For each auctioneer, not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars per annum.

For each tobacco dealer or broker, or tobacco inspector, not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one thousand dollars per annum.

For each photographer, bath house, skating rink or

How stock of every corporation valued and assessed.

park, roller skating rink, swimming pool, commercial shipping agent, not less than ten dollars nor more than three hundred dollars per annum.

For keeping, owning or harboring a dog or bitch, not less than two dollars per annum.

For each junk merchant, junk dealer, second-hand dealer in household merchandise, not less than fifty (50) dollars nor more than two hundred (200) dollars per annum.

$ 3. That section one of chapter 38 of Session Acts of 1898, as amended by section one of chapter 38 of Session Acts of 1900, by act of March 13, 1900, and being section one of section 2984A, Kentucky Statutes, be repealed so far as applicable to cities of the first class, and in lieu thereof the following substituted, so that said section 1 (2984A), as amended and hereby ré-enacted, shall, as applicable to cities of the first class, read as follows:

"That the shares of stock of every incorporated bank, trust company, guarantee or security company, and the franchise of every incorporated gas, water, ferry, bridge, street railway, express, electric light, electric power, telegraph, press dispatch, telephone, turnpike, palace car, dining car, sleeping car and chair car company, and every other like company, corporation or association, having or exercising any special or exclusive privilege or franchise not allowed by law to natural persons, or performing any public service, shall hereafter be valued or assessed for city taxes in the manner hereinafter described, by the City Assessor in the cities of the first class, wherein such franchise is exercised, to the extent and in the proportion the same is therein exercised: Provided, however, That no assessment for city taxes shall be made by any assessor or Board of Valuation and Assessment of the

franchise of any private business, mercantile or manufacturing corporation, whose property is not devoted to public use, nor upon the shares of stock of any incorporated bank, trust company, guarantee or security company paying an ad valorem tax on its real estate and a license tax in lieu of an ad valorem tax on its personal estate."

Ordinance to fix time of payment.

taxes.

§ 4. That the revenue derived from taxes based on income, licenses and franchises in lieu of an ad valor- Lien exists for such em tax, shall be paid at such time in the fiscal year, and apportioned and distributed, as may be fixed by ordinance of the General Council, for the same purposes as the revenue derived from the ad valorem tax. In default of the payment of such license taxes at the time fixed by ordinance, a penalty of five per cent. shall be added thereto and interest on the amount of such license taxes shall be computed and paid by the delinquent from that date at the rate of six per cent. per annum until paid.

A lien prior and superior to all others, except State taxes, whether acquired before or after the maturity of such license taxes, shall exist in favor of the city from and after the date such license taxes become due and payable, for the amount thereof, and such penalty and interest, upon all the property, real and personal, of such delinquent, which lien shall be enforcible, by suit in the name of the city in the circuit court, and in such suit a personal judgment may also be obtained against such delinquent for the amount of such license tax, penalty, interest and costs of suit.

$5. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved March 18 1904.

Authority to practice medicine, a cer

Board of Health.

CHAPTER 34.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled “An Act to protect the citizens of this Commonwealth from empiricism," approved April 10, 1893, and acts amendatory thereto, being article 1, chapter 85, of the Kentucky Statutes, and to amend section 2047, chapter 63, of the Kentucky Statutes, creating a State Board of Health, approved April 20, 1893, and regulating the practice of medicine, surgery and osteopathy in this Commonwealth.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That section 3 of an act entitled, "An act to protect citizens of this Commonwealth from empiricism," approved April 10, 1893, and acts amendatory thereto, being section 2613, article 1, chapter 85, of the Kentucky Statutes, be stricken out and repealed, and in lieu thereof the following section be enacted:

§ 1. Authority to practice medicine under this act tificate from State shall be a certificate from the State Board of Health, registered in the county in which the holder resides; and said Board shall issue a certificate to any reputable physician who desires to practice medicine in this State, who has passed a satisfactory examination before it, in the branches of medicine as taught in reputable medical colleges; and said Board shall, upon application, admit to examination any person of good moral character, who may possess any of the following qualifications:

1. A diploma from a reputable medical college legally chartered under the laws of this State.

2. A diploma from a reputable and legally chartered medical college of some other State in this Union. 3. Satisfactory evidence from the person claiming the same that such person was reputably and honor

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