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cTfTGOVERNMENL
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF COUN
CIL.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 7, 1904.—The reg
ular meeting of Council was held this
•venlng at 8 p. m. Present, Hon. Her
man Myers, Mayor, presiding; Alder
man Janies M. Dixon, chairman of
Council; Alderman R. J. Davant, vice
chairman of Council; Aldermen Oliver,
Garfunkel. McKenna, Schroder,
Wright. Harman, Glatigny, Canty and
Thomas.
Minutes of meeting of Nov. 23, 1904,
were, upon motion, confirmed as pub
lished.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
The Committee on Accounts report
that they have examined and found
correct bills amounting to Thirty-nine
thousand four hundred and twenty
four dollars and twenty-six cents as
per accompanying schedule and rec
ommend that the same be passed for
payment. W. H. Wright,
Chairman Committee on Accounts.
Report received and accounts passed
lor payment. Herman Myers,
Mayor.
Board of Health—
M. S. &D. A. Byck. .$ 18 00
Dr. W. F. Brunner.. 85
Leo Frank 3 00
Plum Mfg. Cos 2 85
Dixon Lumber Cos. . 3 69
Dixon Lumber Cos. . 3 00
John Lyons & Cos. .. 16 85
Time of hands 9 75
Time of hands 12 00
Time of hands 14 50— 84 49
Dry Culture—
E. Lovell's Sons ....$ 135
rainier Hdw. Cos. .. 88
Dixon Lumber Cos. . 40 70
Pay roll 120 00
Pay roll 302 25 465 18
Fire Department—
Pay roll $ 5,390 35
John Carrick 20 00— 5,410 35
Fire Uniforms—
P. H. Levy, Bro.
& Cos $ 380 00
Falk Clothing C 0.... 1,320 00— 1,700 00
Gwinnett Street Tunnel—
Pay roll 69 30
Harbor and Wharves—
Cornwell & Chipmans 5 30
Jas. .Mcßride 40 00
Pay roll 75 00— 120 30
House Drainage—
Pay roll $ 90 00
Pay roll 60 00— 150 00
Incidentals—
Thos. West & C0....$ 2 45
O. M. Thonnesen .... 1 75
Dixon Lumber Cos. .. 60
Livingston Phar. ... 3 00
Western Union 50— 8 30
Laurel Grove Cemetery—
Time of hands 249 58
Market—
Emil. E. Warmbold .$ 50
Sandy Monroe 2 50
Jordan Kelly 3 60
Dixon Lumber Cos. .. 1 80
Josh. Kit 6 00
E. Lovell's Sons 1 30
Savh. Press 1 00
M. S. & D. A. Byck . 1 90
W. W. Airmar & Cos. 6 50
F. H. Kramer Cos. .. 33 00
M. Kassman 3 00
Herman C. & W. Cos. 5 50
Antiseptic Broom Cos. 6 50
Pay roll 283 50 — 355 50
Opening Streets—
Julius D. Hirsch .... 10 62
Julius D. Hirsch .... 510 35
Sam'l. Herman 250 00
D. H. Schuenem'an .. 25 00
Bam.’l. Herman 260 35 1,056 32
Paving—
E. Lovell’s Sons .... 85
B. S. Edensfield .... 3 50
P. McCarthy 3 50
T. McGrath 5 25
T. McDonnell 5 95
T. McGrath 22 50
IW. O. Mitchell 46 50
Pay roll 100 00
Pay roll 382 67 570 72
Police—
Henry Hirsch 60 00
H. H. Geffken 7 30
Electric Supply Cos. .. 1 35
Andrew Hanley Cos. . 2 00
Andrew Hanley Cos. .. 1 45
The Sav’h. Gas Cos. . 21 88
Garfunkel & Sons .. 36 00
E. Lovell's Sons .... 14 52
Heidt Plow Cos 6 90
J. F. Canty 11 90
Clements & Heager
ty.. .. 17 50 I ,
M. S. & D. A. Byck .. 9 90
I. H. Friedman & Cos. 10 90
J. S. Neidlinger 2 50
Geo. Ball 33 17
D. R. Thomas & Son.. 27 50
The Gorrie Ice C 0... 6 00
Wm. Kehoe & Sons .. 1 90
M. A. Morris 5 00
The Dixon Lumber
Cos 305 05
Pay roll 6,682 57
M. Davis 10 00— 7,273 79
Printing and Stationery-
Morning News 7 50
O. S. Nichols 10 50
C. N. Stern 12 00— 30 00
Plumbing Inspector-
Pay roll 195 00
Public Buildings—
New City Hall.
