The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-01
OEEICIAI.

loading vessels by horse power twenty-five
dollars for each hosting apparatus used
Every express company, five hundred
dollars, and in addition thereto eight
dollars for every one horse baggage express
wagon, and twelve dollars for every two
horse baggage express wagon employed by
such company.
Every bill poster or distributor OF bills or
advertisements ten dollars.
Every blacksmith shop, each forge, eight
dollars.
Every cooper shop, twenty dollars
Every carriage repository, one hundred
dollars; every carriage or wheelwrght shop
Tor manufacturing or repairing, twenty-five
dollars.
Every cigar manufacturer or retailer,
twenty dollars.
Every aye house, twenty dollars
Every millinery establishment, ten dollars.
Every gunsmith establishment. ten dollars.
Every foundry, thirty dollars; machine
shop, thirty dollars; every foundry and ma
chime shop sixty dollars.
Every menagerie, fifty dollars per day.
Every marble and stone yard, eighty dol
lars.
Every oyster and fish dealer, fifty dollars.
Every shipping master, one hundred dol
Each and every shooting gallery one hun
dred dollars
Every the owner or owners Of every green
grocery. one hundred dollars
Every stencil cutter, twenty dollars.
ten dollars.
Every the owner or owners OF marine rail
way or dry dock fifty dollars,
Every dealer paying a tax as a wholesale
dealer, and every green grocer, shall be per-
m1tted to do any business hereinbefOre taxed
paying less tax than tax for wholesale
dealer, without paying any other specific tax.
Every person engaged in the business Of
transporting or carrying goods, wares, mer-
chandise, passengers or baggage for hire by
means OF wagons drays, trucks. carts, omni-
buses or carriages of any description, or of
letting carriages or other vehicles for hire
shall pay tax according to the number and
character Of vehicles employed in such bust
ness, VIZ; Every person employing one one
horse cart or wagon, six dollars; every person
employing one one-horse dray or truck eight
dollars; every person employing one one
horse cab, hack or buggy, or vehicle of any
description not otherwise specifically
mentioned six dollars every person employ
ing one two-horSe cart or wagon, dray or
truck twelve dollars; every person employing
one twohorse cab, hack, buggy, omnibus
carriage or vehicle of any description, eight
dollars; every person employing one three
horse draY or truck, eighteen
dollars; every person employing one four
horse dray, or truck, twenty-five dollars;
every person employing one four-hOrse omni-
bus, thirty dollars; and the tax to be paid by
any person employing more than one vehicle
Of the same or different kinds shall be ac-
cording to the number of vehicles employed
at the rates above specified.
Every keeper of sale and feed stable fifty
dollars; but nothing herein contained shall
stable to sell any live stock of any other per-
son without first paying the brokers or deal
ers' tax as required under this ordinance;
every keeper OF public or livery stable, fifty
dollars: every keeper of a feed stable only,
fifty dollars; and IN addition thereto, as a
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
baggage, at the rates above specified for
taxes to be paid by persons engaged in the
business OF transporting, etc, for hire.
Every person employing or 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 addition to the specific tax required of
him for such business, and as a part thereof,
graduated tax similar to that hereinbefore
required OF persons engaged in the business
of transporting, ETC., for hire, according TO
the number and character of such vehicles,
and at the same rate.
Every huckster, including dealers in fee
cream, fruit small paint shops, vendors OF
small wares, and keepers of a cook stove or
cook shop, ten dollars
Every street dealer in poultry, for which a
badge shall be issued, fifteen dollars.
Every drummer, runner or other person So
Letting trade or orders, or business for an
other or for himself, whether resident of this
city or elsewhere, and having no fixed place
or business in this city, and every peddler
anu lLlltfdnL transient ITlutTs ana every
transient person selling or Offering to sell by
sample, shall pay the same tax required of
resident and stationary dealers in the same
articles. and no officer of the city shall be au-
thorized to reduce or in any wise change such
tax so required, nor shall such itinerant
dealer be allowed 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 kinds OF bust
ness mentioned in this paragraph, selling
or Offering only to resident deal
ers OF manufacturers in the specific article or
commodity sold or offered by him or her, and
not bringing into or keeping in the city any
stock for purpose of delivery shall not be re-
quired to pay any tax or license fee.
Every person, company or corporation re-
quired by this section TO pay "A specific or
business tax shall take out "a license or re-
ceipt which shall state the business or occu-
patton in which such person, company or
corporation is authorized to engage, and
which shall be exhibited to the city marshal
or his deputy at any time upon demand and
II any person company or corporation shall
engage in any business or occupation for
which such license or receipt is required
without first taking out the same, or who
shall fail or refuse to exhibit the same upon
demand to the city marshal or his deputy,
such person company or corporation shall,
upon conviction before the police court OF
the city of Savannah, be subject to a fine not
to exceed one hundred dollars and imprison-
ment not to exceed thirty days, either or
both in the discretion of the court
Sec. q. The occupant Of any premises where
a dog or dogs is or are kept. shall pay for
every dog so kept an annual license OF one
dollar. Upon payment Of this license badge
shall be issued to the person paying tho
license for the dog; and every dog found run
ming at large without such badge shall be I'M
pounded and if not claimed within forty-eight
hours shall be disposed Of.
Sec. z. The value OF real property to be
taxed under the second section Of this or
dinance shall be ascertained bv means of the
assessments provided for by the ordinance of
the city on that subject, or any ordinance
amendatory thereof; the value OF personal
property to be taxed under the third section
of this ordinance the particulars and char
acter Of the business for which tax is re-
quired under the fifth section Of this or
dinance, and the number OF dogs kept, as pro-
vided for in the sixth section OF this or
dinance. shall be ascertalned by means OF the
returns hereinafter prescribed.
Sec. S. Every person and corporation
owning real property In said city on the first
day of January 1894, shall pay taxes upon
such real property upon the assessment
thereof as adopted by council. Every per
son and corporation owning. or holding in
trust or on consignment, personal property
in said city on the first day of January, 1891,
liable to be taxed under the third and NTH
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 return thereof to the
CITY treasurer within twenty days after tn 1t
date: and all returns OF personal property
shall be inspected as soon as they are made
by person or persons TO be designated by