The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-15
OFFICIAL.

thirty
Persons engaged in load
ing or unloading vessels by
as carriers of passengers for hire, con-
veying six or less passengers, ten dol
lars: more than six. twenty-five dol
| lars.
Proprietors or keepers of a skating
rink, twenty-five dollars.
Undertakes or coffin warehouses,
thirty dollars.
Persons engaged in loading or unload
ing vessels by horse power, twenty five
| dollars for each hosting apparatus
used.
Express companies, five hundred dol
lars, and, in addition thereto six dol
lars for every one-horse baggage ex-
press wagon, and twelve dollars for
every two-horse baggage express wag-
on employed by such companies.
Bill posters or distributors of bills,
or advertisements, one hundred dollars
Blacksmith shops, each forge, eight
dollars.
Cooper shops twenty dollars.
Carriage repositories, one hundred
dollars.
Every carriage or wheelwright shop
/ ty-five dollars.
Cigar manufacturers or retailers,
twenty dollars.
Dye houses, twenty dollars.
Millinery establishments, ten dollars.
Gunsmith establishments, ten dollars.
Foundries, exclusively brass, thirty
dollars; other foundries, fifty dollars.
Machine shops, fifty dollars.
Every foundry and machine shop, one
hundred dollars.
Menageries, fifty dollars per day.
Marble and stone yards, fifty dollars.
Wholesale or retail dealers or ship
pers in fish or oysters, doing business
outside of city market, fifty dollars.
Shipping masters, one hundred dol
lars.
Shooting galleries, one hundred dol
lars.
Proprietors or keepers of green gro
ceries. one hundred dollars.
Every dealer paying tax as whole
sale dealer, and every green grocer,
shall be permitted to carry on any bus
mess in the way of buying and selling
goods, wares and, merchandise here
inbefore taxed, paying a less tax than
that of a wholesale dealer, without
paying any other specific tax, provided
that such business strictly belongs to
his special line of business for which
he has paid a specific tax.
Stencil cutters, twenty dollars.
Tailors, not registered as merchants,
ten dollars.
Proprietors or owners of marine rail-
ways VI uIy uOChSs lily QOlldISs
Every person engaged in the BUSH
ness of transporting or carrying goods,
wares, merchandise, passengers or bag
gage for hire, by means of wagons,
drays, trucks, carts, omnibuses or car
riages of any description, or of letting
carriages or other vehicles for hire,
shall pay a tax according to the num-
Der and character of vehicle employed
in such business, viz: Every person
employing one-horse cart or wagon, six
dollars; every person employing one
horse dray or truck, eight dollars; ev-
cry person employing one-horse cab,
hack or buggy, or vehicle of any de-
scription not otherwise specifically
mentioned, six dollars: every person
employing one two-horse cart or wag-
on, dray or truck, or any other two
horse vehicle for drayage purposes,
twelve dollars; every person employ
ing one wo-horse cab, hack, buggy,
omnibus, carriage or vehicle of any
description, eight dollars; every per-
son employing one three-horse dray
or truck, eighteen dollars; every. per-
son employing one four-horse dray or
truck, twenty-five dollars: every per-
son employing one four-horse omnibus,
thirty dollars, and the tax to be paid
by any person employing more than
one vehicle of the same or different
kinds shall be according to the NUM-
Der of vehicles employed at the rates
above specified.
Every person transacting or Of
fering to transact the business of
transporting or carrying goods, etc.,
passengers or baggage for hire, by
means of wagons, drays, trucks, street
railway cars. or other vehicles. and
every keeper of public or livery sta
BILE, employing such vehicles in his
business, and every other person keep
ing and using street railway cars, or
other vehicles. in other kinds of BUSH
ness, shall, upon paying the tax here
inbefore prescribed, take out a badge,
which will be furnished by the City
Treasurer. for each street car or vehi-
Gle to be employed in such business
(the number of street cars or vehicles
to be employed to be stated on oath)
which shall be placed in a conspicuous
place on such vehicle or street car
except vehicles kept by keepers of pub
lie or livery stables, to be let for hire,
and vehicles used for pleasure or con-
venience-and any person using or en-
ploying any vehicle or street car on
such business without badge affixed,
except as aforesaid, shall be double
taxed, and on conviction thereof in the
Police Court, may be fined in sum
not exceeding one hundred dollars, or
imprisonment not more than thirty
days. or both, in the discretion of the
Court.
Keepers of sale and feed stables, If
ty dollars, but nothing herein contain
ed shall authorize the keeper of such
sale and feed stables to sell any live
stock Of any other person without first
paying the brokers' or dealers tax as
required under this ordinances; every
keeper of a public or livery stable, flf-
ty dollars; every keeper of feed stable
only, fifty dollars; every keeper of liv-
cry, feed or sale stable, with privi-
lege of selling live stock at auction,
one hundred dollars, and in addition
thereto, as a part of the same tax,
according to the number and character
of any vehicles employed in such bust
ness, either by letting for hire or in the
transportation of goods, passengers or
baggage, at the rates above specified for
taxes to be paid by persons engaged
in the business of transporting, etc,
for hire.
Persons employing or using one or
more vehicles of any sort to be drawn
by one or more horses or mules in
connection with any business in which
he may be engaged, for the purpose
of delivering goods sold by them. or
in any other manner, shall pay in adj
dition to the specific tax required of
them for such business, as a part
thereof, a graduated tax similar TO
that hereinbefore required OF persons
engaged in the business of transports
ing, etc, for hire, according to the
number and character of such vehicles.
at the same rate.
Every owner of a wagon or other
vehicle used as moving advertise
ments, one hundred dollars
Every push cart or harrow used aa