The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-10
OFFICIAL.

Every shoemaker, ten dollars:
Every merchant tailor, forty dollars;
in the city, two hundred dollars; flying horses,
or itmerant 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 Stroiing
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
performances;
Every person or partnership running a grist
mill, worked by steam, forty dollars; if worked
by horse power twenty dollars; every person
running flour mil. or -four and grst 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;
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 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 tive
dollars, and every weekly newspaper worked by
hand, ten dollars;
Every lob 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 5 -da 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 IA
license for which he shall pay forty dollars; and
as a prerequisite to the issuing of such license,
everN plumber and gaStitter shall, on or before
the 10Th day of January, 1888, make and file
with the Clerk of Council bond in the sum of
$1,000 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 or default
of such plumber or gaSfitter in negligently clos
ing or leaving open excavations in the public
streets; and no person shall do or perform the
work of plumber or gasftter without first TAX
ing out said license, under penalty. upon con
victiou before the Police Court, of a fine of not
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, as part of the
same tax, thirty dollars for each and every car
at any time used by such company in 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.a and which shall be mum
bered and which shall aISOiudicate whether The
car upon which such badge shall b. placed is an
open closed car; it snail furthermore be re
quired that each and every car employed by
each and every street railroad company shall
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curely fastened in a conspicuous place upon
outside such car
Every keeper of a skating rink, twenty-five
dollars,
Every undertaken or coffin warehouse, forty
dollars;
Every person engaged in loading or unloading
vessels by horse power. twenty-f five dollars for
each hosting apparatus used;
Every express company, three hundred dol
lars, and in addition thereto as part of same
tax, ten dollars for every one horse baggage ex-
press wagon, and eighteen dollars forevery two
horse baggage express wagon employed by such
company;
Every bill poster or distributor, ten dollars;
Every blacksmith shop, each forge. eight dol
lars;
Every owner, proprietor or keeper of buck
ct shop or place where futures are sold, five
hundred dollars;
Every cooper shop, twenty dollars;
Every carriage repository one hundred dol
lars: every carriage or wheelwrght shop for
manufacturing or repairing. twenty five dollars;
EVERY cigar manufacturer or retailer, twenty
dollars;
Every dye house, twenty dollars;
Every millinery establishment, ten dollars;
Every gunsmth esta blishment, ten dollars
Every foundry, fifty dollars; machine shop,
fifty dollars; every foundry and machine shop
one hundred dollars;
Every menagerie, fifty dollars per day;
Every marble and stone yard, eighty dollars;
Every oyster and fish dealer forty dollars;
Every shipping master, one hundred dollars
Each and every shooting gallery, one hundred
dollars:
Every the owner or owners of every green
grocery, one hundred dollars;
Every stencil cutter, twenty dollars;
Every tailor not registered as merchant, ten
dollars;
Every the owner or owners of a marine rail
way or dry dock, fifty dollars;
Every dealer paying a tax as a whole
sale dealer shall be permitted to do any
business hereinbefore taxed. paying a less
tax than tax for a wholesale dealer, without
paying any other specific tax;
Every person engaged in the business Of
transporting or carrying goods, wares, mer-
chandise, passengers or bag 3age, for hire, by
means of wagons, drays, trucks. carts, omni-
buses, or carriages Of any description, or of let
ting carriages other vehicles for hire shall
pay a tax according to the number and charac
ter of vehicles employed in such business viz:
every person employing one ne-horse cart or
wagon, eight dollars; every person employing
one one-hOrse dray or truck, ten dollars; every
person employing one one-borse cab, hack
or buggy or vehicle of any description.
not otherwise specifically mentioned, ten dol
lars; every person employing one two-hOrse cart
or wagon, dray or truck, eighteen dollars; every
person employing one two horse cab, hack,