The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-10
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sengers, which were not run before
that date. upon making prompt return
of the same within ten days. after such
business has commenced, or such We
hicles have been run, he or they shall
be taxed on half OF the yearly tax as
sessed by this ordinance, provided said
| tax be paid within fifteen days after
| such return; otherwise the entire tax
shall be collected. The term vehicle.
as used in this section, shall include
street railway cars, automobiles, loco
| mobiles, and all other motor vehicles.
Sec. Z. If any person or corporation
shall refuse or neglect to pay any tax
required by this ordinance within thir-
| ~ days after the same shall be due
and payable as above provided. or shall
neglect or refuse to pay any double
tax assessed, as above provided for.
twenty days after notice has been
served on such persons or corporations
of such assessment, the City Treasurer
shall issue executions therefor and for
the further sum of one dollar for cost,
and the City Marshal shall proceed
with such executions in the same man
ner as a Sheriff does under the execu-
tons from the Superior Courts of this
State, subject to the provisions of the
act of the General Assembly Of the
State of Georgia, passed February q,
1877, and acts amendatory thereof.
Every person or corporation who
shall pay his or its taxes on real or
personal property, or both, promptly
first of April, July, October
and January, the time herein.
before specified for the payment
thereof, shall be entitled to a deduction
of 10 per centum of the amount there
Of and the City Treasurer is hereby
directed to make such deduction upon
the receipt of the tax; and every per-
son or corporation who shall pay any
other taxes required by this ordinance
promptly within thirty days after the
same shall become due, shall be en-
titled to a reduction OF 10 per centum
of the amount thereof. and the City
Treasurer is hereby directed to make
such . reduction upon the receipt of the
tax.
Sec. s. Every person transacting
| or Offering to transact, either of the
| kinds of business hereinafter named
who are in business on the first day OF
January. 1905. shall. within thirty days
| after the first day of January, 1905,
take out license therefor, viz Every
auctioneer, every broker, every COM
mission merchant, every plumber every
| barber and all others doing business
without any stock in trade; every
owner or lessee of junk shop or cot
ton pickery, every junk dealer, every
vendor Of small wares, hucksters
fruit and poultry, keeper of a cook
stove or cook shop; and 1t is hereby
| declared to be the meaning of this or
| dinance that the license granted to any
| auctioneer shall not authorize such
auctioneer to sell for any transient
| dealer, unless such transient dealer has
first paid all taxes required of him by
this ordinance. Every licensed auc-
tioneer shall have the privilege of APP
| pointing one assistant crier, and who
! shall be a citizen of Savannah, whose
name shall be recorded in the Treas
urer's office and entered on the license
| issued. And no person shall be per-
mitted to be an auctioneer or vendue
| master until he shall have complied
| with the conditions contained in Sec
| ton 1852 Of the Code Of Georgia And
In every license taken out by the owner
or lessee Of a junk shop or cotton pick
cry, or by junk dealer, II shall be
distinctly expressed that such a junk
shop or cotton pickery, or junk dealer,
shall always be subject to the vista.
ton of the police of the city, and that
such persons shall not purchase from
any one under the age of 16 years,
duplicate of which license, signed by
the person of persons taking out the
same, and expressing his or their assent
to such conditions, shall be retained by
the City Treasurer and on refusal to
submit at any time to such visitation
or on conviction in the Police Court OF
having purchased from any one under
the age of 16 years, such license shall
| be revoked, and such junk shop or cot
ton pickery shall Immediately be closed
by the Mayor. And every such junk
| shop, junk dealer or cotton
pickery license shall be subject
! to the further condition that
the same shall be subject to
revocation by the Mayor or Recorder
~.
i Police Court, he shall be satisfied and
shall so pronounce that any stolen
property is found in such junk shop,
or In the possession of any junk deal
err; and such condition shall be ex-
pressed in the license of every such
junk shop or dealer. Every person re-
| quired by the provisions of this sec
ton, and by the ordinance passed in
Council March, 14th, 1888, in reference
TO taking out licenses, who shall COM
| mence to transact, or offer to transact,
in this city any of the kinds of bust
ness mentioned in this section, after
the first day OF January, 1905 shall take
out license before commencing business,
| az provided in said ordinance, passed
| March 14th, 1888, which said ordinance
is Of force. The license herein provided
for shall be issued by the City Treas
urer. And II any person transacting,
or offering to transact In said city,
either Of the kinds Of business In this
section specified, shall be found with
out such license displayed in a con-
| spicuous manner in his, her or their place
| OF business, he, she or they shall, on
conviction thereof in the Police Court,
be fined in a sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars, or imprisonment not
more than thirty days, or both, in the
discretion of the court.
Every person, company or corpora
ton required by this section to pay a
specific or business tax shall take out
a license or receipt. which shall state
the business or occupation in which
such person, company or corporation
is authorized to engage, and which
shall be exhibited 10 the city marshal
or his deputy at any time upon de-
mand. And II any person, company or
corporation shall engage in any busi-
ness or occupation for which such IL
cense or receipt is required without
first taking out the same, or who shall
fail or refuse to exhibit the same upon
demand to the city marshal or his dep
uty, such person, company or corpor-
alton shall. upon conviction before the
Police Court of the city of Savannah,
be subject to a fine not to exceed one
hundred dollars, and Imprisonment not
| TO exceed thirty days, either OF both,
In the discretion Of the court.
No specific license or permit
to do business shall be trans
ferable by any person or Arm
unless the transferee be the bona fide
successor at the same place Of the