The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
An Ordinance
To Raise Supplies for the Town Of Alb.
beville, 5. e., for the Year 1886.

DEIT ORDAINED BY THE INTENDANT
ID and Wardens Of the Town or AbbeV1!le,
s. c., in Council assembled, and by authority
the manner hereinafter named shall be raised
and paid into the treasury of the Town Coun-
ell for the uses and purposes thereof for the
year 1885.
SECTION l. On every one hundred dollars
of the cash value Of all renl and personal es-
tate within the incorporation Of the said Town
of Abbeville the sum OF fifteen cents
SEC. 2. On each billiard and pool table or
ten pin alley kept for hire the sum Of Twenty.
five Dollars on the first table or alley anu
Twenty-Five Dollars for each table or alley
more than one kept by the same owner on
each bagatelle table kept for hire the sum OF
Fifteen Dollars
SEC. 3. For each license TO retail spirltuous
liquors in the Town of Abbevillc the sum of
Two Hundred Dollars for the year. beginring
with the first day of January. 1856, and end,
ing on the first day Of January, 1887: The said
sums payable in three equal installments In
advance. said dealer or dealers to give bond
and security for payment of said sum OF mon,
ey, and If at any time during the year the SAID
Whole Whole amount az ] Of Two Hundred Dollars shall
Immediately become due and payable, and
any person or persons doing business the
whole or any part Of the year shall pay the
whole sum Of Two Hundred Dollars.
SEC. 4. That all male persons between, the
ages Of sixteen and fifty years, except th0se
physically unable to earn support, are ilaoic
to road duty and shall be required to
within With I'll the in Incorporation Of the Town Of Alb
beville five days under the direction OF tne
Town Council. The communication for said
road duty 10 be the sum of Two Dollars 10 ne
paid at the time of payment OF other :taxes'
TO wit, on or before the first day OF March.
All persons refusing or failing to work nve
full days to be accepted and approved by Inc
Council or pay the above communication snall
be liable to pay such fine and penalty Us tne
T~,,S, S,<.i fnnF
SEC, S. That all itinerant auctioneers.
pedders and other transient persons, except
vendors of farm produce raised in the Coun-
ty, offering at retail any goods whatsoever
for sale, shall pay a license OF not more than
Twenty five Dollars nor less than One Dollar
per day.
SEC s. That all circuses shall pay license
or One Hundred Dollars for each anu i,,S every cry
what are commonly known as side-shows at.
tached to circus, shall pay license or not
more than Fifty nor less than Two DOLLARS
for each exhibition.
SEC. 7. Thatall returns shall be made un-
der oath on or before the first day OF Febru-
ary, 1886, and all taxes shall be due and pay.
able Oh or before the first day OF March, 1855.
If any person or persons shall refuse or neg
In the time specified the Treasurer or the
Town Council IL hereby authorized and re.
quired to add twenty per ce1'tum penai1y, ano q
II the tax with the penalty Is not paid Wlthln
thirty days thereafter, 1t shall be the duty OIL
the Treasurer Of the Council to issue eXacu'
tions therefor Immediately and collect the
same by due process of law, as provided IN
the charter of said Town Of Abbeville.
SEC, 8. The Town Council or a quorum
thereof shall constitute board Of assessors
to attix the value of property returned for
taxation.
SEC. 9. Ii any person or persons shall refuse
or neglect to make return OF their property
for taxation within the time prescribed here
in, the return of last year with twenty per
centan, added shall he deemed and taken by
the Treasurer to be the true. value Oh tneli
property for taxation and it shall be assessed
at that rate.
Done and Ratified in Council and the seal o
the Town Council affixed this 2Srd day o1
December, eighteen hundred and eighty-nVe
J. S. HAMMOND,