The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-18
OFFICIAL.
CITY G0VERNM EMIT.
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Dealers paying a tax as wholesale
dealers and every green grocer, shall be
permitted to do any business hereinbe-
fore taxed, paying a less tax than tax
for Wholesale dealer, without paying any
other specific tax
Every person engaged in the business of
transporting or carrying goods, wares
merchandise, passengers or baggage for
hre. by means of wagons, drays, trucks.
carts, omnibuses or carriages of any de-
scriplon, or of letting carriages or other
vehicles for hire, shall pay a tax accord
ing TO the number and character of We
hlcles employed in such business, viz:
Every person employing one-horse cart
or wagon, six dollars; every person en-
ploying one-horse dray or truck, eight
dollars; every person employing one-horse
CAP, hack or buggy or vehicles
of any description not otherwise specid-
cally mentioned, six dollars; every per-
son employing one two-horse cart or
wagon, dray or truck, twelve dollars; ev-
cry person employing one two-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 person en-
ployinS one four-horse dray or truck
twenty five dollars; every person employ
| ing one four-horse omnibus thirty dol
lars, and the tax to be paid by any per
Sui employing more tuan one venice OF
the same or different kinds shall be ac-
cording to the number of vehicles employ
ed 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 or
! dinance; every keeper of public or livery
stable, fifty dollars; every keep
! per of feed stable only, fifty
dollars; and in addition thereto
as a part of the same tax, according to
! the number and character of any vehicles
employed in such business, either by let
! ting for hire or in the transportation of
| goods, passengers or baggage, at the rates
| above specified for taxes to be paid by per-
| sons engaged in the business of transport
| ing etc, for hire. at
| 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 en-
| gagged, for the purpose of delivering goods
! sold by them, or in any other manner
| shall pay, in addition to the specific tax
| required of them for such business. as a
part thereof, graduated tax similar to
| that herelnbefore required of persons en-
| gagged in the business of transporting ETC.
| for hire, according TO the number and
J character of such vehicles, and at the
/ same rate.
Hucksters, including dealers in ice
! cream, fruit, small paint shops vendors
OF small wares, and keepers of a cook
stove or cook shop. ten dollars
| Persons selling from push carts or other
| vehicles, except country carts selling their
| own produce, one hundred dollars, upon
| payment of said tax the treasurer shall
| furnish a badge, which shall be placed in
a conspicuous place on such push cart or
/ vehicle
Street dealers In poultry, for which a
| badge shall be issued, ten dollars
Manufacturers of patent medicine not
| engaged in the business of a druggist, one
| hundred dollars.
| Agents, attorneys at law, or other per
sons negotiating loans on real estate. sew
| enty-five 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
| seh-rasing flour, or both, fifty dollars.
| Retail dealers selling dressed poultry or
fresh meats, in addition TO the tax of a
retail dealer, seventy dollars
| Agencies and other business not herein
! before specially mentioned, thirty dollars.
! Every drummer, runner or other person
| soliciting trade or orders, or business for
! another or for himself, whether resident Of
| this city or elsewhere, and having no fixed
place of business in this city, and every
| peddler and intinerant transient trader.
| and every transient person selling or Of
fering to sell by sample, shall pay the
| same tax required of resident and sta ton
| airy dealers in the same article and no
| officer of the city shall be authorized to re-
| duce or in anywise change such TAX so
! required nor shall such tinerant dealer be
| allowed to sell his wares under the license
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| 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; provided, however, that
| any transient person transactng or offer
| ing to transact, any of the kinds of bust
ness mentioned in this paragraph, selling
| or offering only TO resident dealers or man
ufacturers in the specific article or com
modify sold or offered by him or her, and
| not bringing into or keeping in the city any
stock for purpose of delivery, shall not be
required to pay any tax or license fee.
Every person, company or corporation re-
| quired by this section to pay a specific or
| business tax shall take out a license or re-
| ceipt which shall state the business or oc-
! cupation in which such person, company or
corporation Is authorized to engage, and
| which shall be exhibited to The city mar
/ shah or his deputy, at any time upon de-
mand. And If any person, company 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 fail or refuse 10
exhibit the same upon demand to the city
| marshal, or his deputy, such person, com
| pany or corporation shall, upon conviction
| before the Police Court Of the
city Of Savannah be subject to
| fine not to exceed one hun
dred dollars, and imprisonment not 90 ex-
coed thirty days, either or both, in the dis
| erection of the court
Sec g. The occupant of any premises
where a dog or dogs Is or are kept shah
pay for every dog so kept an annual
| license Of one dollar. Upon payment OF
this license a badge shall be issued to the
person paying the license for the dog;
and every dog found running at large
| without such badge shall be impounded,