The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-10
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ance, the particulars and character of
the business for which tax is required
/ under the fourth section of this ordin-
ance, shall be ascertained by means of
\ the returns hereinafter prescribed.
Sec 4. Every person transacting,
| or offering to transact. any of the
/ kinds of business hereinafter specified
/ (whether in connection with any other
business or noO, shall pay the tax
| hereinafter prescribed for every sep
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. shall 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
icense), as follows:
Dealers exclusively retail, except
those conducting 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
IN,
lars.
Banker or bank agent or agents of
bankers engaged in buying or selling
exchange, includIng every person or
company doing banking business,
fifty dollars.
Every bank or trust company with
out savings department attached.
and every savings bank, fifty dollars.
Every bank or trust company with a
savings department attached, seventy
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.
ana every produce, grocery, and naval
stores broker, and every resident agent
representing nonresident dealers, mer-
chants and manufacturers, exclusive
OF brokers in liquors, seventy-fve 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.
A 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-
Sona1 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, 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
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
| 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
| 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 hun
| 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 to any agent,
broker or attorney who does business
for a marine company on what is
known as open policies"
Every accident insurance company
| doing business. whether directly or
| through an agency or through a broker,
one hundred dollars, for each and every
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