The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-24


.oras broker, and every resident agent
sTresenting nonresident dealers, mer-
.bents and manufacturers, exclusive
~ brokers' in liquors. seventy-fve dol
lars.
,.aged in the business of lending money
IN personal property or chooses in
ZION two hundred dollars.
money lender as contemplated by
the foregoing paragraph, being one
tho carries on the business of
1snding his own or other peo-
rls's money, and not as a
estock and bond broker, chartered bank,
nrjvate banker, negotiator of loans on
rsslty. 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
o+ber than stocks and bonds, such an
one shall be deemed a money lender
brokers' or agents buying and selling
fuIt.res on a margin, five hundred dol
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
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, five 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
OIL. 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
IN 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
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 and regulate the
business. of insurance brokers in this
state and to authorize insurance to be
~ he 1iraft 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 huns
dred dollars, as provided for by ordi-
nance of the city of Savannah, adopted
on the 25th day of September. 1895. ~
Every marine, surety OF, other insur-
ance company doing business whether
directly or through an agency or
through a 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 to = any agent,
broker or attorney who does business
for a marine company on what is
known as ''open policies" agc 81
Every accident insurance company
doing business, whether directly or
through an agency or through a broker,
one hundred dollars for each and every
agency or broker. Every company,
corporation or person not doing
the business of regular life insurance
company or of a regular accident in
surance company, but nevertheless en-
gagged in the business of paying sick
or accident benefits to policy holders,
shall pay a. specific tax of fifty dollars.
Every person who shall be sworn by
the Mayor (who is hereby authorized
to administer the oath for such pur-
pose) as a public weigher of any goods,
wares or merchandise, twenty-five dol
lars.
Every average or insurance adjuster
for companies for which he is not the
local insurance agent, fifty dollars.
Keepers or proprietors of hotels, con-
Quoted on either European or Ameri-
can plan, that contain seyenty-ive
rooms or upward, one hundred dollars.
Keepers or proprietors of hotels, con-
Quoted on either European or Ameri-
can plan, containing under seventy-tive
rooms, fifty dollars.
sewing machine agents or agencies,
fifty dollars; the same for each and
every agency.
Dealers in sewing machines, or deal
ers in sewing machine supplies, or re-
pairers Of sewing machines, fifty dol
lars.
Dealers in coal, one hundred dollars.
Dealers in stationery or books, sell
Ing exclusively at wholesale, or at re-
tail and wholesale, one hundred dol
lars.
Retail dealers in stationery or books,
thirty dollars.
Oil mills. one hundred dollars.
manufacturers of or dealers in fer
tlllzers. not paying tax as a commits
sion merchant, one hundred dollars.
Every cotton or yarn MILL fifty dol
Owners, proprietors, lessee or lessees
OF each cotton compress plant, three
hundred dollars; every hand cotton
press, twenty-five dollars.
owners, proprietors, lessee or les
sees of a junk shop, or junk dealers
hve hundred dollars.
A junk dealer shall be anyone who
mas an office or place of business in
the city of Savannah for buying or
acquiring in any way, for resale in the
city OF savannah or for shipment OF
removal from the city of Savannah,
any old or secondhand brass. tin, lead
or other metal of any description,
rope hemp, sails, rubber or other ar
ucles commonly known as junk.
COTTON pickeries. to be confined ex-
clusively to the purchase or sale OF
Noston' one hundred dollars
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