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

nVe dollars.
Burglar alarm companies or agents.
twenty-five dollars.
Dealers in bicycles. locomotives auto
mobiles, motor cycles, and all other
such vehicles, or agents for sale of
same, one hundred dollars.
Reporters of bicycles, locomobiles
automobiles, motor cycles, and all other
such vehicles, who are not dealers in
same. nor agents for sale of same.
thirty dollars.
Manufacturers of baking powder. or
self-raising -four, or both. fifty doll
lars.
Retail dealers selling dressed poultry,
or fresh meats. in addition to the tax
of retail dealer, seventy dollars.
Agencies and other business not
hereinbefore specially mentioned, thir-
ty dollars.
Every drummer (other than street
drummer or runner) or other person So
liciting trade or orders, or business for
another or for himself, whether resi-
dent of this city or elsewhere and
having no fixed place of business in
this city, and every peddler and timer
ant transient trader, and every tram
sient person., selling or Offering to sell
by sample, shall pay the same tax re-
quired of resident and stationary deal
ers in the same articles, and no Of
lICcT OIL lle CITY Shall De authorized to
reduce or in any wise change such tax
SO required, nor shall such itinerant
dealer be allowed to sell his wares
under the license of any auctioneer, or
the name of any factor or commission
merchant who has paid his tax as
such, until he himself shall have paid
all taxes required of him by this ordi-
nance; provided, however, that any
transient person transacting, or offer
ing to transact, any of the kinds of
business mentioned in this paragraph,
selling or offering only to resident
dealers or manufacturers in the spe-
citic article or commodity sold or Of
fered by him or her, and not bringing
into or keeping in the city any stock
for the purpose of delivery, shall not
be required to pay any tax or license
fee.
A street drummer or runner solicit
ing customers for the local trade shall
pay tax of one hundred dollars for
each house for which he solicits and
in addition shall wear a badge plain
ly exposed, designating his business.
In default of such badge he shall be
subject to fine not exceeding fifty
dollars, and to Imprisonment not ex-
ceeding ten days, either or both, in the
discretion of the court upon conviction
before the Police Court of the city of
Savannah.
Every person or corporation
owning or holding in trust or on con-
signment, personal property in said
city on the first day of January, 1906
liable to he taxed under the third and
fourth sections of this ordinance, except
stocks in banks and banking associa-
tions organized under the laws of this
state or of the United States, shall
make return thereof, as provided by
an ordinance of the city of Savannah,
passed March %, 1899, touching the
Board of Tax Assessors for the city
of Savannah, and under the rules and
regulations of said board.
The President or acting President of
any bank or banking association loca-
ted in said city, shall. by the 21st day
of January, 1905, make a return to the
Board of Tax Assessors of the stock of
said bank or banking association, and
the value thereof, and shall be taxed
upon the basis of such value, and in
the event of the failure or refusal of
a President or acting President to make
this return, then it shall be the duty
of the Board of Tax Assessors to as
sess the said stock with the power in
the said Board of Tax Assessors to
double tax the said bank or banking
association. Every person liable to
taxation under this ordinance
snail make d Oh the
business in which he is engaged, and
of the number and character of the
vehicles by which his tax is to be
graduated by the Board of Tax Asses
sors by the 21st day of January, 1905,
and every person commencing to carry
on any of the said kinds of business or
increasing the number of his vehicles,
or commencing to keep and use We
hicles, after the first day of January,
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in ten days after so commencing or
increasing.
Section 5. The occupant of any
premises where a dog or dogs is or are
kept shall pay for every dog so kept
an annual license of one dollar. Upon
payment of this license a badge shall
be Issued to the person paying the
license for the dog: and every dog
found running at large without such
a badge shall be impounded, and If
not claimed in forty-eight hours, shall
be disposed of.
The ordinance of November 16,
1S43. requiring badges to be
taken out for dogs. and prescribing
other regulations for dogs, so far as
the provisions of the same are not in
consistent with this ordinance, is here
by re-ordained and declared to be in
full force. Every person failing to
take out license for dog, or failing
to pay such license, as required by
this ordinance, shall, upon con-
viction before the Police Court
of the city of Savannah, be subject to
a fine not to exceed three dollars, with
the alternative of Imprisonment not to
exceed three days.
The number of dogs kept as provided
for in this section of this ordinance
shall be ascertained by means of the
returns now prescribed.
Every person having dog
or dogs on the first day of jan
rary. 1905, shall make a return there
of to the Board of Tax Assessors by
the 21st day of January, 1905, and ev-
cry person bringing a dog or dogs into
the city after that date, to be kept
here, shall make similar return with
in ten days after so bringing in such
dog or dogs.
Sec. 6. All taxes hereby required for
real and personal property held on the
first day of January, 1905, and for bus
mess in which any person shall be en-
gagged at that date, and of persons hav-
ing vehicles and dogs in said city at
that date, shall be considered as due
on the first day Of January, 1905, and
all taxes required of persons commence
ing to transact any business for which
a tax is required, after the first day of
January, 1906 or commencing after
that date to use vehicles and street
cars not then in use, or bring
ing any dog or dogs into said city,
shall be due Immediately upon the
of such business, using
such vehicles, or bringing such dog
into the city. And all taxes Of every
kind shall be payable to the City Treas
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