The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-03
License and Supply Ordinances--
AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATES LICENSES
FOR THE YEAR 1879,

City Council assembled. That every per.
son, hrm, company or corporation, en-
gagged in, or intending to bo engaged in,
any trade, business or profession herein
after mentioned, shall obtain, on or be-
fore the sixth day Of January, A. d.
1872. license therefor, in manner pro-
vided; those commencing business after
the sixth OF January shall obtain Ii
oense before entering upon that business.
SEQ. q. Every person, firm, company
or corporation required, by this ordi-
nance, to obtain license to engage in
any trade, business or profession for
which license is required, shall register
with the City Clerk and Treasurer; first,
bis or her name or style, and in case of a
firm or company, the names of the seve-
raj persons constituting such firm or
company, and their places of business;
second, the trade, business or profession
Tor which o license is required; third,
the place whore such trade or profession
ls carried on; if wholesale or retail
dealer in goods. wares and merchandise,
the amount, extent aud value of bust
ness intended to be carried on, excluding
distilled spirits-all of which shall be
given under oath.
SEQ. 3. If any person or persons shall
exercise or carry on any trade, business
or profession, for the exercising, carry
ing on or doing OF which license is re-
4uired by this ordinance, without first
| registering and 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 a
penalty of forty (4O) dollars, on convic-
ton before the Mayor or any court of
competent jurisdiction; one-half of the
penalty, after deducting expenses of the
prosecution. to be paid to the person
who first informs of the matters and
things whereby the penalty is recovered.
and the other half to the city.
SEQ. 4. In every license to- De taken
out, under or by authority of this ordi-
nance, shall be contained and 'set forth
the purpose, trade, business or profes-
sion for which such 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 or value of the business
intended to be carried on. The City
Clerk and Treasurer shall prepare pro-
per form of license to be issued ia each
case, which license shall be posted up or
kept by the person receiving the same,
as the City Clerk shall direct. Any eva.
| sion of the provisions of this section
shall, on conviction before the Mayor,
be punishable by fine of twenty dollars.
SEC. 5. The Licenses granted under
this ordinance shall not authorise the
person or persons. or firm, company or
| corporation mentioned therein, to exer-
| cise or carry on the trade, business or
profession specified in such license in
any other place than that mentioned
| therein, unless permitted 80 to do by the
Mayor. A license granted on and after
January LIST, 1879. shall continue in force
until the 1st of January following; and
| all licenses granted after the 1st of Janu-
ary, A. d. 1872, shall be issued upon
payment of rateable portion of the
| whole amount of money imposed for
such license: Prooided, ho,rever, That no
license shall be granted for less period
than three months, though the time to
the end of the year be 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 be paid therefor shall be COM
puted therefrom until the end of the
year, except as hereinbefore mentioned: /:
Prouided, That after license is granted
BY the city, no portion thereof will be
refunded.
SEQ. 6. Upon the removal of any per-
son or persons from the house or pre-
misses at which the trade, business or
profession mentioned in such license
was authorized, it may and shall be law
| ful for the Mayor to authorize, by en-
dorsement of such license, the person
removing as aforesaid to any other place
to carry on the trade, business or profes-
sion specified in snch 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 sums hereinafter men,
toned shall be pnid to the City Clerk
| and Treasurer.
Astrologers and clairvoyants, S1O0;
apothecaries, retail, 25; architects or
surveyors, 20; auctioneers, 100; agents
real estate and collection brokers, 20;
agents newspapers. periodicals or ad-
vertising, 10; agents, selling by sample
at retail, per year, 100; agents, selling
by sample nt retail. per day, s; attorneys
at law, 20; banks and bankers, 200;
billiard, bagateile, or other gaming
tables, for the first table, 80; for every
additional table in the same establish
ment, 20; bowling alleys or pistol gale
ries, for each alley or gallery, so; builders
and master mechanics, 20; butchers, for
each stall hired, 10; blacksmiths' shops,
10; brokers, commercial, cotton or pro-
duoe, 25; brokers. money and dealers in
exchange, 90; brokers, pawn, 100;
brokers and dealers in horses ard mules,
who keep no sales stables, per month, 5;
and it shall not be lawful for any tran
sient dealer in horses or mules to offer
his stock for snie until ho shall have
taken out license, to expire at the end
of one month, for which ho shall pay the
sum of s; but such license may bo re-
newed Mt the same ratio. For each and
every violation Of this article, tho party
offending shall be fined in sum of $25
for each and every offence. BARRIERS,
for each chair, s; book-binders. 20;
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