The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-24
OFFICIAL.


| or who shall sell goods or articles of
any kind from any vessel or wharf,
/ personally purchase cargo or collect
freight, except through a licensed bro
ker or commission merchant, shall be
considered a commission merchant and
pay the tax hereinafter prescribed for
| commission merchants.
| Sec. 5. Every persons transactlng,
or offering to transact, any of the
kinds of business hereinafter specified
(whether In connection with any other
business or noD. shall pay the tax
/ hereinafter prescribed for every sep
| arate place in which he shall transact
! or offer to transact business, viz:
Auctioneers and commission mer-
I chant with the privilege of selling at
auction, two hundred dollars.
Dealers in goods, wares and mer-
/ chandise, including dealers in drugs,
etc. lin addition to liquor tax or
| license), as follows:
Dealers exclusively retail. except
thirty dollars
/ Dealers conducting a department
store, one hundred dollars
/ Dealers exclusively wholesale, or re-
I tail dealers selling at wholesale, one
hundred dollars; those conducting de-
|, partment stores in no event paying a
smaller tax than that provided for in
I Dealers in. liquor doing a wholesale
business, two hundred dollars.
Brokers in liquor, two hundred dol
|, lars.
Banker or bank agent or agents of
/ bankers engaged in buying or selling
/ exchange, including every person or
company doing a banking business,
i nifty dollars. @
Every bank or trust company with
out Il savings department. attached,
hand every savings bank, fifty dollars.
/ Every bank or trust company with a
savings department attached seventy
| five; dollars. = g
/ Every person. firm or corpora ton,
other than those paying the license just
mentioned required of banks, and bank
i ers buying and selling exchange, fifty
dollars. r III
| Cotton brokers, or brokers or deal
ers in stocks, bonds and real estate,
and every produce, grocery, and naval
stores broker, and every resident agent
! representing nonresident dealers, mer-
schants and manufacturers, exclusive
b of brokers in liquors, 'seventy-five dol
lars.
| Persons other than a pawnbroker en-
| gagged in the business of lending money
on personal property, whether a mort
| gage or bill of sale or other security
be taken or not, three hundred and
fifty dollars.
/ A money lender as contemplated by
! this ordinance being one who carries
| on the business of lending his own or
| other peoples money, q and not as a
| stock and bond broker. chartered bank,
! private banker, negotiator of loans on
realty. real estate agent, or dealer in
bonds and stocks. but who carries on
/ the business of lending money on per-
/ oil .txr
other than stocks and bonds, such an
one shall be deemed a money lender
Brokers or agents buying and selling
futures on a margin, five hundred dol
lars.
| Z Brokers or dealers in stocks, bonds,
! real estate and live stock, with the
privilege of selling same at auction, one
hundred dollars.
| Brokers or dealers in real estate may
collect rents without paying further
tax.
Brokers who may handle or receive
goods on consignment, one hundred dol
lars.
Ship brokers. one hundred dollars.
Dealers in butter, lard and cheese,
eighty dollars.
Dealers in hides, wax and tallow.
eighty dollars.
Brokers engaged in the sale of horses.
cattle or mules who keep. no stables
for the sale of same, one hundred dol
lars.
Pawnbrokers, five hundred dollars;
| said pawnbrokers shall be authorized
to sell only goods pledged with them,
and shall be subject to forfeiture OF
license by the Mayor for the sale OF
other goods.
Proprietors of each pool room KEEP,
or maintained in the city of Savannah
for the sale of pools on races, shall
pay the sum of fifteen hundred dollars
per .annum.
Building and loan associations. one
hundred dollars.
/ Loan Associations, doing banking
business, one hundred dollars.
Persons and corporations carrying
on the business of furnishing abstracts
land titles or warranting the same
fifty dollars.
Every fire or life insurance company
doing business, whether directly or
through an agency or through broker
two hundred dollars for each and every
agency or broker.
Every agent or broker doing business
in the city of Savannah for every fire
of life insurance company which he
may represent in any way, including
each company to which be may seno
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 ACT
OF the Legislature OF Georgia, approved
December. a. 1894, and entitled "Ar
Act 20 provide for and regulate the
business OF insurance brokers in THIS
state, and TO authorize insurance 20 be
procured by them beyond the limits OF
the state upon property within ths
state. and for other purposes" are ex.
pressly included. the meaning and IN.
tent being 10 make the agents and
brokers referred 20 responsible under
the pains and penalties Of this ordi.
nance for the specific tax Of two hun,
dred dollars, az provided FOR By ordi.
nance of the city ~ savannah. adopted
on the 10Th day ~ september. 1895
Every marine. surety o. other insur.
ance company doing business whether
4 directly or through an agency oi
through broker ~ an attorney. 6ny
collars Tor each add every agency 81