The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-28
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER %. 1895.

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Petition OF Mrs. J. p. Daly relative
/ 70 bill for cleansing privy vault; referred
10 committee on health and cemetery.
| Petitions of c. s. Connerat, Henry
| MCGUIRE. James Maggie, Albert Jackson.
! Theodesia Middleton. and Mark ANt, rel
| alive 70 bills for cleaning prlVy vaults
| etery.
Petition Of II. F. Bennett relative to pay
| ment Of water rent; referred 10 COMMITTEES
Petition Of W. J. Mccullough relative TO
| water rent for cows referred 10 committee
Petition estate of A. Borchert asking to
be refunded amount paid for water ny
| drantis referred to committee on water
| Petition OF Louise NJ Gayon asking CITY
| authorities to cut down two trees IN lot
OF petitioner; referred to committee on
Petition of Beck & Gregg Hardware
| Company for permission 10 sell gunpow-
/ der in the city of Savannah; referred TO
| committee on streets and lanes.
Petition of Mrs. Kate BOlan for re-
/ munerauon Tor articles destroyed Dy
health authorities; referred to COMMITTEES
on health and cemetery.
| Petition OF Solomon Cohen for permits
| sion TO erect a wooden shed on lot No. II
| Liberty ward; referred to committee on
Petition OF c. G. Bell for permission to
build bay window to front part of house
on lot No. u stephen ward; referred 10
Petition of Misses L. and " Miller for
| permission TO repair porcn and enlarge
| bay window to house on lot No. Heath
| cote ward; referred TO committee ON
i streets and lanes.
| Petition OF Jacob Cohen, asking to be
| allowed to extend house out to line with
| savannah theater, on Bull street; referred
| TO committee of the whole
| Petition of sundry citizens, asking for
/ the removal of the trash box at northeast
] corner OF the market; referred 10 com
| mittee on market.
| Methodist Episcopal church. south, ask
! ing Tor relief from taxation of church lot
| NO. %, Lester ward; referred to commit
The following applications, asking for
| permission to transfer liquor licenses for
| year 1893 were referred to committee of
| gen, savannah Bottling Company, NJ.
Schoen, NJ. s. Ybanez, r. A. Greene and
Applications Of W. B. Goodenough and
| Aikens & Richardson to retail liquor; re-
ferred to committee of the whole.
Application Of James Collins for permits
sion to make sewer connection with Bar
| nard street sewer from premises, Barnard
and Charlton streets; referred to commit
| lee on streets and lanes and sanitary
| board, with power to act.
ORDINANCES.
tho, first time. Aug. i. 1895.
/ read second time Aug. % 1895, and laid
on table. Taken up, read a third time
| Sept. II, 1896 and referred to the commit
tee Of the whole, recommended favorably
/ by said committee with amendments,
placed upon its passage and passed:
| An ordinance to amend so much of sec
| ton of the tax ordinance of the city of
| savannah as applies to the taxing or IL
| censing of fire or life insurance companies
/ doing business in the city of Savannah.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the mayor
| and aldermen of the city of Savannah, in
| council assembled That the specific tax
| or Two hundred dollars 5000 now required
| OF every fire or life insurance company
| doing business in the city of Savannah,
| whether directly or through an agency,
| or through broker, by section of the
| tax ordinance of the present year, be and
| II is hereby required of every agent or
| broker doing business in the city Of Sa-
| Vannah for every fire or life insurance
company which he may represent in any
| way, including each company to which
| he may send business. in all cases where
| the company itself does not pay the said
tax; and brokers doing business under
an act of the legislature of Georgia, ap-
| proved Dec. IA. 1894, and entitled, IAN act
| to provide for and regulate the business
| of insurance brokers in this state, and to
| authorize insurance to be procured by
| them beyond the limits of this state upon
| property within the state and for other
| purposes" are expressly included.
1t is the meaning and intent of this ordi-
4 nance to make the agents and brokers
mentioned In this ordinance responsible,
under the pains and penalties of this ordi-
nance, for the specific tax of two hundred
Sec q Be 1t further ordained. That a
specific tax at the rate of two hundred
dollars ($30O per annum shall be required
for the present year, and If any insurance
agent, broker, or person coming within
the terms or the intent and purpose OF the
first section OF this ordinance shall engage
in the insurance business, or occupation,
or represent any company within the
meaning of the first section of this ordi-
nance, and shall fail to take out license,
or receipt, as required by the latter part
of said section five of the tax ordinance
of the city of Savannah for each company
represented by him, or to which he may
send business, or who shall fail or refuse
to exhibit the same upon demand to the
/ nRpnTV
shall, upon conviction before the police
court of the city of Savannah, be sub
ject to a fine not to exceed one hundred
dollars ($1OW, and Imprisonment not to ex-
coed thirty 500 days, either or both In the
discretion of the court.
| Sec. g. Be Ii further ordained, That all
| ordinances, and parts of ordinances, in
conflict with this ordinance are hereby re-
''' RESOLUTIONS.
BY Committee on Fire
Resolved, by the mayor and aldermen,
in council assembled, that the chief of the
fire department of the city of Savannah
sence to attend the twenty-third annual
convention of chief fremen at Augusta,
Ca, on Oct. Z, 1895, and that he be allowed
the sum of fifty dollars, or 50 much thereof
as may be necessary, for the expenses of
said trip.
Adopted
By Alderman Falligant-
Resolved, BY the mayor and aldermen,
in council assembled, That a committee
consisting OIL the mayor anu Iour alder
men be appointed by the mayor to meet
the representatives of the Savannah, Flor
ida and Western Railway Company to
consider with them plan for the extern
sion of streets across the tracks of this
company, in pursuance of the letter of
r. G.. Erwin, Esq, vice president and gen
eral counsel, to the mayor of the city, dat
ed Sept TO- 1895.
Adopted
In conformity with above resolution his
honor the mayor appointed the following
aldermen upon said committee, which APP
pointments were duly confirmed: FALL
CANT, Garrard, Screven and Hudson.
By Alderman Falligant-
Resolved, That the mayor and board of
aldermen visit Alderman Harry Willink
and. congratulate him upon his election
assembly.
Adopted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Under section III of the city code, rela-
tive to special committee to superintend
public Sales,' his honor the mayor ap-