The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-01-14
LICENSE TAXES FOR
1908 HAVE BEEN FIXED
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE
ADOPTED BY COUNCIL.
What the City Will Receive frsm This
Source of Revenue. CahneA
Crackers Get Hard Lick.

Crackers Get Hard Lick
The special committee appointed by
the city council to fix the annual IL
eepse tax ordinance for Dawson for the
wear 1903 has completed its work, and
the revised ordinance was adopted by
the council at its last meeting 1t Will
he found below. There are several
change; noticed in the new schedule,
and several new license taxes have
been imposed.
The amount required of building
and loan associations doing business
in Dawson has. been raised from $40 to
$50 per annum.
Cotton buyers and shippers, or agent
or clssser for buyers and shippers, are
taxed SIS per annum. This is new
license, as is the one of Sl5 per annum
imposed on retail drugs lists, and the
one of $50 per annum on wholesale
druggists.
The amount imposed on dealers in
nostrums, where free exhibitions are
gives ia connection with same, Is
raised from S25 to $35 per annum.
The license on fireworks remains
the same, but the council took an ef-
fective lick at cannon crackers by In
sorting a proviso that "any person
who shall sell or keep for sale any
fireworks known as cannon crackers
and any explosive containing dyna-
mite shall be subject to license of
$500"
Each cotton seed oil mill will con-
tribute $50 per aRnum. This is new
tax, as is also the one which imposes
$25 per annum on dealers in toy pistols
using caps or blank cartridges.
The only reduction in amount OF Ii
cense required in the entire list is on
plane tuners, who for 1908 will be tax
ed So instead of $40.
TAX ORDINANCE.
SECTION l. Be it ordained by the
mayor and city council OF Dawson
that. from and after the passage OF this
ordinance, every person, firm or cor
poration who exercises or may cxer-
else within the city any profession,
trade, calling or business, of any ma
ture whatever, shall annually register
in books to be kept for that purpose
by the clerk of said city council their
names and professions, trades, calling
or business, and their place of busi-
ness (if any, within the city by the 18th
day OF January, 1903.
SECTION 2. Be it further ordained
that all persons commencing any bust
ness of any kind after the 10Th of Jan
uary, 1903, shall register their bust
ness as soon as they shall commence
the same.
SECTION ). Be it further ordained,
that whenever any person or persons
having no fixed places of buiness with
in the city, but nevertheless exercise
within the city any business whatever,
such person or persons shall be requir-
ed to register their names and business
and shall be subject TO the same or
like taxation on their business as is
levied by the mayor and council up n
persons following like business and
having fixed place of business.
SECTION 4. All persons, firms, cor
roratiOns or manufacturing com Danies
having either their business proper, or
their general or branch offices or
agencies located within the corporate
limits of the city, or who are repre-
scented in said city by officers or agents
soliciting or transacting business for
them within the corporate limits OF
the city, shall be required to register
and take out the necessary license for
said business prescribed in this ordl-
nance, aud in default thereof the OIL
Ger or agent for such person, firm or
corporation or manufacturing company
shall be subject to the same penalty as
other persons who fail to register and
take out license.
SECTION 5. The mayor and council
shall impose such taxes from time TO
time as they may deem just and equita-
BILE upon all local and iteneraut trad
ers or agents or other persons not
specially mentioned in this ordinance.
This ordinance shall be subject to al
teration and repeal in whole or in part
at any time, and no such amendment
or repe | in any particular shall be
construed TO deny the right of the
council to assess and collect any of the
tax or license charges prescribed.
SECTION g. Transient traders 10
goods, wares and merchandise of any
description whatever, also agents or
canvassers for the sale of any article
whatever. itinerant physicians or sell
ers of prophet arV articles or nostrums,
before exposing or Offering the same
for sale shall first register and pay
such special tax as is fixed in these or
dinances or that may be hereafter or
at that time prescribed by the mayor