The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1920-02-18

BE IT ORDAINED by the Town
Council Of the Town of Lexington, in
Council assembled, and by authority
of the same:
SECTION /: That from and after
! the ratification Of this Ordinance, II
shall be unlawful for any person or
persons. firm or corporation following
the trades, occupations. businesses,
professions or callings enumerated in
this Ordinance to do or conduct, or
to transact any business connected
with any said trades, occupations, bu-
sinesses, professions. or callings. with
out first paying for. and obtaining
from. the Clerk Of the Town Council a
license to follow said business, or pro-
fession according to the scale hereinbe-
low set out. :. :
SECTION ,: That the license fees
provided for IN section three hereof
shall be due and payable for the yea ar
1920 :on:or before the first day Of May
1920, and each succeeding year there
after until this Ordinance shalt have
been repealed or revised, the said IL
cense fees shall be due and payable
on or before; the 18th day of March.
SECTION 8. That the following
scale of license fees are hereby declar-
ed to be due and payable by each per-
son. firm or corporation engaged in
business or 'practicing q profession in
the town of Lexington, payable as out
lined in section two of this Ordinance
g.. ga" '.'
Attorneys at Law each, per year$15. 90
Agents for Newspapers, fruit trees,
fertilizers, pianos, organs, machin-
cry, sewing machines, solicitors,
claim and collections, and all other
agents not mentioned, each per
year ........ 80. ......,. $1,000
Automobile dealers each, per year$5O.
Automobile repairers, not working in
garage, each per year 49,. $500
Automobile repair shops or garages
each, per year ............ $25.0O
sB',
po,r5;,,, IJo,,eae ,coao+;no or col;o;f
ing transient boarders, each; per
year .e.Sl.SO
Bowling Alleys each; per year SO, 90
Blacksmith or wheelwright each, per
year ..... .S1O.OO
Barber Shop, each chair, per yearS7.5O
Barber. not working in q shop, each,
per year ,....S 100
Banks with a capital stock of twenty
five thousand dollars or less. each,
per year ...... $zo.0O
Banks for every thousand dollars cap
ital in excess Of twenty-five thous-
and ......... go. ...... $2.OO
Bill Poster, Qocal or itinerant) each,
per year .......... $1,000
Butchers and Meat Markets, each,
per year .$2o.VU
Bottling Plants in town Of Lexington
making soft drinks, each, per year
$1,000 49,.
Wagons Or auto trucks delivering soft
drinks made outside town limits,
each, per year $500
Boot-black, each, per year -. $500
Cotton Mills, each .S75. 90
Contractor-contracti for brick or
wooden buildings or structure Of
any kind, per year ........ $500
Cotton gins and presses. each, per
Cotton Seed Oil Mills, each per
year ......... ........- .9Io.VO
Circus, Menagerie, or other Shows ac-
cording to size and admission fee each
not less than $500 per week or more
than $4,000 per week.
Cigar and Tobacco dealers alone, each
per year ..... ..... $1,000
Dentists, Oculists. or Opticians, each
per year ...... -. ...... $3.50
Dealers in fish and oysters, poultry,
fruit and country produce, each,
pear year ...... $1,000
Drays, wagons or vehicles run for
gain, each one horse, per yearS1O.O0
Drays, waons or vehicles run for