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    CITY GOVERNMENT.
Ofacial Proceeding's of Council.
Savannah, Oa., Dec. 14, 1887.
Council mot this evening at 8 o’clock. Pres
ent: Hon. Rufus E. Luster. Mayor; Alderman
John Schwarz, Chairman ot Council; Aider
men Tmnean, Haines, Moll. Mills, Myers, Nich
ols, Keid, Thomas and 'Veils.
The minutes of the last regular meeting and
special meeting of December 7, 1887, were read
and confirmed.
ACCOUNTS.
The Committee on Accounts report that they
have examined and found correct bills against
the city amounting to nine thousand two
hundred and seven dollars and eighty-one
cents, as per accompanying schedule, and rec
ommend that the same be passed for payment.
hroroe J. Mills.
Chairman Committee on Accounts.
The report of the committee was adopted, and
tiie accounts, as per schedule annexed, were
passed for payment.
Board of Health—
Y. 11. Kieruan $ 3] 90
Georgia Infirmary 200 00
T. .J. Iluvis & Cos 59 28
T. P. Bond & Cos. 50 45
tv. B. Mell & Cos 12 00
James F. Furlong 2 71
Alfred Kent 3 (10
M. J- Hoyle 1 00
Time of hands O. E. M 70 64
TV. W. Owens, M. D 88 83
George V Nichols 27 00
N. Paulsen & Cos 2 45
John McLaughlin & Son 7 90
Andrew Hanley 2 55
Knickerbocker Ice Cos 2 25
John Lyons & Cos 100
Solomons & Cos 101 18—$ 659 07
City Court—
I. L. Goodwin $ 52 50
Fretwell & Nicholls 1 00
Edward J. Purse 10 00
Mutual Gas Light Cos 80
L. L. Goodwin 10 00
Fretwell & Nichols 40— 74 70
City Map—
r. Sugden 100 00
Dry Culture—
Time of hands (east) $ 147 88
T. J. Davis 8 47
T. P. Bond & Cos 7 50
Tin 6 of hands (west) 104 12
'V B. Meli &Cos 2 25-= 270 22
Fire Department—
Mutual Gas Light Cos $ 21 06
T. P. Bond & Cos 73 23
T. J. Davis & Cos .. 66 42 *
T. J. Davis & Cos. . ... 8 14— 168 85
Harbor anu Whar~*;—
C. Carroll <Sr Cos 335 00
Incidentals—
John Nicolson $ 75
Fretwell <& Nichols 6 40
F. E. Rebarer, C C 70 80
C. S. Hardee, C T 8 85
Telephone Exchange 60 00
Mutual Gas; Light Cos 12 78— 159 65
Laurel Grove Cemetery—
Time of hands 182 50
Market—
AV.Kchoe&Co $ 344
Mutual Gas Light Cos 14 40— 17 84
Parks and Squares—
A. D. Pratt 75 00
Time of hands 187 25
Edward Lovell & Sons 25
M. Cooley 4.50 82
J. 51 Futch 160 00
S. F. and "’. Railway C 0.... 17 65 890 97
Police—
John F. LaFar $ 900
T. P. Bond AC) 68 47
T. J. Davis i-C 80 47
Alfred Kent . . 2600
M. J. Dovle 2 50
F. Schwarz .. 24 07
M. F. Dunn, M. D. 5 00
SV. B. Mell & Cos 2120
E. A. Schwarz 1 68
R. D. Walker 8 50
M. J. Dovle 9 69
So. Beil Tel. and Tel. Cos 60 00
Pay roll Nov. 1887 . . 3,978 20— 4,294 78
Printing and Stationery—
\Vm. Estil! $ 240
Geo. S. Nichole. 6 00
Fretwell & Nichols 3 58
Geo. N. Nichols 37 75
I >avis Bros 8 00
Savannah Times Pub. Cos 6 25
Geo. N. Nichols 58 25
Fretwell & Nichols 7 90— 125 13
Public Buildings -
R Tl. Footman A: Cos $ 10 00
P. Killorin 25 10— 35 10
Streets and Lanes—
Time of hands $ 760 80
Time of teamsters 208 12
William Kehoe &Cos 75 00
G. W. Parish 24 30
K. N. Stunt 36 90
McDonough & Cos 11 70
T. P. Bond & Cos 62 47
Patrick Barrett 15 00
T. J. Davis & Cos 73 40
O. Butler. "9 20
Edward Lovell & Sons 5 32
Andrew Hanley 90
Savanuah Brisk Mfg Cos 181 50
John G. Butler 1 60
Mutual Gaslight Cos 90
McDonough & Cos 45 06
W. B. Mell & Co—. 8 05— 1,530 22
Taxes, 1887—
C. S. Hardee, C. T 4 50
Water Works—
T. J O'Brien $ 1170
G. E. Mottwilder 123 04
T. P. Bond & Cos 7 20
T. J. Davis & Cos 8 47
Leonard & Ellis 50 25
W. B. Mell & Cos 50
Palmer & Bros 5 30
Andrew Hanley 17 40
John Nicholson. Jr 4 80
Vale Royal M’f’g Cos 1 67
McDonough .t Ballantyne... 31 3)
McDonough & Ballantyne... 59 12
J. W. Tynan 46 18
A. N. Miller. 2 10- 369 08
Total $9,207 81
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
The committee on Assessments to whom was
referred the petition of Margaret Geibelhouse
relative to assessment on property on lot South
west corner Jefferson and Charlton streets, beg
leave to report that the petitioner has been re
quested by the committee to examine the re
port of the Assessors for 1887, as soon as the
same is available, and if the valuation placed by
the said assessors on said lot is not satisfacto
ry to petitioner a communicaton from her to
that effect will receive the consideration of the
Committee on Assessments in accordance with
Ordinance governing such cases.
Herman Myers,
Chairman Committee on Assessments.
Report received.
The joint committee on Market and Finance
to whom was referred the petition of sundry
butchers asking Councilto reduce the rent on
stalls in the market, beg leave to report ad
versely to said t itl*\ W. F. Reid.
Cliairman ’ommittee on Market.
Report adopted.
The Committee on Health and Cemetery to
whom was referred the petition of F. J. Ruckert
relative to amount charged for cleaning dry
well on property in Franklin ward, beg leave to
report in faver of reducing the amount charged
to one-half provided sewer connection is made
with the premises before first of January.
W. Duncan, M. D.
Chairman Committee on Health and Cemetery
Report adopted.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes to whom
was referred the petition of R. R. Dancy for
Mrs. F. K. Dancy relative to bill for paving side
walk on lot 17 Lloyd ward beg leave to report
adversely to relieving petitioner from payment
of the bill. D. R. Thomas.
Chairman Committee on Streets and Lanes.
BReport adopted.
The joint Committee on Fire, and Streets and
Junes’ to whom was referred the petition of F.
A. Davis for permission to repair and make ad
dition to house on lot 18 Cuthbert ward, beg
leave to report favorably to the same.
John Schwarz,
Chairman doiut Committee.
Report adopted.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes, to whom
was referred the iietitlon of sundry citizens ask
ing city authorities to place a light at the corner
of Wayne and Montgomery streets, beg leave to
report adversely thereto.
D. R. Thomas,
Chairman Committee on Streets and Lancs.
Report adopted.
