Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-15
and assess therefrom the taxes to be paid BY

/ CITY
| at that date, shall be considered as due on the
| last day allowed for the making of re-
| turns thereof: and all taxes required
| OF persons commencing to trans
/ act any business, for which a tax is required,
| after the first day of January 1885. or com
| menclng after that date to use vehicles not
| then IN use, or bringing any dog or dogs into
/ said city shall be due Immediately upon the
| making of the returns therefor. And all
| taxes, OF every Kind, shall be payable to the
| city treasurer; provided, nevertheless, that
| any tax upon property assessed for the whole
| year, may be paid quarterly, at the option OF
| the tax payer, computing from the first day
| OF January, 1855. But any person or firm,
commencing business in this city after july l.
| 1850, or running, after that date, vehicles for
| the transportation OF goods, wares or mer-
| chandise, or keeping or using for pleasure or
convenience any vehicle or vehicles. which
| were rot run before that date, upon making
prompt return OF the same within ten days
after such business has commenced. or such
vehicles have been run, he or they shall be
taxed one-half of the yearly tax assessed bv
this ordinance, provided such tax be paid
within ten days after such return, otherwise
the entire tax shall be collected.
SEC. MI. If any person or corporation shall
refuse or neglect to pay any tax required of
him or her by this ordinance, within thirty
days after the same shall be due and payable
as above provided, or shall neglect or refuse
to pay any double tax assessed against him or
her as above provided, for twenty days after
notice published in the official paper of the
treasurer
shall issue execution therefor. and for the fur
Their sum of one dollar for costs, at any time
within the calendar year for which such tax
was assessed, or three months afterwards
and the City Marshal shall proceed with such
executions IN the same manner as a Sheriff
does under executions from the Superior
Courts of this State, subject to the provisions
OF the act Of the General Assembly of the
State Of Georgia, passed February q, 1877
Every person or corporation, who snail pay
his or Its taxes on real or personal property,
or both, promptly within fifteen days after
the first OF April, July. October and January
the time herein before specified for the pay
ment thereof, shall be entitled to a deduction
of ten per centum of the amount thereof and
the City Treasurer Is hereby directed to make
such deduction upon the receipt of the tax:
and every person or corporation who shall
pay any other taxes required by this Ordi =
nance promptly within thirty days after the
same shall become due, shall be entitled to a
deduction OF ten per centum of the amount
thereof, and the City Treasurer is hereby di-
recteJ to make such deduction upon the re-
ceipt of the tax.
SEC. XIII. Every person transacting or offer
ing to transact either of the kinds of the bust
ness hereinafter named, who are in business on
the first day of January, 1885,, shall within thirty
days after the first day of January, 1885, take
out license therefor, VIZ: Every auctiOneer /;
every owner or lessee OF junk shop or cotton
pickery; every junk dealer; every vendor Of
small wares, huckster, haWker, including
dealers In ice cream, fruit and poultry, keeper
Ol COOK stove or COOK SnOp, drummer. run
ner or solicitor of a trade or orders, without a
liked place of business; every peddler, timer
ant or transient trader, and transient persons
selling or offering to sell by samples; and it is
hereby declared to be the meaning of this or
dnance, that the license granted to an auc-
tlOneer shall not authorize such auctioneer to
sell for any transient dealer unless such
transient dealer has first paid all taxes re-
CURED of him by this ordinance. Every
licensed auctiOneer shall have the privilege Of
appointing one assistant crler, whose name
shall be recorded in the Treasurers office,
ana entered on the license issued. And no
person shall be permitted to be an auctiOneer
or vendue master until he shall have complied
with the conditions contained in section 1925
OF the Revised Code of Georgia, known as the
Code of 1892. And in every license taken out
by the owner or lessee of junk shop or cot
ton plckery, or by junk dealer, 1t shall be
distinctly expressed that such Junk shOD or
cotton plckery, or junk dealer, shall always
be subject TO the visitation of the police OF the
city, and that such persons shall not purchase
from any one under the age of sixteen years;
duplicate OF which license, signed by the
person or persons taking out the same, and
expressing his or their assent to such cOndi-
tons, shall be retained by the Clerk of Coun-
Gil, ana on refusal to submit at any time to
such VISITATION or on convection in the Police
Court OF having purchased from any one under
Ihe age OF sixteen years, such license shall be
revoked, and such junk shop or cotton pickery
snail Immediately be closed by the Mayor.
And every such junk shop, junk dealer or cot
ton plckery license shall be subject to the fur
ther condition that the same shall be subject
to the revocation by the Mayor, if, on eX-
animation before him in the Police Court, he
shall be satisfied and shall so pronounce that
any city, corporation or private property is
found IN any such junk shop, or in the posses
sion OF any Junk dealer: and such condition
shall be expressed in the license of every such
junk shop or dealer. Every person required by
the provisions of this section and by the
ordinance passed III Council March H.