Savannah Contracting
Cos 12,762 90
Public Buildings—
Chas. A. Cox 15
Electric Supply Cos. .. 2 00
Electric Supply Cos. .. 28 77
The Dixon Lumber
Cos 6fr- at 42
Salaries—
The Aldermen 120 00
Scavenger Department—
Cohen-Kulman C. &
W. Cos 1 00
Pay roll 367 00
Pay toll 727 31— 1,095 31
Police Uniforms—
B. H. Levy, Bro.
& Cos 1,759 56
Parks and Squares—
Time of hands 357 75
Streets and Lanes—
Havannah Elec. C 0... 49 35
Savannah Elec. C 0... 49 35
Eagle Mfg. Cos 48 68
Cohen-Kulman C. &
W. Cos 147 50
Margaret Hassell .... 1 00
Cuthberts 3 50
J. P. Ward & Son .. 46 00
A. Hanley Cos 60
D. R. Thomas & Son.. 11 00
Pay roll 282 00
Pay roll 1,411 02
Pay roll 46 50
Pay roll 96 50
1 Sidewalks—
Pay roll 75 25 2.268 25
Streets and Danes—
Maintenance of As
phalt Pavements,
Pay roll
A. C. L. R. R. Cos 765 00
F. H. Opper 329 94
Geo. Lehwald 273 00
A c ; R y 34 00- 1,401 94
Sink Department, (O. E. M.)—
P “>; roll ■••••• - 100 00
W ater Works, New Old
and Extension—
Geo. Lehwald 7 50
Georgia Tel. & Tel.
_ Cos 60 00
Frlxell A Alleyn 12 50
Standard Oil Cos 46 22
Georgia Supply Cos. .. 12 72
Dixon Lumber Cos. .. 12 60
Pay roll 1,526 46
Pay roll 52 20
Pay 7 90- 1,788 20
REPORTS.
The Committee of the Whole, to
which was referred Ihe petition of S.
S. Nolle*. manager, for permission to
transfer hi* advertising license to the
O. K ‘tutfltteri, report adversely.
Adopted. Herman Myers.
1 ball man Coininlttse of the Whole.
The Commit Lee of the Whole, to
whlrh was referred the petition of
Southern hell Telephone end Telegraph
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Company, by J. It. O. Hobson, secre
tary, for permission to locate at the
northeast corner of Whitaker and
Broughton streets, report adversely.
Adopted. Herman Myers,
Chairman Committee of the Whole.
The Committee of the Whole, to
which was referred the petition of J.
H. Estill, president Union Society, ask
ing Council to relieve said society from
taxes for 1903, report by resolution.
Herman Myers,
Chairman Committee of the Whole.
Received as information.
The Committee on Finance, to which
was referred the petition of Savannah
Port Society, by Samuel B. Adams,
president, asking Council to relieve
said society from taxes for year 1904,
report by resolution.
James M. Dixon,
Chairman Committee on Finance.
Received as information.
The Committee on Finance,* to which
was referred the petition of the offi
cers of the Duffy Street Baptist
Church, asking to be relieved from
the payment of $186.92 for paving
around church, southwest corner Duffy
and Abereorn streets, report by reso
lution. James M. Dixon,
Chairman Committee on Finance.
Received as information.
The Committee on Finance, to which
was referred the petition of J. W.
Joyce, asking to refund him $3, amount
paid for wagon badge, in place of one
lost, report adversely.
Adopted. James M. Dixon.
Chairman Committee on Finance.
The Committee on Finance, to which
was referred the petition of Dr. E.
R. Corson by William R. Leaken, at
torney, asking Council to refund Dr.
Corson five dollars, paid city treas
urer for a survey of lot No. 8, Mon
terey ward, said survey had already
been made, report favorably to same.
Adopted. James M. Dixon,
Chairman Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Finance, to which
was referred the petition of Youmans
& Demmond, agents for Miss Ellen M.