The Commute on Fire, to whom was referred
the petition of M. S. Wilkins for permission to
repair house on lot No. 32 Screven ward, beg
leave to report favorable to the same.
John Schwarz,
Chairman Committee on Fire.
Report adopted.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes, to
whom was referred the petition of City and Su
burban railway for permission to extend its
A ercorti street lin: through Aborcom street
extended to Second street and up Second street
totbe proposed now depot, corner Whitaker and
Second street, beg leave to report adversely
to granting said petition.
D. R. Thomas,
Chairman Committee on Streets and Lanes.
Report adopted.
Savannah, Dec. 12th, 1887.
The special committee, to whom has been re
ferred the several ordinances and substitutes
laid before Council gonoerning certain privi
leges proposed to be granted to the Central
Railroad and Banking Company, beg to report
the following history of the action taken:
On the tilth November, 1884. at a regular
meet ing of the City Council an ordinance was
presented and read for the first time, and under
the rules of Council laid ove>-, proposing to
grant to the Ceutrnl Railroad and Banking Com
pany of Georgia permission to lay a track from
the west side of the Savannah and Ogeechee
tonal across said cunai, in the line
of River street, and along said River
street across Water street to West Broad
street, and across said last named street through
the systems of streets and alleys lying south of
the buildings on River street, to Randolph
street and across Randolph street to River
street, and through River street to Bilbo canal,
with such turnouts, switches and sidetracks
and connections as may be necessary to bring
into more general and profitable use tin- wharves
along the city front, and ;o use and o(ierate on
said tracks such cars as may be necessary for
conveying freight to and across said city front.
Said ordinance also granted authority to con
struct in tile street, on the western and eastern
sides of said canal, such bridges as may be nec
essary' to connect the tracks lying on the west
ern and eastern sides of the said canal, and to
Proas said bridges as often and whenever it may
be necessary so to do.
Said ordinance provided that the track when
laid through, across or along any street, should
be so laid as not to interfere with the use of
said streets by vehicles, and for the keeping in
proper repair six (6) feet each way from the
centre of said track, with such material as w ill
form a hard and uniform surface of even grade
at tne point of junction w ith the rails so asio
permit carriages und vehicles to cross the track
with facility and comfort, with proper grade to
be fixed by the City Surveyor.
All damages that may be sustained by pri
vate individuals or other corporations to be met
and paid by said Central Railroad and Banking
Company of Georgia, and the Mayor and Aider
men in no instance to be responsible. Said
ordinance also provided that the slayor and
Aldermen should nof be liable for any damage
which might be sustained by digging or other
unavoidable work in repairing or laying gas,
water-pipes or sewers now running or to tie run
in the city.
It also required the Central Railroad and
Banking Company of Georgia to construct safe
and convenient crossings wherever its track in
tersected any street or lane, for both vehicle
and foot passengers, of the full width of the
street or lane so crossed, providing also for the
proper repair of the same from line to line as
might be necessary, under penalty of flue for
failure so to do, after five days’ notice.
This ordinance was read the second time at
the next succeeding regular meeting of Council,
Dec. 3, 1881, and, on motion, referred to Council
as committee of the whole.
At an adjourned meeting held Jan. 7, 1887,
Council us committee of the whole reported
back by substitute, which substitute was placed
upon its passage and passed.
The substitute provided that the privileges
set forth in the ordinance of November 19th,
1884, be also granted to the Ocean Steamship
Company, of Savannah, or such railroad cor
poration (now existing or hereafter to be
formed) as the said last named corporation may
designate.
Also that the track should be laid from the
west side of the Savannah and Ogeechee canal
to Montgomery street , with such turnouts,
switches, etc., as provided for in ordinance fir.-4
[(resented; and, Provided further, that the con
struction of said track should be begun in one
year from the passage of the ordinance, and
completed in two years from the date thereof.
The construction of the remainder of the
track to Bilbo canal was left to the option of
the Central Railroad and Banking Company,
Ocean Steamship Company, etc., as to the time
of beginning or completing said track.
The substitute furthermore provided, that if
any other person or corporation desired to build
a track along the river front then the ,'layor
should be required to give notice in writing to
the Central Railroad and Banking Company of
Georgia of such application, and if the work of
laying such track was not bona tide begun within
thirty (30) days from the time of the granting of
such privilege and completed within the time
proposed, then the said right should be for
feited, and the permission hereinbefore granted
to the Central Railroad and Banking Company
of Georgia should be revived and renewed.
The substitute furthermore provided for the
regulation by the city of the rate of speed to
be allowed, length of trains, regulating the con
struction and repairs, etc., also for a uniform
charge for transportation of freight, etc.
At a regular meeting of Council January- 14th,
1885, an ordinance amendatory of the substitute
was presented, read a second time by unani
mous consent of Council and passed, the amend
ment being directed principally to the title of
the ordinance so as to more clearly set forth
aU of its objects.
At a regular meeting of Council November
2d, 1887, an ordinance was presented extending
the time in which the track was authorized lo
be laid under the ordinance passed in Council
January 7tn, 1885, and provided for the construe
tion and completion of said track in six months
from the passage of this last ordinance of No
vember 2d, 1887, and re-enacting the ordinance
passed January 7th, 1885, with amendment of
January 14th, 1885.
This last ordinance of November 2d, 1887,
came up for a second reading November 16th,
1887, when a substitute was offered, both of
which were “laid on the table,” and the ordi
nance of January 7th, 1885, ordered to be pub
lished.
At a regular meeting of Council, Nov. 30, 1887,
this last ordinance ana substitute were taken
from the table, and under resolution referred to
special committee consisting of Aldermen Dun
can, Myers and Wells.
The substitute for the ordinance Nov. 2, 1887,
contained all the provisions of said ordinance of
Nov. 2, 1887, and an additional proviso, that it
should not bo construed or held to require the
company constructing the track alluded to, to
build all the way from Montgomery street to
Bilbo canal, but that any part of said line may
be built.
Your committee recommend that the several
ordinances and substitutes relating to this mat
ter do not pass, for the reason that it gives the
option to the Central Railroad and Banking
Company of Georgia, the Ocean Steamship
Com[>any, etc., to construct a track from the
western side of the Savannah and Ogeechee
canal to Bilbo canal at such time and to such
extent as said corporation might from time to
time elect—a franchise which in the judgment
of the committee should be vested in the Mayor
and Aldermen of the city, and granted, as in
their judjfrnent may be deemed best for the in
terests of the city, to any person or corporation
who might apply for such privilege with a bona
fide intention of completing the work in a
specified time. W. Duncan,
Herman Myers,
Davu> Wells,
Special Committee.
Report received.
The committee of the whole, to whom was re
ferredthe petition of C. Lucian Jones, etal.,
relative to bond of Woodward Barnwell for
lease of Hutchinson island, beg leave to report
that the committee have carefully considered
the petition, and are unable to find any suffi
cient reason for granting the same. They,
therefore, report adversely upon It.
Rufus E. Lester.
Chairman Committee of the Whole.
Report adopted.
petitions and applications.
Petitions of Mrs. E. A. Dickerson for permis
sion to repair two houses on lot 10 Trustees Gar
den. Referred to Committee on Fire.
Petition of Mrs. Fannie E. Lanier for permis
sion to build three two-story frame houses on
lot 17 Bartow ward, with piazzas or verandas.
Referred to Committees on Fire and Streets and
Lanes.
