The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-07
BAKING POWDER
COLLECTING SPECIFIC TAXES.
All Who Owe Them TO the State MUS
Pay UP or They Are Liable to Indict-


All Who Owe Them TO the State Must
Pay Up or They Are Liable to Indict-
ment.
Capt. J. J. MCGOWAN, the tax collector,
has published a notice calling the at
ten;ion Of all Of those who are liable to
the state for specific taxes. that those
taxes are now due and payable at the
Office OF the tax collector. They are due
ct the beginning Of the year by all those
who continue in these special lines Of bus
mess and by others before the business
can be entered into.
Those subject to specific taxes are pho
togrlphers, auctioneers, keepers of pool,
billiard and gaming tables. tenpin alleys.
shooting galleries. travelling vendors of
patent medicines and jewelry. emigrant
agents, travelling vendors using boats,
itinerant lightning rcd dealers and agents.
shows and exhibitions, circus companies,
liquor dealers. dealers in pistols. cart
srdges and Bowie knives, dealers in
futures, peddlers Of stoves, patent churns
or fences or clocks, itinerant doctors,
dentists, opticians or SPECIALISTS. packing
and cold storage houses. brewing COM
panies, pawnbrokers and mercantile and
collecting agencies.
Anyone engaged in any Of the fore
going trades or businesses Is subject to
a specific tax levied by the state. varying
in amount according to the nature of the
business, and they must first register with
the ordinary before their taxes win be
| received.
Some Of the liquor dealers are under
| the impression that they can register
| with the ordinary and then pay the tax
| at any time. but under the law this is a
! mistake. The tax is due at the beginning
! of the year, and those who fail to pay
/ it, II subject to it, are liable to indictment
! by the grand jury and prosecution for a
/ misdemeanOr. The same is true Of all
/ other persons subject to the specific tax.
/ The specific tax levied on the liquor
dealers is $100 per year.
| There have been some changes in the
| specific tax laws made at the recent ses-
| sion Of the general assembly, which may
/ be of interest. The tax on dealers in
/ pistols, Bowie knives and cartridges,
formerly 500 was reduced TO $25, and must
be paid by any person engaged in selling
/ any one Of articles enumerated under that
section. Dealers in patent churns and
] patent fences We're also put on the list
/ and required to pay a tax Of $50 prob
/ ably for the protection of the farmer
/ Dealers in futures or the business COM
! monty known as bucket shops is subject
| to a specific tax of $1,000 per annum but
If there are any such in Savannah the
tax collector has never found il out
as none ever paid the specific tax as
| sesssed.
Parties peddling on the river in boats
| are liable to a tax of $50 per year for each
county in which they do a business. The
| same, however, is true of these as is tho
! case with dealers in futures, as none OF
them have ever turned up at the Office oil
the tax collector. If there are any peddlers
on the river they are keeping it very
! quiet If they were caught and could not
| show their receipts for the specific taz
they would be liable to indictment for a
misdemeanor and fine or Imprisonment il
! convicted
There is a special law with regard to the
| liquor dealers and the taxes required OF
them passed in 1884. it requires the con
| troller general of the state to keep a
! register Of all the liquor dealers in the
state and the tax collector to keep a reg
lister of all in the county. The lquol
! dealers must pay the entire amount OF
the tax assessed before they begin to dc
| business Future to pay this tax sub
jects them to punishment for a msde
[ meanor and failure on the part of the taN
collector to furnish information to the
solicitor general with regard TO such par
! ties subjects him to having d fl ia ISSUED
against his bondsmen for the amount oil
the tax due by the party not reported.
The law with regard to the specific
tax to be collected from packing and colo
| storage houses has also been changed
4 year or two ago each one was required
to pay specific tax of $500 in every county
in which they did business. The packing
houses and cold storage people in Atlantis
! protested and after the question had gone
through the courts it was decided thai
the state could not collect such a tau
from them. In several cases the amount
Of the tax was refunded and this year il
has been reduced to $50, which there will
probably be no difficulty about collecting