Prendergast, asking Council to re
fund her $84.83, paid city treasurer on
property of the Westminster Presby
terian Church, report adversely to
same.
Adopted. James M. Dixon,
Chairman Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Finance, to w r hieh
was referred the petition of Mrs. Mary
G. Screven by George W. Owens, ask
ing to be relieved from payment of
tax execution issued against her for
taxes on person property, as she had
left the city the early part of 1903,
report favorably to same.
Adopted. James M. Dixon,
Chairman Committee on Finance.
The Committee on Finance, to which
was referred the petition of R. T.
Burch, asking to be relieved from dou
ble tax on personal property, report
favorably to same.
Adopted. James M. Dixon,
Chairman Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Finance, to which
was referred the petition of Woledge
& Philpot, asking for relief of taxes
for the third and fourth quarters 1904,
as their plant was destroyed by fire
during the month of July and since
then have discontinued business, re
port adversely to same.
Adopted. James M. Dixon.
Chairman Committee on Finance.
Recommitted to Finance Committee.
The Committee on Finance, to which
was referred the petition of John S.
Schley, agent, requesting relief from
street paving assessment on land on
Park avenue owned by estate J. M.
Schley, report adversely to same.
Adopted. James M. Dixdn,
Chairman Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Finance, to which
was referred the petition of the trus
tees of Grace Methodist Episcopal
Church, asking to be relieved from the
payment for the paving of the street
(Park avenue) in front of said church,
beg to report by resolution.
Adopted. James M. Dixon,
Chairman Committee on Finance.
Received as information.
The Committee of the Whole, to
which was referred the petition of St.
Patrick's Church by Rev. J. S. Mc-
Carthy, asking to be relieved from the
payment assessed against them for
replacing stone pavement on West
Broad street to one of brick, report
by resolution.
James M. Dixon,
Chairman Committee on Finance.
Received as information.
The Committee on Streets and
Lanes, to which was referred the pe
tition of J. H. Heitman, asking per
mission to reDair. add to and re
model frame houses on Gordon street
lane, between Jefferson and Tattnall
streets, beg to report adversely to
same. Adopted. R. J. Davant,
Chairman Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes,
to which was referred the petition of
G. H. Miller et al., asking that a
sewer for house drainage be placed on
Harmon street, beg to report that it
is impossible to comply with the re
quest at present. R. J. Davant.
Chairman Committee on Streets and
Lanes. Adopted.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes,
to which was referred the petition of
the Savannah Electric Company, to
lay tracks on Ann street, from In
dian street to River street, beg to
report favorably to same.
Adopted. r. j. Davant,
Chairman Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes,
to which was referred the petition of
the Georgia State Building and Loan
Association, asking permission to ex
tend bathroom at No. 32 Waldburg
street three feet over the sidewalk In
the second floor, beg to report favora
bly. Adopted. R. J. Davant,
Chairman Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes,
to was referred the petition
of George H. Miller, dated June 1, 1904,
in regard to encroachment on Dixon
street by tenants of said Miller on
lots Nos. 55 and 56. Springfield planta
tion, begs leave to report that they
have caused a duplicate agreement to
be drawn up and signed by Evelyn J.
Miller and Thomas E. Taylor, with a
plat attached and the Riime put
to record in the clerk’s office of the
Superior Court, the said contract mak
ing It the duty of Evelyn J. Miller
(the owner) and Thomas K. Taylor
(tenant) to remove said obstructions
at any time on thirty days’ written
notice given by the director of pub
lic works to that effect.
Adopted. R. J. Davant.
Chairman Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes
to which was deferred the petition of
Southern Bell Telephone Company
asking permission to lay conduits on
Whitaker street from Perry street
lane to Gordon street lane, and on
Barnard street from Huntingdon to
Thirty-first street, beg to report fav
orably.
Adopted. K. J. Davant,
Chairman Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
The Joint Committee on Public
Health und Finance to which whs re
ferred (he petition of Mrs. u. O.
Maddox, asking to be paid for articles
destroyed by order of the health au
thorities. report that she be donated
ten dollars.
Adopted John K. Glatigny,
Chairman Joint Committee,
The Joint CommttlM on Public
Health und Finance to which was re
ferred the petition of A. J. Black,
asking to be paid for article* destroy
ed by Older of health authorltlee, re
port that he In- donated els dollars
and aa-venty-(lve cents.
Adopted. John T. Klotigny,
<'huh men Joint t’otnmittoe,
Th* Commute* on Public Health to
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1901.
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which was referrred the petition of
J. O. Bewan, asking to place a dry
well on Best street, will have same
properly filled up and make sewer
connection as soon as sewer is placed
near said premises, report favorably to
same.
Adopted. John F. Flatlgny,
Chairman Committee on Public
Health.
The Committee on Public Health, to
which was referred the petition of
Mrs. M. F. Hagan for permission to
transfer lot No. 2520, Laurel Grove
Cemetery, to Julius C. Sipple, report
favorably to same.
Adopted. John F. Glatigny,
Chairman Committee on Public Health.
The Committee on Public Health, to
which was referred the petition of
Lizzie J. Strobert, executrix, asking to
have lot No, 1927 Laurel Grove Ceme
tery transferred to her report fav
orably, provided all parties interested
are satisfied.
Adopted. John F. Glatigny,
Chairman Committee on Public Streets.
The Park and Tree Commission, to
which was referred the petition of the
Salem Historical Society of Winston
Salem, N. C„ by William Blair, pres
ident, asking Council for permission
to erect a monument to the memory to
the early Moravaln settlers, said mon
ument to be erected In Colonial Park,
report that the commission regard the
communication favorably when plans
designs and etc., have been submit
ted.
Adopted. P. H. Daffin,
Chairman Park and Tree Commission.
PETRTdONS AND APPLICATIONS.
The following applications to retail
liquor during year 1905 were referred
to Committee of the Whole:
Abei, Chus., s. e. cor. Bay and Aber
corn sts.
Anderson, Jos. N., No. 42 Reynolds st.
Badenhoop, J. H., 523 West Broad, cor.
Huntingdon st.
Christopher, Geo., 510 Berrien st., w.
Christopher, Geo., 102 West Broad st.
Capatan, G. P., Bay and Farm sts.
Cunningham, Hardy C„ s. w. cor. Ber
rien and Jefferson sts.
Dulohery, C. & Cos., East Broad and
Hartridge sts.
Friedman, J., 135 Margaret st.
Goldberg, Joe, 1821 Ogeechee road.
Gerken, A., agt., 715 Wheaton st.
Hewett, M. W., Gwinnett and Bur
roughs sts.
Hodge, L. E., 565 Oak st.
Hermann, Peter, 317 Congress st., w.
Hicks, R. M., 21 Congress st., w.
Heitmann, J. F., 634 President st„ e.
Heitmann, C. H., 25 East Broaid st.
Helmken, J. H., s. e. cor. Liberty and
Whitaker sts.
Jenkins, H. W., “Marshall House," 123
Broughton st., e.
Kuck, John, 412 Drayton st.
Lubs, John F., n. w. cor. Liberty and
Habersham sts.
Lang, Nicholas, 39 Barnard st.
Mosenzza, S. & Cos., Burroughs and
Duffy st, lane.
Ohsiek, Chas., 202 Reynolds st.
Peters, N. F., n. e. cor. Park ave. and
Burroughs st.
Rocker, John & Bro., s. w. cor. Jones
and West Broad sts.
Stahmer, John, Bryan and Ann sts.
Sullivan, John, 15 Congress st„ w.
Vollers, Wm., 430 West Broad st.
Wellbrock, John F., 524 Jefferson st.
Wade, John TANARUS., s. w. cor. Oglethorpe
ave. and Houston st.
Wilkins, C., West Broad and Gaston
sts.
Petition of Mrs. R. Bird, asking
Council to Increase the allowance now
given her by the city as charity. Re
ferred to Committee of the Whole.
Petitions Kings’ Daughters’ Nursery
and Home, by Miss Viola C. Kennedy,
treasurer, asking Council to continue
with appropriation now given them for
1905. Referred to Committe of the
Whole.
Petition Charity Hospital, by Dr. S.
P. Lloyd, et al., asking Council to
continue appropriation for 1905. Re
ferred to Committee of the Whole.
