The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-09
OEEICIAIA.


Every circus, for each and every performance
in the city, two hundred dollars; flying horses,
or itinerant shows. one hundred dollars per week
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 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 grist
mill, worked by steam, forty dollars if worked
by horse power, twenty dollars; every person
running flour m II. or -four aud 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;
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
hundred dollars; every weekly or other
newspaper. fifty dollars; every daily
newspaper worked by hand, twenty-five
dollars, and every weekly newspaper worked by
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 touutS, ten dollars for
each fount;
Every public steam laundry, twenty-five dol
lars
Every public laundry run without steam, ten
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
a prerequisite TO the issuing Of such license,
every plumber and gasttter shall, on or before
the 18th day of January, 1888, make and file
with the Clerk of Council bond IN the sum of
g., 900, 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 gastitter in negligently clos
ing or leaving open excavations IN the public
streets; and no person shall do or perform the
work of plumber or gashtter without first tax
ing out said license, under penalty, upon con
viction before the Police Court, of fine of not
exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprson-
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,
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Every cotton factory, one hundred dollars;
Each and every coppersmlth 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, nVe hundrel 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-fv
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, part of the
same tax thirty dollars for each and every car
at any time used by such company in the Citv
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 num-
Dered ana which shall aSOlndlcdte whether the
car upon which such badge shall be placed is an
open or closed car; it snail furthermore be re
quired that each and every car employed by
each and every street railroad company shall
have such badge as herenbefore provided, Sc
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-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 a 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 wheelwIight 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 gunsmith establishment, ten dollars;
Every foundry, fifty dollars machine shop,
fifty dollars; every foundry and machine shop,
one hundred dollars;
Every menagere, 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 a merchant, ten
dollars;
Every the owner or owners of marine rail
way or dry dock, fifty dollars;
Every dealer paying a tax as whole
sale dealer shall be permitted TO do any
business hereinbefore taxed. paying a less
tax than tax for wholesale dealer, without
paying any other specific tax;
Every person engaged in the business Of |
or carrying goods, wares mer-
chandise, passengers or bag age, for hire, by
buses, or carriages Of any description, or OF let
ting carriages or other vehicles for hire shall
pay tax according TO the number and chaiac- !
ter OF vthicles employed in such business, VIZ: |
every person employing one one-horse cart or
wagon, eight dollars every person employing |
one one-hOrse dray or truck ten dollars; every
person employing one one-horSe 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 /
buggy. omnibus, carriage, or vehicle Of any
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