The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-04-11
An Ordinance
Granting Special License By the City
Union, S. c., for the Fiscal
Year Beginning May l, 1918


adopted and Ordained by the City
Council on the 14th day of March,
1913 for the Fiscal Year, beginning
May 1st, 1918.
That every person, firm or corpo-
ration engaged in or engaging in any
trade, business or profession 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,
1918, first obtain license from the
Clerk and Treasurer thereof, upon
the order of the Mayor, and all Ii
censes hereinafter mentioned, shall
be non-transferable, except by writ
ten permission of the City Council,
endorsed on said license, and per
annum, if not otherwise specifically
provided, and all annual licenses
shall expire on the 1st day of May,
, 1919. Any license may be revoked at
+ any time by the Mayor or the City
Council.
Sec. 2. 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, jew
elry, pictures, notions or other arti-
cles of like character or kind shall
pay in advance a license tax of not
less than Five Dollars (S5.00) per
day; Twenty-Five Dollars ($25OO) 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 practicing as
an itinerant his profession or calling
shall pay a license tax of not less
than Ten Dollars ($1O.OO) per day
or Fifty Dollars (S5O.O0) per week.
and no plea of advertising or selling
for any person, firm or corporation
of the City of Union, shall relieve
said physician, vendor or seller from
the payment of said license.
Sec. a. Each dray, carriage, buggy
automobile or other power vehicle
and each hack for public hire, con-
veyance or transportation, shall have
a number thereon and the driver of
such vehicle shall keep that number
exposed on such hack, dray, carriage
buggy, automobile or other power We
hicle. The Clerk and Treasurer shaH
issue for each such dray, carriage,
buggy, automobile or other power We
hicle and hack and driver such num-
bers at the issuance of license and
place the number on the said license.
Sec. 5. The maximum fee to be
charged for each passenger within
the corporate limits of the City of
Union by such hacks, buggies, car
riages or automobiles or other power
vehicles, shall not exceed Twenty
five cents (25c) from any point with
in the corporate limits of said City
to said passengers destination; pro-
vded no fee shall be charged for any
passenger under five (5) years of
age.
The maximum fee to be charged
for carrying baggage by hacks, car
riages, buggies, automobiles or other
power vehicles or drays shall not ex-
ceed Twenty-Five Cents (25c) for 800
pounds; Fifty cents (50c) for 3O1 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,
automol lie, power vehicle or dray IL
cense; such license shall upon convic-
tlon be fined not exceeding Ten Dol
lars ($1O.00) or imprisonment not ex-
ceeding twenty coy days with or with
out hard labor.
Sec. s. Any driver or owner of
any such hack or carriage or buggy
or automobile or other power vehicle
for hire as aforesaid, including Lv-
cry. 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 automobile or other power vehicle
before mentioned, for distance
greater than ten (10) feet in solci-
tatlon ct any passenger or otherwise
at any depot within the City of Union
or who shall leave his, her or their
hack, buggy, carriage, automobile or
other power vehicle standing unat-
tended within one block of any depot
or upon Main street from the Court
House to the Baptist church, shall paw
fine of Five Dollars ($5 OO) or be
imprisoned for period of (1O) with
or without hard labor in the discre
tion of the City Council.
Sec. 7. Any person or persons
holding license, convicted of selling,
transporting or storing whiskey or
other alcoholic liquor, said license
shall be revoked
Sec 8. The following schedule Of