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Special Tax Ordinances,
City of McDonough,
Ga., for 1919.
Section 1. Special Tax —Be it
ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of McDonough, and
it is hereby enacted by the author
ity of the same, that the following
Special Tax be levied for the use
of the city for the year 1919, and
that no person shall engage in any
business hereafter named without
first having obtained license from
the clerk of the council, for which
he, she or they shall pay the sum
specified in such cases for the
year 1919, or any part thereof.
Sec. 2. Each dealer in merchan
dise of any kind or character in
the City of McDonough, whose
capital stock does not exceed sl,-
000 shall pay a tax of $5:00.
Sec. 3. Each dealer in merchan
dise of any kind or character
whose capital stock exceeds SI,OOO
and does not exceed $2,000 shall
pay a tax of $7.00
Sec. 4. Each dealer in merchan
dise of any kind or character
whose capital stock exceeds $2,000
and does not exceed $3,000 shall
pay a tax of SIO.OO.
Sec. 5. Each dealer in merchan
dise of any kind or character
whose capital stock exceeds $3,000
and does not exceed $5,000 shall
pay a tax of $12.50.
Sec. 6. Each dealer in merchan
dise of any kind or character
whose capital stock exceeds $5,000
and does not exceed SIO,OOO shall
pay a tax of $15.00.
S6c. 7. Each dealer in merchan
dise of’ any kind or character
whose capital stock exceeds $lO,-
000 and does not exceed $20,000
shall pay a tax of S2O.
Sec. 8. Each auctioneer shall
pay a tax of $5 00, provided that
this ordinance shall not apply to
the sheriff of the county or ad
ministrators .or executors selling j
at .heir own sale, $5.00.
Sec. 9. Each accident insurance j
company doing business in the j
Citv of McDonough shall pay a tax
of $lO 00.
Sec. 10. The proprietor of each
barber shop in the City of McDon
ough shall pay a tax of $2.50 for
each barber chair.
Sec. 11. The owner of each bil
liard saloon for public playing in
the City of McDonough shall pay
a tax of $1,000; slot machine SSOO.
Sec. 12. Each person, firm or
corporation selling or delivering
fresh or butchered meat (farmers
selling meat of their own raising
excepted) in the City of McDon
ough independent of any business
sdiall pay a tax of $5.00.
Sec. 13. Each person, firm, com
pany or corporation doing a bank
ing business in said city shall pay
a tax of $15.00
Sec. 14. Each person, firm or
corporation doing a brokerage and
commission or a brokerage or
commission business in said city
shall pay a tax of $5.00. *
Sec. 15. Each person, firm or
corporation operating a black
smith shop and wood repair shop
or a blacksmith or a wood repair
shop in the City of McDonough
shall pay a tax of $5.00.
Sec. 16. Each contractor or firm
ot contractors employing hands
for the .building or moving of
houses in the City of McDonough
shall pay a tax of $5 00
Sec. 17. Each circus shall pay
in advance, for each performance
a tax of $25*00. Circus parades,
if exhibition is given outside city,
$25.00.
Sec. 18. Each side show accom
pauing circus, menageries, or mu
seum, charging additional fee, for
each performance, $5.00.
Sec. 19. Each Carnival shall pay
in advance for each week’s per
formances a tax of $500.00.
Sec. 20. Each show or concert,
sleight of hand or legerdemain
performance or theatrical per
formance, except by the citizens
of the city, from $2 to $lO, to be
fixed by the mayor.
Sec. 21. Each cotton warehouse
keeper who weighs cotton and
charges storage on same, or offer
ing to buy or sell cotton seed and
its products in the City of McDon
ough independent of any oilier
business, shall pay a tax of $lO,
Sec. 22. Each person, firm or
corporation buying or offering to
buy 'or sell cotton seed and its
products in the City of McDon
ough independent of any other
business, shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 23. Each and every person,
firm or corporation dealing in or
delivering coal independent of any
other business, shall pay a tax of
$5.
