Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-28

twenty-five dollars;
Every local average or insurance adjuster
other than agent of an insurance company
forty dollars;
Every keeper or keepers of a hotel, that con
tains seventY-hve rooms or upwards, two
hundred dollars.
Every keeper or keepers Of a hotel that con.
tains under seventy five rooms and having
Fifty rooms, one hundred dollars;
Every keeper or keepers of hotel that con-
talns under fifty rooms, fifty 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, seventy-five dollars;
Every agent for, or dealer in fertilizers,
not paying tax as commission merchant, two
Every sailor boarding house keeper, fifty
dollars:
Every runner for sailor boarding house
twenty-five dollars;
Every owner or owners, lessee or lessees OF
a cotton press establishment, three hundred
dollars; every hand cotton press, twenty five
dollars;
OF junk shop, or junk dealer, one hundred
and fifty dollars;
A cotton pickery, to be confined exclusively
to the purchase or sale of cotton, two hundred
dollars; and all buyers Of loose cotton, who
buy from other than cotton merchants, two
hundred dollars;
Every the owner or owners of a steam cot
ton gin establishment, one hundred dollars;
Every commission merchant or factor, oil
exporter or agency or representative of firm
OF exporters, two hundred dollars.
Every stevedore fifty dollars
Every the owner or owners of lumber
yard, fifty dollars;
Every dealer in wood, twenty-five dollars;
Every the keeper or keepers of a warehouse
for the storage of cotton, merchandise, goods,
etc, for each warehouse, fifty dollars;
Every the owner or.owners, lessee or keeper
OF billiard table, other than those used in
private dwellings, fifty dollars for each
table; for every pool table, or table on which
pool is played, one hundred and fifty dollars;
Every the owner or owners, lessee or keeper
OF bagatelle table, twenty-five dollars for
each table:
Every the owner or owners of ten pin alley,
thirty dollars for each alley;
| Every the owner or owners OF saw mill or
planning mill, one hundred and twenty five
dollars; and on each sash and blind factory,
twenty-five dollars;
Every manufacturer of confectionery,
twenty-five dollars;
On the owner or owners Of every steam en-
glne used Tor hosting purposes, or any other
business where steam is used, not regularly
taxed, as In this ordinance stated and enume-
| rated, twenty five dollars;
Every cotton shipper, fifty dollars.
Every cotton weigher, twenty five dollars
Every shoemaker, ten dollars;
Every merchant tailor fifty dollars;
Every circus, for each and every day
exhibiting in the city, two hundred dollars;
hying horses, or ltinerant shows not otherwise
taxed, 1--WE dollars per week;
Every grinder of a hand organ, three dol
lars per month;
Every theatrical troupe, minstrel troupe, or
other troupe acting or performing in this city,
five dollars for each performances;
Every person or partnership, running grist
mill worked by steam, fifty dollars; if
worked by horse power twenty -five dol
lars; every person running flour mill, or
flour and grist mill driven by steam, one hum
dred dollars;
Every bread or cake bakery carried on by
means OF steam machinery, one hundred dol
lars; If carried on without steam. fifty dol
lars;
Every master builder, mason or mechanic,
ana other mechanics not otherwise taxed,
taking contracts for work, architects, civil
engineers, surveyors, contractors, other than
builders, twenty-five dollars;
Real estate collectors and agents, and other
collectors and agents, and ticket agents, TWEEN
ty-five dollars;
Every the keeper or keepers Of an ntelli-
gence office, ten dollars for each office;
Every mercantile or commercial agency,
one hundred and fifty dollars;
Every daily newspaper printed by steam,
one hundred dollars dollars; every weekly or other
newspaper worked by hand, twenty-fl dol
lars; and every weekly newspaper worked
by hand, ten dollars
Every job printing office, workedby steam.
