The morning news., 1891-12-21

Scsvenger department. nt..-..............
Streets and lanes..- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000.
Water WOIhSs .ss'. ''s'r.s..- -.....
Water works new W)..................... .......
Sinking fund. ......-....... ..........
Interest .......................
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An ORDINANCE TO assess and levy taxes and
raise revenue for the city Of Savannah: FOR
the regulation of CERTAIN kinds Of busise ess In
the corporate and Jurisdiotioual limits OF said
city; fixing penalties for the violation Of the
revenue ordinances of said city, and for osher
purposes connected with taxes and revenue
Of said city.
SECTION 1. The mayor and aldermen of the
hereby ordain. That from and after the first
day OF January, 1922. the Inhabitants of eaid
corporate and jurisdictional imits of said city
and those who hold taxable property within the
same, and those who transscts or ofrer 70 trans
oct, business therein, except such as arc exempt
from taxation by law, shall pay toward the
support Of the government Of said city. and for
the safety, benefit. convenience and advantage
I of said city, the taxes hereinafter prescribed.
SEC. e. Every person and corporation owning
/ real property in said city. including improve
ments, shall pay a tax 70 be assessed by coun-
Gil upon the value Of said property by the first
4 day Of April, le92, at the rate of one and one
H half per centum upon the value thereof, except
on such property as may be exempt from taxa
ton under the laws Of this state
i SEC g. Every person and corporation owning
or holding In trust or consignment household
kitchen or Office furniture, private or profes
sonal libraries. watches iewelry plate must
cal instruments, billiard tables In private resi-
denoes stocks in money corporations bonds
notes or other evidences Of debt, money aolv-
ent debts, stock in trade, and every other kind
Of personal property whatsoever, shalt pay q
tax at the rate Of one and one-haf per centum
On the value of such personal property so owned
or held on the frst day of january 1902, and II
IN business as a Wholesale or retail
dealer In goode, wares or merchan.
dise of any description whatsoeverafter the
frst day Of january, 1ssG, they shall pay tax
on the value of such goods and merchandise
(as they may be possessed Of on the day of
the date of their beginning business in said
city, which tax shall be Of such proportion of
said tax as the time left in said year shall bear
to the whole year, except such as may be ex-
empt from taxation by the laws Of this state or
Of the United States.
SEC. Every shipmaster captain supercar-
CO. agent or other officer Of any ship or vessel
or other persons who shall charter or offer TO
charter his vessel or who shall sen goods or
articles Of any kind from any vessel or wharf,
personally purchase cargo or collect freight
except through licensed broker or commits
sion merchant, shall be considered a commits
sion merchant and pay the tax hereinafter
prescribed for commission merchants.
Sac. 5. Every person transacting or Offering
20 transact either OF the kinds of business here
inafter specified shall pay the tax hereinafter
prescribed for every separate place Ia which he
shall transact or offer to transact business,
viz:
Every auctioneer and commission merchant
or auctioneer and broker. two hundred dollars.
Every dealer ih goods, wares and merchan-
disc, including deaaersin drugs, etc. lin addition
to liQsor tax or ncehseA as follows:
Every dealer exclusively retail. thirty dollars.
Every dealer exclusively wholesale. Or retaii
dealer selling at wholesale, one hundred 1ollars
Every dealer in liquor doing Wholesale bush
ness, two hundred dollars
Every banker or bank agent or agents of
bankers engaged in buying or selling exchange
including every person or company doing q
banking business, every bank With savings
department attached, every bank without q
savings department attached, and every savings
bank, ffty dollars,
Every cotton brokeE broker or deaier In
stocks and bonds. money broker, and every
produce grocery and naval stores broker. ex-
elusive Of brokers in liquor, seventy five doll
lars.
Every ship broker one hundred dollars.
Every dealer In butter, lard and cheese. eighty
dollars.
Every dealer in hides. wax and tallow. eighty
dollars.
Every broker for.the sale Of horses, cattle, or
mules, who keeps no stable for the sale of same,
eighty dollars.
Every deeler in horses, cattle or mules, who
keeps no stable for the sale Of same eighty doh
lars.
Every pawnbroker, five hundred dollars.
Every building and loan association, fifty dol
lars.
Every loan association doing banking busi-
Every fire or iife insurance company doing
business. whether directly or through an agency,
two Hundred dollars.
Every marine, accident or other insurance
company doing business, whether directly or
through an agency, fifty dollars
Every person who shall be sworn by the
mayor [who Ia hereby Authorized to sdnipister
the oath for such pufpose) as public weighef
OF any goods, wares or merchandise, twenty
I've dollars.
Every average or insurance adduster for COM
panies for which he rs nottne local insurance
Every keeper or keepers OF hotel that con-
eains seventy-flve rooms or upward. one hun
dred dollars.
Every keeper or keepers of a hotel that con-
tains under seventy-five rooms fifty dollars.
Every sewing machine agent or agency, fifty
dollars; the same for each and every agency.
Every dealer in sewing machines, fifty dol
lars.
Every dealer In COAL not paying tax as
wholesale dealer, fifty dollars.
Every dealer In stationery or books. selling
exclusively at Wholesale or at retail and whole
sole, one hundred dollars.
Every retail dealer In stationery or books,
bhirty dollars.
Every oil mill, fifty dollars.
Every manufacturer of or dealer in fertilizers,
not paying tax as commission merchant, one
hundred dollars
dollars
Every runner for sailor boarding house.
twenty-five dollars.
Every owner or owners. lessee or iessees of q
lars; every hand cotton press, twenty five doh
lars
Every the owner or owners, lessee or lessees
2t.a Junk shop, or junk dealer, one hundred and
nfty dollars.
cotton pickery, to be confined exclusively
20 the purchase or sale of cotton, one hundred
ana seventy dollars; and all buyers OF loose cot
Con' VINO ouy from other than cotton merchants,
one hundred and seventy dollars.
Every owner or owners of steam cotton gin
establishment, one hundred dollars.
livery commission merchant or factor, one
hundred dollars.
Every exporter of cotton, lumber, naval
stores or other merchandise, foreign or coast
wise, or agency, or representative OF firm OF
exporters two hundred dollars.
Every stevedore. fifty dollars.
livery the owner or owners Of lumber yard,
dfty dollars
Every dealer In brick, or agent for sale of
bricks. seventy-nve dollars
EVERY dealer In wood thirty dollars.
Every the keeper or keepers Of warehouse
aor tne storage of cotton, merchandise, goods,
eto Tor each warehouse, thirty dollars.
Every tne owner or owners, lessee or keeper
OF billiard table, or other than those used in
private dwellings, fifty dollars for each table;
lor every pool table or tables on which pool is
Played, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Every the owner or owners leSsees or keep
ers OF a eagatelle table, twenty-five dollars for
each table.
Every the owner or owners of a tenpin alley,
thirty dollars for each alley.
Every the owner or owners OF a sawmill or q
planning mill, with or without lumber yard at
sached, fifty dollars and on each sash and blind
dollars