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adopted
•jty Council Adopt License
and Tax Ordinances
)f the City of Jackson for the
year 1908* New Hog Law
Adopted for the
Present Year
The following License and Tax
Ordinances have been adopted
the mayor and council of the
city of Jackson for the year 1908:
Section 1. Be it ordained by
the mayor and council of the city
of Jackson, and is hereby ordain
ed by authority of the same, that
the following special tax be levied
for the use of said city for the
year 1908. ,
g ec< 2. Every person, firm,
company or corporation that may
exercise within said city a trade
business or occupation of any
land shall register in a book to be
for that purpose by the
d\rk of said city their name and
trade, business or occupation, and
their place of business in said
city not later than February 20,
1908, and pay the tax required by
these ordinances.
Sec. 3. That any person, firm,
company or corporation doing a
business or exercising a trade cr
following a profession of any
kind as above mentioned, and
have no regular place of business,
shall be subject to the rules, or
dinances and regulations as other
persons carrying on like trade,
business or calling in said city.
Sec. 4. Each dealer in gen
eral merchandise, whose capital
stock does not exceed $l,OOO,
shall pay a tax $5.00.
Sec. 5. Each dealer in gen
eral merchandise, whose capital
stock does not exceed $2,000,
shall pay a tax of $lO.OO
Sec. 6. Each dealer in general
merchandise whose capital stock
is over $2,000 and does not ex
ceed $3,000, shall pay a tax of
15.
Sec. 7. Each dealer in general
merchandise whose capital stock
is over $3,000 and does not ex
ceed $5,000, shall pay a tax of
S2O.
Sec. 8. Each dealer in general
merchandise whose capital stock
is over 5,000 and does not exceed
SIO,OOO, shall pay a tax of $25.
Sec. 9. Each dealer in general
merchandise whose capital stock
is over SIO,OOO and does not ex
ceed $20,000, shall pay a tax of
$35.
Sec. 10. Each dealer in gen
eral merchandise whose capital
stock is over $20,000 and does
not exceed $30,000, shall pay a
tax of S4O.
Sec. 11. Each dealer in stoves
shall pay a tax of $lO, provided
they have not a hardware deal
er’s license.
Sec. 12. Each firm, company
or corporation .operating ex
clusively a boot and shoe and shoe
business, shall pay a tax of $lO,
provided they have not a general
dealer’s license.
Sec. 13. Each dealer in live
stock shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 14. Each dealer in mill
inery, whether separate or in
connection with other business,
shall pay a tax of $5,
Sec. 15. Each dealer in coal
shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 16. Each dealer in furni
ture shall pay a tax of sls.
Sec. 17. Each undertaker shall
pay a tax of sls.
Sec. 18. Each dealer in jewel
ry shall pay a tax of $5, provided
they have not a general dealers s
license.
Sec. 19. Each and every itin
erant patent medicine dealer
shall pay a tax of $5 per day.
Sec. 20. Shooting gallery $lO.
Sec. 21. Blacksmith shop, $5
for each forge.
Sec. 22. Each auctioneer shall
pay a tax of $lO, provided that
this shall not apply to the county
sheriff selling stock, produce or
articles for farmers, administra
tors or executors.
Sec. 23. Each livery or feed
stable shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 24. Each livery, feed and
sale stable shall pay a tax of sls.
Sec. 25. Each dealer in hard
ware shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 26. Each dealer in terra
cotta shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 27' Each dealer in mow
ers, reapers, binders, rakes, cut
away harrows or any other har
vesting machinery, shall pay a
tax of $lO.
Sec. 28. Each dealer in guano
shall pay a tax of $lO.
See. 29. Each one-horse dray
shall pay a tax of $5. Each two
horse dray shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 30. Each dealer in drugs
shall pay a tax of sls.
Sec. 31. Soda founts, lemon
ada, milk shakes, hot or cold
drinks, a tax of $5.
Sec. 32. Each dealer in ice
shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 33. Each fire insurance
company shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 34. Each life insurance
company shall pay a tax of sls,
or $7.50 per quarter, provided
that no company shall be required
to pay for more than three quar
ters in the year.
Sec. 35. Eaeh'warehouse shall
pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 36. Each hotel shall pay
a tax of $lO.
Sec. 37. Each dealer in bug
gies, wagons and harness shall
pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 38. Each dealer in tobac
co or cigars exclusively shall pay
a tax of $5.
