The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-24
OFFICIAL.


stations, two dollars and fifty cents.
Street railroad companies. whether
under the control of another company
or not, in lieu of the specific tax here
tofore required, shall pay to the city
OF Savannah for the privilege of doing
business in the city and for the use of
the streets of the city, at the rate of
one hundred dollars per mile or
fraction of a mile of track OF the main
line, eliminating all switches and dou-
BILE tracks, and conforming the charge
to one line of track on each street used
in the city of Savannah by said rail-
road company, (and it shall be the duty
of street railroad companies to make a
return under oath, through their prop
er official, of the amount of their track
age in the city of Savannah). and in
addition thereto, twenty-five dollars for
each and every car at any time used
by such company in the city; it shall
also be required that each and every
railroad company doing business in this
city shall take out badges for all cars
employed by them, which badges shall
be furnished by the City Treasurer,
and which shall be numbered. 1t shall
furthermore be required that each and
every car employed by each and every
street railroad company shall have
such badge as hereinbefore provided Sc
cureIy fastened in a conspicuous place
upon the inside of each car
Every automobile or locomobile used
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
for manufacturing or repairing. TWEEN
ty-ffve 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 a 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
lnbefore taxed, paying 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 specific tax.
Stencil cutters, twenty dollars.
Tailors, not registered as merchants,
| ten dollars.
Proprietors or owners of marine rail-
ways or dry docks. fifty dollars.
| 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,
! ing goods. 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 two-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,
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, OIL
other vehicles. in other kinds of bust.
ness, shall, upon paying the tax here
! .nbefore 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 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 or
such business without badge affixed
except as aforesaid shall be double
taxed, and on conviction thereof In the
| Police Court, may be fined in q sun
not exceeding one hundred dollars, Of
| imprisonment not more than thirt.
days, or both, in the discretion OF th'
| Court.
Keepers of sale and feed stables, fif-
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