Petition of Misses F. and R. G. Minis for per
mission to repair buildings on lot 4 Franklin
ward. Referred to Committee on l ire.
Petition of T. A. Maddox, Clerk of the Market,
for increase of salary. Referred to Committees
on Market and Finance.
Petition of City and Suburban ’Railway Com
pany for permission to extend track from Lib
erty street through Randolph to President
street. Referred to Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
Petition of Trustees of Baptist church on
West Broad street for permission to repair
church. Referred to Committee on Fire
Petition of Jos. A. Roberts & Cos., t sktng that
the Quarantine charges against the Schooner
W. H. Fredson be remitted. Referred to Com
mittee on Health and Cemetery.
Petition of sundry citizens, asking city
authorities to lay water main on Price street
from Gordon to Huntingdon street. Referred
to Committee on Water.
Petition of Fay & Eichberg for permission to
build vault under Bay street lane in rear of
store to be erected comer Bay and Jefferson
streets for Guokenheimer & Son. Referred to
Committee on Streets and Lanes.
Petition of Fay & Eichberg for permission to
connect water main on Bay street by a three
inch “T” with system of fire plugs in building
to 1)6 erected comer Bay and Jefferson streets
for Guckonheimer & Son. Referred to Commit
tee on Water.
Petition of Guckenbeimer & Son (per Fay &
Eichberg) for permission to erect brick store on
lots 4 and 5 Iligby tythiug, Decker ward, and
to occupy a portion of street with material to
be taken from the old building Referred to
Committee on Streets and I-Anes.
Petition of sundry rice mill companies asking
reduction of specific tax on rice mills for 1888.
Referred to committee of the whole.
Petition of Savannah Street and Rural Resort
Railroad Company to change route so as to use
Gwinnett streot as part of route. Referred to
Committee on Streets and Lanes.
Petition of Fay & Eichberg for permission to
erect permanent awning to store to be erected
corner Bay and Jefferson streets, for Gucken
heimer & Son. Referred to Committee on
Streets and Lanes.
ORDINANCES.
Ordinance read In Council for the first time
Nov. 2. 1887. read a second time Nov. 16. ISB7,
and together with a substitute offered, laid on
the table until next regular meeting, taken from
the table Nov. 30. 1887, and referred, together
with substitute, to special committee. Reported
back to Council by committee Dec. 14, 1887,
taken up. placed upon it passage and lost.
Ati ordinance to extend the time in which the
track auth> r.zed to lie laid under the ordinance
passed in Oounc'l Jan. 7, 1880, and amended
Jon. 14,1880, may be laid, i
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY,.DECEMBER 17, 1887.
Ordinance on its first reading, and referred to
a special committee consisting of Aldermen
Duncan, Myers and Wells.
An Ordinance to permit the Central Railroad
and Banking Company of Georgia, the Ocean
Steamship Company of Savannah, or such
railroad corporation (now existing or hereaf
ter to lie formed) as the said last named cor
poration may designate, to run a track from
the present system of tracks on River street
to the Bilbo canal.
Section 1. Be it ordained-by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council
assembled. That the Central RAjlroad and Bank
ing Company of Georgia, or the Ocean Steam
ship Company of Savannah, or such railroad
corporation (now existing or hereafter to lie
formed) as said last named corporation may
designate, be and they are hereby permitted to
extend a track from their present track on
River street over the following route, or such
pans thereof aa they may elect, to-wit: Along
River street across Water street to West Broad
street, and across West Broad and along River
street to Montgomery street, from Montgomery
street along River street or through the systeiii
of streets and alleys in said city lying next
south of the building on the south side of
River street and north of the north side
of Bay street to Randolph street and across
Randolph street to Bay street aud from Bay to
the Bilbo canal with such turnouts, switches,
side-tracks and connections as may lie necessary
to bring into general and more profitable use
the wharves along the city front, and to use and
operate on said track such cars and motive
power as may be necessary for carrying freight
to and across said city front from the wharves
of the Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah
to the Bilbo canal and intermediate points.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained by the authori
ty aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of
the city of Savannah shall have the right to
locate the tracks in any streets through which
they may pass, and the same shall b” located
by the Committee on Streets and Lanes until
otherwise directed. The said tracks, when laid
through, across or a long any street in said city,
shall be so laid as not to interfere with the use
of said streets by vehicles passing over the
same, and said company shall at its own ex
pense repair and keep in repair according to the
proper grade to be fixed by the City Surveyor,
six feet each way, untiE otherwise required,
from the centre or said track in the streets of
said city, of such material as will form a hard
and uniform surface of even grade at
the point of junction with the rails
tbemselyes, so that carriages and other vehicles
can cross the track with facility aud comfort,
and should the city require it of the same or
similar materials as the city may use should it
pave the street.
Sec. 3. That the permission here by granted
shall continue in force for the space or
months from the date of the passage of this
ordinance, and if not availed of within said
months.shall become void and of no effect.
Sec, 4. This permission is granted subject to
all the provisions of Sections 3, 4 and 5, the or
dinance i>assed in Council Jan. 7, 1885, entitled,
“An Ordinance to permit tne Central Railroad
and Banking Company or Georgia, the Ocean
Steamship Company of Savannah, or such rail
road comporation (now existing or hereafter to
l>e formed) as the said last named cor|>oration
may designate to run a track from the present
system of tracks on the w est side of the Savan
nah and Ogeechee Canal to Montgomery street
in city of Savannah, and thence along River
street to the Bilbo Canal;” and to Section 3, of
an ordinance passed in Council, Jan. 14, 1885, en
titled “An ordinance to amend” the said ordi
nance ot Jan, 7, 1885.
Sec. 5. That all ordinances and parts of or -
(finances in contlict with this ordinance, be and
the same are hereby repealed.
TAX ORDINANCE.
Ordinance on its first reading.
By Finance Committee—
PREAMBLE.
Whereas, The administration of the govern
ment of the City of Savannah, for the fiscal
year 1888, will cause an expenditure in the vari
ous departments of said government in sums es
timated as follows, to wit:
Board of Health
City Clocks
City Court
City lamps
Drainage aud dry culture
Fees
Fire depart meat
Harbor and wharves.
Incidentals
Laurel Grove Cemetery
Market
Parks and squares
Police
Printing and stationery
Police and fire uniforms
Public buildings i
Quarantine
Salaries
Scavenger department
Streets and lanes
Paviugnstreets
Waterworks....
Sinking fund
Interest
Total
An Ordinance to assess and levy taxes and
raise revenue for the city of Savannah; for
the regulation of certain kinds of business in
the corporate and jurisdictional limits of said
city; fixing penalties for the violation of the
revenue ordinances of said city, and for other
purposes connected with taxes and revenue of
said city.
Section 1. The Mayor and Aldermen of the
city of Savannah, in Council assembled, do
hereby ordain. That from and after the first
day of Jauuary, 1888, the inhabitants of said
corporate and jurisdictional limits of said
city, and those who hold taxable prop
erty within the same, and those
who transact, or offer to transact,
business therein, except such as are exempt
from taxation bylaw, snail pay toward the sup
port of the government of said city, and for the
safety, benefit, convenience and advantage of
said city, the taxes hereinafter prescribed.
Sec. 2. Every |>ersoii and corporation owning
real property in said city, including improve
ments, snail pay a tax, to lie assessed by Coun
cil upon the value of said property by the first
day of April, 1888, at the rate of two and one
eighth Her centum of such value, except on
6uch property as may be exempt from taxation
under the laws of this State.
