The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-01

Offering to transact, any of the kinds of
business hereinafter specified whether in
connection with any other business or
noO shall pay the tax hereinafter pre-
scrioed for every separate place in which
he shall transact or offer to transact
business, viz:
Auctioneers doing a general auction
business) and commission merchant or
auctioneer doing a general auction busi-
ness) and broker, two hundred dollars.
Dealers in goods wares aud merchan-
disc, including dealers in drugs etc. Gin
addition to liquor TAX or license), as fol-
lows:
Dealers exclusively retail, thirty dollars.
Dealers exclusively wholesale, or re-
tail dealers selling at wholesale, one hun
dred dollars.
Dealers in liquor doing a wholesale bust
ness, two hundred dollars.
Brokers in liquor, two hundred dollars.
Banks or bank agent or agents of bank
ers engaged in buying or selling exchange,
including every person or company do
ing a banking business, every bank with
savings department attached, every
bank without a savings department at
tached, and every savings bank, nifty dol
lars.
Every person, firm or corporation, other
than those paying the license just men
toned required of banks, as bankers buy
ing and selling exchange, twenty-five dol
lars.
Cotton brokers, or brokers or dealers in
stocks, bonds and real estate, and every
produce grocery. and naval stores broker,
and every resident agent representing
nonresident dealers, merchants and man.
ufacturers, exclusive of brokers IN liquor,
seventy=fiYe dollars.
Persons other than a pawnbroker engag-
ed in the business of lending money on
personal property two hundred and fifty
dollars.
Brokers or agents buying and selling flu
lures on a margin, one hundred dollars
Broker or dealers in stocks, bonds and
real estate, with the privilege of selling
same at auction, one hundred dollars.
Brokers who may handle or receive
goods on consignment, one hundred dol
| lars.
Ship brokers. one hundred dollars.
Dealers in butter, lard and cheese, eighty
dollars.
Dealers in hides, wax and tallow, eighty
dollars.
Brokers engaged in the sale of horses,
cattle or mules, who keep no stable for
the sale of same, eighty dollars
Dealers in horses, cattle or mules, who
keep no stable for the same, eighty dol
| lars
Pawnbrokers. five hundred dollars.
Proprietors of each pool room kept or
maintained in the city of Savannah for
! Tho sale of pools on races shall pay the
sum of one thousand dollars per annum.
Building and loan associations, fifty dol
| lars
| Loan associations doing banking Dusl-
ness, fifty dollars.
Every fire or life insurance company
| doing business, whether directly or
| through an agency, or through broker
| TWO hundred dollars.
Every agent or broker doing business IN
the city of Savannah for every fire or life
| insurance company which he may repre-
sent in any way, including each company
| 10 which he may send business, shall pay
| fhe tax of two hundred dollars in all
| ases where the Company does not pay the
| tax itself.
Brokers doing business under the act of
| tbe LEGISLATURE of Georgia, approved De-
| cember IA, 1894, and entitled AN Act to
| provide for and regulate the business of
| insurance brokers in this state, and to au-
| thorize insurance to be procured by them
bevond the limits of the state upon proper
| ~ within the state, and for other purpo-
| ses " are expressly included, the meaning
and intent being to make the agents and
brokers referred to responsible under the
pains and penalties of this ordinance for
/ The specific tax of two hundred dollars,
os nrovided for by ordinance of the city of
Savannah, adopted on the 18th day OF sep
TENDER. 1895.
Every marine, accident surety or other
insurance company doing business, wheth-
| err directly or through an agency, or
through a broker, fifty dollars.
Every person who shall be sworn by the
MAYOR (who is hereby authorized to ad-
minister the oath for such purpose) as a
| public weigher of any goods, wares or
| merchandise. twenty-five dollars.
Every average or insurance adJuster for
| companies for which he is not the local
| insurance agent fifty dollars.
Keepers or proprietOrs of hotels that
contain seventy-five rooms or upward, one
| hundred dollars.
| tanning under seventy-five rooms, fifty dol
Sewing machine agents or agencies, fifty
dollars; the same for each and every
Dealers in sewing machines, fifty dol
lars.
Dealers in coal, one hundred dollars.
Dealers i'm stationery or books, selling
| exclusively at wholesale, or at retail end
| wholesale, one hundred dollars.
Retail dealers in stationery or books,
thirty dollars.
Oil mills, fifty dollars.
Manufacturers of or dealers in fertil-
izers. not paying tax as commission
| merchant, one hundred dollars.
owners, proprietors lessee or lessees of
cotton press establishments, three hum
bred dollars: every hand cotton press,
| twenty-five dollars.
Owners, propretors lessee or lessees of
a junk shop, or junk dealers, three hun
| bred dollars.
Cotton pickeries, to be confined exclu-
eively to the purchase or sale of cotton,
one hundred dollars; and all buyers OF
loose cotton who buy from others than
cotton merchants, one hundred and seven
ty dollars.
Proprietors or owners of cotton gin es-
adjustments, one hundred dollars.
Every commission merchant or FACTOR
one hundred dollars. except merchants
dealing exclusively in live poultry and
country produce who shall pay tax OF
fifty dollars.
Exporters of cotton, lumber, naval
stores. or other merchandise. foreign or
coastwse, agency or representative Of
firm Of exporters. two hundred dollars.
Stevedores, fifty dollars.
Propr6tors or owners Of lumber yards,
fifty dollars.
Dealers in brick or agents for the sale
Of brick, seventy-nve dollars.
Dealers i'm wood, thirty dollars.
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