The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-07

/ WITHOUT SAlst mn aNAavheui one hundred
| >lollars.
Fortune tellers or astrologers. Ave hun
| dred dollars.
Breweries or Persons manufacturing any
malt liquors, two hundred dollars.
Manufacturers of cider or vinegar, OF
either. fifty dollars.
| Telephone companies or exchanges six
hundred dollars each Independent tele-
| phone Of two stations, two dollars aud tif-
| ty cents.
| Street railroad companies, whether I'M
der the control OF another company or moi,
! three hundred dollars ana in addition
/ thereto, fifteen dollars for each and every
/ car at any time used by such company la
the city, it shall also be required that each
and every railroad company doing BUSH
ness in this city shall take out badges for
/ all cars employed by them, which badges
shall be furnished by the city treasurer,
and which shall be numbered. 1t shall tur-
| thermore be required that each and every
| car employed by each and every street
railroad company snail have such badge
| as hereinhefore provided securely fasten-
ed In a conspicuous place upon the inside OF
| such car.
Proprietors or keepers of a skating rink,
| twenty-five dollars.
Undertakes or coffin warehouses, thirty
dollars.
Persons engaged in loading or unloading
vessels by horse power, twenty-five dollars
for each hosting apparatus used.
Express companies, five hundred dollars;
and. in addition theretos six dollars for
every one horse baggage express wagon
and twelve dollars for every two horse
baggage express wagon employed by such
! companies.
| Bin posters or distributors Of bills, or ad-
vertisements, ten dollars.
Blacksmith shops, each forge, eight dol
lars.
/ JnIl
! Carriage repositories, one hundred doll
lars; every carriage or wheelwright shop
for manufacturing or repairing. twenty
| FIVE dollars
Cigar manufacturers or retailers, twenty
dollars.
Dye houses, twenty dollars.
Millinery establishments, ten dollars.
Gunsmith establishments, ten dollars,
Foundries. thirty dollars; machine shops,
thirty dollars; every foundry and machine
shop, sixty dollars.
Menageries, fifty dollars per day
Marble and stone yards, fifty dollars.
| Wholesale or retail dealers or shippers IN
fish or oysters, doing business outside OF
city market fifty dollars.
Shipping masters, one hundred dollars.
Shooting galleries, one hundred dollars.
Proprietors or keepers of green groceries,
one hundred dollars.
Stencil cutters, twenty dollars.
Tailors, not registered as merchants, ten
dollars.
Proprletors or owners OF marine rail-
ways or dry docks, fifty dollars.
Dealers paying tax as wholesale deal
ers, and every green grocer, shall be per-
mitted to do any business hereinbefore
| taxed. paying less tax than tax for
wholesale dealer. without paying any 9TH
| er specific tax.
Every person engaged in the business OF
transporting or carrying goods, wares,
merchandise, passengers or baggage for
! hire, by means OF wagons, drays, trucks,
carts, omnibuses or carriages Of any de-
scription, or of letting carriages or other
vehicles for hire, shall pay a tax accord
ing to the number and character of vehic-
| les employed in such business, viz: Every
| person employing one-horse cart or wagon,
six dollars every person employing one
horse dray or truck, eight dollars; every
person employing one-horse cab, hack or
buggy, or vehicles of any description not
otherwise specifically mentioned, six dol
lars; every person employing one two
horse cart or wagon, dray or truck, twelve
dollars; every person employing one two
horse cab, hack, buggy, omnibus, carriage
or vehicle of any description. eight dolls
lars; every person employing one three
| horse dT-ay or truck, eighteen dollars; every
person employing one four-horse dray or
| truck, twenty-five dollars, every person
| employing one four-horse omnibus, 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 em-
| ployed at the rates above specified.
Keepers of sale and feed stables, nifty
dollars, but nothing hereing contained
shall authorize the keeper OF such sac
| and feed stables 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 public
| or livery stable, fifty dollars every keeper
| of a feed stable only, hfty 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 the trans
portation of goods, passengers or baggage,
at the rates above specified for taxes to
| be paid by person engaged IN the business
| of transporting, etc, for hire.
Persons 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 them or In any other manner, shall pay,
| IN addition to the specified tax required
Of them for such business and as part
thereof. a graduated tax similar to that
| hereinbefore required Of persons engaged
in the business Of transporting, ETC., for
hire. according to the number and char
acter of such vehicles, ana at the same
rate.
Hucksters, including dealers in Ice
cream, fruit, small paint shops, vendors
OF small wares and keepers OF COOK
stove or cook shop, ten dollars.
Persons selling from push carts or 9TH
er vehicles, except country carts selling
their own produce, one hundred dollars;
upon payment OF said tax the treasurer
shall furnish badge, which shall be plac-
ed in a conspicuous place on such push
cart or vehicle.
Street dealers In poultry. for which
badge shall be issued, ten dollars
Manufacturers Of patent medicines not
engaged in the business OF druggist
thirty dollars.
Agents. attorneys-at-law, or other per-
sons negotiating loans on real estate,
| geyenty-hve dollars.
Burglar alarm companies or agents,
| twenty-five dollars.
Dealers in bicycles, or agents for sale Of
same, thirty dollars.
Manufacturers Of baking powders, or
self-rising -four, or both, nifty dollars.
Retail dealers selling dressed poultry or
| freah rneats In addition to the tax OF a fe.