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

time specified, or TO afford to the City Treasurer
free access TO the list of stockholders kept in
the Office or place of business of said bank or
banking association, II shall be the
duty of the Treasurer 10 obtain from the
Governor of the State Of Georgia, in the case Of
banks organized under the laws OF this State or
from the Comptroller of the Currency of the
United States, in cases OF banks organized UNI
der the laws of the United States, the last pre-
ceding list of the stockholders Of such bank,
and assess theretrom the taxes to be paid by
the stockholders thereof for their shares
SEC, II. All taxes hereby required for real and
personal property held ON the first day Of
January, 1888, and for business in which any
person shall be engaged at that date. and of
persons having vehicles and dogs in said city az
that date, shall be considered as due on the
first day of January, 1888, and all taxes required
of persons commencing to transact any bust
ness, for which tax is required, after the first
day of January 1888, or commencing after that
date To use vehicles and street rail
way cars not then in use, or bringing
any dog or dogs into said city, shall be due inn
mediatey upon the commencing of such bust
ness, using such vehicles or bringing
such doE into the city. And all taxes Of
every kind, shall be payable to the city
Treasurer provided, nevertheless, that any tax
upon properly assessed for the whole year may
be paid quarterly, at the option Of the tax
payer computing from the first of January,
iSoS, but in the event that any quarters tax is
not paid when the same is payable, then the
Treasurer shall issue an execution for the
amount of the tax for the year remaining un-
or firm commencing business in this city after
July /, 1855, or running after that date vehicles
for the transportation of goods, wares or mer-
chandise, or passengers, or keep
convenience any vehicle or vehicles, which were
not run before that date, upon making prompt
return of the same within ten days after such
business has commenced, or such vehicles have
been run, he or they shall be taxed One-half of
the yearly tax assessed by this ordinance pro
vided such tax he paid within fifteen days after
such return, otherwise the entire tax shall be
collected The term vehicle, as used in this
section, shall include street railway cars.
SEC. H. II any person or corporation shall re-
fuse or neglect TO pay any tax required by tins
ordinance, within thirty days after the same
shall be due and payable as above provided, or
shall neglect or refuse to pay any double tax
assessed as above provided for, twenty days
after notice has been served on such person or
corporation of such assessment, the City Treas
urer shall issue execution therefor, and for the
further sum of one dollar for costs and the City
Marshal shall proceed with such executions in
the same manner as q Sheriff does under execu-
tons from the Superior Courts OF this
State, subject TO the provisions Of the
act of the General Assembly OF the
State of Georgia, passed February "a, 1877
Every person or corporation who shall pay his
or its taxes on real or personal property, or
both, promptly within fifteen days after the first
of April, July, October and January, the time
hereinbefore specified for the payment thereof,
shall he entitled to deduction of ten per centum
of the amount thereof and the City Treasurer
is hereby directed to make such deduction upon
the receipt Of the tax; and every person or cor
poratiOn who shall pay any other taxes required
by this ordinance promptly within thirty days
after the same shall become due shall be enti-
tied to "A deduction Of ten per centum of the
amount thereof, and the City Treasurer is hereby
directed to make such deduction upon the re-
ceipt of the tax
SEC. 10. Every person transacting or offer
ing to transact either Of the kinds of business
hereinafter named, who are in business on the
HratI aV " January 1893 ahalI within thirty
days after the first day of January, 1878, take
out a license therefor, viz: every auctioneer;
every broker; every commission merchant;
every plumber; every barber, and all others do
ing business without any stock in trade; every
owner or lessee of junk shop or cotton pick
cry; every junk dealer; every vendor of small
wares, huckster, hawker, including dealers in
ice cream, fruit and poultry, keeper of n cook
stove or cook shop; and IL is hereby declared to
be the meaning of this ordinance that the
license granted to an auctioneer shall not au-
thorize such auctioneer to sell for any transient
dealer. unless such transient dealer has first
paid all taxes required Of him by this ordinance.
Every licensed auctiOneer shall have the
privilege OF appointing one assistant crier. whose
name shall be recorded in the Treasurer's Office
and entered on tine license issued And no per
son shall be permitted to be an auctioneer or
vendue master until he shall have complied
with the conditions contained in section 1875 of
the Revised Code of Georgia, known as the
Code of 1882 And in every license taken out
by the owner or lessee of junk shopper cotton
pickery or by a junk dealer, il shall be dis
tinctly expressed that such junk shop or cot
ton pickery, or junk dealer, shall always be
stbject TO the visitation of the police Of the city,
and that such persons shall not purchase from
any one under the age of sixteen years, dupli
cate of which license, signed by the person or
persons taking out the same, and expressing
his or their assent to such conditions shall be
retained by the City Treasurer and on refusal to
submit at any time TO such visitation or on
conviction in the Police Court of having pur-
chased from any one under the age of sixteen
years, such license shall he revoked and such
junk shop or cotton pckery shall Immediately
be closed by the Mayor And every such junk
shop, junk dealer or cotton pickery license shall
be subject to the further condition that the
same shall be subject to revocation by the
Mayor, it, on examination before him in the
Police Court, he shall be satisfied and shall so
pronounce that any city, corporation or pri-
vate property is found in any such junk shop,
or in the possession of any junk dealer; and
such condition shall be expressed in the license
of every such junk shop or dealer.
Every person required by the provisions Of this
section and by the ordinance passed in Council
March IA, 1883, in reference TO taking out
licenses, who shall commence TO transact or
offer to transact in this city any of the kinds of
business mentioned in this section, after the first
day Of January, 1893, shall take out license be
fore commencing business, as provided in said
ordinance passed March H. 1888, which said or
dnanCe is of force.
The license herein provided for shall be issued
by the City Treasurer. And If any person trans
of the kinds of business in this section specified,
shall be found without such license displayed in
a conspicuous manner in his, her or their place
of business he or she shall, on conviction there
of in the Police Court, be fined in a sum not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not
more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion
of the court.
SEC. IA. On and after the first day of January,
1888 the price of license to sell malt, vinous
or spirituous liquors at retail within the corpo
rate and jurisdictional limits of said city for
one year shall be two hundred dollars net
without discount; but a license to sell at retail
may be issued upon paying one-fourth OF the
sum due for yearly license and upon giving
notes with Endorsements or suretfes satisfactory
TO the Mayor. to secure the payment Of the
other three-fourrhs Of said sum in three equal
payments on the twelfth of March, twelfth of
June and twelfth of September, 1883, the said
payments 10 be made whether person giving snch
notes or surety shall go out Of business or not;
and the applicant shall be required TO submit as
securities two responsible freeEOlders OF this
city as prerequisite TO the issue OF said license;
mo officer, clerk or employc Of the city
shall be taken security on such bonds, and it
shall be the duty of the Mayor TO pass upon
such bonds before any license is issued hereun-
der, and no license for the sale Of malt, vlnOus
spirituouS liquors, shall cover any other bust
ness whatever than the sale of malt, vinous or
spirituous liquors. and shall apply to but one
place for the sale Of said liquors, whether under
one roof or otherwise, under u penalty ofnot
more than one hundred dollars, And no bar
room shall be licensed which has not an entrance
TO il separate and distinct from the entrance TO
the dwelling; and the license
may, in the discretion of the Mayor, be forfeited
for violation OF any State law or city
ordiuan nee. and in the case Of forfeiture the