Petition of members Savannah fire
department, asking Council to grant
them an Increase In pay. Referred to
Committee of the Whole.
Petition of John M. Bryan, treasurer.
Savannah Female Orphan Asylum,
asking Council to continue the appro
priation for 1905. Referred to Commit
tee of the Whole.
Petition of Henry S. Colding, com
mands, commanding N. 8., G. S. TANARUS.,
asking Council for an appropriation
for both divisions, naval battalion, year
1905. Referred to Committee of the
Whole.
Petition of the Georgia Co-operative
Fire Association by J. D. Persse, W.
F. Reid, president, asking Council to
reduce tax on their business and to
grant two of their officers a hearing
as to same. Referred to Committee on
Finance.
Petition of William E. Sickles, ask
ing Council to move an electric light
at Forty-second and Harden streets to
Forty-first and Harden streets. Re
ferred to Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
Petition of sundry citizens on Tay
lor street, asking Council to pave Tay
lor street from Drayton to Lincoln
streets with vitrified brick. Referred
to Committee on Streets and Lanes.
Petition of Carl Mendel, asking for
reduction on Farm street assessment
roll in front of property of Selig Men
del and C. H. Koneman. Referred to
Committee on Streets and Lanes.
Petition of Mrs. Mary W. Creamer
for permission to add a stoop project
ing on sidewalk to line of other stoops
on same block. No. 9 Roberts ward, 710
Gwinnett street, west. Referred to
Committee on Streets and Lanes.
Petition of Mrs. Ida Heidt for permis
sion to erect a balcony to project over
lane to second story of house 406
Gwinnett street, lot 87 Gaston ward.
Referred to Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
Petition of J. H. Heitman for per
mission to add stoop to house, Tay
lor street, second door west of Jeffer
son street, on sidewalk to line of other
stoops on same block. Referred to’
Committee on Streets and Lanes.
Petition of John Kuck for permission
to erect stoops to one three-story brick
house, lot No. 20, Calhoun ward, stoop
project to line of other stoops. Re
ferred to Committee on Streets and
Lanes.
Petition of Mrs. Agnes Cavanaugh
for permission to build cold storage,
two-story brick and to place platform
to building on Waters street, project
ing bevond line same amount as plat
form on north side of Indian street
lane, corner Mill and Water street and
Indian street lane. Referred to Com
mittee on Streets and Lanes.
Petition of Frixell & Alleyn, request
ing an official Inspection of the condi
tion of the building No. 21 Bay street,
east. Referred to Committee on Fire.
ORDINANCES.
Ordinance read In Council for the
first time Nov. 23, 1904, read a sec
ond time Dec. 7, 1904, placed upon its
passage and passed:
By Alderman R. J. Davant—
An ordinance to amend section flvs
hundred and twenty-three (523) of
MacDonell’t Code of Savannah, by
striking out the following words there
in, vt*.: "Provided that in that portion
of said city of Savannah bounded on
the east by Habersham street, north
by Huntingdon street, south by Gwin
nett street and west by Montgomery
street, that only one wooden dwelling
and outhouse be erected on a single
lot, and no wooden dwelling be erect
ed on a lot of less than forty-three
feet and nine inches front;” and by
striking out the words "end" and
"further" in the twenty-fourth line,
and (or other purposes
tieotton 1. Be It ordained by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
Savannah. In Fount'll saarinbled. that
ae< tPn live hundred and t wenty-three
(Mil of UsrhunaHT < ’ode of MavatxiaJi i
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is hereby amended, by striking out
the following words, viz.: "Provided
that in that portion of said city of
Savannah bounded on the east by Hab
ersham street, north by Huntingdon
street, south by Gwinnett street and
west by Montgomery street, that only
one wooden dwelling and outhouse be
erected on a single lot, and no wooden
dwelling be erected on a lot of less
than forty-three feet and nine inches
front;” and by also striking out, in
the twenty-fourth line, the words
“and” and "further,” so that said sec
tion, as amended, shall read as fol
lows :
"523. Fire Limits—The fire limits of
the city of Savannah shall be included
within the following boundaries, to
wit: Savannah river on the north,
East Broad street on east, commenc
ing at the river at the foot of East
Broad street and running southward
ly along the east side of East Broad
street to Its intersection with South
Broad street; thence along the north
side of South Broad street to Its in
tersection with Price street: thence
along the east side of Price street to
Taylor; thence along north side Taylor
street to Habersham street: thence
along east side of Habersham street to
Huntingdon street; thence along north
side Huntingdon street to west side
Montgomery street to its intersection
with the south side of Jones street,
and thence along the south side of
Jones street to its intersection with
West Broad street, and thence along
tne west side of West Broad street to
its intersection with Indian street, and
thence along the northern side of In
dian street to the point on the Savan
nah and Ogeechee canaL where the
northern line of said Indian street ex
tended would intersect said canal;
thence again to the river; provided,
that no wooden house or structure shall
be built in the city of Savannah north
of Anderson street with wood or shin
gle roof.”
