The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-30
A pll.L TO REGULATE LICENSES.


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BILL TO REGULATE LICENSES.
Sr,r,oy ! Re il ordained by the Mayor and Al
dcrmcn Of the City of Charleston in Council as
semb!ed, That every person. firm, company or
corporation. engaged in, and intending 10 De Gu
gagged in any trade business OF prolesSioi nt M
after mentioned, shall obtain. on the hrst DAY OIL
January A. ID. 1870, or within ten days after COM
mcncing the trade. business or profession, IL
cense therefor, in the manner hereinafter proVl-
ded
ration required by this ordinance TO obtain
license TO engage i'll any trade, business or proleS
sion, for which license Is required, shaii register
with the City Appraiser or Assistant City APP
praiser a. His or their name or style, ana III
case Of q firm or company, tile names OF the seVe-
raj persons constituting such firm or company
and their places OF residence; (2l The trade, ous-
ness or profession for which license is required;
49, The place where such trade, business or pro-
fession is to be carried on. II wholesale or re-
tail dealer in goods wares anu merchandlse, inc
amount, extent and value OF business intended 10
be carried on. excluding distilled spirits. All or
which, and answers to questions relative TO which,
shall be given under oath when required ey the
Appraiser or Assistant Appraiser.
SEC g. If any person or persons shall exercise
or carry on any trade. business or profession, Tor
the exercising. carrying on, or doing or which
license is required by this ordinance without TAX
ing out such license rs in that behalf required. he
She or they shall, besides bein liable to the pay
ment for the license, be subject to penalty equal
10 the amount required TO be paid for the license
to be sued for and collected in the city, county or
any other court OF competent jurisdiction One
half OF penalty, after deductng eXAenses oil pros
ecuton to he paid 30 the person who first informs
OF the matters and things whereby the penalty Is
recovered.
SEC T. In every license to be taken ont. under
or by authority of this ordinance, Shall De con-
tanned and set forth the purpose trade, business
or profession for which such license Is granted,
and the name and place OF abode OF the person or
persons taking out the same; II wholesale or re-
tail dealer in goods, wares and merchandise the
amount, extent or value OF the business INTENDED
to be carried on. .
SEC s. The licenses granted under this ordi-
nance shall not authorize the person or persons
(except lawyers, physicians, surgeons, dentists,
and auctioneers,) or firm, company or corpora
ton mentioned therein, To exercise or carry on
the trade business or profession specified III sucn
license In any other place than that mentioned
therein. A license granted on and after January
l. 1870 shall continue in force until tho lst day OF
January following; and all licenses granted after
the lst OF January, A. d. 1870, snail be ls5ueu
upon the payment of a rateablc proportion ol the
whole amount OF money imposed ior such iicense.
Each license granted shall be dated on the hrst
day of the month in which the LIP 0iity THEREFOR ac
crued, and the amount to be paid therefor snail
be computed therefrOm until the end oil the year.
SEC. 8. Upon the death OF any person OF per-
sons licensed under or by virtue OF this ordinance,
or upon tho removal OF any person or persons
from the house or premises at when thc trade,
business or profession, mentioned In sucn license
the City Appraiser, to authorize by Endorsement
OF such license the person or persons Succeeding
to such deceased persons or removing as aloie'
said to any other place TO carry on Tue trlue.
business or profession specified In such license al
the place to which such person may have removed,
or such successor TO the deceased person may
elect.
slness or profession hereinafter mentioned, the
sum hereinafter mentioned shall he paid the CITY
Treasurer. viz: For wholesale apotnecary, one
hundred dollars; retail apothccaries, thirty DOL.
