The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-28


,iages of any description, or of letting
carriages or other vehicles for hire,
shall pay a tax according to the num-
Der and character of vehicle employed
In such business, viz. Every person
employing one-horse cart or wagon, six
dollars; every person employing one
horse dray or truck, eight dollars; cv-
cry person employing one-horse cab,
hack or buggy, or vehicle of any de-
scription not otherwise specifically
mentioned, six dollars; every person
employing one two-horse cart or wag-
on dray or truck, or any other two
horse vehicle for drayage purposes,
twelve dollars; every person employ
ing one two-horse cab, hack. buggy
omnibus, carriage or vehicle of any
description, eight dollars; every per-
son employing one three-horse dray
or truck. eighteen dollars; every per-
son employing one four-horse dray or
truck, twenty-five dollars; every per-
son employing one four-horse omnibus.
thirty dollars, and the tax to be paid
by any person employing more than
one vehicle of the same or different
kinds shall be according to the num-
Der of vehicles employed at the rates
above specified.
Keepers of sale and feed stables. If
ty dollars, but nothing herein contain
ed 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 ordinance; every
keeper of public or livery stable. flf-
ty dollars; every keeper 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 bust
ness, either by letting for hire or in the
UGnOrf finn nf crOndC
baggage, at the rates above specified for
taxes to be paid by persons engaged
in the business of transporting. etc.
for hire.
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 engaged, for the purpose
of delivering goods sold by them, or
in any other manner shall pay. in adj
dition to the specific tax required of
them for such business, as a part
thereof, a graduated tax similar to
that hereinbefore required of persons
engaged in the business of transport
ing, etc, for hire, according to the
number and character of such vehicles.
at the same rate.
Every owner of wagon or other
vehicle used as moving advertise
ments one hundred dollars.
Every push cart or barrow used as
moving advertisements, twenty-five
dollars.
Hucksters selling vegetables on the
streets, for which a badge shall be
issued and carried, six dollars each
badge to be plainly exposed on the per-
son of the huckster and not to be
transferable
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 hun
dred dollars; upon payment of said
tax the treasurer shall furnish d
badge, which shall be placed in con-
spicuous place on such push cart or
vehicle.
Street dealers in poultry. for which
badge shall be issued. ten dollars.
Manufacturers of patent medicines
not engaged in the business of a drug
gist, thirty dollars.
Agents, attorneys at law, or brokers
negotiating loans on real estate lex
cept real estate brokers negotiating
loans in immediate. connection with
BALES or purchases made by them), and
money lenders, their agents, or attor-
neys, making loans with or without Sc
=,
pawnbrokers and persons, other than a
pawnbroker engaged in the business of
lending money on personal properly
hereinbefore provided for, seventy five
dollars.
Attorneys at law who advertise
money to lend, or in any other way
engage in the business of money lend
ing, whether for clients or not, shall
pay tax of seventy-five dollars.
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twenty-five dollars.
Dealers in bicycles, locomobiles or
automobiles, or agents for sale of
same, thirty dollars.
Manufacturers of baking powder, or
self-raising flour, or both, fifty dol
lars.
Retail dealers selling dressed poultry,
or fresh meats. in addition to the tax
of retail dealer, seventy dollars.
Agencies and other business not
hereinbefore specially mentioned, thir-
ty collars.
Every drummer (other than a street
drummer or runner) or other person So
letting trade or orders, or business for
another or for himself, whether resi-
dent of this city or elsewhere and
having no fixed place of business in
this city, and every peddler and timer
ant transient trader, and every tram
sient person, selling or offering to sell
by sample, shall pay the same tax re-
qufred of resident and stationary deal
ers in the same articles, and no Of
hcer of the city shall be authorized to
reduce or in any wise change such tax
so required, nor shall such itinerant
dealer be allowed to sell his wares
under the license of any auctioneer, or
the name of 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 ordi-
nance; provided, however that any
transient person transacting, or offer
Ing to transact, any of the kinds of
selling or offering only to resident
dealers or manufacturers in the spe-
cilc article or commodity sold or Of
fered by him or her, and not bringing
INTO or keeping in the city any stock
ior the purpose of delivery, shall not
be required to pay any tax or license
fec.
A street drummer or runner solicit
ing customers for the local trade shall
pay tax of one hundred dollars for
each house for which he solicits and
IN addition shall wear a badge plain
ly exposed, designating his business.
In default of such badge he shall be
subject to a fine not exceeding fifty
dollars, and to Imprisonment not ex-
ceeding ten days. either or both, in the
discretion of the court upon conviction
before the Police Court of the city of
Savannah.
Every person, company or corpora
uon required by this section to pay