Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-15

| Every restaurant or eating house, without
| liquor license, twenty-five dollars;
Every rice pounding or cleaning mill, with
or without grist mill attached, two hundred
Every fortune teller or astrologer. twenty
five dollars;
| Every telegraph company or agency. five
hundred dollars; each and every telephone
! company or exchange, two hundred dollars:
| each independent telephone of two stations,
two dollars and fifty cents;
Every street railroad company. one hundred
dollars, and in addition thereto. as part of the
/ same tax, twenty dollars for each and every
car employed by such company in the city;
| Every keeper OF a skating rink, fifteen dol
| lars;
Every undertaken or coffin warehouse, forty
| dollars;
Every person engaged in loading or I'M
/ loading vessels by horse power, twenty-five
dollars for each hosting apparatus useG;
/ Every express company, three hundred dol
! lars. and in addition thereto. as part of same
! tax, ten dollars for every one horse bag
/ gage express wagon, and eighteen dollars for
| every two horse baggage express wagon en-
| plOyed by such company;
| very bill poster or distributor, ten dol
| ars:
Every blacksmith shop, each forge, eight
| dollars:
Every coopershoD 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 dol
| lars; every carriage shop for manufacturing
or repairing, twenty five dollars;
| Every cigar manufacturer or retailer,
! twenty dollars;
Every dye house, twenty dollars:
Every millinery establishment, ten dollars;
| Every gunsm it'll establishment, ten dollars;
| Every foundry, fifty dollars; every machine
shop, fifty dollars; every foundry and ma
! chine shop, one hundred dollars;
! Every menagerie, fifty dollars per day;
Every marble and stone yard, eighty dol
| Every oyster and FISH dealer, twenty-five
! dollars;
! Every the owner or owners of every phos-
| phate works or guanO mandatory, two hun
/ dred dollars;
Every shipping master, one hundred dol
! lars;
Each and every shooting gallery, one hun
| bred dollars:
Every the owner or owners of every green
| grocery, one hundred dollars;
Every stencil cutter. twenty dollars:
| Every tailor not registered as a merchant,
| ten dollars;
Every wheelwright, twenty dollars;
Every the owner or owners of marine rail
| way 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 a tax according to the number and
| character Of the vehicles employed in such
| business, VIZ: Every person employing one
| one-horse cart or wagon, eight dollars; every
| person employing one OQe-nOfSe QrdY 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 dol
| lars; every person employing one tWo-hOrse
| cab, hack, buggy, omnibus, carriage, or We
| hlcle Of any description, eighteen dollars;
| every person employing one four horse dray
OF truck, thirty-tive dollars; every person
! employing one four horse omnibus, forty dol
! lars, and the tax to be paid by any person
ALI inc hra1a # no
| or different kinds shall be according to the
| number of vehicles employed, at the rates
above specified;
Every keeper Of sale stable. eighty
dollars; every keeper of a public or livery
stable, eighty dollars; and addition
| thereto, as part of the same tax, according
| to the number and character of any vehicles
| employed in such business, either by letting
for hire or in the transportation for goods,
| passengers or baggage, at the rates above
/ specified for taxes to be paid by persons en-
gagged in the business of transporting, etc, for
| hire;
Every person employing or using one or
| more vehicles of any sort to be drawn by one
| or more horses or mules in connection with
| any business in which he may be engaged, for
| the purpose Of delivering goods sold by HIM or
| her, or in any other manner, shall pay in addi-
| ton to the SPECIFIC tax required of him for such
| business and as part thereof, graduated tax
| similar to that heTeinhefOre required of per-
| sons engaged in the business of transporting,
| ETC., for hire, according to the number and
| character of such vehicles, and at the same
| rates;
Every huckster, including dealers in ice
! cream, fruit, small paint shops, vendors of
! small wares, and keeper of cook stove or
| cook shop, ten dollars;
! Every street dealer in poultry, for which
| badge shall be issued, fifteen dollars;
! Every drummer, runner or other persons
| soliciting trace or orders, or business for an
| other or for himself, whether resident of this
! city or elsewhere, and having no fixed place
! of business in this city shall pay the same tax
| required OF resident and stationary dealers in
! the same articles, provided, however, that any
| person or persons, except dealers in malt,
| vinOus or spirltuOus liquors, transacting
| Offering to transact either of the kinCs of
| business mentioned in this clause. and selling
| only to the resident dealers, may take ont a
| license for one week, for which shall be paid
| the sum of ten dollars for each and every
| week, or part Of week, that they shall he en-
| gagged In business IN this city, which shall be
! in lieu of tax herein provided; ana every ped
| dler and ltinerant transient trader, and every
| transient person selling or Offering to sell by
! sample shall pay the same tax required of
resident and stationary dealers in the same ar
tcles, and officer of the city shall be author
! lied to reduce, in anywise change. such
| tax so required, nor shall such itinerant dealer
| be allowed to sell his wares under the license
| of any auctlOneer, or under the name of any
| factor or commission merchant who has paid
| his tax as such, until he himself shall have
| paid all taxes required of him by this Ordi-
| nance.
