The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-02-17
Town Ordinance.

F or the Purpose of Raisipg Revenue
for the Ordinary Expenses of the
Town of Lexington, s. c., for the
Fiscal Year A. D. 1904.
Be II ORDAINED by the Town
Council of the Town of Lexington,
in council assembled, and by the
authority of the same.
1. That from aud sitter the ratifi
estion of this ordinance it shall be
unlawful for any person or persons,
firm or corporation following the
trades, occupations, businesses pro-
fessions or callings enumerated in
this ordinance to do or conduct or
transact any business connected with
any OF said trades, occupations, busi-
nesses, professions. 81 callings with
oct FIRST paying for and obtaining
from the Treasurer of the Town 8
license so to do, according to the
following scale:
Life Insurance Companies or
Agents each seventy-five cents per
day, three dollars per week, FIVE dol
lars per year; Fire Insurance compan-
les or agents each seventy.fve cents
per day, three ~ dollars per week,
/. FIVE (5) dollars per year; Hotels or
boarding houses accepting or solicit
ing transient boarders each fifty (5O)
cents per week, one and one-half dol
lars per month, three (s) dollars per
year; Cotton seed buyers each one
al dollar perweek, two ~ dollars
per month, Eve (5) dollars per year;
Cotton buyers each one (l) dollar per
week. three (3) dollars per month,
FIVE (5) dollars per year; Telegraph
and Telephone companies i've
t5) dollars per week, ten (10) dollars
per year; Blacksmiths and Wheel
wrights each two ~ dollars per year;
Newspapers and job printers each
FIVE {5) dollars per year; Warehouses,
storing produce for the public, each
FIVE l5) dollars per year; Barber
shops each one ~ dollar per week,
two ~ dollars per year; Livery and
! feed stables each Eve (5) dollars per
year; Cotton Mills each ten 10) dol
lars per year; Restaurants each one
a. dollar per week; two ~ dollars
per year: Contractors contracting for
brick or wooden buildings each one
(l}doliar per month, two ~ dollars
per year; BARRIERS, not working in a
chop each ouet1 dollar per week, two
t2) dollars per year; Physicians Doc.
tors Of Medicine each Eve rs dollars
per year; Attorneys-at-law and Coun-
selors at-lsw each FIVE Is dollars per
year; Dentists each one [l] dollar
per day, two I2] dollars per week,
Eve C5] dollars per year; Repair
ers Of guns, pistols, watches, sewing
machines &c. each Fifty G50] cents
per day, one (ll dollar per week, two
lsl dollars per year; Banks each, &C.
cording to capital stock,-those with
a capital of twenty thousand dollars
or less Eve IS dollars per year-tbose
With a capital from twenty thousand
to fifty thousand dollars, eight Isl
dollars per year-thoae with capital
from fifty thousand to one hundred
thousand dollars inclusive, ten 1O]
dollars per year; Hacks, carriages or
other vehicles for the conveyance of
passengers to and fro each one j
dollar per week, two III dollars per
year; Photographers each one III
dollar per week, three l3 dollars
per year; Non resident picture agents
and non resident book agents each
ffty 50] cents per day, one and one
half dollare per week; Merchants
and merchantile companies each, &C.
cording to the amou ut of stock car
ried,-those carrying stock of one
thousand dollars and less two 2
dollars per year, those carrying a
stock OF from one thousand dollars to
two thousand dollars, three 81 dol
lars per year-those carrying stock
Of from two thousand dollars to five