The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07

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! include street railway cars.
Sec. 10. If any person or corporation
/ shall refuse or neglect to pay any tax re-
/ CURED by this ordinance within thirty
/ DAYS after the same shall be due and pay
/ able as above provided, or shall neglect or
/ refuse to pay ans double tax assessed as
/ above provided for, twenty days after no
/ tics has been served on such persons or
| corporations of such assessment, the city
/ treasurer shall issue executions therefor
and for ;he further sum of one dollar for
! COSTS, and the city marshal shall proceed
/ with such executions in the same manner
/ as the sheriff does under the eXecu-
tons from the superior courts
of this state, subject to the provis-
/ ions of the act of the general assembly
of the state of Georgia passed Feb. q,
| 1871. Every person or corporation who
shall pay his or its taxes on real or per-
sOnal property, or both, promptly within
fifteen days after the first of April, July,
october and January, the time hereinbe-
fore specified for the payment thereof.
shall be entitled TO a deduction of 10 per
centum of the amount thereof. and the
city treasurer is hereby directed TO make
such deduction upon the receipts of the
tax; and every person or corporation who
shall pay any other taxes required by this
ordinance promptly within thirty days af-
ter the same shall become due, shall be
entitled to deduction of 10 per centum
of the amount thereof, and the city treas
ductiOn upon the receipt of the tax.
Sec. Il. Every person transacting or Of
fering to transact either of the kinds of
business hereinafter named, who are in
business on the first day of January, 1885,
shall within thirty days after the first
day of January, 1885, take out a license
therefor, viz Every auctioneer every
broker every commission merchant, every
plumber every barber and all others do
ing business without any stock in trade;
every owner or lessee of junk shop or
cotton pickery; every junk dealer; every
vendor of small wares, hucksters, hawk
ers. including dealers in ice cream. fruit
and poultry, keeper of a cook stove or
cook shop: and it is hereby declared to be
the meaning of this ordinance that the IL
cense granted to an auctioneer shall not
authorize such auctioneer to sell for any
| transient dealer, unless such transient
dealer has first paid all taxes required of
him by this ordinance. Every licensed
auctioneer shall have the privilege of APP
pointing one Assistant crier, whose name
shall be recorded in the treasurer's office
| and entered on the license issued. And
no person shall be permitted TO be an auc-
tOneer or Vendue master until he shall
have complied with the conditions COLI
| tanned in Section 1925 of the Revised Code
of Georgia, known as the code of 1882. And
in every license taken out by the owner
or lessee of a junk shop or cotton pick
cry, or by a junk dealer, it shall be dis
tinctly expressed that such junk shop or
cotton pIckery, or Junk dealer, shall al
ways be subject to the visitation of the
police of the city, and that such persons
shall not purchase from any one under the
age of Is years, a duplicate of which Ii
cense signed by the person or persons
taking out the same, and expressing his
or their assent TO such conditions, shall
De retained by the city treasurer, and on
n ar To Wis
( itation, or on conviction in the police
court of having purchased from any one
| under the age 10 years, such license shall
| be revoked, and such junk shop or cotton
pickery shall Immediately be closed by the
| mayor And every such junk shop, junk
dealer or cotton pickery license shall be
subject to the further condition that the
same shall be subject to revocation by the
mayor AZ, 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
| any 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 IA, 1888, in reference to taking out IL
! censeS who shall commence or transact,
! or offer to transact in this city any of the
| kinds of business mentioned in this sec
| ton, after the first day of January, 1898,
! shall take out license before commencing
! business, as provided in said ordinance,
! passed March a. 1888. which said ordinance
is of force. The license herein provided
| for shall be issued by the city treasurer
| And II any person transacting, or Offering
! to transact in said city, either of the
kinds Of business in this section specified,
| shall be found without such license dis
| played in a conspicuous manner in his her
] of hI he or no che
| on conviction thereof in the police court
/ be fined in sum not exceeding one hun
| dred dollars or Imprisonment not more
| than thirty days, or both, in the discretion
| of the court.
Sec. u. On and after the first day OF
! January, 1885, the price of a license to sell
| malt, Vinous or spirituous liquors at re-
tail within the corporate and jurisdictional
| limits of said city for one year shall be
two hundred dollars net, without discount;
| but license to sell at retail may be is
sued upon paying one-fourth of the sum
! due for yearly license and upon giving
| notes bearing 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,
! 1888; provided, however; that upon default
| all the notes shall become due and paya-
| bic, the said payments 70 be made wheth-
| er 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
| this city, as prerequisite to the issue of
SAID license mo officer, clerk or employee
! OF the city shall be taken as security on
such bonds, and it shall be the duty of the
mayor to pass upon such bonds before any
license is issued hereunder); and no IL
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 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
space of two years except by permission