The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-28

| the pains and penalties or this orul-
nance for the specific tax of two hum
| dred dollars, as provided for by ordi-
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 a broker or an attorney, nifty
dollars for each and every agency or
! broker or attorney. Every such agent,
! broker or attorney doing such business
! in the city of Savannah for every such
| company which be may represent in
any way, shall pay a tax of fifty dol
! lars in all cases where the company
! does not pay the tax ITSELF and this
| provision shall apply to any agent,
! broker or attorney who does business
| for marine company on what is
known as open policies"
Every accident insurance company
| doing business, whether directly or
through an agency or through broker,
| one hundred dollars, for each and every
| agency or broker. Every company,
| corporation or person not doing
the business of regular life insurance
company or of a regular accident in
surance company, but nevertheless en-
gagged in the business of paying sick
or accident benefits to policy holders,
shall pay q specific tax of fifty dollars.
Every person who shall be sworn by
the Mayor (who is hereby authorized
| to administer the oath for such pur-
pose) as a public weigher of any goods,
wares or merchandise, twenty-five dol
| lars.
Every average or insurance adjuster
for companies for which he is not the
| local insurance agent, fifty dollars.
Keepers or proprietors of hotels, con-
Quoted on either European or Ameri-
| can plan, that contain seventy-hve
rooms or upward, one hundred dollars.
| Keepers or proprietors of hotels, con-
Quoted on either European or Ameri-
can plan, containing under seventy-fVe
rooms, fifty dollars.
Sewing machines agents or agencies,
| fifty dollars; the same for each and
| every agency.
Dealers in sewing machines, or deal
ers in sewing machine supplies, or re-
pairers of sewing machines, fifty dol
| lars.
Dealers in coal, one hundred dollars.
| Dealers in stationery or books, SELL
| ing exclusively at wholesale, or at re-
| tail and wholesale, one hundred dol
! lars.
Retail dealers in stationery or books,
thirty dollars.
Oil mills. one hundred dollars.
| Manufacturers of or dealers in fer
| tilizers, not paying tax as a commits
sion merchant, one hundred dollars.
Owners, proprietors, lessee or lessees
| hundred and fifty dollars; every hand
cotton press, twenty-five dollars.
Owners, proprietors, lessee or lessees
of junk shop, or junk dealers, three
| hundred dollars.
Cotton pickeries. to be confined ex-
| clusively to the purchase or sale of
cotton, one hundred dollars.
Buyers of loose cotton, who buy from
| others than cotton merchants. one
hundred and seventy dollars.
Proprietors or owners of cotton gin
establishments, one hundred dollars.
Every commission merchant or fac
tor, one hundred dollars.
Every dealer IN live poultry or coun-
try produce one hundred dollars.
House cleaning and upholstering. ten
| dollars.
Dealers in bicycle supplies, thirty
| dollars.
Repairers of bicycles, who are not
| dealers in bicycle supplies, ten dol
| lars.
Exporters of cotton, lumber, naval
| stores, or other merchandise, foreign or
| coastwise, agency or representative of
firm of exporters, two hundred dollars.
Stevedores. fifty dollars.
Every lighterage or river transfer,
| dred dollars.
Every tow boat company person or
persons, firm or corporation conducting
a tow boat business fifty dollars for
each boat used in the business.
Every dredging company, person or
persons, firm or corporation conduct
ing the business of dredging, fifty dol
lars for each dredge used in the bus
| mess.
Proprietors or owners of lumber
yards, fifty dollars.
Dealers in brick or agents for sale of
brick, seventy-five dollars.
Dealers in wood, thirty dollars
keepers of warehouses for the stor-
| age of cotton, merchandise, goods, ETC.,
for each warehouse, thirty dollars.
Proprietors or owners or keepers of
billiard or pool tables, other than those
used in private dwellings, ten dollars
| for each table.
Proprietors or owners of bagatelle
tables, ten dollars for each table.
Proprietors or owners of ten pin al
leys, ten dollars for each alley.
Proprietors or owners of saw mills
or planning mills, with or without lum-
per yards attached, one hundred dol
lars.
Each sash and blind factory, or
agency of sash and blind factory, fifty
| dollars.
On the owner or proprietor of every
steam engine used for hosting pur-
poses, or any other business where
steam is used, not regularly taxed. as
in this ordinance stated and enumer-
ated, twenty-five dollars.
Cotton shippers, twenty-five dollars.
Cotton weighers, twenty-five dollars.
Shoemakers, ten dollars.
Merchant tailors, thirty dollars.
Every circus with or without a mem
aSerie, for each and every day per
forming in the city, two hundred and
| fifty dollars, without discount.
Itnerant shows, one hundred dollars
per week or any part thereof, without
discount.
Flying horses, twenty-five dollars
per month or any part thereof. without
discount.
Other minor exhibitions, ten dollars
per week or any part thereof, without
discount.
Athletic exhibitions, where entrance
fee is charged, fifty dollars.
Dealers or vendors of goods. wares
merchandise, drugs, and small wares
selling or introducing the same for sale
by means of public exhibitions. one
hundred dollars per week, or any part
thereof, without discount
Hand organs, or strolling bands of
musicians, five dollars per week, with
out discount.
Every person, company or corpora
ton engaged in the business of operat-
ing or running a theater for theatrical
exhibitions, three hundred dollars per