Sec. 3. Every person and corporation owning
or holding in trust or on consignment household,
kitchen or office furniture, private or profes
sional libraries, watches, jewelry plate, mu
sical instruments, billiard tables, in private resi
dences, stocks in money corporations, bonds,
notes and other evidences of debt, money
solvent debts, stock in trade, and every other
kind of personal property whatsoever
(except vehicles used for purposes of
pleasure and convenience and hereinafter other
wise taxed), shall pay a tax of one-half of one per
centum on the value of such personal property
so owned or held on the first day of January,
1888, except such as may be exempt from taxa
tion by the laws of this State or of the United
States. The foregoing phrase, ‘‘stocks in money
corporations,’’ shall not iuclude shares in banks
or banking associations organized under the
authority of this State or the United States,
and located within the city of Savaunah,
wAether the owner of such shares reside in the
said city or elsewhere, but the tax on such
shares shall be three-ieentbs of one per cent,
per annum, in accordance with tax law of the
State, but nothing in this <fr any other section
of this ordinance shall be construed to require
any tax upon the capital of any bank or bank
ing association organized under the authority of
this State or of the United States, or to require
any tax upon the shares ot sbx-.kholders in any
such bank or banking association at any greater
iate than is required for other monied capital
in the hands or individual citizens.
Sec. 4. Every shipmaster, captain, super
cargo, agent or other officer of any ship or ves
sel, or other person who shall charter or offer to
charter his vessel, or who shall sell goods or
articles of any kind from any vessel or wharf,
personally purchase cargo or collect freight, ex
cept through a licensed broker or commission
merchant, snail be considered a commission
merchant, and pay the tax hereinafter pre
scribed for commission merchants.
Sec. 5. Every |wrson transacting or offering
to transact either of the kinds of business here
inafter specified shall pay the tax hereinafter
prescribed for every separate place in which he
shall transact, or offer to transact business, viz:
Every auctioneer aud commission merchant,
or auctioneer and broker, two hundred dollars;
Every dealer in goods, wares and merchan
dise. including dealers in drugs, etc. (In addition
to liquor tax or license), as follows:
Every dealer exclusively retail, forty dollars;
Every dealer exclusively wholesale, or retail
dealer selling at wholesale, one hundred and
seventy dollars;
Every dealer in liquor doing a wholesale busi
ness, three hundred dollars: -
Every hanker or bank agent, or ageuts of
bankers engaged In buying or selling exchange,
Including every insurance company doing a
banking business, two hundred and fifty dol
lars; every hank, flvehundred dollars;
Every cotton broker, broker or dealer in stocks
and bonds, money broker, and every produce,
grocery aud naval stores broker, exclusive of
brokers in liquor, seventy-five dollars;
Every ship broker, one hundred dollars;
Every dealer in butter, lard and cheese, eighty
dollars;
Every dealer in hides, wax and tallow, eighty
dollars;
Every broker for tbe sale of horses, cattle or
mules, who keeps no stable for the sale of the
same, eighty dollars;
Every dealer in horses, cattle or mules, who
keeps no stable for the sale of same, eighty dol
lain;
Every pawnbroker, three hundred dollars;
Every building and loan association, fifty dol
lafH?
Every loan association doing a banking busi
ness. two hundred dollars:
Every tire or lue insurance uuuixu-y doing
business, w-hether direotly or through an
agency, two hundred dollars;
Every marine, aeeideut or other insurance
com[)aiiy doing business, whether directly or
through an agency, fifty dollars;
Every person who shall be sworn by the
Mayor (wuo is hereby authorized to administer
the oath for such purpose) as a public weigher
of any goods, wares or merchandise, twenty-five
dollars;
Every local average or insurance adjuster,
other than an agent of an insurance company,
fifty dollars;
Every keeper or keepers of a hotel that con
tains seventy five rooms or upward, two htin
drad dollars.
Every keeper or keepers of a hotel that con
tains under seventy-five rooms, and having fifty
rooms, one hundred dollars.
Every keeper or keepers of a hotel that con
tains under fifty rooms, fifty dollars;
Every sewing machine agenct or agency,
fifty dollars, tne same for each and every
agency;
Every dealer in sewing machines, fifty dollars;
Every deal r in coal, not paying tax as a
wholesale dealer, seventy-five dollars;
Every dealer In stationery or books, selling
exclusively at wholesale, or at retail aud w hole
sale, one hundred dollars;
Every retail dealer in stationery or books,
forty dollars;
Every agent for or dealer in fertilizers, not
paying tax as commission merchant, one hun
dred and seventy dollars;
Every sailor boarding-house keeper, fifty dol
lars;
Every runner for a sailor boarding-house,
twenty-five dollars;
Every owner or owners, lessee or lessees, of a
cotton press establishment, throe hundred dol
lars; every hand cotton press, twenty-five dol
lars;
Every the owner or owners, lessee or lessees,
of a junk shop, or junk dealer, one hundred and
fifty dollars;
A cotton pickery, to be confined exclusively
to the purchase or sale of cotton, one hundred
aud seventy dollars; and all buyers of loose
cottou, who buy from other than cotton mer
chants, one hundred and seventy dollars;
Every the owner or owners <>f a steam cotton
gin establishment, one hundred dollars;
Ev cry commission merchant or factor, or ex
porter of cotton, lumber, naval stores or other
merchandise, foreign or coastwise, or agency,
or representative of firm of exporters, two hun
dred dollars;
Every stevedore, fifty dollars;
Every the owner or owners of a lumber yard,
seventy-five dollars;
Every dealer in brick, or agent for sale of
bricks, seventy-five dollars;
Every dealer in wood, forty dollars;
Every the keeper or keepers of a warehouse
for the storage of cottou, merchandise, goods,
etc.; for each warehouse, forty dollars;
Every the owner or owners, lessee or keeper
of a billiard table, other than those used in pri
vate dwellings, fifty dollars for each table; for
every pool table or tables on which pool Is
played, one hundred and fifty dollars;
Every the owner or ow ners, lessees or keepers
of a bagatelle table, twenty-five dollars for each
table;
Every the owner or owners of a ten-pin alley,
thirty dollars for each alley;
Every the ow ner or owners of a saw mill or a
planing mill, with or without lumber yard at
tached, one hundred and twenty five dollars,
and on each sash and blind factory or agency of
sash and blind factory, seventy-five dollars;
On the owner or owners of every steam engine
used for hoisting purposes, or any other busi
ness w here steam is used, not regularly taxed,
as in this ordinance stated aud enumerated,
twenty-five dollars;
Every cotton shipper, fifty dollars;
Every cotton weigher, twenty five dollars;
Every shoemaker, ten dollars;
Every merchant tailor, forty dollars:
Every circus, for each and every performance
in the city, two hundred dollars; Hying horses,
or itinerant shows, one hundred dollars per week
or any part thereof;
Every grinder of a hand organ or strolling
band of musicians, five dollars per week;
Every theatrical troupe, minstrel t roupe, or
other troupe acting or performing in theatre or
public halls in this city, three dollars for each
performance;
Every person or partnership running a grist
mill, worked by steam, fortv dollars; if worked
by horse power, twenty dollars; every pers n
running a flour in 11, or flour and grist mill
driven by steam, eighty dollars;
Every bread or cake bakery carried on by
means of steam machinery, one hundred dol
lars; if carried on without steam, forty dollars;
Every master builder, mason or mechanic,
and other mechanics not otherwise taxed, taking
contract for work, architects, civil engineers,
surveyors, contractors other than builders,
twenty dollars;
Real estate collectors anil agents, and other
collectors and agents, and ticket agents and
scalpers, twenty-five dollars;
Every the keeper or keepers of an Intelligence
office, ten dollars for each office:
