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

J regulations governing the water works
! department of said city, and to answer
! over 10 The mayor and aldermen OF the
/ city Of Savannah for all damages the city
/ may sus cain by reason Of negligence or
\ default of such plumber or gas litter in
negligently closing or leaving open eXca-
/ vations in the pubic streets; and no per
son shall do or perform the work Of a
| plumber or gas filter without first taking
| out said license, under penalty, upon con-
yicton before the police court, of a fine
not exceeding one hundred dollars, or i'm
prisonment not exceeding thirty days,
either or both in the discretion of the Of
fcer presiding in said court.
Daguerrean artists, photographers, am
brotypers and portrait painters, twenty
five dollars.
Steamboat vessel or other agencies,
fifty dollars; every agency for ocean
steamship, each line, one hundred dollars,
Cotton factories, fifty dollars.
Broom factories, thirty dollars.
Lampblack factories, fifty dollars.
Manufacturers of plaster or cement. If
~ dollars.
Coppersmiths or manufacturers of stills
fifty dollars.
Ice factories, one hundred dollars.
Wholesale dealers in ice, one hundred
dollars; every retail dealer In ice. ten dol
lars.
Each and every museum. Twenty-Five
| dollars
Gas companies. five hundred dollars;
every electric light company, five hum
dTed dollars.
Restaurants or eating houses, twenty
Rice pounding or cleaning mills, with or
without grist mill attached. one hundred
dollars
Fortune telIers or astrologers, five hun
dred dollars.
Breweries or persons manufacturing any
.la1I
Manufacturers of cider or vinegar, or
either, fifty dollars
Telephone companies or exchanges. six
hundred dollars each; each independent
telephone Of two stations, two dollars and
fifty cents.
under the control of another
company or not, three hundred
dollars; and in addition thereto,
fifteen dollars for each and every car AT
any time used by such company in the
city; it shall also be required that each
and every railroad company doing bust
ness in this city shall take out badges for
all cars employed by them. which badges
shall be furnished by the city treasurer,
and which shall be numbered. Il shall,
furthermore, be required that each and
every car employed by each and every
street railroad company shall have such
badge as hereinbefore provided securely
inside of such car.
Proprietors or keepers of a skating rink,
twenty-five dollars.
Undertakes or coffin warehouses;, thirty
dollars.
Persons engaged in loading or unloading
vessels by horse power, twenty-five dol
lars for each hosting apparatus used.
Express companies, five hundred dollars;
and. i'm addition thereto, six dollars for
every one-horse baggage express wagon,
and twelve dollars for every two-horse
baggage express wagon employed by such
companies.
Bill posters or distributors of bills, or
advertisements, ten dollars.
Blacksmith shops, each forge, eight dol
lars.
Cooper shops, twenty dollars
Carriage repositories, one hundred dol
lars; every carriage or wheelwriSht shop
for manufacturing or repairing, twenty
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. one hundred dollars.
Shooting galleries, one hundred dollars.
Proprietors or keepers of green groce-
| ries, one hundred dollars.
Stencil cutters, twenty dollars.
Tailors not registered as merchants, ten
dollars.
Projectors or owners of marine rail
| ways or dry docks fifty dollars.
Ia az W
| ers, and every green grocer, shall be per-
mitted TO do any business hereinbefore
| taxed, paying a less tax. than tax for a
| 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-
| scrption or of letting carriages or other
| vehicles for hire, shall pay tax according
| to the number and character of vehicles
! employed in such business, Xiz Every
| person employing one-horse cart or wagon,
| six dollars; every persons 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
|
| horse cab, hack. buggy, omnibus carriage,
| or vehicle of any description eight dollars;
every person employing one three-horse
/ dray or truck eighteen dollars; every per-
son employing one four-norse dray or
! truck, twenty-five dollars; every person
employing one four-horse omnibus, thirty
| dollars, and the tax to be paid by any per-
son 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 ordi-
nance: every keeper of a public or livery
! stable, fifty dollars; every keeper of a feed
| stable only fifty dollars; and in addition
| thereto, as a part of the same tax, ac-
| cording 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 specified for taxes to
be paid by persons engaged in the business
/ of transporting etc, for hire
Persons employing or using one or more