1888, IN reference to taking out licenses who
snail commence to transact or offer to transact
IN this city any of the kinds of business men
TONED IN this section, after the first day of
January, 1889, shall take out license before
commencing business, as provided in said or
dlnance passed March IA, 1888, which SAID or
dinance Is of force.
The licenses herein provided for shall be is
sued by the Clerk of Council. and he
signed by the Mayor, attested by the Clerk.
and impressed with the seal of the CITY, And
II any person transactlng, or Offering to trans
act, IN sald city, either of the kinds of busI-
ness in this section specified, shall be found
without such license displayed IN a cOnspicu-
GUS manner In his, her or their place of bust
ness, he or she, shall on conviction thereof in
the Follce Court, be fined in a sum not eX-
ceedlOg one hundred dollars, or imprisoned
not more than thirty days or both, in the dis
erection of the court.
SEC NV. On and after the first day of
January 1889, the price of a license to sell
malt, YlnOu5 or sprltuOus liquor at wholesale
or at retail and wholesale within the
corporate and jurisdictional limits of
shall be two hundred dollars and the price of
license TO sell malt, VinOus or sDfrituous
liquor at retail within the corporate limits of
said city north of Anderson street west of
BllbO canal and east of Musgrove creek for
one year, shall be one hundred and fifteen
dollars, and the applicant shall be re-
CURED to submit as securities two re-
spOnslDe freehOlders of this CITY as n
prerequisite to the issue Of said
license; and no license for the sale of malt
Ylnous or splrltuous liquors shall cover any
other business whatever than the sale of malt
ylnOus or splrltuous liquors, and shall apply
to but one place for the sale of said LIQUORS
whether under one roof or otherwise under
a penalty OF not more than one hundred dol
lars. And no barrOOm shall be licensed which
has not an entrance to it separate and dis
tlnct from the entrance to the dwelling:
and the license shall be forfeited for
a second violation of any State law or city
ordinance; and, in the case Of forfeiture, the
license shall not be renewed for the space of
two years, except by the permission of COun-
Gil. And 1t shall be the duty of the Clerk of
Council to publish quarterly an alphabetical
list of all persons licensed to sell LIQUORS as
aforesaid. All such licenses shall be taken
out by persons already engaged In business
within thirty days after the first day of Janu-
uary, 1883, ana IN the case of persons wishing
to commence business later in the wear he
fore commencing business; and any dealer in
liquors as aforesaid, failing or refusing to
take out llcenee to sell liquors as aforesaid,
shall be liable to penalty of not more than
one hundred dollars for every day any such
person may sell without a license, or be i'm
prlsOned for thirty days, or both, and un-
der the regulations above prescribed the
price of license to sell malt, vinous or spIr-
ltuOus liquors at retail outside of said above
defined limits and within the jurisdictional
limits of the city Of Savannah for one wear
shall be the sum of fifty dollars, Every dr1m-
mer, runner or other person, whether resi-
dent OF this city or elsewhere, and having no
liked place OF business in the city, dealing in
malt, VlnOus or spirituOus liquors transacting
or Offering to transact such business shall nav
the same tax required of resident anG sta
tlonary dealers IN malt, vnOus or spirituOus
liquors, provided, however, that any such
person or persons dealing in malt, vinous or
splrltuous liquors transacting or Offering to
transact such business and selling only to the
resident dealers, may take out license for one
week, for which shall be paid the sum of
thirty dollars for each and every week or part
of week that they shall be engaged in bust
ness IN this city, which shall be in lieu of tax
herein provided.
SEC. XIV. Every person transacting or offer
ing to transact the business of transporting
or carrying goods, etc, passengers or bag
gage, IOf hfe, by means of wagons, draws.
trucks, or other vehicles; and every keeper
of public or livery stable employing such
VenlcleS IN his business, and every other per-
son keeplng and using vehicles in other kinds
OF business, shall, upon paying the tax here
InbefOre prescribed. take ont bad0e when
viii be furnished by the Clerk of Council for
each vehicle to be employed in such business
(the number OF vehicles to be EMPLOYED
to be stated on OATH, which shall be placed in
a conspicuous place on such vehicle-eXcept
vehicles kept by keepers of public or livery
stables, to be let for hire, and vehicles used
for pleasure or convenience--and any person
using or employing any vehicle on such bust
ness, without such a badge affixed, except as
aforesaid, shall, on conviction thereof in the
Police Court, be fined in sum not exceeding
one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not
more than thirty days, or both, in the discre-
ton of the court.
SEC. XVI. The ordinance of November l6,