Every mercantile or commercial agency, one
hundred and fifty dollars;
Every daily newsper printed by steam, one
hundred dollars: every weekly or other
newspaper, fifty dollars; every daily
newspaper worked by hand, twenty flva
dollars, and every weekly newspaper worked by
hand, ten dollars;
Every job printing office worked by steam,
gas or water motor, fifty dollars; if worked
without steam, gas or water motor, twenty-five
dollars;
Every manufacturer of soda water, selling
from founts, twenty-five dollars; and manufac
turing and bottling sida water, fifty dollars;
selling soda water from founts, ten dollars for
each fount;
Every public steam laundry, twenty-five dol
lars;
Every public laundry run without steam, ten
dollars;
Every bottler of beer or ale fifty dollars;
Every soap boiler and tanner, tor each estab
lishment, ten dollars;
Every barber shop, four dollars for each chair
used;
Every person engaged in the business of gas
fitting or plumbing, or both, forty dollars; but
every plumber and gasfitter shall, on or before
Feb. 15, 1888, make and file w ith the Clerk of
Council a bond in the sum of $2,000, With good
and sufficient securities, to be approved by the
Mayor, conditioned to answer over to said cor
poration for all damages it may sustain by rea
son of the negligence or default of such plumlier
or gasfitter In negligently closing or leaving
open excavations in the public streets;
Every daguerrean artist, photographer, am
brotyper and portrait painter, twenty-five dol
lars;
Every steamboat, vessel or other agency, fifty
dollars; every agency for ocean Steamships,
each line, one hundred dollars;
Every cotton factory, one hundred dollars;
Each and every coppersmith or manufacturer
of stills, fifty dollars;
Every ice factory, one hundred dollars;
Every wholesale dealer In ice, one hundred
dollars; every retail dealer in ice. ten dollars:
Each and every museum, twenty-five dollars;
Every gas company, five hundred dollars;
every electric light company, three hundred
dollars;
Every restaurant or eating house, without
liquor license, twenty-five dollars;
Every rice pounding or cleaning mill, with or
without grist mill attached, two hundred and
fifty dollars;
Every fortune teller or astrologer, twenty five
dollars;
Every telegraph company or agency, five
hundred dollars; each and every telephone com
pany or exchange, six huudered dollars; each
independent telephone of two stations, two dol
lars ad fifty cents.
Every street railroad company, two hundred
dollars, and In addition thereto, as part of the
same tax. twenty dollars for each and every car
employed by such company in the city:
Every keeper of a skating rink, twenty-five
dollars;
Every undertaker or coffin warehouse, forty
dollars;
Every person engaged in loading or unloading
vessels by horse power, twenty-five dollars for
each hoisting apparatus used;
Every express company, three hundred dol
lars, and In addition thereto, as a part of same
tax, ten dollars for every one-horse baggage ex
press wagon, and eighten dollars forevery two
horse baggage express wagon employed by such
company;
Every bill poster or distributor, ten dollars;
Every blacksmith shop, each forge, eight dol
lars;
Every owner, proprietor or keeper of a “buck
et skop” or a place where futures are sold, five
hundred dollars;
Every cooper shop, twenty dollars;
Every carriage repository, one hundred dol
lars ; every carriage shop for manufacturing or
repairing, twenty-five dollars;
Every cigar manufacturer or retailer, twenty
dollars;
Every dye bouse, twenty dollars;
Every millinery establisnment, ten dollars;
Every gunsmith establishment, ten dollars:
Every foundry, fifty dollars; machine shop,
fifty dollars; every foundry and machine shop,
one hundred dollars;
Every menagerie, fifty dollars per day;
Every marble and stone yard, eighty dollars;
Every ov.-ter and fish dealer, forty dollars;
Every snipping master, one hundred dollars;'
Each and every shooting gallery, one huudred
dollars;
Every the owner or owners of every green
grocery, one hundred dollars;
Every stencil cutter, twenty dollars;
Every tailor not registered as a merchant, ten
dollars;
Every wheelwright, twenty dollars;
Every the owner or owners of a marine rail
way or dry dock, fifty dollars;
Every dealer pay lug a tax as a whole
sale dealer shall lie permitted to do any
business hereinbefore taxed, paying a less
tax t’.ian tax for a wholesale dealer, without
paring any other sxecidc tax:
Every person engage*! In the business of
transporting or carrying goods, warns, mer
chandise, passengers or for hire, by
means of wagons, drays, trucks, carts, omni
buses, or carriages of aiiy description, or of let
ting carriages or other vehicles for hire hall
pay a tax according to the number amt charge
ter of vehicles employed in such business, viz:
every person employing one one-horse cart or
wagon, eight dollars; every person employing
one ono-borse dray or truck, ten dollars; every
fterson employing one one-horse cab, hack
or buggy or vehicle of any description, ten dol
lars: every person employing one two-horse cart
or wagon, dray or truck, eighteen dollars; every
oerson employing one two horse cab. hack,
buggy, omnibus, carriage, or vehicle of any
description, eighteen dollars; every person em
ploying one throe-horse dray or truck, twenty
five dollars; every lierson employing one four
horse dray or truck, thirty live dollars; every
person employing one four-horse omnibus, forty
dollars, and the tax to lit* paid by any person
employing more tlmuoue vehicle of the same or
ditleivnt kinds, shall lie according to the num
ber of vehicles employed, at the rates above
specified.
Every keeper of a sale and feed stable, eighty
dollars; but nothing herein contained shall
authorize the keeper of such sale and feed stable
to sell any live stock of any other person with
out find inlying the brokers* or dealers' tax, as
required under this ordinance; eveny keeper of
a public or livery stable, eighty dollars; every
keeper of a feed stable only, fifty dollars; and
in addition thereto, ns part of the same tax, ac
cording to the number and character of any
vehicles employed in such business, either by
letting for hire or iu the transportation of
goods, passengers, or baggage, at the rates
above specified for taxes to be paid by persons
engaged in the business of transporting, etc.,
for hire;
Every person employing or using one or more
vehicles of any sort to I** drawn by one or more
horses or mules iu connection with any business
in which he may lx* engaged, for the purpose of
delivering goods sold by him or her, or in any
othe manner, shall pay in addition to the spe
cific tax required of liim fov such business and
as part thereof* a f tax similar to that
hereinbefore required of jiersons engaged in the
business of transporting, etc., for hire, accord
ing to the number and character of such vehi
cles and at the sqmy, rate;
Every huckster, including dealers in ice
cream, fruit, small' paint shops, vendors of
small wuivg, an.l keepers of a cook stove or
cook shop, ten dollar- ;
Every street dealer in poultry, for which a
badge shall be issued, fifteen dollars;
Every drummer, runner, or other persons
soliciting trade or orders, or business for
another or for himself, whether resident of this
city or elsewhere, and having no fixed place of
business in this city, and every peddler and
itinerant transient trader, and every transient
person selling or offering to sell by sample, shall
pay the same tax reouiivd of resident and st a
tionary dealers in the same articles, and no
officer of the city shall be authorized to reduce,
or in anywise change such tax so required, nor
shall such itinerant dealer i>e allowed to sell his
wares under the license of any auctioneer, or
under the name of any factor or commission
merchant who has paid his tax as such, until
he himself shall have paid all taxes required of
him by this ordinance; provided, however, that
any transient person transacting or offering
to transact any of the kind or
business mentioned in this paragraph,
selling or offering only to resident dealers or
manufacturers in the specific article or com
modify sold or offered by him or her, ami not
bringing into or keeping iu the city any stock
for purpose of delivery shall not bo required to
pay any tax or license fee.
