The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-31

portion of said tax as the time left in
said year shall bear 10 the whole year.
except such may be exempt from tax.
alton by the laws of this state or of the
United States.
Sec. 4. Every shipmaster. captain, SUI
percargo, agent or other officer OF any
vessel or other persons who shall charter
or offer to charter his vessel or who shah
sell goods or articles of any kind from any
vessel or wharf, personally purchase car
80 or collect freight, except through a IL
censed broker or commission merchant,
shall be considered a commission merchant
| and pay the tax hereinafter prescribed for
commission merchants.
Sec. 8. Every person transacting. or Of
ferng 20 transact, any Of the kinds OF
business hereinafter specified whether in
connection with any other business or noO
shall nay the tax hereinafter prescribed
for every separate place in which he shall
transact or offer to transact business. viz:
Auctoneers doing a general auction bus
lness) ana commission merchant or auc-
tioneer doing general auction buslness)
and broker, two hundred dollars.
Dealers in goods. wares and merchan-
disc, Including dealers in drugs, etc, On
addition to liquor tax or license), a. fol-
lows:
Dealers exclusively retail, thirty dollars.
Dealers exclusively wholesale, or retail
dealers selling at wholesale, one hundred
dollars.
Dealers in liquor doing wholesale bust
ness, two hundred dollars.
Brokers in liquor. two hun lred dollars.
Banks or bank agent or agents of bank
ers engaged in buying or selling exchange,
| including every person or company doing
| banking business, fifty dollars; every bank
without a savings department attached,
and every savings bank, fifty dollars;
every bank iwth a saving department at
tached, seVenty-hve dollars
Every person, firm or corporation. other
than those paying the license just men
toned required of banks. and bankers buy
ing and selling exchange fifty dollars.
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 non
| resident dealers, merchants and manufac-
turers. exclusive of brokers in LIQUOR sew
enty dollars.
Persons other than a pawnbroker en-
gagged in the business of lending money on
personal property TWO hundred and fifty
dollars.
Brokers or agents buying and selling
futures on a margin one hundred dollars.
Brokers 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
| lars
Ship brokers, one hundred dollars.
Dealers in butter, lard and cheese, eigh-
| ty dollars.
Dealers in hides. wax and talow, 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 II the city Of Savannah for the
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 bust
| ness. fifty dollars.
! Every fire or life insurance company do
! ing business, whether directly or through
an agency, or through broker. two hun
! dred dollars for each and every agency or
broker.
Every agent or broker doing business in
the city of Savannah for every fire or life
! insurance company VIII ch he may repre-
sent in any way, including each company
to which he may send business. shall pay
the tax of two hundred dollars In all eases
where the company does not pay the tax
| itself.
Brokers doing business under the act of
the legislature of Georgia, approved Dec.
! Il, 1884 ard entitled AN Act to provide
| for and regulate the business of insurance
| brokers in this state, and 10 authorize in
surance to be procured by them beyond
the limits of the state upon property with
/ i'm the state. and for o,her purposes are
expressly included, the meaning ana in
tent being to make the agents and brok-
/ ers referred to, responsible under the pains
/ and penalties of this ordinance for the
specific tax OF two hundred dollars, as pro-
Vded for by ordinance Of The city of Sa-
vannah, adopted on the 18th day of Sep
tember 1884
Every marine, surety or other insurance
company doing business, whether directly
| or through an agency, or through broker,
fifty dollars for each and every agency
or broker.
Every accident insurance company doing
business, whether directly or through an
agency or through a broker, one hundred
dollars for each and every agency or
broker.
Every person who shall be sworn by the
mayor (who Is hereby authorized to ad-
minister the oath for such purDose) as a
public weigter Of any goods. wares or
merchandise, twenty-five doll2rs
Every average or insurance adjdSter for
companies for which he is not the local
insurance agent. fifty dollars.
Keepers or proprietors Of hotels that con-
tam seventy-tive rooms or upward, one
| hundred dollars.
Keepers or propristors Of ho'e's contain
ing under seVenty-iive rooms, nifty dol
| lara.
Sewing machine agents or agencies, fir
ty dollars. the same for each and every
| agency.
Dealers in sewing machines, fifty dol
lars.
Dealers in coal. one hundred dollars.
Dealers IN stationery or books. selling
! exclusively at Wholesale or at retail and
wholesale one hundred dollars.
Retail dealers In stationery or books,
thirty dollars.
OH mills, fifty dollars.
Manufacturers OF or dealers In fertilizers,
| net paying tax as a commission merchant,
one hundred dollars.
Owners, propretors, lessee or lessees Of
cotton press establishments, three hundred
dollars; every hand cotton press, twenty
! five dollars.
Owners, proprietors, lessee or lessees Of
junk shop, or junk dealers, three hum
bred dollars.
Cotton pickeries. to be confined exclu
sively to the purchase or sale Of cotton.
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