Ordinance 156

ORDINANCE NO. 156.

AN ORDINANCE TO LICENSE, TAX, AND REGULATE THEATRICALS, SHOWS AND OTHER EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Approved Sept. 5, 1878.

The City of Seattle does ordain as follows:

SECTION 1. -- All theatres, shows and other exhibitions and public amusements, shall be licensed and taxed as follows: Every theatre for each day, five dollars, Every circus for each day, twenty dollars, Every concert for each day, five dollars, and all other shows and other exhibitions and public amusements for hire at the rate of five dollars for each and every day.

SEC. 2 -- Upon the payment to the City Treasurer of the amount of any such tax, and the production to the City Clerk of a certificate of such payment, the said Clerk shall issue to the proprietor or agent of any such exhibition, a license authorizing the performance thereof.

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SEC. 3. -- Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall for each offence be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars.