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THE ALBANY DAILY HERALD: THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1900.
ANNUAL LICENSE ORDINANCE.
Continued from Page 8ix.)
25.00
10.00
10.00
5.00
30.00
r. oo
6.00
10.00
offer to sell brick In tbs
. city ••
Baseball game, discretion of
f the Mayor.
C.
Cabinet shops, making and
repairing Turnltjuire 5.00
Candy stands, alone 6.00
Candy and fruit stands. 10.00
Carriage manufacturer, alone
or In connection with repair
- shop
. Carriage!manufacturing .....
Carriage repair shop
Each person or Arm dealing
in Carriages, wagons and
buggies, except those man
ufactured at tame
Cigar manufacturer
Circuses—
Each circus or variety show
performing under canvas or
" -parading the streets of the
city’,-, and each side show,
Bhall pay-a license at dis
cretion of the Mayor and
Council.
„ Civil engineer or surveyor...
Clothing merchant, retail....
Clothing merchant, second
hand
Confectioner, or retail dealer
in fruit and candy
Coal dealer, alone or in con
nection with any other busi
ness, doing business in the
city, whether h<s yard or
jilnee df, business be locat-
, ed .within the corporate 11m-
v. lfo or.not
This shall also apply to per
sons delivering coal for par
ties who bare not paid
said license.
Coal or lime, selling from car
, to other than registered
dealers, each* car..........
Commission Merchants—
Fruit and produce dealers, ex
clusive 10-00
Each commission merchant..
Contractor, general or builder
Taking contracts for less than
6250
Cotton compress 100.00
Cotton buyers, each firm or
person 25.00
Cold storage or refrigerator.
Chiropodist
50.00
10 00
25.00
10.00
25.00
25.00
5.00
25.00
2.60
Coffins, dealers in 25.00
6.00
20.00
\
26.00
10.00
10.00
. 10.00
10100
25.00
25.00
15.00
25.0Q
25.00
10.00
10.00
5.00
5.00
25.00
60.00
25.00
/,
20.00
6.00
25.00
Dancing master or mistress,
at the discretion of Mayor.
Delivery Wagons—
Each person selling from free
delivery wagons or other
wise, on the streets shall
pay. (butchers having regu
lar licenses excepted) ..... 25.00
Country produce sold by
producer excepted. '
Each free delivery wagon, or
any other vehicle hauling
goods or merchandise with
out pay
Dray-
Each two-horse dray
and shall he allowed to
charge 50 cents for each full
load, and 10 cents per bale
for cotton.
Bach one-horse dray 10.00
and shall be allowed to
charge 26 cents for each
full load, and 10 cents per
bale for cotton.
This tax shall apply to all
those vehicles commonly
known as drays, and to
any other vehicles hauling
for pay, and no "elude sub
ject to this tax shall be al
lowed to run without a num
bered tag to be furnished by
the Clerk of the Council,
which tag shall be attached
to the dray or vehicle in
some conspicuous place.
Drugs, wholesale and retail..
Drugs, retail 10.00
Drumming—
Each person drumming or
soliciting trade, except in
front of his regular place of
business; and then only to
the middle of the street in
front of the same; shall he
considered a street drum
mer, and shall pay a tax of
Dry Goods, wholesale
E.
Eating house, alone or in
connection with any other
10.00
6.00
B-,00
25.00
200.00
25.00
10.00
Express company 100.00
Upon the business and oc-
. cupation of 1 receiving in
,Y this city money, goods, mer-
. chandise or other thing of
value and of transmitting
same for hire from this city
to points wholly within the
state of Georgia, and upon
the business and occupation
of receiving in this city
; . money, goods, merchandise
or other thing .of value
transmitted for hire from
points wholly within the
state of Georgia and deliver
ing sairfe to consignees.
: Engines or boilers or ma-
or cotton gins or
cotton compress, agents or
dealers, all or any
Electrical machinery or sup
plies, dealer In or agent ior
F.
Factory, sash and blind
Feather renovator
Fortune tefler
Fertilisers, dealers In, or man
ufacturers of, doing business
In the city, or agent.for, do
ing business In the city;
warehouse men, mercantile
companies or Individuals
selling fertilizers for profit..
Fish Dealers—
Dealers In fresh fish, selling
the same by wholesale or
retail the sum of..:
Selling by retail only
All dealers selling fish by
the package or barrel shall
be considered * wholesale
dealers. This does not ap
ply to local fishermen or
fish caught by ,them.
Flying jenny, per day
Machine or apparatus to be
located at such olace in the
city as the Mayor may ap- ■.
prove, and license subject
to revocation at any time
In the discretion of Mayor.
Foundry and machine shop...
Furniture dealer
Fireworks, wholesale dealer in
Fireworks, retail dealer
Fruit stands, alore...........
Fruit street peddler, wholesale
Fruit street peddler, retail..
G. '
General stove, whe'esale and
retail
General store 10.00
General, stpre, retail, with not
more than six Salesmen, In
cluding employer .. .*. ’ 15.00
General store, retail, with
more than six salesmen, In
cluding'employer
This not to Include book
keepers or porters when
employed only as such:
Goods, all persons or corpora
tions selling from'cars or
otherwise, shall pay as
other merchantsf. license fix
ed in .discretion of Mayor, "
Guarantee companies
Gin, public, for each gin op- 1
erated
Groceries, wholesale
Groceries, family or farm sup
plies at retail...
Gunsmith
Green groceries, retail :
H. *
Hacks—
Each one or two-korse hack
conveying passengers for
pay (these licenses are non-
tvansterahle)
And no driver of a hack
shnll be less than 21 years
old.
Each four-horse vehicle con
veying passengers 'or pay
25 cents each for passem
gere. or $1 per fyiur.
Each vehicle conveying pas
sengers shall ' be required
to have a numbered tag,
as provided for drays. No
license to be' Issued until
hack has been Inspected.
Hardware, retail
Hardware, wholesale
Harness repair shop, alone,
each bench or horse
Hotels and boarding houses
taking transients, charging
$2 and upward per day....
House movers V 10.00
Huckster "or other stand, $2
per day; and no stand shall
be permitted on the street
within fire limits without
permission of Mayor.
I.
Ice—
Each person, firm or corpor
ation selling Ice In the city
from delivery wagons, for
for each wagon ...v. 25.00
Ice cream saloon, alone or in
connection with any other
business
Ice cream, or ice cream
cakes, dealers 'n, selling
from wagon, hand cart or
box
Itinerants, vendors of proprl-
ettary or patent articles,
books, maps, pictures, toys,
candy or any article what
ever on the streets, or from
house to house, or located,
at discretion of Mayor and
Council.
Provided, no license shall
be issued for “krlfeboarfis,”
“cane racks" or similar
games of chance
J.
Jewelry store
Jewelry and watchers, repair
ers of .
Junk shop
And all perso-s opening
junk shops and taking li
cense for the same, as pre
scribed in this ordinance,
shall accept same on condi
tion that their places 'of
from the police of the city
at any time when the Mayor
and Chle’ of Police shall
otder such places ' visited
and inspected; and on refus
al of each person or persons
at any. time to submit to
such visitation and' Inspec
tion, or who shall deter, or
In any way prevent a thor
ough inspection of said
place of business, shall
have -his place of business
Immediately closed on the
order of the Mayor or Chief
of Police; and in case any
machinery or any part
thereo", or any appliance or
Implements of any railroad
shop or gas company, or of
the waterworks company, or
"electrlct light company, or
fire department, or sample
waste or loose cotton,
grates or any part thereof,
gas or waterworks fixtures,
shall he found In such
places of business without a
sufficient, explana’ion of the
same; It shall subject the
owner or owners of said
junk shop, on conviction
thereof be'ore the Mayor,
to pay affine not to exceed
$100, or Imprisonment not to
exceed sixty days, either or
both In the discretion of the
Mayor. And for 'the second
offense, the Mayor shall
have tile power, in his dis
cretion, not only to Impose
the fine above provided, but
to revoke the license.
L.
Labor agent
Laundry, or agent for
Lightning rod agent or dealer
doing business in the city,
each agent or dealer
Liquor, wholesale
And under such license no
dealer shall be permitted to
sell less than one full quart,
and on election day not less
than four and one-half gal
lons. And on conviction for'
selling in less quantity
without a license- therefor,
250.00
15.00
15.00
100.00
10.00 the dealer Rhall be' subject
10 00
15.00
>t I
10.00
■5.00
2.50
50.00
5.00
6.00
10.00
6.00
25.00
business shall *•: subjest
to a. fine not to exceed $100,
or Imprisonment not to ex
ceed sixty days, either or
both, in the discretion of
the Mayor
Liquor!, not less than one
full quart, nor more than
four and one-half stand
ard gallons
Liquor, malt only, wholesale..
Liquor, malt only, retail
Liquor, retail 1
And under a re'all license
no dealer shall be permitted
to sell In quantities greater
than -four and one-half
standard gallons. Provided,
however, that tvly dealer
who sells and delivers or
who sells and ships tr one
person at one time more
than four and. one-half
standard gallons’ whether
same be consigned or ulti
mately Intended 'or one or
more persons, ar(l whether
same he In one or more
packages, shall he held and
deemed to be a wholesale
dealer ar.d shall pay that
license.
Liquor dealers arg required to
post their licenses In a con
spicuous place within their
places of business, under a
penalty of $25 fine.
All application for license to
be accompanied by money.
Lumber and shingles, dealers
In. alone or in connection
with any other business,
whether the yard or ^place
of business be within the
corporate limits or not....
Lumber and shingles, all per
sons (other than registered
dealers) selling rough lum
ber and shingles, In less
than carload lot? to other
than registered dealers, per
car of lumber $10, or per
car of shingles
Lumber and shingles, all per
sons (other than 1 registered
dealers) selling rough lum
ber, or shingles. In less
than carload lots per 1,000
feet of lumber, $1, or per
1,000 shingles, 60 cents.
Lumber, all persons (other
than registered • dealers)
selling dressed lumber in
carload lots to other than
registered dealers, per car
Or, in less than carload
lots, per 1,000 feet
M.
Machinery—
Each and every Itinerant
agent or dealer In machin
ery shall pay a license or..
Machine shop, for repairing
• only .......................
Machinery and farny Imple
ments, 1 dealers hi) provided
that this shall not apply to
50.00
100.00
25.00
200.00
lO.Op
10.00
10.01)
2.50
25.09
6.00
•(.S'.
Manufacturers of soda water
t and other drinks not herein
otherwise taxed
Merchant tailor
Merchants, small dealers not
herein otherwise provided
tor ...
Milliners
Mills-
Each person, firm' or corpor
ation operating a corn or
floyr mill within the city,
shall pay, upon each mill
so operated, a business tax
of
Milk Dealers—
Selling and delivering from
wagons
Money lenders taking bill of
sale or other evidences of
lien on chattels or articles
o_“ value
N.
Newspapers, dally and weekly
Newspapers, weekly
Newspapers, dally
O.
Each cottonseed o» mill
Oil, wholesale Sealer
Oculist, or optician
Organ grinders, or street mu
sicians, at the oution of the
Mayor.
P.
Painters taking contract.
Paperlmngers taking contract
Patent rights, tr patented ar
ticles ...
Pawn Brokers
Peddler of groitndpeas, ped
dling them around the
streets (country produce ex
cepted)
Same, when using machine..
Each foot peddler or vendor
of merchandise
Pistols and bowle knives, deal
ers In (special)
Piano tuner and repairer....
Pianos or organs, dealers In
or agents for, alone or In
connection with any other
business
Pressing Club—
Individuals or clubs press
ing clot.heH ;
Photographer or portrait
painter
Planing mill
Plumber and gas fitter
Printing, job
Opera House
R.
Railroad ticket scalper or
broker .;
Railroads—
Each company or Individual
operating a street railway
in the city, hauling freight
or passengers
Real estate or personal prop
erty, agents negotiating
loans on, when rate of In
terest does not exceed the
legal rate 1.:..
Real estate or person nl prop
erty agents negotiating
loans on. If exceeding le
gal rates
Roo'ers: asnhalt, gravel or
other malarial
Restaurant ’
A.
Scissors and knife grinders,
$1 per month, no license to
be issued for less than.. —
Sewing machine, dealer or
agent
Shooting gallery
Skating rink or dapclng hall..
