The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-01-08
License Ordinance for 1919

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An ordinance to levy and collect
Licenses in the Town of Manning for
the year 1919.
Aldermen of the Town Of Manning
in Council Assembled:
Section 1. That every person, firm,
any trade, business or profession
hereinafter mentioned within the linz
its of the town of Manning shall be
required on or before the 1st day of
February, 1919, to obtain license
to exercise said trade, business or
profession within the limits of the
said town; and every person, firm or
corporation not now SO engaged, but
! expecting to engage in such trade,
business or profession after the 1st
day of January of the present year,
shall be required to first obtain license
to exercise same, all the said license
to be fixed according to the schedule
and amounts hereinafter set forth.
Section 2. Upon each and every
merchant or any other person, firm
company or corporation doing bust
ness within the limits of the said town
of Manning, and for each and every
store or place of business within the
corporation limits of the said town,
except such as are otherwise specif-
cally taxed by this ordinance, the IL
cense shall be as follows:
I Upon merchants, sales stables
are kept for sale or feed, and automo-
bile dealers, whose gross and credit
sales do not exceed:
5 1000 per annum & 1000
! 5000 per annum - - - 1000
| 10000 per amum - - $500
| $4,000 per annum - - 5000
10000 per annum - - - $500
! $4,000 per annum 1000
For each additional Five Thousand
Dollars over twenty-five Thousand
Dollars, the sum of Five Dollars.
| Section 8. Every firm, company or
corporation required by the ordinance
of the town of Manning to obtain a
license to engage in any trade, bust
ness or profession for which license
is required, shall, before the 18th day
the town clerk, first his or her name
or style, and in case of a firm or
company, and the place of business;
second, the trade, business or profess
sion for which license is required:
the place where such trade, business
or profession is carried on in the case
of dealer in goods, wares or mer-
chandise, the amount, extent and
value of the business carried on, all
of which shall be given under OATH
All persons, firms, companies on or
after the first day of January, 1919,
shall register as aforesaid. 1t shall
be duty of the town clerk to assess
all persons, firms, companies and cor
parations liable for town license
under the ordinances of this town,
and enter the same in book to. be
known as the License Book, giving a
classified and complete list of all such
persons, firms, companies and cOrpo-
rations who are liable for town IL
cense, and the amount of license for
which they are liable, which licenses
shall be obtained as herein provided,
on or before the st day of February,
1919. License shall be issued by the
Clerk and Treasurer, who shall keep
record of all licenses fixed by the
ordinances of the town of Manning
and assessed by him under authority
thereof as aforesaid in the manner
prescribed by the laws of the State
OF South Carolina and the ordinances
of the town Of Manning.
Section d. If any person exercise
or carry on any trade, business or
profession for the exercising carry
ing on or doing Of which a license is
required by this ordinance, without
first registering or taking out such a
license as in that behalf required, he,
she or they, besides being liable to
the payment of the license, shall be
subject to a fine not to exceed $40 or
Imprisonment for time not to ex-
ceed thirty days, upon conviction be-
fore the Mayor or Acting Mayor.
Section 5. In every license to be
taken out under or by authority of
this ordinance, shall be contained and
set forth the purpose, trade, business
or profession for which such license
is granted, and the name and place
of business of the person or persons
taking out the same, and the time
for which it is granted. The Clerk
and Treasurer shall prepare form
Of license to be used in each case, and
| shall have the same printed and
bound in book form, in neat and
substantial manner, with a proper
stub attached to each, upon which
shall be written, at the time the H.
censc is issued the name of the party
| obtaining the same, the length of
| time covered by such license, TO-
/ gcther with the amount charged
| therefor; and the party receiving
such license shall keep the same post
cd in some conspicuous place where
his business, trade or profession is
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