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained that
all ordinances and parts of ordinances
in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
On its first reading.
By Committee on Finance —
PREAMBLE.
Whereas, the administration of the
government of the city of Savannah
for the fiscal year 1905 will cause an
expenditure in the various depart
ments of said government in sums es
timated, to-wit:
Board of Health
Charity
City Clocks
City Lighting
Dispensary 1
Drainage and Dry Culture
Fire Uniforms
Fire Department, Maintenance
Fire Department, New Engine
Gwinnett Street Tunnel
Harbor and Wharves
Harbor Improvement and Advertis
ing
Hospitals
House Drainage
House Drainage, Maintenance
Interest, Bonded Debt
Incidentals, including Office Charity....
Law Department, Incidentals
Laurel Grove Cemetery
Market
Parks and Squares
Parks and Squares, Tree Planting
Parks and Squares, Tree Nursery
Opening Streets, including Deferred
Payments
Paving Streets
Police
Police Uniforms
Police Reserves
Printing and Stationery
Public Buildings, Repairs
Public Buildings, New City Hall
Public Library m
Plumbing Inspector
Storm Sewers t
Salaries, Including Building Inspector
and Aldermen
Scavenger Department
Scavenger Department, Electric Rail
way Contract with- County
Sink Department, O. E. M
Sinking Fund
Sidewalks in Thomas and Wells
Parks
Streets and Lanes
Streets, Grading New
Streets, Maintenance of Asphalt and
Pavements
Waterworks, New, Old and Exten
sions
Waterworks, Duplicate Compressors...
An ordinance to assess and levy
taxes and raise revenue for the city
of Savannah; for the regulation of cer
tain kinds of business in the corpor
ate 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 as
sembled, do hereby ordain, That from
and after the first day of January,l9os,
the inhabitants of said corporate and
Jurisdictional limits of said city, and
those who hold taxable property within
the same, and those who transact, or
offer to transact, business therein, ex
cept such as are exempt from taxation
by law, shall pay toward the support
of the government of said city, and
for the safety, benefit, convenience and
advantage of said city, the taxes here
inafter prescribed.
Sec. 2. Every person and corpora
tion owning real property in said city,
including improvements, shall pay a
tax to be assessed by Council upon the
value of said property by the first day
of April, 1905, at the rate of one and
forty-five one-hundredths per centum
upon the value thereof, except on such
property as may be exempt from taxa
tion under the laws of this state.
Any real property. Including new Im
provements, which shall become taxa
ble after the first day of January,l9os,
shall be subject to taxation from the
first day of the month immediately
succeeding the time when the same be
comes taxable, and the owner or own
ers thereof shall pay such proportion
of the tax required by this ordinance
as the time left in the year 1905 shall
bear to the whole year.
Every person and corporation
owning real property In said cltv on
the first day of January, 1905, shall
pay taxes upon such real , property
upon the assessment thereof lawfully
adopted.
The value of real property
to be taxed under this section of this
ordinance shall be ascertained by means
of tbe assessment provided for by the
ordinance of the city on that subject,
or any ordinance amendatory thereof.