Soda fount, alone or In con
nection with any other bus
iness
Stables—
Each llverv stable
And he allowed to nln one
hack free of license.
Each Uvery stable keeper,
firm or corporation engag
ed In the business of selling,
feeding or keeping horses or
mules, carriages, buggies
and vehicles Tor hire, not
to Include drays or wagons
to haul in competition with
licensed drays or wagons..
Each keeper o' a livery sta
ble who does a hack busi
ness In addition to his sta-
hle business shall take out
a license for eqph hack run
bv him, the same as reg
ular hackmen.
Sale and Feed-
Each feed or sale stable or
lot keeper without livery...
Each and every person, firm
or corporation dealing Ip
horses or mules, and each
and every person, known as
drovers or traders, selling
or offering for.sale stock In
the city, shall pay
Each proprietor of a sale lot
or livery stable shall be
held responsible for this* li
cense on 50 stock sold from
his premises. '
T.
Tailor shop
Telegraph Company
• Upon 4 each telegraph com
pany having ar office and
Mace of business within the
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10.00
10.00
6.00
10.09
.10.00
15.00
50.00
26.00
10,00
15.00
100.00
100.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
lO.'OO
60.00
5.00
10.00
50.00
10.00
5.00
10.00
5.00
10.00
10.00
15.00
10.00
25.00
10.00
25.00
26.00
00
5.09
' 25.00
1.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
25.00
35.00
25.00
npon the business and occu
pation of receiving messages
In the city from persons In
the city and transmitting
the same by telegraph from
this city, within the state to.
persons and places within
this stnte, and receiving In
this city messages by tele
graph transmitted within,
tho state from persons and
placos In this state to per
sons within the city and
delivering same *0 persons
In this city, provided that
the receipt, transmission
and delivery of all mes
sages to and from any de
partment, 1 agency or agent
of the United States Is not
taxed hereby. It being the
true Intent, meaning and
purpose of thly ordinance
to levy a specific or occu
pation t?r noon the busi
ness 0* telegraph companies
ns conducted in the olty of
Albany between said olty
and points within the state
of Georgia, and nothing
herein contained shall bo
construed as levying any tax
upon business done for the
government of tho United
States, Its officers or agents,
or upon business done In
the city of Albany between
said city and points outBlde
the state of Georgia, but
said government business
and said Interstate business
stall he and remain un-
taxdd nnd unaffeoted hereby.
Telephone companies 150.00
Thd license Issued to tele
graph or telephone compa
nies Is subject to this pro
vision: That such company
Bhall remove or alter the
position of any telegraph
or telephone polo, or wire,
when required to do so by
the street and sewer com
mittee of this. Council or
by the Council. And in case
of refusal so to do, the su
perintendent or manager
of such company shall, on
conviction thereof, be pun
ished by a fine ot not more
than $100, or Imprison
ment not exceeding sixty
days, either or both, In the
discretion of the Mayor.
Ten-pin alley, kept for plibllc
play
Theatricals—
Negro minstrels, transient
theatricals, jugglers and
other, like exhibitions, shall
pay a license tax to be
fixed at the discretion of
the Mayor, pro-tded, that
should any or either of said
shows offer to sell any
goods, wares or merchan
dise, or goods of any kind,
then the ordinance refer
ring to transient trader^,
No. 122, page 70 of the or
dinances, shall apply; and
provided, also, that when a
charitable or other deserv
ing object Is presented, the
Mayor shall have the right
to fix the amount of said
license, as to him may
seem best.
Tin shops, not registered as
merchants
Tohacco and clggrs, alone,
retail
Tobacco and cigars, manu
facturer of
.Typewriter, dealer in or
agent for
Trading 8tamps—
Any person or firm giving
trading stamps In connec
tion with any sale shall
be taxed 209.00
U.
Undertaker and dealer In
coffins 60.00
V.
Variety Works 10.00
, W,
Wood yard or wood dealer,
alone or In conneqtion with
any other business, doing
business In the’clty, wheth
er his yard or place for
preparaing his wood Is lo
cated In tho corporate lim
its or not 6.00
Warehouse, cotton 35.00
thereof the officer or agent for suck .
person, firm or corporation or
ufacturlng compnny, shall be bob- , ;
Ject to the same penalty as other
persons who fall 'to register, and take’ 1 i;,;
out license.
