The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
OFFICIAL.

| VI OhcInB TO transact, any of M
kinds of business hereinafter spac,sn as
| whether in connection with any ottd
business or noD, shall pay the tn
| hereinafter prescribed for every OK ak
arate place in which he shall transap.
or ofrer to transact business, viz ny
EVERY shipmaster, captain, sunar
cargo agent or other officer -.
any vessel or other persons who SHAH
cnarter or offer to charter his vest
or who shall sell goods or articles 81:
any KIM from any vessel or VIII
personally purchase cargo or COLI,
| freight, except through a licensed h Let
ker or commission merchant, snail y.
considered. commission merchant anS
| pay the tax hereinafter prescribed % tI
| commission merchants, Aor
Auctioneers and commission MAJ
chants with the privilege of sellino -
| auction, two hundred dollars. at
Dealers in goods, wares and mo-
chandise, including dealers i'm dr.,
etc. lin addition to liquor tsx
license), as follows: Vt
Dealers exclusively retail. evoou.
those conducting a department stoL1
thirty dollars. sure
Dealers conducting a densr+r,o.
store, one hundred dollars. '''ielit
| Dealers exclusively wholesale. or -
| tail dealers selling at wholesale re-
hundred dollars; those conductin., 9le
smaller tax than that provided for d
| the preceding paragraph. !"
Dealers in liquor doing a who1aso,.
| business, two hundred dollars Ai0
Brokers in liquor, two hundred dol.
| lars. uol-
Banker or bank agent or agents =,
bankers engaged in buying or saIi,nn
exchange, including every person IS
company doing banking business
| fifty dollars.
Every bank or trust COMPANY u,i+.
out savings department attachad
and every savings bank, fifty dolIars
Every bank or trust company WITH =
| savings department attached, seventv-
five dollars.
other than those paying the license ivst
! mentioned required of banAs and ham,
ers buying and selling exchange. Aft,
dollars. ''
Cotton brokers, or brokers or dA,,-
ers in stocks, bonds and real estate
! and every produce, grocery, and naval
stores broker, and every resident agent
representing nonresident dealers, mer-
chants and manufacturers, exclusive
of brokers in liquors, seventy-five dol
lars.
Persons other than pawnbroker en-.
gagged in the business of lending money
on personal property or chooses in
action two hundred dollars. a~
A money lender as contemplated bv
the foregoing paragraph, being one
who carries on the business of
Pies money, 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-
sonal security or personal property
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.
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.
Building and loan associations, one
hundred dollars.
Loan Associations, doing a banking
business, one hundred dollars.
Persons and corporations carrying
on the business Of furnishing abstracts
of land titles, or warranting the same,
fifty dollars.
Every fire or life insurance company
or association doing business, whether
directly 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 send
business, shall pay the tax of two
hundred dollars in all cases where the I
company does not pay the tax ITSELF
Brokers doing business under the act
Of the Legislature of Georgia, approved E
December, IA, 1894, and entitled IAN
Act to provide for and regulate the
business of insurance brokers in this
state, and to authorize insurance to be
procured by them beyond the limits OF 4
the state upon property within the
state, and for other purposes" are eX-
pressly included, the meaning and In
tent being to make the agents ana
brokers referred to responsible under
the pains and penalties of this ordi-
nance for the specific tax of two hum
dred dollars, as provided for by ordl-
nance of the city of Savannah, adopted
on the 25th day of September. 1895.
Every marine. surety or other insur'
ance company doing business whether
directly or through an agency or
through broker or an attorney fifty
dollars for each and every agency or
broker or attorney. Every such agent \
broker or attorney doing such business 4
in the city of Savannah for every such \
company which he may represent IN
any way, shall pay ! tax of fifty dol
lars In all cases where the company
does not pay the tax itself, and TINS
provision shall apply to any agent 4
broker or attorney who does business
for marine company on what Is
known as open policies"
Every accident insurance company L
doing business, whether directly OF
through an agency or through broker, l
one hundred dollars, for each and every
agency or broker. Every company'
corporation or person not uoliis
the business of a regular life insurance
company or of a regular accident IL
surance company, but nevertheless en-
gagged in the business of paying SIGN