The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-07
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tax ten dollars for every horse baggage ex-
press wagon, and eighteen dollars for every
such company.
Every bin poster or distributor, ten dollars.
Every blacksmith shop each forge, eight
| dollars
Every owner, proprietor or keeper of a
bucket shop" or a place where futures are
| sold, five hundred dollars.
Every cooper shop twenty dollars.
| Every carriage repository, one hundred dol
| lars; every carriage or wheelwright shop for
| lars
Every cigar manufacturer or retailer, twenty
| dollars
Every dye house. twenty dollars.
Every millinery establishment, ten dollars.
Every guusmith establishment, 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
J grocery, one hundred dollars.
Every Stencil-cutter twenty dollars.
| Every tailor not registered as merchant, ten
Every the owner or owners of marine rail
| way or dry dock, fifty dollars.
| Every dealer paying a tax as a Wholesale
|
hereinbefore taxed, paying less tax than tax
| Tor wholesale dealer without paying any other
| specific tax
Every person engaged in the business of
| transporting or carrying goods, wares, uer-
| chandlse, passengers or baggage, for hire, by
means of wagons, drays, trucks, carts. omn-
buses or carriages OF any description or of let
| ting carriages other vehicles for hire, shall
| pay tax according to the number and char
| acter of vehicles employed In such business. viz
every person employing one one-horse cart or
| 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
| horse cart or wagon, dray or truck eighteen
dollars; every person employing one two-horse
cab, hack, buggy, omnibus, carriage, or vehicle
| OF any description, eighteen dollars; every per
| son employing one three horse dray or truck
| twenty-five dollars; every person employing
one four-horse dray or truck thirty five dollars
every person employing one four-horse omni
bus, forty dollars, and the tax to be paid by any
person employing more than one vehicle of the
| same or different kinds, shall be according to
the number of vehicles employed, at the rates
| above specified.
Every keeper of a sale and feed stable eighty
| dollars; but nothing herein contained shall
| authorize the keeper of such sale and feed
stable to sell any live stock OF any other person
without first paying the brokers' or dealers tax
| as required under this ordinance; every keeper
| of a pubic or livery stable, eighty dollars ;
every keeper of a feed stable only fifty dollars
and in addition thereto, as part of the same tax
| according to the number and character of any
vehicles employed in such business, either by
letting for hire or in the transportation of goods
| passengers, or baggage, at the rates above
| specified for taxes to be paid by persons en-
| gagged in the business of transporting, ETC., for
| hire.
| Every person employing OF using one or more
| vehicles of any sort to be drawn by one or
more horses or mules in connection with any
| business in which he may be engaged, for the
| purpose of delivering goods sold by him or
| her, or in any other manner, shall pay in addi-
| ton to the specific tax required of him for such
| business and as part thereof, graduated tax
| similar to that hereinbefore required of persons
en- gagged in the business of transportating, etc,
| for hiro, according TO the number and character
| of such vehicles and at the same rate.
Every huckster, including dealers in ice
| cream, fruit, small paint shops, vendors Of
small wares, and keepers Of cook stove or
| cook shop ten dollars.
| Every street dealer in poultry, for which q
| badge shall be issued, fifteen dollars;
Every drummer, runner, or other person
| soliciting trads or orders, business for an
| other or for himself, whether resident of this
| city or elsewhere, and having no fixed place of
| business in this city, and every peddler and
| itinerant transient trader, and every transient
person selling or Offering to sell by sample shall
| pay the same tax required of resident and sta
| tionery dealers in the same articles, and no
officer of the city shall be authorized to reduce,
| or in anywiss change such tax so re-
| CURED, nor shall such itinerant dealer be al
| lowed TO sell his wares under the license of any
auctioneer or under the name OF any factor or
| commission merchant who has paid his tax as
| such, until he himself shall have paid all taxes
| required of him by this ordinance; provided
| however, that any transient person transacting
or Offering to transact any of the kind of business
| mentioned in tIis paragraph, selling offering
| only to resident dealers or manufacturers in 70
| specific article or commodity sold or offered by
| him or her aid not bringing into or keeping in
| the city any stock for purpose of delivery shall
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| Sec. 6. Every person keeping and using one
| or more vehicles of any sort to be drawn by one
| or more horses or mules. for purposes of pleas
| ure or convenience. shall pay tax graduate ted
| according to the number and character of such
vehic es, at the rates above prescribed for per-
sons engaged in the business of transporting
e DDS, ETC. for hire, but such vehicles shall not
be otherwise taxed.
| SEC. T. Tne occupant of any premises where
dog or dogs is or are kept, shall pay for every
dog so kept an annual tax of one dollar Upon
payment of this tax badge shall be issued to
the person paying the tax for the dog; and
| every dog found running at large without such
| badge Shall be impounded. and if not claimed
| within forty -eight hours shall be disposed of.
SEC. 8. The value of real property to be
taxed under the second section of this ordn-
ance shll be ascertained by means of the as
| easements provided for by the ordinance Of the
! city on that subject, or any ordinance amend
atory thereof the value of personal property to
| be taxed under the third section of this ordin-
| ance, the particulars and character of the bust
section of this ordinance, the number of
vehicles used or kept, under the sixth section of
| this ordinance, and the number of dogs kept
| as provided for in the seventh section of this
| ordinance, shall be ascertaned by means of the
| returns hereinafter presc ibed.
SEC Every person and corporation own
| ing real property In said city on the first day
of January, 1889, shall pay taxes upon such real
| property upon the assessment thereof as
| adopted by Council. Every person and corpo-
ration owning or holding in trust or ON consign-
| ment personal property in said city on the first
day of January, 1889, liable to be taxed under
the third and fifth sections Of this ordinance
except stocks in banks and banking associations
organized under the laws of this State or of the
United States, shall make a return thereof to
the City Treasurer within twenty days after that
date; and all returns of personal property shall
be inspected as soon as they are made, by
person to be designated by the Finance Com
mittee Of Council, who shall carefully and crlti-
cally examine the same, and if he
| finds, or has cause to believe. that such
return is not properly made so as
! TO show the amount of personal property
| owned by the person or persons or corporation
making the return subject to taxation, then he
shall forthwith proceed to assess the said per-
sopal properly of said person or corporation at
| its true vaue, as near as can be ascertaned by
| him, and as soon as the same is made he shall
send a copy Of the same TO the person or cor
pordtion whose return is thus corrected and
! tue person or corporation whose return is thus
corrected shall have the right to appeal from
such corrected return to the committee on as
| SeSsinents OF the city council within ten DAYS
after the mailing OF the notification Of the
! rection Of said return; and said committee
SHALL hear such return as soon as may he