The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-16
Dauson Tax Ordinance, 1923

( or otherwise advertising such carnival
OF show in the city limits Of Dawson,
either by street parades, brass oanos,
drums, horns, or by any other means
/ whatsoever. except upon the payment
/ of a license therefor in the sum OF
( S2j0o0 per week.
4 Debenture or redemption bonds, each
F agent, selling or soliciting sale OF. pei
annum ..-......... ...-.sAVoVV
! Dealers ana merchants carrying goods,
wares and merchandise, at retail In
quantities less than $1,000, $500 per an
mum; $1,000 and under $1,000. $1,000 per
annum; $1,000 and under sS'UOo. S14 ~
per annum; IS, 00o0O and under S5,0O0.OO,
7 5000 per annum: S5,e0o0O and under
z $500 co. $500 per annum; $4,000 and
+ under $40 000.00, $500 per annum; S1U,-
/ 000.00 and under s15,0OOo0 $45.vO per an
mum: Sl5.0O0.00 and over, Sl00 per an
num- This tax is to apply only TO bona
fide resident merchants.
Dentists, selling tooth dentifrices OF
brushes, per annum .............- .S9.vV
1 Dealer or dealers in drugs at wholesale,
Upon each dance or social entertainment
I where an admission is charged, s1.00 TO
] $500 per day. in Mayors discretion
Z Itinerant dealers in nostrums used Lor
medical purposes, or devices or IKE
character, per day ...................- Szo.eV
4 Dealers in nostrums, if free exhibition is
given in connection with the same, per
Z .
Dealer in nostrums or herbs for medical
I purposes. located residents, per an
NUM- .-...--.. ....-....; .. .SAI.V0
+ Drumnling-each person drumming or So
Letting trade except to the middle OF
the street in front of his or her place
4 of business, per annum. ........... Sz5o:VV
j To stand upon the sidewalk so as to Cd"
! struct the free passage Of pedestrians,
to take hold of or to use other means
TO induce or force hesitating persons
/ to go in or enter any place OF business
+ except a polite invitation TO walk IN,
/ or in any other act or acts tending 10
embarrass or annoy persons in free
4 transactions of business, shall be con-
/ sidered a street drummer, and on con-
viction of violation Of this ordinance
may be punished as prescribed in this
ordinance.
/ Dog and pony show, per day.. $4,000
+ Dray, each one horse dray, $500; two
horse dray, SLIGO. and $3.50 for each
/ dray used by same person; three horse
dray $500, four horse dray $1,000.
1 Express company, per annum .-.$6O.U0
Feather or mattress renoyator, per an
Fish and oysters, wholesale and retail.
j Fish and oysters, each retail dealer per
annum. .................. ............. Slo,UV
I Fertilizer plant engaging in mixing OF
manufacturing commercial fertilizers,
! per annum ....s....... ...........-..- SSosVV
Fertilizer dealer in or agent or person
soliciting the sale of, per annum so W
Fortune tellers or palmists per week $ 90
Fruit peddler, per day ............. .S23W
Flying jenny, ferris wheel or other u IKE Sc
amusement. per week 1920. .Sl10 w
Fireworks of any kind, each dealer, $500
Gunsmith, per annum .................S4 V0
General repair shop, per annum. SlOOO
Gasoline-each dealer in gasoline at re-
tail to consumer, per annum ....... 5000
Gasoline at wholesale, per annum. $5OOO
Grist mill, per annum, $500 for first set
of rocks, and $500 for each additional
set
Hat finishing, reshaping and renovating.
or person soliciting such work, per day
$500, per annum ........................$5- UU
Hack, one-horse, per annum ......... 50 w
Hack, two-horse, per annum.. ;$lo wv
(But no license to be issued until the
applicants horse and vehicle have been
inspected and approved by committee
appointed by the council for this Pur-
pose, and said outfit to be kept in such
condition during balance OF year, or IL
cense revoked. And all hacks to be
numbered and use lights at night)
Hair dresser outside of barber shop, per
Hides or rubber each person, firm or
corporation soliciting sale Of. or buying.
per day $500, per annum ........... .Sl5.e9
Hotel, per annum .Szo-VV
Horse or mule broker or dealer, per an
mum ............ .................,......S 50.v0
Harness maker, per annum. ...........$0.0 O
Ice cream saloon, each, per annum. 90
Ice cream peddler, each, per annum $500
insurance company Ifes per dHiiuIIl Sl0.OV
Insurance company, life, per annum $15.O0
Insurance, accident company or assoela-
ton insuring against loss of time or
death caused by accidental bodily in
jury or sickness, per annum. ........$l5.UU
Insurance company bonding or accident,
per annum .........-.. $500
Ice dealers or manufacturers, per an
Ice dealer in connection with other BUSH
ness, per annum ...............-....-..S5 .UO
Itinerant vendors of proprietary or pat
ent articles. books, maps, pictures, toys,
candy or any article whatever. on the
streets or from house to house, or To-
Gated, including dealers in stone, mar
BILE. granite. or other articles of ner-
chandise, shall pay a license tax of not
more than $25.e0 and not less than IS
per day, the amount of which is to be
fixed by the Mayor upon application to
him by such person desiring to engage
in such business, said license to be col
lected from all persons alike engaged
in such business. whether residents or
non-residents, and without regard to the
locality or the growth of the produc-
ton of material or manufacture of So
licitations are made. But no license
shall be granted to any firm or person
to erect stand or sell or advertise
from the street or pavement within the
fire limits with harrangue any patent
medicine, novelty or article of merchan-
disc generally sold by itinerant vendors,
but said business may be carried on
outside of fire limits by payment of $500
per month, provided no license shall be
issued for knife boards" cane racks
or any game of chance
Junk shop, or dealer, or shipper, for
each place of business or storage room
per annum $50. (By junk is meant
rags, scrap iron, waste or scrap cotton
sacks, paper, odds and ends of brass,
copper, plows and other metals that are
, considered useless for its original pur-
pose and have been abandoned or
thrown away And all persons buying
junk and taking license for same, as
prescribed in this ordinance, shall keep
daily list Of all purchases and from
whom bought, and shall accept license
on the condition that their place of bus
mess shall be subject to visitation and
inspection from the police of this city
at any time when the Mayor and Chief
of Police shall order such places visit
ed and inspected, and on refusal of
such persons at any time to submit to
such visitation and inspection of said
place of business shall have his place
of business Immediately closed on or
der of the Mayor or Chief of Police;
and in case any machinery Or any part
thereof, or any appliance or implements
Of any railroad shop or gas company,
or the waterworks company, or electric