The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-01
AN ORDINANCE
To Raise Supplies for the City Of An-
derson, S. c., for the Year 1885,
and to REGULATE Licenses.

DE 1T ORDAINED by the Mayor end
~ Aldermen of the City of Anderson,
South Carolina, in Council assembled, and
by the auth ority of the same, That Tax
for the sums, and in the manner hereinafter
named, shall be raised and paid into the
Public Treasury of the said City, for the
uses and purposes thereof:
SECTION I. There shall be paid the sum of
Twenty-Five Cents on every One Hundred
Dollars worth of Real Estate and Personal
Property, except the Carolina Collegiate In
stitute, Greedy Institute and the Churches of
the City, to be used in the current expenses
of said City.
Sec H. That in addition to the foregoing
tax levied for current expenses for the use
of said City, there shall be paid the sum of
Thirty Cents on every One Hundred DOL
lars worth of Real Estate and Personal
Property, except the Carolina Collegiate In
stitute, Greely Institute and the Churches
in said City, to pay the interest on the
Bonded Debt ofTwenty-fveT Thousand Dol
lars in aid of the Savannah Valley Railroad
Company, and for sinking fund to paw
the principal of said debt, as provided by
the Act of Legislature, which tax shall be,
and is hereby, set apart as a special fund for
the purpose of paying said interest and re-
ducing said Bonded Debt and for no other
purpose.
SEC. III. There shall be Four Days Work
rendered on the Streets, under the supervis-
ion of the Assistant Marshal by every able
bodied male person between the ages of
sixteen and fifty years; and any person
may commute the same by paying to the
Treasurer the sum of Two Dollars and
any person liable as above and failing to
discharge such liability in the manner
above directed, shall after three days notice
to render the Four Days Work or pay the
Two Dollars, be tried for such default, and
if convicted, be fined in the sum of Five
Dollars, or be imprisoned and required to
work upon the streets for the period of
Twelve Days.
SEC, w. There shall be paid by the own
ers tax of Twenty-Five Cents on the One
Hundred Dollars Of the value of all Bank
Stocks, and that all Fire and Life Insur-
ance Companies. and the Southern Express
Company shall be taxed ttesum of fTwenty-
five Cents on the One Hundred Dollars of
their gross receipts collected or received by
their Agents in the City of Anderson,
South Carolina during the year 1884,
SEC. v. There shall be paid In advance
license of not less than One Dollar, nor
more than One Hundred dollars per diem,
by all Itenerant Traders, Auctioneers,
Hawkcrs or Peddlers Offering for sale any
Goods, Wares or Merchandise of any kind
whatsoever; Pforided, That the provisions
OF this Section shall be so constructed as
not to apply to ordinary dealers in Game.
Fruits, Potatoes, or other Country Produce
or live stock and any person violating this
Section shall, upon conviction thereof, be
fined in sum or not less than One Dollar,
nor more than One Hundred Dollars, or be
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more than Thirty days.
SEC. VI. That every person who owns or
keeps Dog within the corporate limits of
said City shall pay thereon u license fee of
Fifty Cents per head for which the owner
shall receive collar with badge attach
ed, which shall be placed around the dogs
after the first day of March next, without
q collar and badge, shall be seized by the
Police end confined for fortyeight hours,
during which time the owner shall have
the right to reclaim him upon the payment
of One Dollar, and failing to reclaim said
dog within the time specified the dog shall
be killed.
SEC. VII. That all Retailers of Spirituous
or Malt Liquors shall, in advance Of receiv-
ing License, pay into the City Treasury the
sum of Five Hundred Dollars per annum
and there shall be paid in advance on each
Billiard Saloon using one Table the sum Of
Thirty Dollars per annum, and on each
additional Table the sum of Twenty Dol
lars per annum and any person violating
thi, Section, or any part thereof, upon con.
yiction therefor, shall be fined in sum of
not less than One Dollar, nor more than
One Hundred Dollars, or be imprisoned
not less than one day nor more than thirty
days.
SEC. VIII. That the Stalls of the City
Market shall be rented for the term of one
year by the City Council for the sum of
Fifteen Dollars each, to be paid in advance,
and used by the person renting the same,
and by no other person whomsoever for
the sale of Meats, Fish, Game, Vegetables,
or other articles of food only; and that a
Tax of Fifty Cents shall be paid for every
Beef, and Twenty-Five Cents for every 9TH
er animal retailed on the public streets of
said City in pieces less than the one-quarter