Sec. 6. Every person keeping and using one
or more vehicles of any sort to be drawn by one
or more horses or mules, for purposes of pleas
ure or convenience, shall pay a tax graduated
according to the number and character of such
vehicles, at the rates above prescribed for per
sons engaged in the business of transporting
goods, etc., for hire, but such vehicles shall not
be otherwise taxed.
Sec. 7. The occupant of any premises where
a dog or dogs is or are kept, shall pay for every
dog so kept an annual tax of one dollar. Upon
payment of this tax a badge shall be issued to
the person paying the tax for the dog; and
every dog found running at large without such
badge shall I** impounded, and if not claimed
within forty-eight hours shall be disposed of.
Sec. 8. The value of real property to be taxed
under the second section of this ordi
nance shall be ascertained by means of the
assessments provided for by the ordinances of
the city on that subject, or any ordinance
amendatory thereof; the value of personal
property to Ik? faxed under the third section of
this ordinance, the particulars and character of
the business for which a tax is required under
the fifth section of this ordinance, the number
of vehicles used or kept, under the sixth section
of this ordinance, and the number of dogs kepi
as provided for in the seventh section of t his
ordinance, shall be ascertained by means of the
returns hereinafter prescribed.
Sec. 9. Every person and corporation own
ing real property in said city on the first ’ y of
January, 18& shall pay taxes on such rea* prop
erty upon the assessment thereof as adopted by
Council. Every person and corporat ion owning
or holding in trust or on consignment |K*rsnnal
property in said city on t he first day of January,
18mm, liable to l>e taxed under the tnirdand fifth
sections of t his ordinance, except stocks in hanks
and banking associations organized under the
laws of this State or of the United States, shall
make a return thereof to the City Treasurer with
in twenty days after that date; and ni returns
of personal property sh ill be inspected as soon
as they are made by a person to he desig
nated by the Finance Committee of
Council, who shall carefully and critically
examine the same, and if he finds, or has
cause fc believe, that such return is not prop
erly made so as to show the amount of personal
property owned by the person or |*r-*>ris or cor
poration making t he return subject to taxation,
then he shall forthwith proceed to assess the
said jiersonal property of said person or cor
poration at its true value, as near as cau lie as
certaiued by him, and as soon as the same is
made he shall send a copy of the same to the
person or eorporation whose return is thus cor
rected; and the person or corporation whose
return is thus corrected shall have the right to
appeal from such corrected return to the < om
mittee on Assessments of the City Council
within ten days after the mailing of the notifi
cation of the correction of said return; and said
committee shall hear such ret urn as soon as may
be e<n vet iieut thereafter,notifying said up)lellant
of the time and place of hearing said npp*al;
and after hearing such appeal the said Commit
tee on Assessments shah lix the return of said
ftersoD or corporation at such sum as may, in
heir opinion, Ik* correct and just, ami shall im
mediately notify such party of the sum so fixed
by them; and the said person or corporation
may, within four days of the rendition of such
judgment, appeal therefrom to the Mayor and
Aldermen of the city of Savannah, where such
appeal shull be heard and determined as other
am>eal cases are heard and determined by the
Mavor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah;
and the judgment of the Mayor and Aldermen
of the city of Savannah shall he fiual and deter
mine the amount ujou which the the Citv Treas
urer shall collect the taxes prescribed by the
third and fifth sections of this ordinance; if
the return of )>ersonal i rotteriy, ns made by the
person or corporation, shall he accepted by the
person so designated by the Finance i ’.nnmittee
of Council, he shall indorse the same ns accept
ed and hand the same to the City Treasurer who
shall assess thereon the tixes to l>e paid by the
person or corporation making mch rei urn. But
in the event there is no appeil from the assess
ment so fixed by the person appointed t<> ex-<
amine and correct the same, or no apical from
the assessment fixed by the Committee oh As
sessments, then said assessment so fixed shall
lie the amount upon which the city Treasurer
shall assess the taxes to Ik* paid by the person
or corporation making such return. Tie* Presi
dent, or acting President, of every such bank or
bsnkingassociation, locate-d in said city shall,
wittiin twenty days a/ter the first day of
January. ICMM, make a return to the city Treas
urer of all stockholders in such bank or banking
association holding stock therein on the first
day of January, IMHM, whether resident or non
resident, with the place and residence of and
the number of shares held by each. * and show
ing the market value of such shares. Every
person liable to taxation under the fifth and
sixth sections of this ordinance shall make a re
turn of the business in which he is engaged, and
of the number and character of vehicles by
which his tax is to be graduated, to the City
Treasurer, within twenty days after the first
day of January, I*BB, and ftvery person com
mencing to carry on any of the said kinds of
business, or increasing the number of his ve
hicles, or commencing to keep and use vehicles,
ufter the first day of January, IMBB,
shall make a return thereof within ten days
after so commencing or increasing. Every per
son having a dog or dogs on t lie first day of
January, 18884 shall make a return thereof 10
the City Treasurer within twenty days after
that date, and every person bringing a doz or
dogs into the city after that date, to be kept
here, sliall make a similar return within ten
days after so bringing in such (log or dogs. And
ail such returns of persons or corporations shall
be inspected by a person designated tar the
Finance Committee as soon as ft is practicable
so to do, and if he finds, or has cause to believe
t hat such return is not properly made, then he
shall forthwith proceed to correct such return,
and after he shall have corrected the same, he
shall, at as early a day as possible, notify the
person or corporation of such corrected return,
from which correction the person or corporation
whose return is corrected may appeal, as pro
vided in the case of. appeals from assessments
of personal proijerty. and the same proceedings
may be had under Slid appeal; but if no correc
tion is deemed necessary by the person so ex
amining such returns, he shall indorse the same
as correct, and baud the same to the City Treas
urer, who shall determine therefrom the taxes
to lie mid bv such irtv.on or corporation under
too afe and sixtu nectioaa oi this ordinance.
Sec. 10. All such returns may be mnde either
in person or by agent or attorney, and shall set
foil lithe market value of all pro|>eity liable to
l>e taxed ad valorem, except real property, but
shall be on oath or affirmation that the return
is true, and that the jierson for whom the re
turn is made is not liable to any other tax, and
bos no other property iu said city liable to
taxation under this ordinance; and it shall he
the duty of the Treasurer or liis assistant to re
quire such oatii or affirmation in every instance
without exception the Treasurer or his assist
ant being hereby authorized, for the purpose of
this ordinance, to administer such oath or
affirmation. But the return above require lof
the President or acting President of a bank or
banking association, shall be made by such
President or acting President himself, and need
not state more than is required in the ninth sec
tion of this ordinance. And if any person, re
quired to make any such return, shall refuse or
neglect to do so within the time
specified for the same, ho or she shall,
onr onviction thereof in the Police
court, be fined in a sum not exceeding one hun
dred dollars, or imprisoned not more than, thir
ty days, or both, in the discretion cf the court.
