Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-07

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personal property whatsoever mot held for
sale or as stock in trade, and except vehicles
used for purposes of pleasure and convenience
and hereinafter otherwise taxed, shall pay a
tax of - per centum on the value of such
personal property so owned on the first day of
January, 1854, except such as may be exempt
from taxation by the laws of this State or of
the United States. The foregoing phrase
''stocks in money corporations" shall not in
clude banks or banking associations organic
ed under the authority of this State or of the
United States, and located within the City of
Savannah, whether the owner of such shares
reside in the said city or elsewhere. but the
tax on such shares shall be three -tenths of
one per cent. per annum, in accordance with
tax law of the State; but nothing in this or
any other section of this ordinance shall be
construed to require any tax upon the capital
of any bank or banking association organized
under the authority of this State or of the
shares of stockholders in any such bank or
banking association at any greater rate than
is required for other mOneyed capital in the
hands of individual citizens.
SEC V. Every person and corporation de-
irving income or commission from his or its
business as a merchant, factor, auctiOneer,
broker, forwarding, shipping or commission
merchant, keeper of hotel or restaurant, or
from the pursuit of any profession, faculty,
trade, calling or business whatsoever. and
every railway company operating its road by
steam, every street railroad company, gas
company, express company, cotton
pany, and every private banker and banking
association, and every corporation transact
ing business in this city, whether incorpO-
rated by the laws of this State, or any for
eign State or country, and every agent car
rying on business for another, Except dealers,
traders. merchants or other persons taxed on
their stock in trade). shall pay tax of --
per centum on the amount OF such net income
or commission above eight hundred dollars,
And every shipmaster, captain, supercargO,
agent or other officer of any ship or vessel,
or other person, who shall sell goods or arti-
Giles OF any kind from any vessel or wharf, or
personally purchase cargo or collect freight,
shall be considered a commission merchant
and pay the tax herein prescribed, and also the
tax hereinafter prescribed for commission
merchants.
SEC. VI. Every person transacting or offer
ing to transact either of the kinds of business
hereinafter specified, shall pay the tax here
matter prescribed. viz:
Every auetiOneer, one hundred dollars on
his auction business exclusively;
Every dealer in goods, wares and mer-
chandlse, including dealers in drugs, etc. lin
addition to liquor license), as follows:
Every dealer, exclusively retail, twenty
five dollars;
Every retail dealer, also selling at whole
sale to others than the trade, fifty dollars;
Every retail dealer, also selling at whole
sale to the trade, seventy-fye dollars;
Every, dealer, exclusively wholesale, one
hundred dollars;
Every banker or bank agent, or agents OF
bankers engaged in buying or selling ex-
change, including every insurance company
doing banking business, one hundred anG
fifty dollars; every bank three hundred dol
lars;
Every cotton broker, broker or dealer ir
stocks and bonds, ship broker, money broker
and every produce, grocery and naval stores
broker, exclusive of brokers in liquor, fifty
| dollars;
Every broker in liquor, one hundred dollars
and fees;
Every broker for the sale of horses and cat
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| twenty-five dollars;
Every pawnbroker, one hundred dollars;
Euery building and loan association, one
| hundred dollars;
Every loan association doing a banking
| business, two hundred dollars;
Every insurance company doing business
whether directly or through an agency, one
| hundred dollars;
Every person who shall be sworn by thu
| Mayor (whO is hereby authorized to admin
lister the oath for such purpOse), as n public
welgher Of any goods, wares or merchandise
| ten dollars;
Every local average or insurance adjuster
| other than agent of an insurance company
| twenty-five dollars;
| Every keeper or keepers of hotel, one hun
| dred dollars;
Every sewing machine agent or agency fifty
| dOllars-the same for each and every agency
Every dealer in sewing machines, fifty dol
| lars;
Every dealer in coal, fifty dollars;
Every agent for, or dealer in fertilizers
| fifty dollars;
Every sailor boarding house keeper, twenty
| five dollars;
Every runner for sailor boarding house
| twenty five dollars;
Every owner or owners, lessee or lessees O
| cotton press establishment, three hundred
| dollars;
| Every the owner or owners, lessee or lesseei
| of q junk shop, or junk dealer, one hundred
and fifty dollars;
A NH oh 70 no 4,
| to the purchase or sale of cotton, two hundred
| dollars; and all buyers of loose cotton, whC
| buy from other than cotton merchants, two
| hundred dollars;
Every the owner or owners of steam cot.
