The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-06
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JANUARY 6. 1883


Every keeper or keepers of q 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 coal. not paying tax as a
wholesale dealer, seventy-flve dollars
I Every dealer in stationery OF books selling
exclusively at wholesale, or at retail and whole
/ sale one hundred dollars;
Every retail dealer in stationery or books,
/ forty dollars;
/ paving tax as commission merchant, one hun
/ bred and seventy dollars;
Every sailor boarding house keeper fifty dol
lars;
| Every runner for a sailor boarding house
/ Every owner or owners, lessee or leSsees of a
1 cotton press establishment, three hundred dol
! lars; every hand cotton press, twenty-five dol
! lars;
Every the owner or owners, lessee or lessees
Of Junk shop, or junk dealer, one hundred and
| fifty dollars;
! to the purchase or sale of cotton, one hundred
and seventy dollars; and all buyers of loose
! cotton, who buy from other than cotton mer.
| chants, one hundred and seventy dollars;
| Every the owner or owners of a steam cotton
! gin establishment, one hundred dollars;
| Every commission merchant or factor, or eX-
porter OF cotton, lumber, naval stores or other
merchandise foreign or coastwlse, or agency,
| or representative of firm of exporters, two hun
dred dollars;
Every stevedore, fifty dollars;
Every the owner or owners of a lumber yard,
! seventy five dollars;
Every dealer in brick, or agent for sale of
| bricks, seventy five dollars;
| Every dealer in wood, forty dollars
! Every the keeper or keepers of warehouse
| for the storage of cotton, merchandise, goods
| etc. for each warehouse, forty dollars;
| Every the owner owners, lessee or keeper
| of a billiard table, other than those used in pri-
vate 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 keepers
of q bagatelle table, twenty-five dollars for each
table;
Every the owner or owners of a ten-pin alley,
| thirty dollars for each alley;
! Every the owner or owners OF a saw mill or a
| planning mill, with or without lumber yard at
tached, one hundred and twenty five dollars,
| and on each sash and blind factory or agency of
| sash and blind factory, seventy five dollars;
On the owner or owners of every steam engine
| used for hosting purposes, or any other bust
| ness 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;
I Every merchant tailor forty dollars
/ Every circus, for each and every performance
| in the city, two hundred dollars; flying horses,
| or itinerant shows one hundred dollars per week
or any part thereof;
Every dealer or vender of goods, wares, mer-
chandse, drugs and small wares, selling or in
| PRODUCING the same for sale by means of public
| exhibition, one hundred dollars per week or any
| part thereof;
Every grinder of a hand organ or strolling
| band of musicians, five dollars per week;
Every theatrical troupe minstrel troupe, or
| other troupe acting or performing in theatre or
public halls 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 flour m Il. 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; if carried on without steam, forty dollars;
Every master builder, mason or mechanic,
| ana other mechanics not otherwise taxed, taking
contract for work, architects, civil engineers,
| surveyors, contractors other than builders,
| twenty dollars;
| collectors and agents, and ticket agents and
| scalpers, twenty five dollars;
Every the keeper or keepers of an intelligence
| office, ten dollars for each office;
| Every mercantile or commercial agency, one
| hundred and fifty dollars;
Every daily newspaper printed by steam one
newspaper fifty dollars; every daily
newspaper worked by hand, twenty five
| dollars, and every weekly newspaper worked by
| hand. ten dollars;
| Every Job printing office worked by steam.
| gas or water motor, fifty dollars; if worked
! without steam, gas or water motor, twenty five
| dollars;
| Every manufacturer of soda water. selling
| from founts, twenty-five dollars; and manufac-
| turing and bottling soda water fifty dollars;
selling soda water from founts, ten dollars for
| each fount;
Every public steam laundry, twenty-five dol
| lars;
Every public laundry run without steam, ten
| dollars;
| Every bother of beer or ale fifty dollars;
| Every soap boiler and tanner, for each estab-
| lishment, ten dollars;
Every barber shop, four dollars for each chair
| used;
Every person engaged in the business of gas
| fitting or plumbing or both, shall take out a
| license for which he shall pay forty dollars; and
| prerequisite to the issuing of such license,
| every plumber and gasfitter shall. on or before
| the 18th day Of January, 1888 make and file
| with the Clerk of Council bond in the sum of
So 000 with good and sufficient securities, TO be
| approved by the Mayor, conditioned to comply
| with the ordinances of the city of Savannah
| and the rules and regulations governing the
| Water Works Department of said city, and to
answer over to the Mayor and Aldermen of the
| city of Savannah for all damages the city may
| sustain by reason of the negligence default
of such plumber or gasfitter In neglgently clos
| ing or leaving open excavations in the public
streets: and no person shall do or perform the
| work of plumber gasfitter without first tax
ing out said license. under penalty, upon con
viction before the Police Court, of a fine of not
/ exceeding one hundred dollars, or mpriSon-
| ment not exceeding thirty days either or both,
| in the discretion of the officer presiding in said
| court.
Every daguerrean artist, photographer, am
| brotyper and portrait painter, twenty-five dol
| lars:
Every steamboat. vessel or other agency, fifty
| dollars; every agency for ocean steamships
| each line, one hundred dollars;
Every cotton factory, one hundred dollars:
| Each and every coppersmith or manufacturer
| of stills, fifty dollars
| Every ice factory, one hundred dollars;
| Every wholesale dealer In ice one hundred
| dollars; every retail dealer in ice, ten dollars:
Each and every museum, twenty-five dollars;
Every gas company. five hundred dollars
| every electric light company, five hundred
dollars;
Every restaurant or eating house, without
liquor license, twenty-five dollars;
Every rice pounding or cleaning mill with or
without grist mill attached, two hundred dol
lars;
Every fortune teller or astrologer twenty-five
dollars;
Every telegraph company or agency five
hundred dollars: each and every telephone com
pany or exchange, six numbered dollars; each
independent telephone of two stations, two dol
lars and fifty cents
Every street railroad company, three hundred
dollars, and in addition thereto, cas- part of the
same tax. thirty dollars for each and every car
at any time used by such company ia the city:
It shall also be required, that each and every
street railroad company doing business in this
city shall take out badges for all cars employed
by them, which badges shall be furnished by
the City Treasurer and which shall be mum
bered and which shall also indicate whether the
car upon which such badge shall he placed is an
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