And it shall further be the duty of the person
designated by the Finance Committee of Coun
cil to correct returns of personal property, etc.,
in t he event of any such refusal or neglect to
proceed forthwith to make the return himself,
from the best information he can obtain, within
ton days, or as soon as practicable after such
return was duo from the person from whom it
was required, and to notify such defaulter there
of in writing, within ten days after making
such ret urn, and he shall hand such return so
made by him to the City Treasurer, who shall
assess a double tax against such defaulter ac
cording to the nature of the tax, whether spe
cific or ad valorem. Any person or
corporation double taxed under
this ordinance may appeal to Council
for a reduction of such double tax, provided
the same is done within thirty days after the
said double tax is assessed; and in the event of
a neglect or refusal of a president or acting
president of a bank or linking association to
make the return required of him within the
time specified, or to afford to the City Treasurer
free access to the list of stockholder kept, in
the office or place of business of said bank or
Umking association, it shall be (ho
duty of the Treasurer to obtain from the
Governor of the State of Georgia, in the case of
banks organized under the laws of this State, or
from the Comptroller of the Currency of the
United States, in cases of banks organized un
der the laws of the United States, the last pre
ceding list of the stockholders of such bank,
and assess therefrom the taxes to he paid by
the stockholders thereof for their shares.
Sec. 11. All taxes hereby required for real and
personal property held on the first day of
January, 1888, and for business in which any
person shml be engaged at that date, and of
persons having vehicles, ami dogs in said city at
that date, shall he considered as due on the
first day of January, 1888, and all taxes required
of persons commencing to transact anv busi
ness, for which a tax is required, after the first
day of January, 1888, or commencing after that
date to use vehicles not then iu use, or bringing
any dog or dogs into said city, shall he due im
mediately upon the commencing of such busi
ness, using such vehicles, or bringing
such dog into the city. And all taxes, of
every kind, shall Ik? payable to the City
Treasurer; provided, nevertheless, that any tax
upon property assessed for the whole year may
l>o paid quarterly, at the option of the tax
fiayer, computing from the first of January,
1888, but in the ’event that any quarter’s tax is
not paid when the same is payable, then the
Treasurer shall issue an execution for the
amount of the tax for the year remaining un
paid, as is hereinafter provided. But any person
or firm commencing business in this city after
July l, 1888, or running after that date vehicles
for the transportation of goods, wares or mer
chandise, oi keeping or using for pleasure or
convenience any vehicle or vehicles, which wen?
not run before that date, upon malting prompt
return of the same within ten days after such
business bos commenced, or such vehicles have
been ran, he or they ahull be taxed one-half of
the yearly tax assessed by this ordinance, pro
vided such tax is? paid within fifteen days after
such return, otherwise the entire tux shall Is?
collected.
Sec. IS. If any person or corporation shall re
fuse or neglect to pay any tax required by this
ordinance, within thirty days after the same
shall be due and payable as above provided, or
shall neglect or refuse to pay any double tax
assessed as above provide! for, twenty days
after notice has l>een served on such person or
corporat ion of such assessment, the City Treas
urer shall issue execution therefor, ana for the
further sum of one dollar for costs; and the City
Marshal shall proceed with such executions in
the same manner as a Sheriff does under execu
tions from the Superior Courts of this
State, subject to the provisions of the
act of the General Assembly of the
State of Georgia, passed February 27, 1887.
Every person or corporation who snail pay his
or its taxes on real or personal property, or
both, promptly within fifteen days after the
first of April, duly, October and January, the
tine* herein specified for the payment thereof,
shall 1)0 entitled to a deduction of ten per centum
of the amount thereof, and the City Treasurer
is hereby directed to make such deduction upon
the receipt of the tax; and every person or cor
poration who shall pay any other taxes required
by this ordinance promptly within thirty days
after the same shall become due shall be enti
tled to a deduction of ten per centum of the
amount thereof, und the City Treasurer is hereby
directed to make such deduction upon the re
ceipt of the tax.
Sec. 18. Every person transacting or offer.
ing to transact either of the kinds of business
hereinafter named; who are in business on the
first day of January. 1888. shall, within thirty
days alter the first day of January, IMMB, take
out a license therefor, viz: every auctioneer;
cvesy broker; every commission merchant;
every plumber; every barber, and all others do
ing business without any sto**k In trade; every
owner or lessee of a junk shop cr cotton pick
ery; every junk dealer; every vendor of small
wares, huckster, hawker. Including dealers in
ice cream, fruit and poultry, keeper of a cook
stove or cook shop; and it is hereby declared to
!** the meaning of this ordinance that the
license granted to an auctioneer shall not au
thorize such auctioneer to sell for auy transient
dealer, unless such transient dealer has first
paid all taxes required of him by this oniinance
i.very licensed auctioneer shall have the
privilege of appointing one assistant crier, whose
name shall be recorde 1 in the Treasurer's office
and entered on the license issued. And no per
son shall he permitted to be an auctioneer or
vendue master until he shall have complied
with the conditions contained in section 1485 of
the Revised Code of Georgia, known as the
Code of 1 MM2 And in every license taken out
by the owner or lessee of a junk shopor cotton
pickery, or by a junk dealer, it shall l*e dis
tinctly expressed that such junk shop, or cot
ton pickery, or junk dealer, shall always Iks
stbiect to the visitation of the police of the city,
ami that such persons shall not purchase from
any one under the age of sixteen years, a dupli
cate. of which license, signed by the person or
persons taking out the same, and expressing
his or their assent to such conditions/shall be
retained by the City Treasurer, and on refusal to
submit at any time to such visitation, or on
conviction in the Police Court of having pur
chased from any one under the age of sixteen
years, such license sha ll he revoked, and such
junk shot> or cotton pickery shall immediately
be closed by the Mayor. And every such junk
shop, junk dealer or cotton picker# license shall
Ik* subject to the further condition that the
same shall be subject to revocation by the
Mayor, if, on examination l>efore him in the
Police Court, he shall lie satisfied and shall so
pronounce that any city, corporation or pri
vate property is found In any such funk shop,
or in the possession of any junk dealer- and
such condition shall be expressed in the license
of. every such bulk shop or dealer.
Evrery person required by the provisions of this
section and by the ordinance passed in Council
March 14, ifß, in reference to taking out
licenses, who shall commence to transact or
offer to transact in this city any of the kinds of
business mentioned in this section, after the first
dav of January, 188 M, shall take out license l>e*
fore commencing business, as provided in said
ordinance passed March 14, IMRB, which said or
dinance is of force.
The license herein provided for shall be issued
by the City Treasurer. And if any person trans
acting, or offering to transact, in said city, either
of the kinds of businsri in this section specified,
shall be found without such license displayed in
a conspicuous manner in his, her or their place
of business, he or she shall, on conviction there
of in the Police Court, Ik? fined in a sum not ex
ceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not
more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion
of the court.
