Different kinds of licenses. Billiards. Theatres, etc. Bull and bear fight. Home insurance companies. Foreign insurance companies. Pawnbroker. Intelligence offices. Inns and tavern licenses. SEC. 3380. Licenses must be obtained for the purposes hereinafter named, for which the Tax Collector must require the payment as follows: 1. From each proprietor or keeper of a billiard table, not kept exclusively for family use, for each table, five dollars per quarter; and for a bowling alley, five dollars per quarter for each alley; but no license must be granted for a term less than three months; 2. From the manager or lessee of every theatre, five dollars per day, if granted for a less term than one month; if granted for one month, one hundred dollars; if for three months, two hundred dollars, and if for one year, six hundred dollars; and for each exhibition of serenaders, negro minstrels, opera, melodeon performance, or other musical entertainment, dancing or ballet, the same pay for license as is herein provided for a theatre license; or 3. For each exhibition for pay of a caravan menagerie, or any collection of animals, circus, equestrian or acrobatic performance, ten dollars; and for each show for pay of any figures, jugglers, necromancers, magicians, wire or rope dancing, or slight of hand exhibition, ten dollars each day; 4. From every insurance company incorporated in pursuance of the laws of this State and transacting an insurance business therein, twenty-five dollars per quarter; 5. From every insurer or insurance company, foreign or otherwise, not chartered by this State, transacting an insurance business therein, one hundred dollars per quarter; 6. From each pawnbroker, fifty dollars per quarter; 7. From each keeper of an intelligence office, fifteen dollars per quarter. Stats. 1861, p. 441, Sec. 73. SEC. 3381. Every tavern and innkeeper, and every person who sells and disposes of any spirituous, malt, or fermented liquors or wine, in less quantities than one quart, must obtain a license from the Tax Collector as prescribed in this Chapter, and make therefor the following payment: 1. Those making sales to the amount of ten thousand dollars or more, as a monthly average, constitute the first class, and must pay forty dollars per month; 2. Those making sales to the amount of five thousand dollars, and not exceeding ten thousand dollars, as a monthly average, constitute the second class, and must pay twenty dollars per month; 3. And those making sales of less than five thousand dollars, constitute the third class, and must pay five dollars per month. Shaw's Rev. Act, Sec. 214; Hittell, par. 6230; Stats. 1861, p. 446, Sec. 81. and keepers stables SEC. 3382. Every person who at a fixed place of busi- Merchants ness sells any goods, wares, or merchandise, wines or of livery distilled liquors, drugs or medicines, jewelry, or wares of license. precious metals, whether on commission or otherwise. except the agricultural or vinicultural productions of this State when sold by the producer thereof, and except such as are sold by auctioneers at public sale. under license), and all persons who keep horses or carriages for hire (except such as are used in the transportation of goods), must obtain from the Tax Collector of the county in which the business is transacted, and for each branch of such business, a license, and pay quarterly therefor an amount of money to be determined by the class in which such person is placed by the Tax Collector; such business to be classified and regulated by the amount of the average monthly sales made on hiring done, and at the rates following: 1. Those who are estimated to make average monthly sales or hiring to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars or more, constitute the first class, and must pay fifty dollars per month; 2. Of seventy-five thousand dollars and less than one hundred thousand dollars, constitute the second class, and must pay thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per month; Exception in using liquers. Peddlers' and license. 