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

arate place IN which he shall transact
or offer to transact business, viz:
Every shipmaSter, captain. super
cargo, agent or other officer of
any vessel, or other persons who shall
| charter or offer to charter his vessel,
or who shall sell goods or articles of
any kind from any vessel or wharf,
| personally purchase cargo or collect
freight except through licensed bro
kef or commission merchant. snail be
considered commission merchant and
| pay the tax hereinafter prescribed for
| commission merchants
Auctioneers and commission mer-
chants or Auctioneers with the privilege OF
selling at auction, two hundred dollars.
Dealers in goods, wares and mer-
| chandise, including dealers in drugs,
etc. Gin addition to liquor tax or
| iicense), as follows:
Dealers exclusively retail, except
those conducting a department store,
| thirty dollars.
Dealers conducting a department
| store, one hundred dollars
| Dealers exclusively wholesale. or re-
tail dealers selling at wholesale, one
hundred dollars; those conducting de-
partment stores in no event paying a
| smaller tax than that provided for in
the preceding paragraph.
Dealers in liquor doing a wholesale
| business, two hundred dollars.
Brokers in liquor, two hundred dol
| lars.
Banker or bank agent or agents of
| bankers engaged in buying or selling
exchange, incluulng every person or
company doing a banking business,
| fifty dollars.
Every bank or trust company with
out a savings department attached,
and every savings bank, fifty dollars
| Every bank or trust company with a
| 6pna oft
| five dollars
| Every person, firm or corporation,
other than those paying the license Just
mentioned required by banks, and bank
ers buying and selling exchange. fifty
| dollars.
! Cotton brokers, or brokers or deal
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 a pawnbroker en-
gagged in the business of lending money
on personal property or chooses in
action two hundred dollars.
money lender as contemplated by
the foregoing paragraph, being one
| who carries on the business of
lending his own or other peo-
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, 1--WE 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 or through an agency or through a
broker, two hundred dollars for each
and every agency or broker.
Every agent or broker doing business
3n the city of Savannah for every fire
of life insurance company which he
may represent in any way. including
each company to which he may send
business, shall pay the tax of two
hundred dollars in all cases where the
company does not pay the tax itself.
Brokers doing business under the act
of the Legislature of Georgia, approved
December, IA, 1894, and entitled IAN
Act to provide for ana regulate the
business of insurance brokers in this
state, and to authorize insurance to be
procured by them beyond the limits OF
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 and
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 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 broker or an attorney, fifty
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 he 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 20 any agent,
broker or attorney who does business
Tor "a marine company on what IA
known na open policies"
Every accident insurance company
doing business, whether directly or
through nn agency or through a broker,
one hundred dollars, Cor each and every
agency ~ broker Every cOmpnnY.
corporation 90 person not doing
ihe business ~ n regular ilfe Insurance.
company 90 ~ "a regular accident ~
isurnnof company. boz nevertheless en-.