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An Ordinance,
To amend and consolidate the different
Ordinances for raising a fund for
the support of a Watch in the City of
Savannah ,
I. ‘BEIT ORDAINED By the Mayer
and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, and
it hereby is ordained by the authority ojtke
same, in conformity unth the ad of the Le
gislature in that case made and provided,
■That far lupporting a public Watch in
the city of Savannah, a I ax fiiall be levied
on persons and property within the limits
and jurlscKftion cl the laid city, as fol
lows——tovvit ; On all Houses, Buildings,
Lots and V/harves, within the said city,
as well unimproved as improved, except
ing lots held by lease from the Corpora
tion, twenty cents on every hundred'dol
lars value thereof to be -alTefsed and valuea
as is hereaiter provided for by virtue oi
this ordinance, and to be paid by the own
er thereof—on all houses, buildings, lots,
and wharves, owned by persons residing
out of the limits of this state, as well un
improved as improved, fifty cents on ev
ery hundred dollars value thereof, to be
paid by the owner thereof, his agent or at
torney.
11. And be it further ordained, That
every peifon trading in this city, who re
sides therein, ftitil pay twenty five cents
Oi-every hundred dollars value of his
-Sock intrade—Bc that every person trading
in this city, who hath not paid or become
fubjeft to the City Tax, for the last year,
{hall pay twenty five renis on every hun
dred dollars value of his flock in trade.
That every male white inhabitant, above
the age of bi years, who may not cth
erwiie be fubje£! to payment of a tax equal
to three dollars by virtue of this ordi
nance, shall pay an additional tax of two
dollars, which sum shall also be paid by
pci Tons as above dsferibed, who have no
taxable property.
That each and every free negro or per
son of colour inhabitant of this city, and
exerciGng any trade or hsndicraft, or the
bu-finefs of a huclcftcr, carter, or drayman,
shall pay a tax of ten dollars over and a
bove their taxable property 5 and that
each and every other iree negro or person
of colour, males from the age of fixteento
forty-five years, and females from the age
cf lourteen to forty-five years ol age, shall
pay a tax oi five dollars over and above
their taxable property.
That every inhabitant within this city,
shall pay a tax of twenty-five cents on each
Have within the city, from the age of four
teen to lortyTive years, of whom he or she
is the owoer, or of whom he or she may
have the care or management. Likcwife
the undermentioned sums on Carriages of
pieafurs of the following descriptions,
used and employed within the city—-viz :
Oh every Coach, Chariot, Poll Cbsife,
Coichee, Piixton, or other four wheel car
nave, and every Curricle, three dollars—
On every Chair, Cliaife, Gig, Sulkey, or
<><lier two wheel carnages with top3, one
dollar, without tops feventy-five cents.
And that each & -every Pri&iuoner of Law
end Physic, Fattor, Brookcr and Commis.
fion Merchant, Quit pay star of two dol
-1 lari.
111. And be it further ordained, That
a tax of fifty cents (ball be levied on all
Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, not the
produce of this state, and with the excep
tion of Rice, Cotton, Lumber, Corn, Tar,
and unmanufactured Tobacco, the pro
duce of South Carolina, which ihall be
Told on comraiflion by any person residing
within the limits of the city (except such
as ftjjit t> IVild-at public aufticn) on every
hundred dollars fold, to be paid by the
person felling the fame; and it shall be
the duty of every Coraonflion Merchant
or other person felling on coniroiflion,
“within the limits of this city, to makejufi
and true returns thereof on oath, to the
City Treasurer on die firft day of Janua
ry and on the full day of May in every
year, after the palling of this Ordinance,
and he orthsy shall within ten days after
making such returns, pay into the Treasu
ry of this city, the amoumof tax to which
the said goods and merchandize shall be
finbjeft by virtue of this ordinance, and
an delault of making such return, it Cull
and may be lawful for the City Treasurer,
within twenty days thereafter, Irom the
heft information which he can obtain, to
aflels the Value of all goods or merchan
dize which may have been fold as afeiefaio
by every such person in default, and
warrant of distress and sale for the amoum
of tax, conformably to laid aiTefi
metit, null torthwitSpbeifrued by theTres
surer, direSicf to the City Marfhsl againff
ti-.e goods and chattels of every such de.
faulter ; and also, against the goods 2nd
chattels of every person who shall male*
a return, but (hall negleSl to pay the *-
noaiit©f his, her or their tax as afoccfatd,
at'the* tire required, and that, such ether
proceedings shall be had, as is hereafter 3i
refiled by virtue of this ordinance.