lars; ambrotypists Qor each member OF the nrm,
twenty five dollars: architects, twenty-five dol
lars; auctioneers, one hundred dollars; artists,
daguerrean (for each twenty five dollars agencies
carried on by other than regularly licensed conf
mission merchants for each agency MY dol
lars; banks, one hundred dollars; bankers. one
hundred dollars; bank agents, onc hundred dol-
lars; barber shops, ten dollars; billiard tables
fprivate) twenty-five dollars; billiard saloon,
each table, seventy five dollars; Sailor board
ing house, fifty dollars; bowling alleys teaoh
alieyl fifty dollars; brokers, one hundred col
lars; brokers money, or dealers IN cHcHanBe, one
hundred dollars; pawnbrokcrs, one hundred dol
lars; brokers Of real estate, one hundred dollars;
builders and contractors, twenty-five dollars;
coalyards, hundred dollars; contractors. other
than builders, twenty live do"arsi cooksnops, ten
dollars; cotton presses leach establishmen) three
hundred dollars; cotton rlckery, ono hundred dol
lars; collectors, real estate and a9 twenty,
five dollars; retail dealers In goods, wares anu
merchandise, excluding distilled spirits, wnoee
annual sales do not exceed ten thousand dollars,
TWENTY-FIVE dollars; whose annual sales are over
ten thousand and under thirty thousand dollars,
1fty dollars; whose annual sales are over thirty
Thousand dollars and under sixty thousand
dollars, one hundred dollars; and II exceed.
ing sixty thousand dollars, Tor every auultl0nal
thousand dollars exceeding sixty thou-
In goods, wares and merchandise, excluding
distilled spirits. whose annual sales do not exceed
fifty thousand dollars, one hundred dollars, anu
ifexceedlng 1lty thousand dollars, for every ad'
al hi ol nd al Ia tn0lS-
and dollars, ono dollar; dentists, (eachJ twenty.
five dollars; express companies, two hundred anu
fifty dollars; express baggage, (one-horse,) twen-
ty-five dollars: express baggage, pwo norse'l ior
ty dollars; founders, fifty dollars; sash and blind
factories fifty dollars; gas companies, three nun
dred dollars; gas filters, twenty-five dollars;
hotels. one hundred dollars; hucGsters ten dol.
lars; ice houses, (each.) one hundred dolarS local
insurance companies or agencies. lthe same ior
each and every aSency,l one hundred dol
lars: foreign insurance companies. tthe snme
for each and every agency one hundred ana 1ity
dollars; intelligence offices, twenty dollars; Job
printing Offices, twenty-five dollars; junk shops,
fifty dollars; lawyers, each ten dollars; lumDeH
yards, one hundred dollars: manufacturers OF
soda water, selling from iounts, twenty-five dol
lars; manufacturers and bOttleV5 or soda water,
fifty dollars; mechanics masters OF all trades,
twenty-five dollars; commission merchants or
factors, Two hundred dollars; Hour mills, my dol
lars; grist mills, twenty-five dollars; planning
mills, one hundred dollars; rice mills, one nun
dred dollars; saw mills, sevcntynvc dollars; mu'
seums, twenty-five dollars; public stables, tfty
dollars; photographers, twenty-five dollars; ply
slcans, each ten dollars; restaurants, where no
LIQUOR license is taken out twenty-five dollars;
sellers by sample or otherwise, nfty dollars; soda
water selling from fOuntS, for each ten dollars;
shipping mastcrs,O one hundred dollars; shoemak.
er and tailors ten dollars; soap boilers fifty dol
lars; stevedores resident. fifty doars stevedOres,
nonresident, one hundred dollars; steamship
agencies, steamboat agencies. vessel agencies,
for each agency, 6fty dollars; tanneres, tIty dol
lars; wood-yards, fifty dollars; warehouse stor-
age lfty dollars; wholesale liquor dealers, one
hundred and 1fCy d9llarS-overy person, firm or
corporation, whose business it Is 70 sell distilled
spirits, ferncutcd liquors, or wines Of any kind,
in quantities Of lvo gallons and over, shall be re-
garded AS wholesale liquor dealers; retail liquor
dealers, one hundred and fifty dOllarS-every
person, rrm or corporation. whose business 1t is
10 sell distilled spirits, rcrmentcd liquors, or
wines Of any Kinds, ia less quantities than five
gallons, shall be regarded ~ retail dealers;
butchers ten dollars; cattle brokers. one hundred
dollars.