Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-24
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eyed capital in tine hands of individual citi-
zens.
SEC ". Every shipmaster, captain, super
cargo, agent, or other officer of any ship or
vessel. or other person who shall charter or,
oner To charter his vessel. or who shall sell
goods or articles of any kind from any vessel
or Wnarl, or personally purchase cargo or COL
lect freight. except through licensed broker
or commission merchant, shall be considered
commission merchant ard pay the tax here
naIter prescribed for commission merchants.
eEC.N. Every person transacting or Offering
10 transact either of the kinds of business
hereinafter specified shall pay the tax herein
alter prescribed for every separate place in
which he shall transact or offer TO transact
business, viz:
Every auctioneer and commission mer-
chant, or auctioneer and broker, two hundred
dollar;
Every dealer in goods, wares and merchan-
dlse, Including dealers in drugs, etc. lin ad-
dtlon to liquor tax or license). as follows:
lars,
Every dealer exclusively wholesale or re-
TAIL dealer selling at wholesale, one hundred
and seventy dollars;
Every dealer in liquor doing exclusively
wholesale business, three hundred dollars;
Every banker or bank agent, or agents of
bankers engaged in buying or selling ex-
change, including every insurance company
GOING banking business, two hundred and
hlty dollars; every bank, five hundred dol
lars;
Every cotton broker, broker or dealer in
STOCKS ana bonds, mo1ey broker, and every
produce, grocery and naval stores broker
exclusive OF brokers in liquor, seventy five
dollar:
Every ship broker, one hundred dollars:
Every dealer in butter, lard and cheese,
elRnty dollars;
Every dealer in hides. wax and tallow,
eighty dollars:
Every broker for the sale of horses, cattle
or mules, who Keeps no stable for the sale of
sum- eighty dollars;
Every dealer IN horses. cattle or mules,
VINO Keeps no stable for the sale of same.
eighty nollars;
Every pawnbroker, three hundred dollars:
dollars; '
Every loan association doing a banking
business. two hundred dollars;
Every fire or life Insurance company doing
business, whether directly or through an
agency, two hundred dollars;
Every marine, accident or other insurance
company doing business, whether directly or
through an agency, fifty dollars;
Every person who shall be sworn by the
Mayer (who is hereby authorized to admins
ter he oath for such purpose) as a public
weigher of any goods, wares or merchandise
twenty-f five dollars;
Every local average or insurance adjuster,
other than an agent Of an insurance company,
fifty dollars;
livery keeper or keepers of hotel that con-
talns seventy-ive rooms or upwards, two
hundred dollars;
Every keeper or keepers of hotel that con-
hfty rooms, one hundred dollars;
Every Keeper or keepers of "A hotel that con-
tains under fifty rooms, fifty dollars;
Every sewing machine agent or agency.
nifty dollars, the same for each and every
agency;
Every dealer in sewing machines, fifty dol
lars:
every dealer IN coal, seventv-five dollars:
Every agent for or dealer in fertilizers, not
paying tax as commission merchant, two hun
bred do lars;
Every sailor boarding house keeper, fifty
do liars;
Every runner for sailor boarding house
twenty-five dollars;
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 les
sees of junk shop, or junk dealer, one hun
dred aud fifty dollars;
A cotton pickery, to be confined exclusively
to the purchase or sale of cotton, one hundred
and seve Dty dollars; and all buyers of loose
cotton. who buy from other than cotton mer-
chauts, one hundred and seventy dollars;
Every the owner or owners of a steam co t.
ton gin establishment, one hundred dollars;
Every commission merchant or factor, or
exporter, or agency, or representative of firm
OF exporters, two hundred dollars;
Every stevedore, fifty dollars;
Every the owner or owners Of a lumber
yard, seventy dollars;
Every dealer in bricks, % agent for sale of
bricks, seventy-fve dollars:
Every dealer IN wood, forty dollars;
Every the keeper or Keepers of ware
house for the storage of cotton, merchandise
goods, ETC., for each warehouse, forty dollars:
Every the owner or owners lessee or
keeper of a billiard table, other than those
used in private dwellings, fifty dollars for
each table; for every pool table or tables on
which pool is played, one hundred and fifty
dollars;
Every the owner or owners, lessees or keep
ers Of bagatelle table, twenty-five dollars
for each table:
Every the owner or owners of q ten-pin
alley. thirty dollars for each alley;
Every the owner or owners of a saw mill or
planing mill, with or without lumber ward
attached, one hundred and twenty-five dol :
lars, and on each sash and blind factory or
| agency of sash and blind factory, seventy-hve
dollars;
On the owner or owners of every steam en-
CINE used for hosting purposes, or any other
business where steam is used, not regularly
taxed, as in this ordinance stated and emu
merated, twenty-five dollars;
Every cotton shipper, fifty dollars;
Every cotton wegher, 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:
wise taxed, twenty-five dollars per week;
Every grinder Of hand organ or strolllng
band of musicians. three dollars per week.
Every theatrical troupe, minstrel troupe or
other troupe acting or performing in this
city, three dollars for each performance;
Every person or partnership running grist
mill, worked by steam, forty dollars; if
worked by horse power, twenty dollars: every
person running a flour mill, or flDur and grist
mill driven by steam. eighty dollars;
Every bread or cake bakery carried on By
means of steam machinery, one bundled dol
lars; If carried on without steam, forty dol
lars:
Every master builder, mason or mechanic,
and other mechanics not otherwise taxed.
taking contract for work. architects. civil en- :
gineers, surveyors, contractors other than
builders, twenty dollars:
Real estate collectors and agents. and other
collectors and agents, and ticket agents and
scalpers, twenty-five dollars;
Every the keeper or keepers OF an lntelll-
gence Office, ten dollars for each office;
Every mercantile or commercial agency,
one hundred and fifty dollars;
Every daily newspaper printed by steam
one hundred dollars: every weekly or 9th r
newspaper, flftv dollars; every daily newspa-
per worked by b and, twenty i've dollars an d
every weekly newspaper worked by hand, ten
dollars.
Every job printing Office worked by steam,
gas or water motor. fifty dollars; II worked
without steam, gas or water motor, twenty
five dollars.
Every manufacturer of soda water, selling
from founts, twenty I've dollars; and manu-
featuring aud bottling soda water, fifty dol
lars; selling soda water from founts, ten dol
lars for each fOunt:
Every bother of beer or ale, fifty dollars:
Every soap boiler and tanner, for each
establishment, ten dollars;
Every barber shop, four dollars for each
chair used;
Every person engaged In the business of