IV. And be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid , That a tax of finy
cents shall be levied and paid on every
hundred dollars value ot all goods or mer
chandize which may arrive or beexpofed
to falc within the limints of this city, by
any non.refidept after the affefimeot shall
have heen made and the Digest completed,
such n ■n-resident (hall on his arrival, make
Inch return on oath, and give security to
the Treasurer of the city, to pay the tax ac
: cruing on such goods and merchandize
within ten deys alter—and in case any such
non-resident on his arrival shall negleft or
refufe to mike a return and give security
as aforefaid, it shall be the duty of the Ci
ty Treasurer to afffifs.the v*lue of the said
goods according to the bed of his informa
tion, and such other proceedings shall take
place, for-fecuringand compelling the pay
ment of the said tax, as aie provided in
and by this ordinance lor coilcfling the
tax of defaulting Commission Merchants.
’V. And be it further ordained, That all
property and persons liable to taxation,
by virtue of this ordinance, (hall be afTefs
ed by Committees appointed by Council,
whofedutyit shall be, and they arehereby
authorized and acquired to makes just and
accurate statement and return of all per
sons and property subject to the taxes a
bove fpecified,'2nd to aflefs and elt 1 mate
the value thereof by the bell information
which can be procured.
VI. And be it further ordained, Tharit
(hall be the duty of the said Committees
respectively to proceed in each of the dis
tricts above fpecified, to make the aflefs
manta in ten days after “the palling of ibis
ordinance, and to make returns thereof,
certified and signed by them, to the City
Treasurer, which returns (hill fpecify and
enuracratethe property afleffed clearly and
distinctly, and shall also contain and have
annexed thereto the value by them so as
leflfid uCCa the said property, and so soon
as the said Returns shall have been made
into the Treasurer’s Office, it shall be the
duty of the City Treasurer to give public
notice thereof by advettifement in two of
the public Gazettes within the city, that
the returns of aUeirment have been made
to his office, and that any person or per
sons, who may confider him, her or thetn
feives aggrieved by any valuation of his,
her or their property, which may have
been so made and returned, may enter an
appeal thereon in the treasurer’s office
within ten days after the publication of
such notice, and the Treasurer shall be al
lowed for the entry of such appeal twen
ty-five cents to be paid by the appellant;
and the City Council ere hereby authoris
ed and required, at the next regular meet
ing, after the time limited for entering ap
peal* as aforefaid (half have expired, to
decide on such appals, and also, to decide
on the valuations so ma.de and returned by
adding to or deducting trom any or either
of them, and that the said valuations and
aflefltnenu so returned, when revised, cor
rected and decided on by the city coun
cil, (hail be final and concltifive.
VII, And be it junker ordained, That
after the said afieffments shall have been
revised, corrected and decided on, in
manner herein before directed : they (hall
be delivered to the Treasurer v/hofe duty
it shall be to compile a digest therefrom, for
which he (hall be allowed a compensation
of eighty dollars, and conformably thereto
to receive the taxes foaffeflied, and shall be
allowed as a compenfutica for receiving
and ‘paying the money to be levied and
raised by virtue of this ordinance, two and
a half per centum out of the money so
raised.
