hundred and fifty dollars for a circus or equestrian exhibition for each parade.

Third. Any show, side show, street exhibition or amusement, ten dollars per day or thirty dollars per week.

Fourth. For museum and theatrical entertainment combined, five dollars per day or fifty dollars per year, but no license shall be issued for less than one year except at daily

rates.

Fifth. For theater, opera, lecture, concert, minstrel performance, public ball, public masquerade, public pedestrian or wrestling exhibition, five dollars per day.

Sixth. For each opera house or theater, one hundred and fifty dollars per year; the license shall be issued for one year, and shall permit the giving of all the above enumerated entertainments (excepting circuses, menageries and equestrian exhibitions) in the places licensed without additional license.

Seventh. Any public entertainment not previously mentioned, five dollars per day or twenty-five dollars per month.

Eighth. No license shall be required for any entertainment given by the citizens of this city when the same shall be for charitable, benevolent or religious purposes only.

Ninth. Open air concert or theatrical entertainment, five dollars per day or twenty-five dollars per month. Any concert or theatrical entertainment given from a stage before an audience in the open air, shall be deemed an open air concert or theatrical entertainment. [G. O. No. 441, Sec. 2.

SEC. 2. Ten pin alley.-No person shall keep or take part in keeping any ten pin alley, for gain or profit, without a license therefor from said city, and the charge therefor shall be fifteen dollars per annum. [G. O. No. 441, Sec. 3.

.SEC. 3. Pistol or shooting gallery, baby rack, cane rack, knife board.-No person shall carry on, or take part in carrying on, for gain or profit, any pistol gallery

or shooting gallery, knife board, baby rack or cane rack, without a license therefor from said city, and the charge for such license shall be as follows: Shooting gallery or pistol gallery, five dollars per month or fifteen dollars per year; baby rack, cane rack or knife board, ten dollars per month or twenty-five dollars per year. per year. [G. O. No. 441, Sec. 4.

SEC. 4. Horoscopic or stereoscopic views.—No person shall keep horoscopic or stereoscopic views for gain or profit without a license therefor from said city, and the charge for such license shall be ten dollars per annum.

441, Sec. 5.

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SEC. 5. Magnifying glass, telescope, lung tester, muscle developer, weighing machine. - No person shall, for gain or profit, keep for use by others, any magnifying glass or glasses, telescope, lung tester, muscle developer or weighing machine, without a license therefor from said city, and the charge for such license shall be ten dollars per month. [G. O. No. 441, Sec. 6.

SEC. 6. Merry-go-round, riding gallery, revolving swing. No person shall keep, for gain or profit, for use by others, any merry-go-round, riding gallery, or revolving swing, without a license therefor from said city, and the charge for such license shall be twenty-five dollars per month. [G. O. No. 441, Sec. 7.

SEC. 7. Selling or renting automatic phonographs. No person shall engage in selling or renting automatic phonographs for business purposes or amusement without first having obtained a license from said city, and the charge for such license shall be five dollars per year for each instrument. [G. O. No. 441, Sec. 8.

SEC. 8.

Fairs-license for. It is hereby declared to be illegal for any person, company, or corporation to give a fair within this city without a license therefor, and the charge for such license shall be five dollars per week, which

license shall include privileges of all kinds within the grounds. Any person, company or corporation failing or refusing to comply with the provisions herein shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five dollars for each offense, and each day shall constitute a separate offense. [G. O. No. 495, Sec. 1.

SEC. 9. License for theaters and opera houseshow paid. The license fees required of theaters and opera houses in the city of St. Joseph for each year, may be paid as follows: On taking out the license for one year, the applicant shall pay one-third of the yearly license fee in advance, and he shall, at the expiration of four months from the date of said license, pay another one-third thereof, and at the expiration of four months from the latter date, he shall pay the remaining one-third of such license, and the applicant shall, upon procuring his yearly license, and at the time it is issued, execute and file a bond with the city auditor, in the sum of at least three hundred dollars, with two or more good securities, residents of the city of St. Joseph, conditioned that he will pay the deferred installments of such license fee as they respectively become due. In case of a failure to pay any such installment when it becomes due, then the whole of such installments shall become due and said bond may be sued upon and the amount of such installment or installments recovered with all costs and expenses incident to such suit, whether all such installments are then due or not. The security in said bond shall be approved by the comptroller. [G. O. No. 483, Sec. 1.

SEC. 10. Same-license forfeited, when.-In case the person taking out such license shall fail to pay any installment when due, then his license shall at once become forfeited, and shall be no protection to him whatever, but this shall in no way prevent a recovery by the city upon the bond aforesaid as herein before provided, and upon a recovery upon such bond, and payment of the amount thereby recovered, the license shall again become operative. [G. O. No. 483, Sec. 2.

SEC. 11. Places of public amusement, regulating doors thereof.-In every place of public amusement within the city of St. Joseph, all outside doors or doors leading into any auditorium shall open outwardly, and over each egress opening shall be placed the word, "exit," in letters at least eight inches high, and all of said doors shall be kept unlocked for and during any performance or entertainment, and remain unlocked until the entire audience shall have left the building. [G. O. No. 291, Sec. 1.

SEC. 12.

Same-penalty.-Any person who shall violate or permit the violation of any provision of this ordinance, shall, upon conviction thereof before the judge of the police court, be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense, one-half of the recovery in each case to be paid to the party making the complaint. [G. O. No. 291, Sec. 2.

SEC. 13. Places of amusement-chairs not to be kept in passage way.-It shall be unlawful to place or keep any chairs or movable seats of any kind in the aisles or passage ways of any place of public amusement, in this city, during a performance or exhibition therein, and any person having the management, charge or control of such place, or any one in the employ of such person, who shall be convicted of so doing in the police court of this city shall be fined in a sum of not less than one hundred dollars for each and every offense; one half of any such fine so collected to be paid to the person giving information of the offense and so causing the conviction of the person so offending. [G. O. No. 368, Sec. 1.

[Penalty for violating sections one to seven inclusive of this Chap. prescribed in Sec. 20, Chap. entitled "licenses."]

SECTION 1. May appoint deputies.-The city assessor shall have the power to appoint one or more deputies for each ward of the city, as provided by, and who shall be subject to all the conditions and provisions of, section one thousand three hundred and nineteen, of chapter thirty, article three, Revised Statutes of Missouri. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 3, Sec. 1.

SEC. 2. To be assessed at its cash value.-All property whatsoever, shall be assessed at its cash value. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 3, Sec. 2.

SEC. 3. Real property, how assessed.-In assessing real property, no lot, tract or parcel of land shall have a higher valuation placed on it than the valuation placed thereon at the last assessment made for county and state purposes; but to such valuation there shall be added by the assessor, the value of all improvements made on each lot, tract or parcel of ground since the date of last assessment made for state and county purposes; which added valuation shall be by the assessor placed in a separate column on the city land tax book. And to determine the value of such improvement, the assessor may examine, under oath, the owner thereof, and such other competent persons as he may deem proper. [R. O. 1888, Chap. 3, Sec. 3.

SEC. 4. Personal property, how assessed.-In assessing personal property, the assessor or a deputy shall, as far as possible, visit the residence or place of business of each