The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-02

neglect or refuse to pay any double
tax assessed, as above PROVIDED 1or'
twenty days after notice has been
served on such persons or corporations
of such assessment the City Treasurer
shall issue executions therefor ana Tor
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 ~
1877. Every person or corporation VINO
shall pay his or it's 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 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
Treasurer is hereby directed to make
such . reduction upon the receipt of the
tax.
Sec. II. Every person transacting
or Offering to transact, either of the
kinds of business hereinafter named
who are in business on the first day OF
January, 1904, shall, within thirty days
after the first day of January, 1904,
take out license therefor, viz: Every
auctioneer, every broker, every COM
mission merchant, every plumper, 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 mas
first paid all taxes required of him by
this ordinance. Every licensed auc-
tioneer shall have the privilege OF APP
pointing one assistant crier, and VINO
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 Vendue
master until he shall have compneu
with the conditions contained In Sec
ton 1925 of the Revised Code of GeGr-
gia, known as the Code of 1882. And
in every license taken out by the owner
or lessee of 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, anc that
such persons shall not purchase from
any one under the age of 16 years, a
duplicate of which license, signed by
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 16 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, 1888, 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 a 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 a new bond
given by the transferee, where
ever bond is required by
ordinance. But a person or Arm
may transfer his license or permit from
one place to another with the per-
mission of Council
Sec. r. On and after the first day
Of January, 1904, the price of a license
to sell malt, Vinous or spirituous Id
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 a yearly license and
upon giving notes bearing 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