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Act No. 387 Section 44

Section 44

SEC. 44. The revenues of the township shall be derived from the taxes provide for in sections fifty-four and fifty-five, and from the following additional sources only: (a) The granting of the privilege of fisheries. (b) Fees for the issuing of certificates of ownership of large cattle and of transfer of title in the same. (c) Rents and profits from all property belonging to the township, tolls from ferries, township stables, markets, slaughter-houses, public bathhouses, and cemeteries belonging to the township. (d) Rentals for the privilege of establishing and maintaining the same. (e) Fees for tuition in institutions of instruction other than primary schools founded and maintained solely by the township; but nothing herein shall require the charging of such fees. (f) Licenses for billiard tables, theatrical performances, horse races, and circuses; for the selling at retail, in quantities of not more than five gallons, of any intoxicating, malt, vinous, mixed, or fermented liquors; for the keeping of dogs; for cockpits, cock fighting, or the keeping or training of fighting cocks; for public carriages, carts, or hearses kept for hire; and for cafes, restaurants, hotels, inns, and lodging houses; in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one, subsection (o), and section forty, subsections (i) and (j). (g) Township fines. (h) An annual tax, hereby imposed for the purpose of protecting the roads of the township and the province from destruction, of three dollars, Mexican, upon each draft cart, the wheels of which have tires less tan two inches and a half in width, and an annual tax of two dollars, Mexican, upon each cart the wheels of which are rigid with the axles to which they are attached, and an annual tax of five dollars, Mexican, upon each cart having both such tires and axles.

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CitationAct No. 387 Section 44 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

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