Sec. 39. Each dealer in pianos
and organs shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 40. Each dealer in light
ening rods shall pay a tax of $25.
Sec. 41. Each and every deal
er in lumber, cement or building
material, shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 42. Each and every deal
er in lumber, cement or building
material, and operating a plan
ing mill, shall pay a tax of S2O.
Sec. 43. Each and every deal
er in pumps shall pay a tax of $5,
provided they have not a hard
ware dealer’s license.
Sec. 44. Each dealer in fish or
oysters shall pay a tax of $5, pro
vided that no person or persons
selling fish or oysters be permit
ted to sell or display them on the
streets or sidewalks of said city,
and every violation shall be fined
in the discretion of the mayor,
not to exceed SIOO.
Sec. 45. Be it ordained by the
mayor and council of the city of
Jackson. That from and after
the passage of this ordinance it
shall be unlawful for any person,
firm, company or corporation to
keep for illegal sale any domestic
wines, cider, or any intoxicating
drinks of any kind. Any person
found guilty of violating this or
dinance shall be subject to a fine
of not less than $25 nor more
than SIOO, or shall be confined in
the guard house not less than 20
nor more than 60 days, or be re
quired to work on the streets of
said city not less than 20 nor
more than 60 days, one or both
in the discretion of the mayor.
Sec. 46. Each dealer in books
or stationery shall pay a tax of
$5 provided they have not a gen
eral dealer’s or druggist’s license.
Sec. 47. Each person or per
sons keeping a lunch stand shall
pay a tax to be left in the discre
tion of the mayor.
Sec. 48. Each circus or the
atrical company or other public
exhibition shall pay a tax to be
left in the discretion of the mayor,
not to exceed SIOO.
Sec. 49. Each buggy or wagon
repair business a tax of $5.
Sec. 50. Each job printing of
fice shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 51. Each ferrotype or
photograph gallery, or soliciting
orders for enlargement of pic
tures, shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 52. Each dye house shall
pay a tax of $2.50.
Sec. 53. Each restaurant shall
pay a tax of $lO. '
Sec. 54. Each barber shop shall
pay a tax of $2.50 for each chair.
Sec. 55. Each cotton seed buy
er shall pay a tax of $7.50.
Sec. 56. Each person or per
sons renovating feahters shall
pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 57. Fruit trees, grape
vines or ornamental shrubbery,
$2.50.
Sec. 58. Brokerage, $5.
Sec. 59. Each shoe or harness
repair shop shall pay a tax of
$2.50.
Sec. 60. Each tin or stove re
pair shop shall pay a tax of $2.50.
Sec. 61. Each cotton ginnery
shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 62. Each meat marketer
wagon peddling meat, within the
limits of Jackson shall pay a tax
of $lO.
Sec. 63. Each watch and j ewel
ry repair business, $5.
Sec. 54. Each person or per
sons, firms, company or corpora
tion operating a bottling works,
usch as bottling soda water or
any other non-alcoholic drink,
shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 65. Each person or per
sons, firms, company or corpora
tion operating a cotton seed oil
mill, alone or in connection with
any other business, shall pay a
tax of $25.
Sec. 66. Each parson or per
sons engaged in repairing or up
holstering furniture shall pay a
tax of $2.50.
Sec. 67. Each person selling
or repairing bicycles shall pay a
tax of $2.50.
Sec. 68. Each and every male
person within the limits of the
city of Jackson, between the
ages of 16 and 50, shall pay a
street tax of three dollars or work
on the streets of said city five
days, under direction of the mar
shall or street overseer, when
called upon to do so, and that
said street tax shall be paid on or
before March 15, 1908. All per
sons failing or refusing to pay
said street tax or to appear to
work on said streets the required
number of days when notiified to
do so, shall on conviction, pay a
fine not less than three dollars
nor more than fifteen dollars, or
be confined in the city guard
house and work on the streets
not less than six days nor more
than ten days, one, or both, in
the discretion of the mayor.
Sec. 69. Each person or per
sons, firms, companies or corpor
ations owning or operating a tele
phone exchange or public tele
phone office shall pay a tax of
twenty dollars.
Sec. 70. Each person or per
sons, firms, companies or corpora
tions owning or operating a pub
lic telephone office and charging
for messages, shall pay a tax of
five dollars.
