The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-03
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twenty days after notice has been
| served on such persons or corporations
| of such assessment, the City Treasurer
! shall issue executions therefor and for
/ the further sum of one dollar for cost,
| and the City Marshal shall proceed
with such executions in the same man.
ner as a Sheriff does under the execu-
| tions from the Superior Courts of this
! State. subject to the provisions OF the
act of the General Assembly of the
! State of Georgia, passed February r.
| 1877. Every person or corporation who
| shall pay his or its taxes on real or
personal property, or both, promptly
within fifteen days after the
first of April. July, october
and January, the time herein.
| before specified for the payment
| thereof, shall be entitled to a deduction
| of 10 per centum of the amount there
| of, and the City Treasurer is hereby
| directed to make such deduction upon
| the receipt of the tax; and every per-
| son or corporation who shall pay any
other taxes required by this ordinance
| promptly within thirty days after the
same shall become due, shall be en-
| titled to a reduction of 10 per centum
| of the amount thereof, and the City
| Treasurer is hereby directed to make
such : reduction upon the receipt of the
tax.
Sec. IL. Every person transacting
or Offering to transact, either OF the
| kinds of business hereinafter named
| who are in business on the flfst day OF
| January, 1904. shall, within thirty days
| after the first day of January, 1SO4'
| take out license therefor, viz: Every
| auctioneer, every broker, every COM
mission merchant, every plumber every
barber and all others doing business
| without any stock in trade; every
| owner or lessee of a junk shop OF cot
ton pickery; every junk dealer, every
vendor of small wares, hucksters,
| hawkers, including dealers in ice cream,
fruit and poultry, keeper OF COOK
stove or cook shop; and 1t is hereby
declared to be the meaning of this or
| dinance that the license granted to any
| auctioneer shall not authorize such
| auctioneer to sell for any transient
| dealer unless such transient dealer has
first paid all taxes required of him by
this ordinance. Every licensed auc-
tioneer shall have the privilege of ap-
pointing one assistant crier, and who
| shall be a citizen of Savannah, whose
name shall be recorded in the Treas
urer's Office and entered on the license
| issued. And no person shall be per-
| mitted to be an auctioneer or Venoue
| master until he shall have complied
with the conditions contained in Sec
ton 1925 of the Revised Code of Geor-
| gia, known as the Code of 1882. And
in every license taken out by the owner
or lessee of a junk shop or cotton pick
cry, or by a junk dealer, it shall be
| distinctly expressed that such a junk
| shop or cotton pickery, or junk dealer
| shall always be subject to the vista
| ton of the police of the city, and that
| such persons shall not purchase from
any one under the age of 16 years, a
,,If to 0f ~ cfo
| the person of persons taking out the
| same, and expressing his or their assent
| to such conditions, shall be retained by
| the City Treasurer, and on refusal to
| submit at any time to such visitation,
| or on conviction in the Police Court Of
having purchased from any one under
the age of Is years, such license shall
| be revoked, and such junk shop or cot
| ton pickery shall Immediately be closed
| by the Mayor. And every such junk
shop, dealer of cotton pickery license
shall be subject to the further con-
dition that the same shall be subject to
revocation by the Mayor or Recorder
| if, on examination before him in the
Police Court, he shall be satisfied and
shall so pronounce that any stolen
property Is found in such junk shop,
or in the possession of any junk deal
| er; and such condition shall be ex-
| pressed in the license of every such
| junk shop or dealer. Every person re-
| quired by the provisions of this Sec
ton, and by the ordinance passed in
Council March, 14th, 1888, in reference
to taking out licenses, who shall COM
mence to transact, or offer to transact,
in this city any of the kinds of bust
ness mentioned in this section, after
the first day of January, 1904, shall take
out license before commencing business.
as provided in said ordinance, passed
March 14th, 1883, which said ordinance
is of force. The license herein provided
for shall be issued by the City Treas
urer. And if any person tranSacting,
or offering to transact in said city,
either of the kinds of business in this
section specified, shall be found with
out such license displayed in a con-
Spicuous manner in his, her or their place
of business, he she or they shall, on
conviction thereof in the Police Court,
be fixed in sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars, or Imprisonment not
more than thirty days, or both, in the
discretion of the Court. No specific
license or permit to do business shall
be transferable by any person or firm
unless the transferee be the bona fide
| successor at the same place of the
transferer and unless all indebtedness
due on said license by the transferor is
fully paid and new bond
ever bond is required by
| ordinance. But a person or firm
| may transfer his license or permit from
one place to another with the per-
| mission of Council.
Sec. II. On and after the first day
of January, 1904, the price of a license
to sell malt, vinous or spirituous liq-
uors at retail within the corporate and
| jurisdictional limits of said city
for one year shall be two
| hundred dollars net, without
discount; but a license to sell at retail
may be issued upon paying one-fourth
| of the sum due for yearly license and
| upon giving notes bearing s per cent.
| interest from January l, 1904, when
parties are already in business, and
| from date in case parties commencing
business during the year. with indorse-
ments or sureties satisfactory to the
| Mayor, to secure the payment of the
| other three-fourths of said sums in
| three equal payments, on the twelfth
| of March, twelfth of June, and twelfth
of September, 1904. provided, however,
that upon default of any all the
| notes shall become due and pay
able, the said payments to be
| made whether the persons giving
| such notes or surety shall go out
of business or not, and the applicant
shall be required to submit, as securi-
ties, two responsible freeholders of this
city, as prerequisite to the issue of said
license (no officer, clerk or employee of
| the city shall be taken as security on
| such bond or notes, and it shall be the
| duty of the Mayor to pass upon such