Section 4. The Mayor and'Council
shall Impose such (axes from time tv
time as they may doom Just and
equitable upon all local and Itinerant
traders or agents, nr other persons
not specllly mentioned In this ordf-
nonce. This ordinance shall be sub-, ij
jeot to alteration and repeal, In ‘whole
or In part at any time, and no such-, £L
amendment or rereael In any parti- ’ n
cular shall be construed to deny th?
right of the Council to assess anfr
collect any of the tax or lfoens(£ffl|i
charge prescribed.
Section 6. Transient traders Itr $||J
goods, wares and merchandise, ot any .
description whatever, also agents dr" ,
canvassers for the sale of any article
A?!
10.00
whatever, Itinerant physicians, or sell- ,
era of proprietary'articles or,nostrum); ■
before exposing or offering the same
for sale shall first register and pay
such special tax ns Is fixed In these > "
ordinances, or that may be herenttev, I '
or at that time ifrescrlbed by the
Mayor and Council; and in default
of such registry and payment shall.b'
punished by a fine not to exceed on tv
hundred dollars or Imprisonment or A
work on (he streets not to exceed six- 1 *
ty days, either or all, at the discrc-
tlon of the Mayor,
Seclon 0. So much and such parts
of ordinances as heretofore passed as
pvovlded for the issuing and enforce
ment of any execution for any tax dr
assessment required by Bnch ordi
nance, or that impose* fines or penal*
tics for the noh-payment of such tax,
or for the failure to register or take
out license provided for In said ord
nance or ordinances, shall continue
and remain In force until such tax or
assessment shall he fully paid.
1 Section 7. It Is herebyjnade the es
pecial duty of the police' department f
to sec that the provisions of this or
dinance relating to street tax, and
special or business licenses Is oh
served; and to summon all violators
of the same to appear 1 before tho
Mayors’ Court. And the Mayor Is
hereby given authority to punish any
and nil violators ot the same by
fine not to exceed one hundred ; dol
lars; or lmprlBpnment or work on
the streets not to exceed sixty days,
dither or all, In his discretion,
Section*S. This ordinance shall re
main In fordo and effect until tin
tax ordinance toy ihe year 1907 sh
have been adopted: Provided, ho
ever, that In any case where a license
tax, as fixed under this ordinance,
may have been paid for the year
1995, before adoption of the tax or
dinance for that year,-that the same
shall be subject to the right of thd
Council to raise or lower the sanfo
as may he dctermlBfed upon in lIk-
general tax ordinance' for the year
1900."
Section 9.‘ Bo It ordained! by the
II ordln-
).
authority aforesaid, that all
ances, or partd of ortilpancea, In con
flict with' this ordinance be,' and the
same are hereby: repealed.'
Adopted In Council JSnuary 1, 1900,
C ,W, RAWSON,
X- C. RUST, Mayor.
Ofork Council. 1 1
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5.00
6.00
5.00
5.00
1
: Nice Bound Books at
15c each, worth more
than, double the price.
Such authors as Kipling,
Eliot, Schriener, Haw
thorne, Shakespeare and
many others.
Boys' nicely bound books
only 15c, by Henty. EUls,Meade,
Alger and others.
1 000 new stock paper bound
Novels worth’ 28c for 10c each.
Have you seen the new Sou
venir Post Cards of Albany,
View of Broad Street, Elks
Home, Opera House, New Alba
ny Hotel and Monument, Court
House.
-LONSBERG’S
BOOK AND MDSJC BOOSE,
j ip.
25.00
5.00
100.00
Section 2. That the above license
shall be Issued'for the year only, and
not for any fractional part of the
-car, except where otherwise stated
in this ordinance, and shall not he
transferable.
Section 3. All persons, firms, cor
porations or manufacturing companies,
having either their business proper or
their general or. branch offices or
agencies located within the corporate
limits of the olty, or who are repre
sented In said city by officers or,
agents soliciting or transacting busi
ness for them within the corporate
limits of the city, shall be required
to register and take out the neeessa-
I business pi
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