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

steam engine used for hosting purposes,
or any other business where steam Is used
not regularly taxed, as in this ordinance
stated and enumerated, twenty-five dol
lars.
Cotton shippers, twenty-five dollars.
Cotton Weighers, twenty-five dollars.
Shoemakers, ten dollars.
Merchant tailors, thirty dollars.
Every circus, with or without menag-
erie, for each and every day performing in
the city, five hundred dollars; itinerant
shows, one hundred dollars per week or
any part thereof; flying horses, twenty-five
dollars per week; other minor exhibitions,
ten dollars per week, or any part thereof.
Dealers or vendors of goods, wares, mer-
chAndise, drugs and small wares, selling
or introducing the same for sale by means
of public exhibitions, one hundred dollars
per week, or any part thereof.
Hand |rgans, or strolling band of mu-
sicians, five dollars per week.
Every person, company or corporation
engaged in the business of operating or
running a theater for theatrical exhibit
lions, three hundred dollars per annum.
Every theatrical troupe, minstrel troupe
or other troupe acting or performing in
any public hall in this city other than a
theater, shall pay five dollars for each
performance.
| Persons or partnerships running a grist
mill, thirty dollars; if worked by horse
ming a flour mill or flour and grist mill
| driven by steam, fifty dollars.
Bread or cake bakeries carried on by
means of steam machinery, fifty dollars; if
carried on without steam thirty dollars.
Master builders, masons, mechanics and
| others taking contracts for work, thirty
dollars.
Architects, civil engineers, surveyors,
| contractors, thirty dollars.
| Dealers in paints, oils, sashes, blinds
or DOORS fifty dollars.
| Real estate collectors and agents, cut
! rate ticket dealers, agents or brokers and
! ticket scalpers, twenty-five dollars.
Proprietors or owners of intelligence Of
| fees, ten dollars for each office
| Mercantile or commercial agencies one
| hundred dollars.
Daily newspapers printed by steam, OF
| other motive power, one hundred dollars
! every weekly or other newspaper printed
by steam or other motive power, fifty dol
iars every daily newspaper worked by
| hand, twenty-five dollars, and every
weekly newspaper worked by hand, ten
| dollars.
Job printing offices worked by steam,
gas water or other motor, fifty dollars; if
worked without steam, gas, water or other
motor, twenty-five dollars.
| Manufacturers of soda water, selling
| from founts, twenty-five dollars; and man.
ufacturing and bottling soda, fifty dollars;
| selling soda water from founts, ten dol
| lars for each fount
! Public steam laundries, fifty dollars.
Public laundries run without steam,
twenty-five dollars.
Bottlers of beer or ale, fifty dollars.
Soap boilers or tanners for each estab-
lishment, ten dollars.
Barber shops, four dollars for each
chair.
Persons engaged in the business of gas
fitting or plumbing, or both, shall take
out a license, for which he shall pay
thirty dollars, and, as a prerequisite to
the issuing of such license, every plumber
and gas filter shall on or before the fif-
teenth day of January, 1897, make and
file with the clerk of council a bond in
the sum of $1,000 with good and sufficient
securities to be approved by the mayor
conditioned to comply with the ordi-
| nances of the city of Savannah and the
| rules and regulations governing the water
works department of said city, and to an
| swer over to the mayor and aldermen of
the city of Savannah for all damages
| the city may sustain by reason of negli-
gence or default of such plumber or gas
| filter in negligently closing or leaving
open excavations in the public streets;
| and no persons shall do or perform the
| work of plumber or gas filter without
first taking out said license, under penal
ty, upon conviction before the police
/ I, Il nunQreO
dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding
thirty days, either or both in the dis
erection of the officer presiding in said
court.
Daguerrean artists, photographers, am
brotypers and portrait painters, twenty
five dollars.
steam boat, vessel or other agencies.
! dfty dollars every agency for ocean
steamships, each line, one hundred dol
lars.
Cotton factories fifty dollars.
Broom factories, thirty dollars.
LAmpblack factories, fifty dollars.
Manufacturers of plaster or cement,
fifty 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
dollars.
Each and every museum, twenty-five
dollars.
Gas companies, five hundred dollars;
every electric light company, five hun
dred dollars.
Restaurants or eating houses, twenty
| five dollars.
Rice pounding or cleaning mills, with or
without grist mill attached, one hundred
dollars.
Fortune tellers or astrologers. five hun
| dred dollars.
Breweries or persons manufacturing any
| malt liquors; two hundred dollars.
Manufacturers of cider or vinegar, or
either, fifty dollars.
Telephone companies or exchanges, six
hundred dollars; each independent tele-
phone Of two stations, two dollars and ff-
| ty cents.
Street railroad companies, whether I'M
der the control of another company or not.
three hundred dollars; and in addition
thereto fifteen dollars for each and every
car al any time used by such company IN
the city; 1t 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. 1t shall fur
thermore be required that each and every
car employed by each and every street
railroad company shall have such badge
as hcreinbefore provided securely fasten-
ed IN a conspicuous place upon the inside OF
such car.
Proprietors or keepers of skating rink,
twenty-five dollars.
Undertakers or coffin warehouses, thirty