Sec. 24. Each and every person
known as drovers and traders or
selling or offering f< r sale, stock
in the City of, McDonough, shall
pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 25. Each and every person,
firm or corporation running a dye
house, cleaning or pressing clothes
in the City of McDonough shall
,jey a tax of $3.
Sec. 26. Each person, firm or
corporation selling or offering for
sale or soliciting orders for the
sale of guano in the City of Mc-
Donough independent of any oth
er business shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 27. Each feather renovator
doing business in the City of Mc-
Donough shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 28. Each person, firm or
corporation running or operating
an iron foundry or machine shop
in the City of McDonough shall
pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 29. Each person, firm or
corporation running or operating
a cotto.i ginnery in the City of Mc-
Donough shall pay a tax of $lO
Sec. 30. Each person running
a hack line (except livery stables
and Hotels.) shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 31. The keeper of each ho
tel or restaurant in the Citv of Me*
•
Donough shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 32. Itinerates, including all
itinerates, physicians, or profes
sions, venders of proDrietary arti
cles, books, maps, pictures, toys,
all articles sold by itinerates on
the streets and from house to
house, shall pay a license tax of
not more.than $500.00 and not less
than $2 50, the amount of which
shall be fixed by the. mayor upon
application to him by such persons
desiring to engage in such busi
ness, said license to be collected
from all persons alike engaged in
such business, whether resident
or non-resident and without re
gard to the location or the growth
of the material or of manufacture
of the article, sold or for sale of
which solicitation is made.
Sec. 33. Each life insurance
company doing business in the
City of McDonough through an
agent or otherwise, shall pay a
tax of $10; and each Fire Insur
ance company doing business in
said city through an agent or oth
erwise shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 34. Each jeweler doing
business in the City of McDonough
shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 35. The keeper of each
sale, feed or liverv stables in the
City of McDonough shall pay a tax
of $lO.
Sec. 36. Each person, firm or
corporation operating a newspap
er in the City of McDonough shall
pay a tax of $7 50 ; and each per
son operating a job press shall
pay a tax of $7.50. But when the
newspaper and job press are own
ed and operated by the same par
ty or parties the lee of $lO shall
cover both.
Sec. 37. Each wholesale dealer
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA
in oil, having an agent or doing
business in the City of McDonough
shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 38. Each photographer
shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 39. Each'and every piano
tuner, or organ tuner, soliciting
business in the City of McDonough
shall pay a tax of $2.
Sec. 40. Each person, firm or
corporation operating a planing
mill in the City of McDonough
shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 41, Each shoemaker or
firm of shdemakers or harness re
pairers-doing business in the City
of McDonough shall pay a tax of
$2.50 for each person working in
said shop.
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Sec. 42. All persons, firms or
corporations running a soda fount
selling lemonades, milk shakes or
hot or Cold 'drinks shall pay a tax
of $5.
Sec. 43. Each proprietor of a
shooting gallery in said city shall
pay a tax of SIOO.
Sec. 44. The proprietor of each
tin shop shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 45. Each person, firm or
corporation doing a millinery bus
iness in the City of McDonough
shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 46. Each person, firm or
corporation dealing in lumber,
shingles, laths, lime, brick and
building material in said city inde
pendent of any other business
shall pay a tax of $5
Sec. 47. Each telephone com
pany doing business in said city
shall pay a tax of S2O.
Sec. 48. Each person, firm or
corporation buying cotton in said
city independent of any business
shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec. 49. Each person, firm or
coporation carrying on any busi
ness in said city not above enu
merated and herein provided for,
shall before beginning such busi
ness pay a license tax to be fixed
in descrelior of the Mayor, or in
his absence, the Mayor Pro. Tern.,
or in the absence of both, the ma
jority of the Council.
