The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-06
REGULAR MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
The Tax Ordinance Adopted-The
Liquor License the Same ax Last
fear-HiEh License Faifed-AIder-
man Bailey Resigns-The City
Rock Quarry Leased-Mnyor Pro
TEN yonGlahn Tendere His
Resfgnatf0n- Other Business.

O'Clock, Mayor Wadden presiding. All
the members of the board were In at
tendance. viz: Aldermen Spencer, Muir
rell. VonGlahn, Sweeney. Johnson.
Cooper. Hashagen. Bailey, Mann and
Tiencken.
After h reading and approval of the
minutes of the las regular and special
meetings. committee reports were called
for.
Upon recommendation of Alderman
Hashagen. Of the finance COMMITTEE,
the contract for furnishing the city with
coal, cement, lime. brick and terra cot
ia pipe was awarded to the Coal and
Cement Supply Company. The contract
for printing the tax lists and books was
awarded to the Jackson & Bell Co.
Upon recommendation of Alderman
Hashagen, of the finance committee, it
was ordered that s21S. 40 be refunded the
Chadbourn Lumber Company, excess
taxes paid. Evergreen Tabernacle was
relieved of s12. 80 tax, it being a chart
table society.
On behalf of the finance committee,
Alderman Hashagen offered the a or
dinance for 19O2-1903, and it was adopted
with some changes, as follows:
Rate of taxation SLIGO on the 500 val
uation of real and personal property in
stead of $1.65, to be appropriated as fol-
lows. Twenty-Five cents on the 800
for the payment of interest on debts
prior o he year 1868; 3 cents for the
sinking fund, and $1.32 for general pur-
poses. The poll tax remains at So. 90 Oh
each poll.
The following taxes were increased:
On bill posters and advertising agents,
$50 a year instead of $25; bottlerS of nor
alcoholic drinks, 500 instead of s12; on
brokers in money, loaners, stocks or
bonds, other than banks and bankers,
S120 instead of $66; on electric light bus
mess, $25 a month instead of 1880; gas
companies, $25 a month instead Of $16.-
so; guano warehouses, $120 a year in
stead of $40; hucksterS $1.50 a month
instead of $1.10; private meat markets,
$3.50 a year instead of 500; merry-go-
rounds, 81 per day instead of $1.25; tin
Grant vendors who sell upon the streets,
So a day instead of 81: street railways,
S25 a month instead Of SIS; s~cavengers,
$25 a year; sewerage companies, $120 a
year.
The committee recommended that the
loA Oh iSC SoibpdiilCS NC 1hSAS doCu
SIS to $3.50 a year but on motion of AL
derman VonGlahn, the board rejected
the recommendation. P~ing-pong and
Klondyke tables were added to the lass
of billiard, pool and bagatelle tables,
the tax on which, is $2.25 a month on
each table which is kept for profit, and
s1.1O per month on those kept for
amusement only.
Alderman Hashagen in submitting
the ordinance stated that the majority
of the committee (himself and Alder
man Bailey had agreed to report the
ordinance. The only change they rec
commended in the liquor license tax was
that temporary bars shall not be licen-
sed for any period less than six months
instead of one month as heretofore. On
moion of Alderman Bailey, however,
the ordinance was adopted as last year.
so the license tax remainds $22 a month.
While the liquor license section was
under consideration, Alderman Cooper
made a minority report and recommen-
ded the following as the liquor license
tax.
classification A, $1,000 per annum
payable quarterly in claSS11-
cation B, $72O payable quarterly in ad-
vance; classification G., 1924 payable
semi-annually in advance.
For the purposes Of this section clas-
siication A shall be deemed to apply to
all places where spirituous, malt or
nou liquors are sold in that territory
bounded on the east by the eastern line
of Fourth street, on the south by the
northern lin of church street, on the
north by the southern limit or line OF
the right of way of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad Company and on the west
by the Cape Fear river, provided, how
ever, and it is expressly intended that
all that portion of territory within the
city limits situated west Of the Cape
Fear river shall be deemed for the pur-
poses herein expressed to be part OF
Classification A.
For the purpose of his section
classification B shall be deemed to apply
to all places where spirituous, malt or
vinous liquors are sold in that territory
bounded on the west by the eastern linz
of Fourth street, on the east by tbs
eastern line of Eighth street, on the
south by the northern line of Church
street and on the north by the right OF
way of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
road Company.
classification c. All that territory in
the city of Wilmington other h thai
h,reinbefore referred to, that is to say
not included in classes A and B.
Every shop, building, shed Or tent
or open stand where spirituous, NAL
or vinous liquors are retailed as above
shall be deemed a bar"
In the discussion, City Attorney VIII
liam ]. Bellamy and the Hon. George
Rountree were called upon for theil
opinions as to the constitutionality o.
Alderman Cooper's proposed substitute
They gave it as their opinion that /
would be clearly constitutional. but ex
planned that they did so merely as law
years without expressing n individ'
ual opinion as to its advisability.
Aldermen Sweeney, Bailey and
Tiencken opposed the substitute offer
ed by Alderman Cooper, and Alderman
Johnson read a statement saying tina
he did not believe high license would
yield a much larger revenue than is a
preSopt COLLECTED when the loss 70 thu