The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-15

Lecturer charging for same, except in
licensed opera house per day, from 50
! to $500, in Mayors discretion.
| Lodging or sleeping rooms entertaining
transients less than Is days. .....: so
| Upon each agent of a mail order house
| having an office or doing business in
| Dawson, per annum ................ so w
, Meats, each and every person who shall
sell fresh meat in the City of Dawson,
! shall do so, only from an approved
/ sanitary market, and every person sell
| ing fresh meat shall be required to pay
| the sum of $500 per annum. Except
/ any person may sell his own fresh
| meat, raised on his own or rented
/ premises in quantities Of not less than
! one half OF hog, one half of goat and
| one fourth of COW, and spareribs back
/ bone and sausage, without selling same
from market, and without paying
the license tax herein imposed upon
/ butchers.
Motor power-each person, firm or cor
poration furnishing power to run mo
tors, fans, or other apparatus other
than for himself, per annum. sou w
Moving picture show, per annum. $26.0O
Newspaper. per annum ............... S12.5O
Oysters, each dealer in......:........ 80. % %
! Opera house, per annum. ............. $50. W
Oils, each kerosene storage warehouse,
| per annum ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $5l.UO
Pressing club, per annum. .........., .$l1.O0
| Peddlers selling ware or merchandise OF
| any description, not less than $1,000 per
/ day nor more than $500 per day, in the
| Mayors discretion.
Photographer, per annum ............$l5:OO
Photographer, transient whether work
ing alone or in connection with a locat-
ed photographer, per annum 49, $500
| Photographer, taking button pictures on
street, per day, 81; per week....... $12. 90
| PaWnbroker, per year .................$l00.U 0
Plumber, per year OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. SZU.UU
| Piano tuner, per year ..............-..$l O.O0
Planning mill, per year ................$1l.0 90
| Restaurant or cafe, per annum. $3.50 26.UO
! Spectacle dealer or peddler, transient,
! Specta cle-transient optician hitting glass
es to the eyes in drug stores or other
places of business, per week....... $500
| Shoemaker or repairer, per annum. $500
Shooting gallery, per week, $1,000; per
quarter, $1,000; per annum,.......... S25. %
Shows-each acrobatic, minstrel or SINH
lar show performing under tent in a
house or in open air, per day.. $4,000
Skating rink not to run later than 10
| O'Clock at night, per annum ........ $500
Stable, sale, feed and livery, per an
mum ............ .......................$5 $50. 90
| Livery stables, engaging in the business
of feeding, tyng-in or keeping teams
for hire (one-horse dray allowed for
! baggage only per annum, $1,000; if au-
| tomobile is used, per annum. ..... $500
Soda Fount, Except in drug stores and
cafes) per annum. ....................$6 So. 90
/ Secondhand clothing-each person SELL
( ing secondhand clothing, separate or
in connection with other goods, per an
! Upon each tailor or agent of tailor,
merchant tailor or clothing merchant,
| selling goods from sample or sample
i books mot run in connection with any
other licensed clothing business) per
annum ............... ................. STU. w
/ Tfnshop or timer, per annum. ........ $1,000
Each telephone company or individual or
long distance line, per annum. 49,. $50. O0
| Telegraph company, each per year. .S5O.O 90
The license issued to telegraph or tele-
| phone companies is subject to this pro-
vision That such company shall re-
move or alter the position OF any tele-
graph or telephone pole or wire when
requested to DO so by the street COM
mittee of this Council, or by the Coun-
! ell. And in case of refusal to do so
within ten days after notice is served
the Mayor and Council shall order the
marshal to procure a force sufficient to
remove the same and return to the
Clerk the cost thereof, and the Clerk
shall issue an execution, signed and
countersigned, as required by law,
against the owner, which shall be plac-
ed in the hands of the Chief of Police
and collected as other executions by
him.
Each ten-pin or bowling alley, box ball
or game of like nature, per alley, per
And they shah occupy occupy the same char
acter of house as used for pool and bill
lizard tables ten-pin alleys, etc, and
this tax shall be collected whether the
same be run free or for gain, except
may run until ten o'clock at night and
! after sunrise in the morning.
Each individual, firm or corporation man
ufacturing tile, concrete or cement
blocks. per annum ...................Sll.O O
Transient persons selling vehicles to con-
sumers, per annum ................ Sl0O0O
Variety Works sash, door and blind fac
tory; per annum ......................S4 $4,000
Wagon. carriage and buggy repository,
or manufacturer, orIdealer in the same.
in city, per annum 25.UO
Provided that if horseshoeing is done
regular blacksmith tax shall be paid in
addition thereto.
Upon each dealer in farming implements
and machinery (other than licensed
hardware stores or dealers in vehicles)
per annum.... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2OOU
Dealers in vehicles, including automobiles
per annum Observation-Disclosures. .S6UUO
Warehouses. each. per annum ........4 $40 90
Wholesale dealer in merchandise of any
character, not over S5,000.00 stock per
annum, S31.0O; over $5,O000O stock per
annum ................. ...............S0 lUU
Wholesale fruit dealer. meaning peddlers
who sell to retailers from wagon or car.
per day, Sl2.50 per annum .$25OO
Be it further ordained, That in case
where the amount to be paid for IL
cense depends upon the amount of CAPT.
tai invested, or value of goods or stock,
it shall be the duty of the person apply
ing for such license to render to the
Clerk under oath a written statement of
the average amount of goods wares and
ilt-i ClldLulSt Oh manu- OuIliiS LllS last Z
months. and such sworn statement shall
be filed by the Clerk in his office, and be
subject to inspection and investigation by
the Finance Committee, but in no case
shall the amount of such valuation be
less than the highest amount of insur-
ance held.
All violations of any of the above and
foregoing ordinances or conditions I'M
der which licenses are issued land not
provided for therein) shall be punished
by fine of not exceeding $4,000, or by
labor on city changing not exceeding 60
DAYS. in the discretion of the Mayor
It is hereby ordered that the above Ii
censes shall be issued for the year only
and noe~for any fractional part of the
year. unless otherwise provided for, and
are not transferable And no license or
ordinance shall be amended or changed
in any way except by Council in session.
Be it further ordained, That all laws,
and parts of laws in conflict with the
above be and the same are hereby re-
pealed.
Read and adopted at meeting of the
City Council January Sth, 1924.
A. /. McLENDON, Mayor.