VIII. And be it further ordained, That
within thirty daysaher the Treasurer has
given notice that the digest is completed
and that he is ready to receive the taxes
thereon, the persons fubjeetto taxation as
above fpecified, Stall pay the amounts of
their afieflments respectively to him ; and
if any owner of any house, building, lot,
wharf, or other real properly, or any other
person whatever subject to taxation by vir
tue of this ordinance, shall teiufe to pay
the airefFments made as aforefaid, eilhei
upon such house, building, lot, wharf, or
other rftai properly, a warrant of diflref*
md sale shall forthwith be ilbied by th*
Treasurer, against any goods qf chatties
that may be found on the premffes, and
the fame shall be seized and fold” at public
suction, and so much shall be deducted
from the amount of such sale, as will b*
iufficicntto pay the afleflmcnt aforefaid,
and to defray the coftand charges of such
leisure and sale, and the overplus, if any,
•hsli be paid to the person whose goods 01
chatt les shall have been (cized, as aforef/id,
& if no goods or chatties canbe found on the
pretnifes, or if the fame be infuflicient t<
lifcharge the whole amount due, as afore
fitd, then the said house, building, lot,
wharf, or other property, shall be sold *
public auction by the Treasurer, in such
manner and uader such nguUtioiM n<j
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restrictions as are directed by the Tax ha vr
IX. %nd be it further ordained, That
if any perfou subject to the payment of a
ny tax or assessment by virtue of this ordi
nance, shall negleft or refufe to pay to the
Treasurer, withinthe lime limited as **?**"■
said, the amount of bis or her tax or affers
ment, a warrant of distress and sale mail
be iflued and proceeded on, in the manner
above pointed out, the gcods and
chatties, of such delinquent*, And ti* at in
case any free negro, or Iree person of co
lour, shall neglect or refufe to pay to the
Treasurer, his or her tax as aforefaid, with
in the time above limited, a warrant of
distress andfale shall tffue agaifift the goods
and chatties of such free negro or Iree
person of colour, and shall be proceed on,
m the manner above pointed out ; but if
no goods or chatties can be found belong
ing toady dree negro or.free person of co
lour who may be delinquent as aforefaid,
the Treasurer is authorized to issue an ex
ecution agamft the body of fuel) tree negro
or person of colour, and to cotftmit him or
her to the cuflody of the goeler, who is here
by required to receive the body of such
free negro or person ot colour until his o
her tax, with coll and charges be paid ; and
every free negro and free person ot coloir
Hull in conformity with a public notific#.
tion to be given (y the Treasurer, make*
return df his or l.er name and age, and 01
the. names and ages of his or her children,
and of bis, her and their idpectiye place?
of abode, and occupation to the Treasurer
who (hall enter the fame in a book to b
kept for that purpefe ; and if any free ne
gio or free perfoncf colour lhall neglect 01;
refufe to make such returns, within th<
time and in the manner above preferibed
or fiiall give in a wrong name with an in
tention to deceive the Treasurer, he o
she shall in either case be doubly taxed
and proceed against in the fame manner a
above directed with regard to free negroe.-
and perf.ms of colour.
X. And be it further ordained, That ab
real and personal property within the cits
of Savannah, subject to taxation as afore
faid, and difeovered by the Treasurer al
ter the assessment has been made, (ball b<
liable to assessment at the fame rale, aw
in the fame proportion, and subject to tin
fame process and disposition as any like
property in the city, of which an assess
ment is made, and the Treasurer is hereby
vested withrhe fame powers, and -charge,
with the fame duties to enforce payment
of taxes on property discovered as afore
said, as if they had been assessed by thi
committees appointed by this ordinance.
XI. And be it further ordained, That in
all warrrants ol distress and sale, and exe
cutions issued by the Treasurer, ptfrfuan?
to this ordinance, he shall be entitled tv
fifty cents on each.
XII. And be it further ordained, That
the ordinance entitled an ordinance to raise
a fund for the support es a Waich in the
City of Savannah, passed yth Apiil, 1806,
and the Ordinance entitled “ An Ordi
nance to amend an Ordinance, entitled an
Ordinance to raise a fund for the support
of a watch inthe city of Savannah, passed
of November, 1806, be and
the fame are hereby repealed.
In COUNCIL,
Savannah, 30 tk Nov. 1807.
**++*+i Passed,
t L.S. | Wm. DAVIS,
i .
s1 -1 I'l i'i i’ il* Chairman.
ATTEST,
D. D. WILLIAMS, C. C.
Marshal's Sales.
ON the fir ft Tuesday In January next, Will be
■Sold at the Court-house in the Citv of Savannah,
One NEGRO WOMAN and CHILD. Also, a mim
ber of Articles of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
levied on asthe property of DoSor James Ewell, by
virtue of an *scecution obtained by C. Newell.
BENjAMLN WALL, M. D. G.
November 30 81
CONTINUED
Marshal’s Sales.
On the firft TUESDAY in Janucry next,
At the Court-Iksufe, will be fold,
A variety of DRY GOODS, and fome
GROCERIES ; levied on as the property of
John Hilton, at the luit of Robert H. Bowne.
