The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-04-20
AN ORDINANCE
Granting Special License by the City
of Union, S. c., for the Fiscal Year
Beginning May 1, 1917.


Council on the 9Th day of March, 1877,
for the Fiscal Year, beginning May
1st, 1917.
That every person, firm or corpora
tion engaged in or engaging in any
tade, business or pofesSion herein
after mentioned within the limits of
the City of Union, S. c., shall upon
engaging in said trade, BUSINESS or
profession on or before May 1st,
1917, first obtain a license from the
Clerk and Treasurer thereof, upon
the oder of the Mayor, and all Ii
censes hereinafter mentioned, shall be
non transferable. except by written
permission of the City Council, en-
dorsed on said license, and per annum,
If not otherwise specifically provided,
and all annual licenses shall expire on
the 1st day of May, 1918. Any license
may be revoked at any time by the
Mayor or the City Council.
Sec. ?. Every itinerant, trader or
person Except licensed auctioneers)
offering for sale or attempting to sell
by sample within the City at public
outcry or otherwise, any goods, wares,
fancy articles, spectacles, jewelry, pic
lures, notions or other articles of like
character or kind, shall pay in ad-
vance license tax of not less than
Five Dollas ($5.0O) per day, Twenty
five Dollars ($25.00) per week or Two
Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year,
and no plea Of advertising or selling
for any person, firm or corporation
of the City of Union, shall relieve the
said itinerant trader or person from
the payment of said license
Sec. 3. Every itinerant physician or
vendor, seller of medicine, patent or
of his own make, or practicng as an
itinerant his profession or calling shall
pay license tax of not less than Ten
Dollars ($1O.OO) per day or Fifty Dol
lars ($50.O0) per week, and no plea
of advertising or selling for any per-
son, firm or corporation of the City of
Union, shall relieve said physician.
vendor or seller from the payment of
said license.
Sec. 4. Each dray, carriage, buggy,
automobile or other power vehicle,
and each hack for public hire, convey
ance or transportation, shall have a
number thereon and the driver of such
vehicle shall keep that number ex-
posed on such hack, dray, carriage,
buggy, automobile or other power We
hicle, and every driver thereof shall
wear duplicate number in a con-
spicuous place. The Clerk and Treas
urer shall issue for each such dray,
carriage, buggy, automobile or other
power vehicle and hack and driver,
such numbers at the issuance of Ii
cense and place the number on the said
license.
charged for each passenger within the
corporate limits of the City of Union
by such hacks, buggies, carriages or
automobiles or other power vehicles,
shall not exceed Twenty-Five cents
(25c) from any point within the cor
porate limits of said City to said pas
senger's destination: provided no fee
shall be charged for any passenger un-
der five (5) years of age.
The maximum fee to be charged for
carrying baggage by hacks, carriages,
buggies, automobiles or other power
vehicles or drays shall not exceed
twenty-five cents (25c) for 800
pounds; Fifty cents (50c) for 301 to
1000 pounds, from any point within
the City of Union to any destination
within the corporate limits of the City
of Union; and upon any violation of
the charges as above limited by any
such public hack, carriage, buggy, au-
tomobile, power vehicle or dray Ii |
cense; such licensee shall upon convic-
tion be fined not exceeding Ten Dollars |
($1000) or Imprisonment not exceed
ing Twenty (20) days with or without
hard labor.
Sec 8. Any driver or owner of any
such hack or carriage or buggy or
automobile or other power vehicle for
hire as aforesaid, including Livery, |
Feed and Sales Stables, who shall run
any such hacks, carriages, buggies,
automobiles or other power vehicles,
who shall leave his, or her or their
hack, or carriage or buggy or auto
mobile or other power vehicle before |
mentioned, for distance greater than
ten G0) feet in solicitation of any pas
senger or otherwise at any depot with
in the City of Union, or who shall |
leave his, her or their hack, buggy, |
carriage, automobile or other power
vehicle standing unattended within one |
block of any depot or upon Main street |
from the court house to the Baptist
church shall pay fine of Five Dollars
($5.00) or be imprisoned for a period
of ten 1O) days with or without hard |
labor in the discretion of the City |
Council.
Sec. Z. Any person or persons hold |
ing license, convicted Of selling, trans
porting or storing whiskey, or other
alcoholic liquors said license shall be
revoked
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