Sec. 50. Each male person in
the City of McDonough," between
the ages of 21 ancl 50 years, ex
cept as herein provided, shall pay
a street tax of $3 or be required
to work on the streets of said city
six days.
Sec. 51. Each two horse dray or
two ton truck doing business in
r
the City of McDonough shall pay
a tax of $lO and $1 extra far each
additional wagon.
Sec. 52. Every one horse dray
or one ton truck shall pay a tax of
$5 and $1 for each additional wag
on.
Sec. 53. Each person, firm or
corporation operating a bottling
works business in the City of Mc-
Donough shall pay a tax of $5.
Sec»'s4. Each person, firm or
corporation owning or operating
a garage or garage and repair
shop shall pay a tax of $lO.
Sec. 55. Each person, firm or
corporation owning or operating
a bowling alley in the City of Mc-
Donough shall pay a tax of S2OO.
Sec. 56. Each moving picture
show shall pay a tax of $lO per
per annum.
Sec. 57. Be it further ordained
that these Special Taxes herein
named shall be paid on demand,
and all persons, firms, companies
or corporations, failing to or re
fusing to comply with the require
ments of these ordinances, shall
on convict'on, pay a fine of not
less than $5 and not more than
SSO, or be confined in the cala
boose of said, city to be worked
on the streets not less than ten
days nor more than twenty days—
one or both at the discretion of
the mayor—and after saiJ date
execution shall issue against said
defaulters and be enforced as pre
scribed by Section 13 of Amended
MOUNT BETHEL NEWS.
Roads are in very bad condition
now, but people just motor right
along nevertheless. We slip
and slide and get “stuck” every
time we start out. The worst
places piled lull of pine brush, la
dies out walking, folks backing
and plunging their cars on mud
slick hills are no unusual sights,
but then there are some good
stretches and we go where we
are going.
Misses Ethel Anderson a*n d
Thelma Barnett, the efficient
teachers of. South River school,
spent the week-end at their homes
in Hampton. '•
Mrs. J. A.Presson, of near Snap
ping Shoals, called to see Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Andrew and Mrs. F. B.
Strahn Saturday afternoon.,
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Gibson,
their daughters and son, Howard,
who has just returned from Eng
land, were visiting the family of
Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Hooten last
week. Mrs, Gibson is a sister of
Mrs. Hooten.
Horace Randall, who has been
stationed at Charleston in the
naval hospital corps several
months, is at home on his first
furloiigh.
Sauire A. C. Norman, Professor
Pendley and several others who
are interested in good singing,
met in the home of Prof, and Mrs.
W. W. Hooten Saturday night to
try out the new song book just
out, “Cream of Song” by W. W.
Hooten. Miss Elon Norman, of
L. G. 1., Locust Grove, was spend
ing the week-end at her home at
Ola and attended the singing, pre
siding at the piano.
Who can tell the value of a true
friend?
Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA—Henry County.
To whom it may concern :
E. J. Reagan, Administrator of
E. J. Zacliry, deceased, having in
due form made application for
leave to sell the real estate belong
ing to said estate, lying and being
in land lot number seventy-six in
the fourteenth district of original
ly Henry now Fulton county, Geor
gia, being part ef city lot number
ten, block three, of the city of At
lanta, more particularly described
as follows: Beginning at a point
on the south side of East Fan
street, one hundred and fifty feet
from the southeast corner of Pal
liate and Fair streets, Extending
thence along the south side of East
Fair street east fifty feet and ex
tending back southerly ftom said
front, with equal width of the said
front, one hundred feet more or
less, to the center of a rock wall,
dividing this lot from what is now
or formerly was the property of
Mrs. M. C. Morrison. Being the
pr operty formerly owned bv G. B.
Strickler.
Said application will be head at
the regular term of the court of
1 Ordinary for said county on the
first Monday in February, 1919.
This January Bth, 1919.
A. G. HARRIS, Ordinary.
Charter of the City of McDonough.
