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


Dry Culture -.........-. .-.-.... 10000
| Fees --.--.... 500
Fire Department 23 SO
| Incidentals . 3COO
Laurel Grove Cemetery ....... ... SIS O
| Market 200
Parks and Squares ~ 500
| Police .-.- 52 GOO
Printing aud Stationery 1000
Police and Fire Uniforms .. 200
Quarantine - $500
Salaries .-. $500. lg O0O
Scavenger Department .... 1890 1900
streets and Lanes ....... "a. 600
Paving Streets . - 10 900
W atef W ofks..-... .-... ..-......-.-. 26.00O
sinking Fund - 30 500
Interest .-....... ..... .............. 1875, co
RIVER ana Harbor Improvements .-.. 1000
Total ...... ...-.......... ..... $5l6 $50
An ORDINANCE to assess and levy taxes and
raise revenue for the city Of Savannah: for
the regulation Of certain kinds of business in
the corporate and jurisdieuOnal limits of
SAID city; liking penalties for the violation
OF the revenue ordinances of said city, and
for other purposes connected with taxes and
revenue of said city:
SECTION 1. The Mayor and Alderuen Of the
CUy ~ Savannah. IL Council ASsemJled, do
bsTebY OrdGiH, That from and after the first
day of January, 1855, the inhabitants of said
corporate and JurisdctiOnai limits of said city,
and those who hold taxable property within
the same, and those who transact or offer 10
transact business therein except such as are
exempt from taxation by law, shall pay to
ward the support Of the government of said
city, and for the safety, benefit. convenience
and advantage OF said city, the taxes herein
after prescribed.
SEC. IL. Every person and corporation own
ing real property in said city, including i'm
prOvements, shall pay tax, to be assessed by
Council upon the value Of said property by
the first day of April, 1885, at the rate of two
and One-elghth per centum of such value,
except on such property as may be exempt
from taxation under the laws of this State.
SEC. III. Every person and corporation own
ing household, kitchen, or office furniture,
private or professional libraries, watches,
jewelry, plate, musical instruments, bill
lard tables in private residences, stocks in
money corporations bonds, notes and other
evidences of debt money, solvent debts, stock
in trade, and every other kind of personal
property whatsoever except vehicles used for
purposes of pleasure and convenience and
hereinafter otherwise taXed), shall pay a tax
of one-half of one per centum on the value
of such personal property so owned on the
first day of January, 1885, 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 corpora
tiOns," shall not include shares in banks or
banking associations organized 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 snail be construed to require
any tax upon the capital of any bank or bank
ing association organized under the authority
of this State or of the United States, or to re-
quire any tax upon the shares of stockholders
in any such bank or banking association at
any greater rate than is required for other
mOned capital in the hands of individual
citizens.
SEC. ". Every shipmaster, captain super
cargo, agent or other officer of any ship or
vessel, or other person who shall charter or
offer to charter his vessel, or who shall sell
f1plp nj z in any oil
or wharf, or personally purchase cargo or
collect freight, except through a licensed
broker or commission merchant, shall be con-
sldered commission merchant and pay the
tax hereinafter prescribed for commission
merchants.
SEC. V. Every person transacting or Offering
to transact either of the kinds of business
hereinafter specified shall pay the tax herein
after prescribed, for every separate place in
which he shall transact or offer to transact
business, viz:
or auctiOneer and broker, two hundred dol
lars.
Every dealer in goods, wares and merchan-
disc. including dealers IN drugs etc. lin addi-
| ton to liquor license), as follows:
Every dealer exclusively retail, forty dol
lars.
Every dealer exclusively wholesale, or re-
| tail dealer selling at wholesale, one hundred
| and seventy dollars.
Every banker or bank agent, or agents of
bankers engaged in buying or selling eX-
doing a banking business, two hundred and
fifty dollars; every bank, five hundred dol
lars.
Every cotton broker. broker or dealer in
stocks and BONDS, money broker, and every
produce. grocery and naval stores broker, eN-
elusive of brokers in liquor, seventy five dol
lars.
Every ship broker one hundred dollars.
Every dealer in butter, lard and cheese, or
dealer in hides, wax and tallOw, eighty OOl-
lars.
Every broker for the sale of horses or cattle,
who keeps no stable for the sale of the same,
fifty dollars;
Every paWnbrOker two hundred dollars:
Every building and loan association fifty
Every loan association doing a banking
business two hundred dollars;
Every insurance company doing business,
whether directly or through an agency, two
hundred dollars;
Every person who shall be sworn by the
MaYor who is hereby authorized to admins
weigher of any goods, wares or merchandise,
twenty-five dollars;
Every local average or insurance adJuster,
other than an agent of an insurance company,
fifty dollars;
Every keeper or keepers of hotel. that
contains seventy-hve rooms or upwards, two
hundred dollars;
Every keeper or keepers of a hotel that
contains under seventy rooms and having
fifty rooms, one hundred dollars;
Every keeper or keepers of hotel that con-
| tains 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-fve dollars ;
| Every agent for or dealer in fertilizers, not
paying tax as commission merchant, one
| hundred and seventy dollars;
Every sailor boarding house keeper, fifty
dollars;
Every runner for sailor boarding house,
frxynr1 tyr-t five al
Every owner or owners, lessee or lessees Of
| a cotton press establishment, three hundred
| dollars; every hand cotton press, twenty-five
| dollars;
Every the owner or owners lessee or essees 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, one hun
| dred and seventy dollars; and all buyers of
| loose cotton, who buy from other than cotton
merchants, one hundred and seventy dollars;
Every the owner or owners of steam cot
| ton gin establishment, one hundred dollars;
Every commission merchant or factor, or
exporter, or agency or representative of firm
Of exporters two hundred dOllarsj
Every stevedore, fifty dollars;
Every the owner or owners of a lumber
| yard, seventy-five 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, forty dollars;
Every the owner or owners, lessee or keeper
! 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 a 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 a saw mill or
planning mill, with or without lumber yard
attached, one hundred and twenty-five dol
lars, and on each sash and blind factory,
| twenty-five dollars;
On the owner or owners of every steam
| engine used for hosting purposes, or any
| other business where steam is used, not
regularly taxed, as In this ordinance stated
and enumerated. twenty five dollars;
Every cotton shipper fifty dollars;
Every cotton weigher twenty-five dollars;
Every shoemaker ten dollars;
Every merchant tailor forty dollars
Every circus, for each and every day eX-
| hibiting in the city, two hundred dollars !:
| flying horses or itinerant shows not otherwise
| taxed, five dollars per week;
Every grinder of a hand organ three dollars
per month;
| Every theatrical troupe. minstrel troupe,
| or other troupe acting or performing in this
city. three dollars for each performance;
| Every person or partnership running a
grst mill worked by steam, forty dollars; if
worked by horse power, twenty dollars,
| every person running a flour mill, or flour
! and grist mill driven by steam eighty dollars
Every bread or cake bakery carried on by
means Of steam machinery, one hundred dol
lars II carried on without steam. forty dollars
Every master builder, mason or mechanic,
| and other mechanics not otherwise taxed,
| taking contracts for work, architects, civil
| engineers, surveyors, contractors other than
| builders, twenty dollars;
Real estate collectors and agents, and other
| collectors and agents, and ticket agents,
| twenty-five dollars:
Every the keeper or keepers of an inteli-
on 1Ol1 ar for aolea