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Published in June 1887: (results of new law passed by Territory Legislature)

Billiard and pool tables: $10/qtr
Theatres and for profit performances: $2/mo
Circuses: $50/dy, $5/day each sideshow
Pawnbrokers: $20/qtr
Intelligence office: $5/qtr
Professionals: $16/yr (lawyers, dentists, doctors, insurance agents, real estate agents)
Assayers: $5/qtr (doing $200-$500/mo business); $10/qtr (more than $500/mo)
Livery & feed stables, express, transfer & freight wagons: 
Livery & feed stables: $15/qtr; $2.50/qtr for each buggy, carriage & sleigh, if more than one
Hay yards, corrals: $8/qtr
Omnibuses, carriages, express wagons, transfer & freight wagons: (if for hire/profit, in towns bigger than 500 ppl) $2.50/qtr per horse per vehicle
Merchants (with fixed place of business): sales>$10,000 $40/qtr; $5-10,000 $20/qtr; $2-5,000 $15/qtr; $1-2000 $10/qtr $500-1000 $5/qtr; <$500 $3/qtr
Auctioneers: Livestock in town > 2000 ppl $25/qtr; else $10/qtr; Property in town > 2000: $15/qtr; else$10/qtr or $5/mo
Restaurants, lodging houses, boarding houses and hotels: within 1 mile of any town: $2.50/qtr per $2000 in sales ($2.50 minimum) plus sworn statement of sales ea qtr; outside of towns, no fee