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2. Also empowered to provide for assessment and collection ol 

 au additional tax, not exceeding one pei* centum on the dollar upon 

 the assessed valuation in any one year on all persons, property and 

 other matters and things in said cities taxable for counly purposes. 

 for the payment of interest on bonded indebtedness, and for the 

 payment of loans to support tne government and to make the neces- 

 sary improvements in said cities. 



Act May 23, 1889, article V, section 3, clause 2, (P. L., page 286), 



3. Further empowered to place a poll tax for general revenue 

 purposes, not exceeding one dollar annually, on all male inhabitants 

 above the age of twenty-one years. 



Act May 23, 1889, article V, section 3, clause 3, (P. L., page 287). 



4. Such cities can, by ordinance, levy and collect for general reve- 

 nue purposes, an annual license tax not exceeding ^100 on all auc- 

 tioneers, contractors, druggists, hawkers, peddlers, produce or mer- 

 chandise vendors, bankers, brokers, pawnbrokers, merchants of all 

 kinds, persons selling or leasing goods upon instalments, grocers, 

 confectioners, butchers, restaurants, bowling alleys, billiard tables 

 and other gaming tables, drays, hacks, carriages, omnibuses, carts, 

 wagons, street railway cars and other vehicles used in the cities for 

 hire or pay, lumber dealers, including commission men and all per- 

 sons who make a business of buying lumber for sale at wholesale 

 or retail, furniture dealers, saddle or harness dealers, stationers, jew- 

 elers, livery or boarding stable keepers, real estate agents, agents 

 of fire, life or other insurance companies, market house companies, 

 express companies or agencies, telegraph, telephone, steam heating, 

 gas, natural gas, water, electric light or power companies or agen 

 cies, or individuals furnishing communication, light, heat op power 

 by any of the means enumerated, and to regulate the collection of 

 the same. 



Act May 23, 1889, article V, section 3, clause 4, (P. L., page 287). 



5. Said cities empowered, by ordinance, to levy and collect taxes 

 on all taxable property in the cities, in addition to all other taxes, 

 for the purpose of paying the bonded indebtedness of the cities, sub- 

 ject to the limitations and requirements of this act and the consti- 

 tution and laws of the Commonwealth, 



Act May 23, 1889, article V, section 3, clause 7, (P. L., page 288). 



6. May by ordinance license and collect license from skating rinks, 

 operas, theatres, concerts, shows, circuses, menageries and all kinds 

 of public exhibitions for pay, except those for local, religious, edu- 

 cational or charitable purposes. 



Act May 23, 1889, article V, section 3, clause 25, (P, L., page 291). 



