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

dollars.
Hucksters selling vegetables on the
streets. for which a badge shall! be
issued and carried six dollars: each
badge to be plainly exposed on the per-
son of the huckster and not to be
transferable.
Dealers in ice cream. fruit, small
paint shops, vendors of small wares,
and keepers of a cook stove or cook
shop, ten dollars.
Persons selling from push carts or
other vehicles. except country carts
selling their own produce. one hun
dred dollars; upon payment of said
tax the treasurer shall furnish
badge, which shall be placed in a con-
spicuous place on such push cart or
vehicle.
Persons selling watermelons from
wagons, ten dollars for each wagon.
Street dealers in poultry, for which
a badge shall be issued, ten dollars.
Manufacturers of patent medicines
not engaged in the business of drug
gist thirty dollars
Persons or corporations doing mes
senger service or furnishing messen-
gers on call, thirty dollars.
Agents, attorneys at law brokers
and all other persons negotiating, or
advertising or offering to negotiate,
loans on real estate Except real estate
brokers negotiating loans in immediate
connection with sales or purchases
made by or through them), seventy
five dollars.
Burglar alarm companies or agents.
twenty-five dollars
Dealers in bicycles, locomobiles, auto
mobiles, motor cycles, and all other
such vehicles, or agents for sale of
same, one hundred dollars.
Repairers of bicycles, locomobiles,
automobiles motor cycles, and all other
such vehicles, who are not dealers in
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thirty dollars.
Manufacturers of baking powder, or
self-raising flour, or both, fifty dol
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 tran
silent 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
f1cer of the city shall be 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 manufa cturers in the spe-
cifc 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. 'is.
A street drummer or runner solicit
| ing customers for the local trade shall
J pay a 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 a 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
Every person or corporation
owning or holding in trust or on con-
: signment, personal property in said
city on the first day Of January. 1905
liable to he taxed under the third and
fourth sections of this ordinance, except
/ | stocks in banks and banking associa-
tons organized under the laws of this
state or Of the United States, shall
: make a return thereof, as provided by
T. ! 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 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 1t 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
| taxation under this ordinance
shall make return of 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 1906
/. and every pesson commencing to carry
q 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.
1905, shall make return thereof with
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
badge shall be inpounded, and II
. 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 lis here
= by re-ordained and declared to be In
: full force. Every person failing to
take out a license for a 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
! fine not to exceed three dollars, Will.
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