Sec. 58. License —How obtain
ed. All applications and registra
tions under the provisions of these
by-laws shall be made to the Clerk
of City Council, who shall issue
the same under the direction of
the Mayor and shall be kept by
the persons obtaining' them in a
conspicuous place in his, her or
their place of business.
Sec. 59. The foregoing special
ordinances are hereby adopted by
the City of McDonough for the
year of 1819, and all ordinances
heretofore passed,which are in
conflict with these ordinances, are
hereby repealed.
This Jan. 6, 1919.
Approved :
E. M. Smith, Mayor.
11. C. Hightower,
Clerk & Treas,
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
I hereby announce myself a can
didate for Tax Collector of Henry
county, election to be held Febru
ary 6th, 1919. Will promise faith
ful service if elected. All favors
will be appreciated.
C. R. HAND.
I am a candidate for Tax Collector
of Henry county in the special elec
tion Feb 6. If favored by the people
it will he deeply appreciated. On
account of recent illness it would
he imprudent for me tu attempt a
personal can vas in the short time
set. Consequently I trust each
voter may take this as a personal
appeal, with the undoubted assur
ance that it means as much as may
he said in any way. Then, too,
feel that many would gladly be
rid of personal annoyance. By
course of nature, in a few years I
shall he forced from my present
occupation, and would be glad to
round out my active life in this
way.
Do me the favor, please.
Sincerely, J. A. FOUCHE.
A NNO UNCEMENT.
I hereby announce my name as
a candidate for Tax Collector of
Henry county in the election to he
held on the 6th day of Feb., 1919.
I sincerely solicit the support of
any and all voters of the county.
Will promise faithful and effi
cient service if elected. Owing to
the shortness of time and the prob
ability of bad weather, and the
condition of my health, it will he
impossible for me to hmke a thor
ough canvass of the county. I
trust no voter will take exceptions
on account of my failure to call on
them, but will take this as a per
sonal appeal, with the assurance
that it means as much as may he
said in any way. A ll favors will
be duly appreciated.
U P. OWEN.
T am a candidate for the unex
pired term of the office of Tax
Collector, of H>m-y county, elec
tion to be held Feb. 6 Owing to
sickness in my family, and the
short time set, I will not be able to
canvass the county and see every
voter. Please take this as a per
sonal appeal, and faver me this
time, and I will always be at your
service in the most accomodating
way possible. lam not a stranger
to the voters of the county, as you
all know, and I will be grateful for
all support given nte. I am com
petent to attend to the duties of
the office, and if elected will faith
fully perform my duty.
Yours Truly,
. C. W. SOUTH.
I «m a candidate for Tax Collect
or of Henry county in the special
elcetion Feb. 6th, and will deeply
appreciate all support given me,
pledging the most faithful per
formance of duty if elected,
Sincerely,
WYATT ROWAN.
I announce myself a candidate
for Tax collector of Henry county
at the approaching special election,
an no one could more thoroughly
appreciate the votes and support
of the people. If elected I pledge
fidelity i» every pait of duty.
Truly. BAIL S. ELLIOTT.
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EGGS FOR HATCHING.
From J. W. Parks’ pedigreed
stock. One of the world’s oldest
and best-bi*ed-to-lay strain of Barr
ed Rocks. Hatch early for winter
layers..
Best, selected $3.00, Utiliity $2.00
per setting.
MRS. M. H. HUNT.
R 1. McDonough, Ha.
Phone No. 2821.
For Dismission. %
GEORGIA —Henry County.
A. X. Brown, Guardian of ,T. H. Alex
ander, applied to me for discharge
from his guardianshiDof J. 11. Alexander
This is therefore to notify all persons
concerned to fiie their objections, if anv
they have, on or before the first Monday
in February next, else he will be dis
charged from his guardianship as aDDlied
for. Jan. 6th, 1919.
A. G. HARRIS, Ordinary.