Every the owner or owners of each and ev-
| cry ordinary lighter with steam hoist. fifty
| dollars; every the owner or owners of each
| and every ordinary lighter without steam
! hoist, twenty-five dollars.
| SEC. VI. Every person keeping and using
| one or more vehicles Of any sort to be drawn
| by one or mere horses or mules, for purposes
! Of pleasure or convenience, shall pay a tax
! graduated according to the number and char
| acter of such vehicles at the rates above pre-
| scribed for persons engaged in the business of
| transporting goods, etc, for hire, but such
| vehicles shall not be otherwise taxed.
SEC. VII. The occupant Of any premises
where dog or dogs, IS or are kept, shall pay
/ for every dog so kept an annual tax of one
/ dollar. Upon payment OF this tax a badge
| shall be issued to the person paying the tax
for the dog; and every dog found running at
large without such badge, shall be i'm
! pounded, and if not claimed within forty
| eight hours shall be disposed of.
SRC. VIII. The value of real property to be
| taxed under the second section of this Ordi-
! nance shall be ascertalned by means of the
| assessments provided for by the ordinances Of
the city that subject, or any ordinance
| amendatory thereof; the value of personal
| property to be taxed under the third section
of this ordinance, the particulars and char
| acter of the business for which taXis required
| under the fifth section of this ordinance, the
| number of vehicles used or kept under the
| sixth section of this ordinance, and the num-
| Der OF dogs kept as provided for in the sew
| enth section Of this ordinance. shall be ascer-
| tanned by means of the returns hereinafter
| prescribed.
SEC. X. Every person and corporation
| owning real property IN SAID city on the first
! day of January, 1885, shall make a return
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days after that date. Every person and cor
| pOration owning personal property in said
| city on the first day of January, 1885, liable to
| be taxed under the third and fifth sections of
| this ordinance, except stocks. in banks and
! banking associations organized under the laws
! Of this State or of the United States, shall make
| a return thereof to the City Treasurer within
| sixty days after that date; and it shall be the
! duty Of the City Treasurer to cause a list Of
| all persons and corporations making such re-
| turns, showing the amount returned by each,
| to be published in the official paper of the
| city at the end of each month, as made; the
| President or acting President of every such
| bank or banking association located In said
| city shall, within ten days after the first day
| of January, 1885, make a return to the City
| Treasurer of all stockholders in such bank or
| banking association holding stock therein on
| the said first day of January, 1885, whether
| resident or nonresident, with the place
| and residence of, and the number of shares
| held by each, and showing the market value
| of such shares. Every person liable to taxa
| ton under the fifth and sixth sections of this
| ordinance shall make a return of the business
| in which he is engaged, and of the number
| and character of vehicles by which his tax is
| to be graduated. to the City Treasurer, within
| thirty days after the first DAY of January 1885.
| and every person commencing TO carry on any
| of the said kinds of business, or increasing
| the number of his vehicles. or commencing to
| keep and use vehicles after the first day of
| January, 1885, shall make a return thereof
| within ten days after so commencing or in
| creaslng. Every person having a dog or dogs,
! on the first day of January. 1885, shall make
| return thereof to the City Treasurer within
| ten days after that date, and every person
| bringing dog or dogs, INTO the city after that
! date, to be kept here, shall make a similar re-
! turn within ten days after SO bringing in such
! dog or dogs.
SEC. X. All such returns may be made