Conditions Cash.
Ben. Wail, m. and. g.
Nov. SO gi
Mar dial’s Sale.
On the Crit Tuesday in January nest, will be fold at
the Court-house !n this city, between the hours of
ten and three o’clock.
The unexpired lease of a Tu-o Story House and
Burdingj, on Harden’* (late Clark’s) wharf, below the
■luit of c avannah, late in. the occupancy of Beniamin
si “ e ™ iio “" hi * w*.
„ , E’en. WALE, k. a. 5.
. November H ‘ 0 f ’
LOAN OFFICE, GfcORGtV
‘June 23 d f 1867*
Notice is hereby given, that in co*.
forraity with the provisions of tlte 3$
supplementary to theaa, imitled ** M
atft making provifiort for the Udtmp.
tion of the whole of the public debiag
the United States/’ books wfll Be cpfo
at the office of the commiflioner oflo#
for Georgia, on the fir ft day of joi#
next,’ to continue open until the seven:
teenth day of March, 1808, inclufive*
Iy* the fourteen last days of each quar
ter excepted, for the purpose -of xfc
ceiving fubferiptions far such parts of
the old fix per cent, deferred flit pec
cent, and three per cent, flock, as
on the day of fubfeription, fland 0$
the books of the said cominiffioner of
leans. ?
Those proprietors of the old fix
cent, and deferred flocks, who may
fubferibe, will receive in lieu thereof
anew fix per cent, flock, equal to the
uniedeemed amount of the flock sur
rendered, redeemable at the pleasure cf
the United States, under a proviso,
however, tha mo reimbursement (half
be made except for the whole amount
of any such new certificate of flock,
nor till after fix months previous no
tice : and the proprietors of the three
per cent, flock who may fubferibe,
will receive in lieu thereof, a fix per
cent, flock, equal to fixty-five per
cent, of the amount of three per cent,
surrendered, redeemable in the fame
manner as the new fix per cent. above
mentioned but noi reimbursable, how
ever, without the aflent of the holders,
until after the whole of the new fix
percent, (given fin exchange for old
fix or deferred as above mentioned) as
well as the whole of theeight per cent,
(lock of the United States, shall have
been rcimburfed. It is ailo provided,
chat in every reimbursement which
may take place, a preference will be
iiven to those creditors who may no
tify their wilh to be rcimburfed; and
that if the applications to that elfidg,
shall at any time either exceed or Jail
Ihort of the sum then applicable to
that purpose, the priority of payment
fiiall, so far as may be necessary, be
determined by lot.
The present flock-holders v;ho re
side in any part of Europe, and may
assent to that modification, may, at
their option, receive the interest ac r
cruing on the new flock, either in the
United States as heretofore, or in Lon
don or Amsterdam, at par; in which
lafl case, the interest will be paid there
I by the bankers of the United States,
[ fix months subsequent to the day ca
which the fame would be payable in
the United .States and fubjefl; to no
variation j nor to any other deduction
than a cominiffioner to the bankers,
of one half per cent, on the jutereft
‘thus paid.
JAMES ALGER,
Cansmittiotier of Lotins.
NOTE.
Proprietors of 1000 dol
lars ‘nominal fix per cent,
ilock, fnbfcribed before the
firft of October, 1807, will
be entitled to receive, Gi9 6'2 of pev/ 11 a*
tween the firft of Oftober,
and 31 ft December, 1807, 611* 27 —■
between the
1R January, & 17th March,
1803. 619 03
Proprietors of 1000 dol
lars nominal deferred, fub
feribed before the firft of
October, 1807, will be enti
tled to receive 5 55 73
—— If fnbfcribed be
tween the firft October, and
3HI December, 1807, 853 62 *
bewteen the _v.
Ift January, end the 17th
March, 1808, BSI 4$ -r
Being the unredaemed amount of flip old ftocjk
or. the Ift of July and October OiO'J, and firft
January, 1808, refpe&ively. ” ‘ i’i
Proprietors of JOOb dollars three per cent,
will be entitled t<t Receive 650 do4il' of ’uev?
fix. \ -v • * .; / 1 .
Wanted Immediately- *
A SMALL NEGRO BOY,—For pjjiliefthiW#
apply at the pUjcj cf (.fc^.L'e^li^rucs*.
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