Sec. 14. On and after the first day of January,
1888, the price of a license to sell malt, vinous
or spirituous liquors at retail within the corpo
rate usd jurisdictional limits of said city for
one year, shall be two hundred dollars net.
without discount; but a license to sell at retail
may tie issued upon paying one-fourth of the
gum due for yearly license and upon giving
notes with Indorsements or sureties satisfactory
to the Mayor, to secure the payment of the
other three-fourths of said sum in three equal
J Payments on the twelfth of March, twelfth of
'une and twelfth of September, IHB7, the said
payments to be mode whether person giving
notes or surety shall go out of business or not;
and the applicant shall l>e required to subiiyt us
securities two responsible freeholders or this
city as a prerequisite to the issue of said license;
(no officer, clerk or employe of the city
shall be taken us security on such bonds, and it
shall be the duty of the Mayor to pass upon
such bonds before any license is issued hereun
der). and no license for the sale of malt, Vinous
or spirituous liquors, shall cover any other busi
ness whatever than the sale of malt, vinous or
spirituous liquors, and shall apply to but one
place for the sale of said liquors. Whether under
one roof or otherwise, under a penalty of not
inoiK thuu one hundred, dollar*. And no har
room shall be licensed which has not an entrance
to it separate and distinct from the entrance tfl
tin* dwelling; and the license shall be forfeited
for a second violation of any State law or city
ordinance; and in the case of forfeiture, the
license shall not be renewed for the space of two
years, excel t by the permission of Council.
And it shall be the duty of the Clerk of Coun
cil to publish quarterly an alphabetical list of
all persons licensed to sell liquors as aforesaid.
All such licenses shall be taken out by persona
already engaged in business within thirty days
after the first day of January, 1888, and in the
case of persons wishing to commence business
later in the year, before commencing business;
and any dealer in liquors as aforesaid, failing or
refusing to take out a license to sell liquors as
aforesaid, shall be liable to a i>enalty of not
more than one hundred dollars for every day
any such person may sell without a license, or
bo imprisoned for thirty days, or both.
Every drummer, runner or other person,
whether resident of this city or elsewhere,
and having no fixed place of busi
ness in this city, dealing in malt, vinous or
spirituous liquors, transacting or offering to
transact such business, shall pay the same tax
required of resident and stationary dealers in
malt, vinous orspiritoim liquors.
81 ec. 15. Every person transacting or offering
to transact the business of trans]>orting or car*
rying goods, yte., passengers or baggage for
hire, by means of wagons, drays, trucks or
other vehicles; and every keeper of a public or
livery stable employing such vehicles in his busi
ness, and every other person keeping and using
vehicles iu other kinds of business, shall, upon
paying the tax hereinbefore prescribed, take
out a badge, which will l>e furnished by the City
Treasurer for each vehicle to be employed in
such business (the number of vehicles to be
employed to lie stated on oath), which shall be
placed in a conspicuous place ou such vehicle—
except vehicles kept by keepers of public or
livery stables, to Ik? let for hire, and vehicles
used for pleasure or convenience—and any per
son using or employing any vehicle on such busi
ness, without such a badge affixed, except os
aforesaid, shall, on conviction thereof in the
Police Court, be fined in a sum not exceeding
one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more
than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of
the Court.
Sec. lrt. The ordinance of November 18,
184JJ, requiring badges to be taken out for dogs,
and prescribing other regulations for dogs, so
far as the provisions of the same are not incon
sistent with this ordinance, is hereby reor
dained ami declared to be in full force.
That the City Treasurer be and he is hereby
directed to report to Council at the first meeting
in every quarter, the amount of money ex
pended by each committee up to date of
report, and os soon as any committee making
any disbursements shAll have reached the limit
provided in the budget, the Treasurer shall at
once notify the chairman of such committee.
Sec. 17. it. shall bo lawful for the Mayor of
said city, with the concurrence of the Finance
Committee, to appoint, within thirty days after
the first day of January, 1888, a competent per
son, whose duty it shall be to renort to the City
Treasurer, from time to time, all persons in said
city required to make any return or take out
any license required by this ordinance, who
shall ueglect, or omit to do so, and
ail property subject to taxation, but
not returned, and to assist the said
Treasurer in making returns for and assessing
taxes against such defaulters, as provided in
the foregoing sections of this ordinance, and to
{lerform such other duties iu connection with
tiie assessment and collection of taxes as may
be required of him by the said Mayor and
Finance Committee. And such person shall
continue in the performance of his duties only
so long as his services shall Ik* considered neces
sary by the said Mayor and Finance Committee,
and slm 11 receive such compensation as they
shall specify.
Sec. 18. This ordinance shall be subject to
alteration and repeal, in whole or in part,at any
time during the year 1888, should it be deemed
advisable; and no such amendment or repeal in
any jarticular shall he construed to impair the
right of Council to assess arid levy a tax for the
whole of Bald year 1888, whenever made.
Bee. 10. All ordinances and parts of ordi
nances conflicting with the provisions of this
ordinance art? hereby repealed; provided n*>ver
theless, that so much and such parts of oi di
dinances heretofore passed as provide for the
issuing and enforcement of executions for any
tax or assessment or part of a tax or assess
ment required by any such ordinance and now
remaining unpaid, shall continue and remain of
force so as to authorize the Treasurer to issue
such executions, and the Marshal to collect the
same, until such taxes or assessment shall bo
fully paid.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Alderman Wells—
Revolved , That the land known as the McLeod
mill site leased to Frank A. Exley in accordance
with the report of the Committee on Water,
adopted at meeting of Council Jan. 2, 1884, be
again looseri to Mr. Exley for three years from
Jan. J, 1888, at the same rental per annum as
charged for 1887, and upon the condition that if
the city Hhould at any time desire {H>sseMsion of
said land or any portion thereof that the lessee
will surrender possession of the same to the city
of Savannah upon six months' notice from the
Mayor or acting Mayor of said city.
Adopted.
By Alderman Duncan—
Revolved , That the Committee on Health and
Cemetery Is* and they are hereby authorized to
sell two mules worn out in the O. E. M. Depart
ment and to purohaee two instead.
Adopted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bids for paving certain streets were read—on
motion the same were ref erred to Council as
committee of the whole.
Council adjourned subject to the call of the
Mayor.
FRANK E. REBAKER,
Clerk of Council.
AKIM!AI/r PAVEMENT.
Warrcn-Scharf Asphalt Paving Ca,
114 JOHN 6TREET, NEW YORK.
CONSTRUCT
Genuine Trinidad Asphalt
PAVEMENTS.
This Pavement has been thor
oughly tested in actual ser
vice and is found to possess
the following points of su
periority:
Ist. Cheaper than stone blocks equally well
laid.
ad. Durability; the company guarantees it
for a period of years.
3d. Almost noiseless under traffic.
4t.h. The cleanest pavement made.
sth. A perfect sanitary pavement. Being Ira.
pervious to water and tilth, it cannot exhale in
fectious gases.
6th. Easily and perfectly repaired when opened
to lay pipes, etc.
7th. Haves wear and tear of heroes and
vehicles.
Btli. Being smoother, less power is required to
haul over it than any other pavement.
9th. It reliances the value of abutting prop
erty more than any other pavement.
)oth. It is therefore, all things considered, the
b*st and most economical pavement that can bo
laid on any street, whether ttte traffic is light or
heavy.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
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LINK CENTRAL RAILROAD,
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b WhiUker Street. Savannah, 6oor£.A
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