fifty dollars; if worked without steam, TWEEN
ty-tiye dollars:
Every news depot, twenty five dollars;
Every manufacturer of soda water, selling
from founts, twenty-five dollars, and manu-
featuring and 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-
llshment, ten dollars:
Every barber shop, five dollars for each
char used;
gasfitTlng or plumbing, or both. fifty dollars
but every plumber and gasftter shall, on OF
before the LIST day of January, 1884, make and
file with the Clerk of Council a bond in the
sum of $2,00C with good and sufficient sure
ties, to be approved by the Mayor, conditioned
TO answer over to said corporation for all
damages it may sustain by reason of the negli-
gence or default of such plumber or gasfitteI
in negllgently closing or leaving open eXca-
vations in the public streets;
Every daguerrean artist, photographer, am
| 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;
Each and every coppersmith or manufactu-
rer OF stills, fifty dollars;
Every ice factory, fifty dollars;
Every wholesale dealer in ice, one hundred
dollars; every retail dealer in ice, ten dol
airs;
Each and every museum, twenty five dol
| lars;
Every gas company, five hundred dollars
every electric light company, five hundred
dollars;
Every restaurant or eating house, without
liquor license, twenty-five dollars;
Every rice pounding or cleaning mill, with
and fifty dollars;
Every fortune teller or astrologer, fifty dol
lars;
Every telegraph COMPANY or agency, five
hundred dollars; each and every telephone
company or exchange, two dollars and fifty
cents for each connecting station; each indie
pendent telephone OF two stations, two dol
lars and fifty cents;
Every street railroad company, one hun
dred dollars, and in addition thereto, as part
of the same tax, twenty dollars for each and
city;
Every keeper of skating rink, twenty
five dollars;
Every undertaken or coffin warehouse. fifty
dollars;
Every person engaged in loading or unload
ing vessels by horse power, twenty-five dol
lars FOR each hosting apparatus used;
Every express company, three hundred dol
lars, and In addition thereto, as part of same
tax, ten dollars for every one-horse baggage
express wagon, and eighteen dollars for every
by such company;
Every bill poster or distributor, ten dollars;
Every blacksmith shop, each forge, ten dol
| lars;
Every cooper shop employing five hands and
under, ten dollars; and in addition for every
hand employed in excess of five, per head, two
| dollars;
Every carriage repository. one hundred
| dollars; every carriage shop for manufacture
ing or repairing, twenty five dollars;
Every cigar manufacturer and retailer,
| twenty five dollars;
Every dye house, Thirty dollars;
Every dressmaking or millinery establish
ment, ten dollars;
Every gunsmith establishment ten dollars:
Every foundry, fifty dollars; every machine
| shop, fifty dollars; every foundry and machine
shop, one hundred dollars;
Every menagere, fifty dollars per day;
Every marble and stone yard, one hundred
| dollars;
Every oyster and fish dealer, twenty five
| dollars;
Every owner or owners of every phosphate
works or guano mandatory, two hundred
| dollars:
Every shipping master, one hundred dollars;
Each and every shooting gallery one hun
bred dollars;
Every the owner or owners Of every sales
| stable, one hundred dollars;
Every the owner or owners OF every green
grocery, one hundred dollars;
Every stencil cutter, twenty-five dollars;
Every tailor, not registered as a merchant,
ten dollars;
Every wheelwrlght. twenty-five dollars;
Every the owner or owners of a marine
railway or dry dock, fifty dollars;
Every person engaged in the business Of
transporting or carrying goods, wares. mer-
| chandise, passengers, or baggage. for hire. by
means of wagons, drays, trucks, carts, omni-
| buses, or carriages of any description, or of
| letting carriages or other vehicles for hire,
| shall pay tax according to the number and
| character of the vehicles employed in such
business, viz: every person employing one
horse cart or wagon, eight dollars; every
| person employing one one horse draw or truck
ten dollars; every person employing one one
| horse cab, hack or buggy, or vehicle of any
| description, ten dollars; every person
employing one two-horse cart and wagon,
! dray or truck, eighteen dollars: every persOn
omnibus, carriage or vehicle of any description,
eighteen dollars; every person employing one