| ton gin establishment, one hundred dollars;
Every commission merchant or factor ant
| each and every individual member of a com
mission firm or partnership, fifty dollars;
Every stevedOre, fifty dollars;
Every the owner or owners of a lumber
| yard, fifty dollars;
Every the owner or owners of q wood yard
| twenty tiYc dollars;
Every the keeper or keepers of q warehous,
| for the storage of cotton. merchandise, goods
| etc, for each warehouse, twenty-five dollars
Every the owner owners of a billiard
| table used for hire, forty dollars for eacl
| table; for every pool table, or table on which
| pool is played, one hundred and fifty dollars
Every the owner or owners of bagatellt
| table, ten dollars for each table;
Every the owner or owners of ten pin alley
| thirty dollars for each alley;
| Every the owner or owners of a saw mill OF
| planning mill, one hundred dollars; and OF
| each sash and blind factory, twenty-five dol
| lars;
Every manufacturer of confectionery
| twenty five dollars;
On the owner or owners of every steam en-
| CINE used for hosting purposes, or any Other
| business where steam is used. not regularl,
| taxed, as IN this ordinance stated and enume
| rated, twenty dollars;
| Every cotton shipper or Weigher twenty
| five dollars:
Every shoemaker, ten dollars;
| Every merchant tailor, twenty-five dollars
| Each circus for each and every day exhibit
| ing in the city, two hundred dollars;
Every grinder of hand organ, three dol
| lars per month;
Every person or partnership, running girls
| mil worked by steam, fifty dollars; i
worked by horse power, twenty-five dol
| lars; every person running a -four MILL o.
| Hour and grist mill drivenby steam, one hun
| dred dollars;
Every bread or cake bakery carried on by
| means of steam machinery, seyenty-five dol.
| lars; II carried on without steam, fifty dol
| lars;
Every master builder, mason or mechanic
and other mechanics not otherwise taxed
| taking contracts for work, architects, civil
| engineers, surveyors, contractors, other thar
| builders, twenty-five dollars
| Real estate collectors and agents. and othel
collectors and agents, and ticket agents, TWEEN
| ty-five dollars;
Every the keeper or keepers of an intelli
genee Office, twenty-five dollars for each Of
| hce;
Every mercantile or commercial agency
| one hundred dollars:
Every daily newspaper printed by steam
| seVenty-tve dollars; every weekly or other
| newspaper, twenty-five dollars; every DAILY
| newspaper worked by hand, twenty-five dol
| lars; and every weekly Newspaper WORKED
| by hand, ten dollars;
| Every job printing office. worked bv steam
| fifty dollars; if worked without steam, TWEEN
| ty-1ve dollars;
Every news depot, twenty-five dollars;
| Every manufacturer of soda water, sellin,
| from fOunts, twenty-five dollars and manu-
| featuring ana bOttling soda water, fifty dol
| lars. selling soda water from founts, ten dol
| lars for each fOunt;
Every bother of beer or ale, fifty dollars;
Every soap boiler or tanner for each estab
| lishment, ten dollars;
| Every barber shop, five dollars for eacl
| char used;
| Every person engaged in the business o
| gasfittlng or plumbing, or both, fifty dollars
| but every plumber and gashtter shall, on Of
| before the LIST day of January, 1884, make anC
| file with the Clerk of Council a bond in tn,
| sum of $1,000, with good and sufficient sure
! ties, to be approved by the Mayor, conditioned
| to answer over to said corporation for al
| damages II may sustain by reason of the negli
| gence or default of such plumber or gasfttel
| in negligently closing excavations in the pub
/ lie streets;
Every daguerrean artist, photographer anc
| ambrOtyper, twenty-five dollars.
| Every steamboat, vessel or other agency
| nifty dollars; every agency for ocean steam.
| ships, each agency, one hundred dollars;
Every cotton factory, one hundred dollars
Every paper factory, fifty dollars;
Every ice factory, fifty dollars;
| Every wholesale dealer in ice, one hundred
dollars; every retail dealer in ice, ten dol
| lars;
Each and every museum, twenty- five dol.
| lars;
Every gas company, five hundred dollars
| query improved gas light company, one hun.
| bred dollars; 'every electric light company
| five hundred dollars;