The morning news., 1899-11-18
OFFICIAL.

NeSSel OF WndrIs personally purchase cargo
or collect freight, except through Ii
censed broker or commission merchant,
shall be considered commission mer-
chant and pay the tax hereinafter pre-
scribed for commission merchants.
Sec. 5. Every person transacting, or Of
ferirg 10 transact. any of the kinds of
business hereinafter specified (whether in
connection with any other business or
moo, shall pay the tax hereinafter pre-
scribed for every separate place in which
he shall II slsact or offer to transact bus
mess, viz:
'Auclionccrs doing a general auction
businessl ard commission merchant or
auctioneer doing a general auction busi-
ness) and broker. two hundred dollars
Dealers in goods, wares and merchan-
disc. including dealers in drugs, etc. Qn
addition to liquor tax or license), as fol-
lows:
Dealers exclusively retail except those
conducting department. store, thirty dol
lars.
Dealers conducting a department store,
one hundred dollars.
Dealers exclusively wholesale, or retail
dealers selling at wholesale one hundred
dollars; those conducting department.
stores in no event paying a smaller tax
than that provided for in the preceding
paragra oh.
Dealers in liquor doing a wholesale bus
mess two hundred dollars
Brokers in liquor two hundred dollars.
Bank CT bank agent or agents of bank
ers engaged IN buying or selling exchange.
including every person or company dong
a banking business, fifty dollars; every
bank without a savings department at
tached, and every savings bank, fifty dol
lGrs; every bank with a savings depart
n ent ati9c red, seventy-five dollars.
Every person, firm or corporation, other
than those paying the license just M m
toned re luired Of banks, and bankers buy.
ing and selling exchange, fifty dollars.
Cotton bIckers, or brokers or dealers in
stocks tcaIds ana real estate, AMI every
produce, grocery, and naval stores broker,
and every resident agent representing
nonresident dealers, merchants and man.
ufacturers, exclusive of brokers in liquors,
seventy-ive dollars.
Persons other than a pawnbroker en-
gagged in the business of lending money on
personal property, five hundred dollars
Brokers or agents buying and selling fu'
lures on a margain, 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
| goods on consignment one hundred dol
! lars.
| Ship brokers, enc hundred dollars
| Dealers in butter, lard and cheese, eighty
dollars.
Dealers in hides, wax and tallow, eighty
dollars.
Brokers engaged in the sales 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 in the city of Savannah for the
/ -h1I raTr fba EIl11
of one thousand dollars per annum.
Building and loan associations, one hun
| dred dollars.
Loan associations, doing a banking busi-
ness, one hundred dollars.
Every fire or life insurance company do
ing business, whether directly or through
an agency, or through a broker, two nun
dred dollars for each and every agency or
i broker.
Every agent or broker doing business in
| the city of Savannah for every fire or life
| insurance company which 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
cases where the company does not pay the
tax itself.
Brokers doing business under the oct oi
| the Legislature of Georgia, approved Dec
| a. 1894 and entitled 'An act TO provide
for and regulate the business of insur-
ance brokers in this state, and to author
ize insurance to be procured by them be.
yond the limits of the state upon prop
erty within the state, and for other pur'
poses," are expressly included, the mean
ing and intent being to make the agents
and brokers referred TO responsible under
the pains and penalties Of this ordinance
for the specific tax of two hundred dol
lars, as provided for by ordinance of tho
city of Savannah. adopted on the 25th day
of September, 1895
Every marine, surety or other Insurance.
company doing business, whether directly
or through an agency or through
a broker or an attorney, fifty
dollars for each and every agency
or broker or attorney. Every sucl
agent, broker or attorney doing such bus
mess in the city of Savannah for every
such company which he may represent il
any way, shall pay a tax of fifty dollars
in an cases where the company does no.
pay the tax Itself, and this provision sha
apply to any agent, broker or attorney Whl
does business for marine company or
what is known as open policies"
Every accident insurance company do
ing business. whether directly or through
an agency or through a broker, one hun
dred dollars for each and every agency ol
broker.
Every person who shall be sworn by tn,
Mayor (who is hereby authorized to ad
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public weigher of any goods, wares or mer
chandise, twenty-five dollars.
Every average or insurance adjuster fol
companies for which he is not the loca
insurance agent fifty dollars
Keepers or proprietors of hotels that con
tain seventy-five rooms or upward, on,
hundred dollars
Keepers or proprletors of hotels contain
ing under seventy-five rooms, fifty dol
lars.
Sewing machine agents or agencies, fift!
dollars; the same for each and every agen
cy.
Dealers in sewing machines, fifty dollars
Dealer. in coal, one hundred dollars.
Dealers in stationery or books, selling
exclusively at wholesale, or at retail an,
! wholesale, one hundred dollars.
Retail dealers in stationery or books
thirty dollars.
Oil mills, one hundred dollars.
Manufacturers of or dealers in fertilizers
not paying tax as a commission merchant
one hundred dollars.