3. Of fifty thousand dollars and less than seventy-five thousand dollars, constitute the third class, and must pay twenty-five dollars per month; 4. Of forty thousand dollars and less than fifty thousand dollars, constitute the fourth class, and must pay twenty dollars per month; 5. Of thirty thousand dollars and less than forty thousand dollars, constitute the fifth class, and must pay fifteen dollars per month; 6. Of twenty thousand dollars and less than thirty thousand dollars, constitute the sixth class, and must pay ten dollars per month; 7. Of ten thousand dollars and less than twenty thou sand dollars, constitute the seventh class, and must pay five dollars per month; 8. Of five thousand dollars and less than ten thousand dollars, constitute the eighth class, and must pay two dollars and fifty cents per month; 9. Of all amounts under five thousand dollars, constitute the ninth class, and must pay two dollars per month? Stats. 1861, p. 444, Secs. 78, 79; 1863, p. 122, Sec. 1. SEC. 3383. The sale of liquors and wines by persons licensed under the preceding section must not be in less quantity than one quart measure. No license must be required of physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, or chemists for any wines or spirituous liquors they may use in the preparation of medicines. Shaw's Rev. Act, Sec. 212; Hittell, Arts. 6227, 6228; SEC. 3384. Every traveling merchant, hawker, or hawkers' peddler who carries a pack and vends goods, wares, or merchandise of any kind other than the agricultural, mechanical, or scientific productions of this State, must pay for a license five dollars per month; and every such traveling merchant, hawker, or peddler who uses a wagon, boat, or other water craft, or one or more animals, for the purpose of vending such goods, wares, or merchandise of any kind, must pay for a license fifteen dollars per month. Shaw's Rev. Act, Sec. 213; Stats. 1851, p. 298, Secs. 3, 4; 1863, p. 446, Sec. 82; 1851, p. 298, Sec. 6. kept for propaga tion to be SEC. 3385. Every person who keeps a stallion, jack, Animals bull, or ram, and who permits the same to be used for the purpose of propagation, for hire or profit, must annually licensed. obtain a license therefor from the Tax Collector, and pay therefor as herein provided. The licenses under this section are divided into six classes, as follows: All animals whose services as above specified are charged for at the sum of one hundred dollars or over constitute the first class; of eighty dollars and less than one hundred dollars, the second class; of sixty dollars and less than eighty dollars, the third class; of forty dollars and less than sixty dollars, the fourth class; of twenty dollars and less than forty dollars, the fifth class; and all under twenty dollars, the sixth class. For a license of the first class there must be paid one hundred dollars; for the second class, eighty dollars; for the third class, sixty dollars; for the fourth class, forty dollars; for the fifth class, twenty dollars; and for the sixth class, fifteen dollars. Hittell, par. 6229; Stats. 1863-4, p. 71, Sec. 1. NOTE.-Foreign miners' licenses are omitted; the collection thereof having been prohibited in our State by the Federal Courts. TITLE VIII. PROPERTY OF THE STATE. CHAPTER I. The Public Lands. II. The Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove. III. The State Burying Ground. CHAPTER I. THE PUBLIC LANDS. ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING THE PUBLIC LANDS. II. SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED, SALT MARSH, AND TIDE LANDS. III. SCHOOL LANDS. IV. PAYMENTS, CERTIFICATES OF PURCHASE, AND PATENTS. RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING THE PUBLIC LANDS. SECTION 3395. Register to keep certain accounts and records. 3396. Must keep plats, and note locations thereon. 3397. Must note on plats the issuing of certificates or patents. 3398. Surveyor General to be State Locating Agent. 3399. Agent at Washington. 3400. Qualification and residence of Agent. 3401. Duties of Agent. 3402. Compensation. 3403. Mode of payment of Agent. 3404. Purchasers of lands must pay expenses of agency. 3405. Surveyor General to keep certain records. 3406. Duty of Surveyor General on application for purchase of lands. 3407. Same. 3408. When townships are surveyed, but not subdivided, certificates of purchase may issue without approval of United States. 3409. Surveyor General to obtain statement as to condition of school sections. 3410. Registers and Receivers, how compensated for services rendered the State. 3411. Surveyor General to represent State in contests relating to lands. 3412. Place of taking testimony to be fixed. 3413. May require Attorney General to attend. Traveling expenses. 3414. Contest as to approval of surveys, etc., how disposed of. 3415. Same. 3416. Effect of judgment. |