The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-02-08

: corporation llnllCS Oh the SalQ COWn,
except such as are otherwise specif-
cally taxed by this ordinance, the IL
cense shall be as follows:
Upon merchants, sales stables
where vehicles and horses and mules
are kept for sale or feed, and automo-
bile dealers, whose gross and credit
sales do not exceed
S 1000 per annum ---$ 1000
5000 per annum " 5000
10000 per annum -- $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 3. Every firm, company or
corporation required by the ordinance
of the town of Manning to obtain
license to engage in any trade, bust
ness or profession for which license
Of January of each year, register with
the town clerk first his or her name
or style, and in case Of 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 a 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, 1922
shall register rs aforesaid. 1t shall
be duty of the town clerk to assess
porations 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 25th day Of February
1922. License shall be issued by the
Clerk and Treasurer, who shall keep
{ record of all license fixed by the
J ordinances of the town Of Manning
and assessed by him under authority
prescribed by the laws of the State
OF South Carolina and the ordinances
of the town Of Manning.
Section a. If any person exercise
or carry on any trade. business or
profession for the exercising carry
ing on or doing of which license is
required by this ordinance, without
first registering or taking out such
license rs in that behalf required, he,
she or they, besides being liable to
the payment Of the license, shall be
subject to fine not to exceed $40 or
Imprisonment for n 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
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 a form
Of license to be used in each case, and
shall have the same printed and
bound in book form, in Il neat and
substantial manner, with proper
stub attached to each, upon which
shall be written, at the time the Ii
cense is issued the name Of the party
obtaining the same, the length Of
time covered by such license, to-
gethe,r 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 on profession is
carried on. Any cvasions of the pro-
visions of this Section shall be sub
iect to n penalty Of not more than
$40 or thirty days Imprisonment.
Section 6. The license granted un-
der this ordinance shall not authorize
the person firm, company or corpora
tion mentioned therein, to exercise or
carry on trade, business or profession
specified in such license in any other
place than that mentioned therein