The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-12-29
CITY JI e n s E s
The Ncw Bill.

The Ncw Bill.
The following is the iilll text OF the new
license bill passed by the City Council! on Tues
day night, and the new features ofwhich were
noticed in yesterdays NEWS:
RII.L TO REGULATE LICENSES.
SECTION !. Be 10 ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen Of tho City OF Charleston. in City
Council assembled, hat every person, frna,
company or corporation, engaged In or intend
ing to be engaged in any trade, business or
profession, hereinafter mentioned, shall obtain
on before the twentieth day OF January, A. d.
one Thousand eight hundred and seventy-One,
q license therefor, in manner provided; those
commencing business after the twentieth of
January, shall obtain q license before entering
upon that business: and itinerant dealers shall
obtain q license before soliciting custom. SELL
ing or Offering TO sell by sample or otherwise.
SEC. 2. Every person. firm, company or cor
poration required by this ordinance to obtain
license 10 engage In any trade, business or
profession for which q license Is required, shall
register with the city appraiser, or assistant
city appraiser, first his or her name or style,
and, IN case of firm or company, the names
of tho several persons constituting such hrm
or company, and their places OF business;
second, the trade, business or profession Tor
which a license Is required; third, the place
where such trade OF profession is to be carried
on-if d wholesale or retail dealer in goods,
wares and merchandise, the amount, extent
and valne of business intended to be carried
on, excluding distilled spirits, all of which,
and answers to questions relative to which,
shall be given under oath.
SEC. 3. If any person or persons shall eXer-
else or carry on any trade, business or profess
sion for the exercising, carrying on or doing OF
which license is required by this ordinance,
without taking out such license, as In that
behalf required, he, she or they shall, besides
being liable TO the payment for The license, be
subject to penalty equal TO the amount re-
ouired to be paid ior the license; to be sued
for and collected in the City Court, or any
other court of competent jurisdiction, one-hait
OF the penalty, alter deductinS expenses OF
prosecution. to be paid to the person who first
informs of the matters and things whereby the
penalty Is recovered, and the other half 10 tile
city.
SEC. 4. In every license to be taken ont,
under OF by authority OF this ordinance, shall
be contained and set forth the purpose. trade,
business or profession for which snca license
Is granted, and the name and place OF business
of the person or persons taking out the same;
If wholesale or retail dealer in goods, wares
and merchandise, the amount, extent OF value
of the business intended 10 be carried on. The
city appraiser shall prepare proper form oil
license to be Issued in each case, which license
shall uc posted up or kept by tho person re-
ceiying the same, as the city appraiser shall
direct.
SIC. S. The licenses granted under TIM Or
dinance shall not authorize the person or per-
sons, Except lawyers physicians, surgeons
dentists and auclioneers, ).or Grn, company or
corporation mentioned therein, to exercise or
carry on the trade, business or profession
specified in such license In any other place
that mentioned therein. A license granted on
and after January lst, one thousand eight hum
dred and seventy one, shall continue l440rce
until the first Of January following; atSall
licenses granted after the first oil january, a.
D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy
one, shall be issued upon the payment OF
ratpable portion of the whole am cunt OF money
imposed for such license. Provided, however,
that no license be granted for less than
three months, though the time to the
end OF the year bc less than that; each
license granted shall be. dated on the
first day OF the month in which the liability
therefor accrued, and the amount to Do pala
therefor shall be computed thcrefrom until the
end of the year, except as hereinbetOre men,
toned, and except itlnerants, who may be
granted quarterly licenses, dating on the first
day of the month In which the appllcatior-is
made. And every person exercising or carry
ing on any trade. business or profession, doing
any act for which license is required, shall
keen said licenses at all times of business In
the front window, If there be such, and If there
be no such window. then in conspicuous part
Of the business place, and. on demand OF any
authorized officer or policemen OF the city
government produce such license; and unless
ne shall do 50, shall be deemed and taken to
have no such license, and It shall be the duty
OF the police and detective force to detect and
nod nj thprp0f
SEC G. Upon the removal OF anyperson or
persons from the house or premises ut which
the trade, business or profession mentioned
in such license was authorized, it may and
shall be lawinl for the city appraiser TO au-
thoriZe, by endorsement Oh such license, the
person removing as Aforesaid to any other
place to carry on the trade, business or pro-
lession specified in such license at the place to
which such person may have removed.
SEC. z. For license to carry on any trade,
business or profession hereinafter mentioned,
the sum hereinafter mentioned shall be paid
10 the city treasurer, viz: For O wholesale
apothecary, one hundred dollars; retail apothe-
carries, twenty-five dollars; ambrotypist, (for
each member of O firm,) twenty-five dollars;
architects, twenty-five dollars; auctioneers,
fifty dollars; artists, daguerrean, (for each,)
twenty-five dollars; agencies, carried on by
other Than regularly licensed merchants, tor
each agency fifty dollars; banks, three hum
dred dollars; bankers, other than licensed
brokers, one hundred dollars; bank agents,
one hundred dollars billiard tables, nty
dollars for the ilrst table, and twenty
five dollars lor each additional table IN
the same establishment sallor-boarding
houses, twenty-five dollars; bowling al
lrys. twenty-five dollars for each alley
commercial or produce brokers, twenty-five
dollars. (other Than factors or storekeephrS;)
money brokers and dealers In exchange, one
hundred dollars; pawn-brokers one hundred
dollars: brokers ul real estate, twenty-five dol
lars; stock brokers, twent. five d"llarsi coal
yards, fifty dollars; contractors, other than
builders, twenty-five dollars; steam cotton
presses, teach cstablishmeni) three hundred
dollars; cotton hand presses, twenty-five doi-
lars: cotton gins, one hundred dollars; cotton
pickery nifty dollars; collectors, lreal estate,)
and agents, twenty-five dollars; retail dealers
in goods, wares and merchandise, excluding
distilled spirits, whose annual sales donet ex-
coed ten thousand dollars, twenty-five dollars;
whose annual sales are over ten thousand dol
lars. and under thirty thousand dollars. hlty
dollars; over thirty thousand dollars and ut!-
der xiv thousand dollars. one hundred dol
lars: and if exceeding sixty thousand dollars,
for every additional thousand exceeding Sixty
thousand dollars one dollar; wholesale dealers
In roods, wares and merchandise, excluding dls-
titled spirits, whose annual sales 70 not exceed
fiIty thousand dollars, one hundred dOliarsi
and if exceeding fifty thousand dollars, for
every additional thousand dollars In excess OF
nlty thousand dollars, one dollar; dentists,