The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-04

| dealer or cotton pickery license shall be
| subject to the further condition that the
same shall be subject TO revocation by the
| mayor IT, on examination before him in
| the police court. he shall be satisfied and
! shall so pronounce that any city, corpo-
| ration, or private property is found in
| such junk shop, or in the possession OF
an junk dealer; and such condition shall
! be expressed in the license Of every such
| junk shop or dealer. Every person re-
quired by the provisions of this section,
| and by the ordinance passed in council
| March II, 1SS3fn reference TO taking out Ii
| censes, who shall commence or transact,
! or offer TO transact I'm this city any of the
/ kinds Of business mentioned in this Sec
! ton, after the first day Of January, 1888,
! shall take out license before commencing
/ business, as provided in said ordinance,
| passed March Il, 1889. which said ordinance
! is of force. The license herein provided
| for shall be issued by the city treasurer.
! And If any person transacting, or Offering
! 10 transact in said city, either of the
I kinds of business in this section specified,
/ shall be found without such license dis
/ played in conspicuous manner in his, her
! or their place of business, he or she shall,
| on conviction thereof in the police court,
be fined in a sum not exceeding one hun
dred dollars, or imprisoned not more than
thirty days, or both, in the discretion of
the court.
Sec. y. on and after the first day Of
January, 1888 the price of a license to sell
| matt, vinous or spirituOus liquors at re-
tan within the corporate and jurisdictional
limits of said city for one year shall be
TWO hundred dollars net, without discount;
but a license co sell at retail may be is
sued upon paying one-fourth of the sum
que Tor yearly license and upon giving
notes bearing 8 per cent. interest from
Jan. l, 1898 when parties are already in
business and from date in case parties
commencing business during the year, with
endorsements or sureties satisfactory to
the mayor. to secure the payment of the
other three-fOurths of said sums in three
equal payments, on the twelfth of March
twelfth of June, and twelfth of September,
1898; provided however; that upon default
all the notes shall become due and paya-
bic, the said payments to be made Wheth-
err the persons giving such notes or surety
shall go out Of business or not and the
applicant shall be required to submit, as
securities, two responsible freeholders Of
TINS CITY, as prerequisite to the issue of
said license mo officer, clerk or employe
of the city shall be taken as security on
such bonds, and it shah be the duty of the
mayor to pass upon such bonds before any
license is issued hereunder); and no Ii
cense for the sale of malt, Vinous or spirit
uous liquors shall cover any other bust
ness whatever than the sale of malt, vim
Gus or spirituous liquors and shall apply
to but one place for the sale of said IL
quors, whether under one roof or other
wise, under a penalty of not more than
one hundred dollars. And no barroom shall
be licensed which has not an entrance to
it separate and distinct from the entrance
to the dwelling; and the license may in
the discretion of the mayor, be forfeited
for any violation of any state law or city
ordinance; and in the case of forfeiture
the license shall not be renewed for The
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of council. And il shall be the duty of the
clerk Of council to publish quarterly an
alphabetical list of all persons licensed to
sell liquor as aforesaid All such licenses
shall be taken out by persons already en-
gagged in business within thirty days af-
ter the first day of January 1885, and in
the case of persons wishing to commence
business later in the year, before COM
mencing business; and any dealer in IL
quors as aforesaid, failing or refusing to
take out a license to sell liquors, a 3 afore-
said, shall be liable to a penalty of not
more than one hundred dollars for every
day any such person may sell without a
license, or be imprisoned for thirty days
or both.
Sec. 10. Every person transacting, or of
fering to transact, the business OF trans
porting or carrying goods etc, pa ssengers
or baggage for hire, by means of wagons,
drays, trucks, street railway cars, or 9th
er vehicles, and every keeper of a public
or livery stable employing such vehicles
in his business, and every other person
keeping and using street railway cars, or
other vehicles, in other kinds of business
shall upon paying the tax hereinbefore
prescribed, take out a badge, which will
be furnished by the city treasurer for
each street car or vehicle to be employed
in such business (the number of street cars
or vehicles to be employed to be stated on
Ia eI,p
uous place on such vehicle or street car
except vehicles kept by keepers of public
or livery stables, to be let for hire and We
hicleS used for pleasure or convenience
and any person using or employing any
vehicle or street car on such business with
out badge fixed except as aforesaid, shall
on conviction thereof in the police court
be fined in a sum not exceeding one hun
dred dollars, or impri sonment not more
than thirty days, or both, in the discretion
of the court.
Sec. IA. The ordinance of Nov. 16, 1913,
requiring badges to be taken out for dogs,
and prescribing other regulations for dogs,
so far as the provisions of the same are
not inconsistent with this ordi-
nance, is hereby reordained and
declared TO be in fun force. Every per-
son failing to take out license for a dog,
or failing to pay such license, as required
by sections and Of this ordinance, shall
upon conviction before the police court or
the city of Savannah, be subject to a fine
not to exceed three dollars with the al
tentative of Imprisonment not to exceed
three days.
Sec Is. 1t shall be lawful for the mayor
of said city, with the concurrence Of the
finance committee, TO appoint within thir-
ty days after the first day of January
1898 a competent person whose duty it
shall be to report to the board of tax as
SCISSORS and receivers and city treasurer,
respectively, from time 20 time all per-
sons IN said city required to make any re-
turn or to take out any license required
by this ordinance, who shall neglect or
omit to do so, and all property subject to
taxation but not returned, and to perform
such other duties in connection with the
above as may be required of him by the
said mayor and finance committee. And
such person shall continue in the per
Torrance of his duties only as long as his
services shall be considered necessary by
said mayor and finance committee, and
shall receive such comparison as they
shall specify
Sec 16. That the clerk of council be,
and he is hereby, directed to report to
council at the first meeting in every quar-
ter the amount of money expended for