Sec. 71. Any person, firm, com
pany or corporation distributing
hand bills, circulars, booklets etc.
or posting or tacking signs in the
city of Jackson shall pay a li
cense in the discretoin of the
mayor, provided this shall not
prevent any one from advertising
his own business, for which he
has paid a license.
Sec. 72. Be it further ordain
ed by the authority aforesaid,
That any person, firm, company
or corporation subject to the fore
going ordinances who shall fail or
refuse to register his business
with the clerk of said city and
pay the tax required by the samt
within ten days after the sam<
las been published shall be sub
ject to fine not less than one dol
lar nor more than ten dollars for
each day such peison, firm, com
pany or corporation shall do busi
ness without having complied
with the requirements of these
ordinances, or be confined in the
guard house and worked on the
streets of said city not less than
five nor more than ten days, one
or both, in the discretion of the
mayor, provided that nothing in
this section shall be construed to
repeal or interfere with penalties
imposed for a violation of Sec
tions 45, 57, 71, 73, 74 and 78 of
thess ordinances; provided fur
ther, that the same shall apply to
all persons, firms, companies or
corporations becoming subject to
the ordinances after same
have been published, and who
may commence business in said
city during the year 1908, or prior
to the 20th of February, 1908.
Sec. 73. Be it ordained by the
mayor and council of the city of
Jackson, and it is hereby ordain
ed by authority of the same, that
from and after this date any per
son, firm company or corporation
in said city selling, keeping for
sale or giving away to induce
trade, cigaretts, cigarette papers
or any substitute therefor, shall
pay a tax of 50 dollars.
Sec. 74. Each person, persons
firms, company or corporation
selling or offering for sale illumi
nating oils at wholesale shall pay
a tax of 10 dollars.
Sec. 75. Be it further ordained
that it shall be the special duty
of the marshals to see to the en
forcement of these ordinances
and report all violations to the
mayor and council, and on fail
ure or refusal to discharge this
duty, shall be subject to a fine or
be removed from office, in the
discretion of the mayor and coun
cil.
Sec. 76. It appearing to the
mayor and council of the city of
Jackson that a majority of the
people are in favor of keeping
hogs in the city, under strict sani
tary rules, be it resolved as fol
lows: That any person who
keeps a hog in the corporate lim
its of said city is required to keep
it in a pen not less than 30 feet
square, or as near square as practi
cable, and if the number is in
creased, the size of the pen is to
be correspondingly increased, so
as to not contain less than 900
square feet of additional space
for each additional hog confined
in same. And no one will be al
lowed to keep stock hogs or breed
hogs within the city limits. Nei
ther will they be allowed to keep
large quantities of hogs, regard
less of the size of the pen or en
closure. Any person owning or
keeping a hog as above set out
shall at all times keep the pen of
same in good sanitary condition
and a ring in the nose of the hog.
No hog to be kept in a floored pen.
The owner of any hog or hogs,
v/ho fails to comply with the
above conditions shall be fined,
or said hog or hogs declared a
nuisance, and removed from the
city at the expense of the owner.
One or both, in the discretion of
the mayor.
(The mayor and council believe
that filthy hog pens are a great
menance to the good health of
the people, and most respectfully
ask all to join in and keep the
city as free as possible from this
menace, and it is to be hoped
that there will be many who will
not keep hogs at all, and that
those who keep them at all will
keep as few as possible to con
sume the waste slops about the
premises. It is to the interest of
ill that this be done.)
Sec. 77. Each person, per
sons, firms, company or corpora
tion operating a marble yard shall
pay a tax of 5 dollars.
Sec. 78. Each person or per
sons doing or conducting a laun
dry business shall pay a tax of
two dollars and fifty cents.
Sec. 79. Each and every ac
cident insurance company solicit
ing or doing business within the
limits of Jackson shall pay a fine
of 5 dollars.
Sec. 80. Corporations, firms,
partnerships or individuals carry
ing a stock exceeding in value
double the amount of capital
stock shall pay in addition to the
tax on the capital stock a tax of
3 dollars on each additional thous
and dollars exceeding the amount
of double their capital stock.
Sec. 81. Be it further ordain
ed, That all ordinances in conflict
with these ordinances be and the
same are hereby repealed.
S. O. HAM, Mayor.
GEO. CARMICHAEL,
Clerk and Treasurer.
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