The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-01-27

to $780, in Mayors discretion.
Lodging or sleeping rooms entertaining
transients less than Is days. .$I5U
Upon each agent of a mail order mouse
having an office or doing business IN
Dawson, per annum ..............!. .SZoUO
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.. -. 90
Newspaper, per annum $50
oysters, each dealer $500
Opera house, per annum. 800
Oils, each kerosene storage warehouse,
Pressing club, per annum. LOO
Peddlers selling ware or merchandise of
any description, not less than $500 per
day nor more than $500 per day, in the
Mayors discretion
photographer, per annum ............Sl $500
Photographer, transient, whether work.
ing alone or in connection with locat-s
ed photographer, per annum. ...... $1,000
Photographer, taking button pictures on
street, per day, "a; per week. ....... $12. 90,
PaWnbroker, per year ................,$l $4,000
Plumber, per year .....................$2000
Piano tuner, per year $1,000
Planning mill, per year ................ $11. 90
Restaurant or cafe, per annum. ..... $500
Spectacle dealer or peddler, transient,
per week .......... ...................$25 . 90
Spectacle-transient optician hitting glass
es to the eyes in drug stores or other
places of business, per week. ....... 1900
Shoemaker or repairer, per annum. $500
Shooting gallery, per week, $1,000; per
quarter, $1,000; per annum,. SIS, 90
IShoWs-each acrobatic, minstrel or SINH
lar show performing under a tent, in
house or in open air, per day.. $1,000
per week .........................> .SZUU.UU
Skating rink not to run later than 10
o'clock at night, per annum ........$1 100
Stable sale, feed and livery, per an
mum ...:ii;....'. .$5VOO
of feeding, tying-in or keeping teams
for hire (one-horse dray allowed for
| baggage only per annum, $1,000; if au-
tomohile is used. per annum. ..... Sl5.0O
Soda Fount, Except in drug stores and
cafes) per annum. ...................$60 800
Secondhand clothing-each person SELL
ing secondhand clothing, separate or
in connection with other goods, per an
| Upon each tailor or agent of a tailor,
merchant tailor or clothing merchant,
selling goods from sample or sample
books mot run in connection with any
other licensed clothing business) per
Tinshop or timer, per annum. $1,000
Each telephone company or individual or
long distance line, per annum. T.. $4,000
| Telegraph company, each per year. $4,000
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-
0T3nh tpl2DhOnp
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 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
Each ten-pin or bowling alley, box ball
or game of like nature, per alley per
S year t,ct s,oi ocn,;r, te mo ' c5aU
acter of house as used for pool and bill
lard tables, ten-pin alleys. etc, and
this tax shall be collected whether the
same be run free or for gain, except
that ten-pin alleys or box ball alleys
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 ...................Sl1.O w
Transient persons selling vehicles to con-
sumers per annum ..............:.. SlOOO0
Variety Works SASH door and blind fac
tory, per annum .........., $40. W
Wagon. carriage and buggy repository,
or manufacturer, or dealer in the same.
in city, per annum ...... .OO
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 vehiclesl
per annum.; ....:'. ;..;;.'.' .$1g.UO
Dealers in vehicles, including automobiles
per annum .......................... $6U. w
Warehouses each, per annum .......: AO.U
Wholesale dealer in merchandise of any
character, not over SIS, 10000 stock per
annum, $S100; over 100000 stock per
Wholesale fruit dealer, meaning peddlers
who sell to retailers from wagon or car,
per day, $3.50, per annum SIS. W
Be it further ordained, That in case
where the amount to be paid for Ii
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 written statement or
the average amount of goods, wares and
merchandise on hand during the last u
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 (and not
provided for therein) shall be punished
by a fine of not exceeding $4,000, or by
labor on city changing not exceeding 50
DAYS in the discretion of the Mayor
It is hereby ordered that the above Ii
censes shall be issued for the year only
and not 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 ID 1925
X S. WORTHY, Mayor.
R. r. JONES, Clerk.