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

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. enc 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.
Proprietors or owners of marine rail-
| ways or dry docks, fifty dollars.
| Dealers paying a tax as wholesale deal
ers and every green grocer, shall be per-
mitted to do any business hereinbefore
taxed, paying a less tax than tax for
wholesale dealer, without paying any 9TH
err 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 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 dol
lars; every person employing one three
horse dray 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 en-
ployed at the rates above specified.
Keepers of sale and feed stables, fifty
dollars. but nothing herein contained
shall authorize the keeper of such sale
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 a public
| or livery stable, fifty dollars every keeper
of feed stable only, fifty dollars; and in
addition thereto, as 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 speclhed Tor taxes 10
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, and at the same
Hueksters. 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;
unon payment of said tax the treasurer
shall furnish a 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 a druggist,
thirty dollars.
Agents. attorneys-at-law, or other per-
sons negotiating loans on real estate,
seVenty-1Ve 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 flour, or both, fifty dollars.
Retail dealers selling dressed poultry or
fresh meats in addition to the tax of a lc,
tail dealer, seventy dollars.
Agencies and other business not herein
before specially mentioned, thirty dollars.
Every drummer, runner or other per-
son soliciting trade or orders, or business
for another or for himself. whether resi-
| dent of this city or elsewhere, and having
no fixed place of business in this city, and
every peddler and itinerant transient
trader, and every transient person selling
or Offering to sell by sample, shall pay
| the same tax required of resident and
stationary dealers in the same articles,
and no officer of the city shall be author
| lied to reduce or in anywise change such
tax so required nor shall such itinerant
dealer be allowed to sell his wares undes
the license of any auctioneer, or under
the name of any factor or commission
| merchant who has paid his tax as such,
until he himself shall have paid all taxes
required of him by this ordinance; pro-
| yided however, that any transient per-
son transacting or offering to transact,
any of the kinds of business mentioned in
this paragraph. selling or offering only to
resident dealers or manufacturers In the
specific article or commodity sold or Of
fered by him or hel, and not bringing into
or keeping in the city any stock for pur-
pose of delivery, shall not be required to
pay any tax or license fee.
Every person, company or corporation
required by this section to pay a specific
or business tax shall take out a license
or receipt which shall state the business
or occupation in which such person, cam
pany or corporation Is authorized to en-
gage, and which shall be exhibited to the
city marshal, or his deputy, al any time
upon demand. And II any person. COM
pany or corporation shall engage in any
business or occupation for which such
license or receipt is required without first
taking out the same, or who shall fall or
refuse to exhibit the same upon demand
to the city marshal, or his deputy, sucn
person. company or corporation shall,
upon conviction before the police court
OF the city Of Savannah, be subject to a