The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-26
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! be Issued to the person paying the
license for the dog: and every dog
found running at large without such
badge shall be impounded. and II
not claimed in forty-eight hours, shall.
be disposed of.
The ordinance Of November 16,
| 1913, requiring badges to be
taken out for dogs, and prescribing
other regula tions for dogs, so far as
the provisions of the same are not In
consistent with this ordinance, is here
/ by re-ordained and declared to be in
! full force. Every person failing to
take out license for a dog, or failing
| to pay such license, as required by
! this ordinance, shall, upon con-
viction before the Police Court
of the city of Savannah, be subject to
| a fine not to exceed three dollars, with
the alternative of imprisonment not to
exceed three days.
The number of dogs kept as provided
for in this section of this ordinance
shall be ascertained by means of the
returns now prescribed.
Every person having dog
or dogs on the first day of jan
| ua1y 1904, shall make "A return there
of to the Board of Tax Assessors by
the 21st day of January 1904, and ev-
| cry person bringing a dog or dogs into
| the city after that date, to be kept
here, shall make a similar return with
in ten days after so bringing in such
dog or dogs.
sec. 6. All taxes hereby required for
real and personal property held on the
| first day of January, 19O4,and for bus
| mess in which any person shall be en-
gagged at that date, and OF persons hav-
ing vehicles and dogs in said city at
| that date shall be considered as due
on the first day of January, 1904, and
all taxes required of persons commence
| ing to transact any business for which
a tax is required, after the first day of
January, 1904, or commencing after
that date to use vehicles and street
railway cars not then in use, or bring
| ing any dog or dogs into said city,
shall be due Immediately upon the
! commencing of such business, using
such vehicles, or bringing such dog
into the city. And all taxes of every
kind shall be payable to the City Treas
urer; provided, nevertheless, that any
tax upon property assessed for the
whole year may be paid quarterly, at
the option of the taxpayer, computing
from the first day of January, 1904;
| but in the event that any quarters tax
| is not paid when the same is payable,
| then the Treasurer shall issue an ex-
ecution for the amount of the tax for
the year remaining unpaid as herein
after provided. But any person or
firm commencing business in this city
| after July l, 1904, or running after that
| date vehicles for the transportation of
goods, wares or merchandise, or pas
SengerS, which were not run before
that date, upon making prompt return
of the same within ten days. after such
| business has commenced, or such We
| hicles have been run, he or they shall
| be taxed on half of the yearly tax as
sessed by this ordinance, provided said
tax be paid within fifteen days after
such return; otherwise the entire tax
shall be collected. The term vehicle,
as used in this section shall include
| street railway cars, automobiles, loco
mobiles, and all other motor vehicles.
Sec. Z. If any person or corporation
| shall refuse or neglect to pay any tax
required by this ordinance within thir-
| ty days after the same shall be due
and payable as above provided, or shall
neglect or refuse to pay any double
| tax assessed, as above provided for,
| 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-
| tons 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 81
1877, and acts amendatory thereof.
! Every person or :, corporation who
shall pay his or its taxes on real or
personal property, or both, promptly
within fifteen days after the
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 reduction of 10 per centum
of the amount thereof, and the City
| Treasurer is hereby directed to make
| such 9 reduction upon the receipt of the
| tax
Sec. s. 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 plumber, every
| barber and all others doing business
|
owner or lessee of junk shop or 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 it 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 APP
| 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 vendue
master until he shall have complied
| with the conditions contained in Sec
ton 1862 of the Code of Georgia. 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 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
| 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