Sec. 3. Every person and corpora
tion owning or holding in trust or con
signment household, kitchen or office
furniture, private or professional
libraries, watches. Jewelry, plate,
musical instruments, billiard tables in
private residences, storks in money
corporations, bonds, notes, or other ev
idences of debt, money, solvent debts,
stock In trade, and every other kind
of personal property whatsoever, shall
pay a tax at the rate of
one and forty-five one-hundredths
per centum on the value of
such personal properly whatso
ever owned or hold on the first day
of January, 1905, and If any person or
partnership shall engage In business as
a wholesale or retail dealer in goods,
wares or merchandlss of any descrip
tion whatsoever after the first day of
January, 1905, they shall pay a tax
on the value of such goods and mer
chandise (us they may be possessed of
on ths day of the date of thslr be
ginning business in'said city), which
tax shall Is of such proportion of said
tax as Ihe time left In said year shall
near to the whole year; provided,
nevertheless, that such lax for a por
tion of the year shall in no event be
less that) one-fourth of au<*b annual
tax, except such as may Os ex
empt Irom i a sat ion by the laws of this
alute w of the fatted gtate#
The value of pergonal property to be
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taxed under this section of this ordin
ance, the particulars and character of
the business for which a tax is required
under the fourth section of this ordin
ance, shall be ascertained by means of
the returns hereinafter prescribed.
Sea 4. Every person transacting,
or offering to transact, any of the
kinds of business hereinafter specified
(whether in connection with any other
business or not), shall pay the tax
hereinafter prescribed for every sep
arate place in which he shall transact
or offer to transact business, viz.:
Every shipmaster, captain, super
cargo, agent or other officer of
any vessel, or other persons 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, except through a licensed bro
ker or commission merchant, snail be
considered a commission merchant and
pay the tax hereinafter prescribed for
commission merchants.
Auctioneers and commission mer
chants or Auctioneers with the privilege of
selling at auction, two hundred dollars.
Dealers in goods, wares and mer
chandise, including dealers in drugs,
etc. (in addition to liquor tax or
license), as follows:
Dealers exclusively retail, except
those conducting a department store,
thirty dollars.
Dealers conducting a department
store, one hundred dollars.
Dealers exclusively wholesale, or re
tail dealers selling at wholesale, one
hundred dollars; those conducting de
partment stores In no event paying a
smaller tax than that provided for in
the preceding paragraph.
Dealers in liquor doing a wholesale
business, two hundred dollars.
Brokers in liquor, two hundred dol
lars.
Banker or bank agent or agents of
bankers engaged in buying or selling
exchange, including every person or
company doing a banking business,
fifty dollars.
Every bank or trust company with
out a savings department attached,
and every savings bank, fifty dollars.
Every bank or trust company with a
savings department attached, seventy
five dollars.
Every person, firm or corporation,
other than those paying the license just
mentioned required by banks, and bank
ers buying and selling exchange, fifty
dollars.
Cotton brokers, or brokers or deal
ers in stocks, bonds and real estate,
and every produce, grocery, and naval
stores broker, and every resident agent
representing non-resident dealers, mer
chants and manufacturers, exclusive
of brokers in liquors, seventy-five dol
lars.
Persons other than a pawnbroker en
gaged in the business of lending money
on personal property or choses in
action two hundred dollars.
A money lender as contemplated by
the foregoing paragraph, being one
who carries on the business of
lending his own or other peo
ple’s money, and not as a
stock and bond broker, chartered bank,
private banker, negotiator of loans on
realty, real estate agent, or dealer in
bonds and stocks, but who carries on
the business of lending money on per-'
sonal security or personal property
other than stocks and bonds, such an
one shall be deemed a money lender.
Brokers or agents buying and selling
futures on a margin, five hundred dol
lars.
Brokers or dealers in stocks, bonds,
real estate and live stock, with the
privilege of selling same at auction, one
hundred dollars.
Brokers or. dealers in real estate may
collect rents without paying further
tax.
Brokers who may handle or receive
goods on consignment, one hundred dol
lars.
Ship brokers, one hundred dollars.
Dealers In butter, lard and cheese,
eighty dollars.
Dealers in hides, wax and tallow,
eighty dollars.
Brokers engaged In the sale of horses,
cattle or mules, who keep no stables
for the sale of same, one hundred dol
lars.
Pawnbrokers, five hundred dollars;
said pawnbrokers shall be authorized
to sell only goods pledged with them,
and shall be subject to forfeiture of
license by the Mayor for the sale of
other goods.
Building and loan associations, one
hundred dollars.
Loan Associations, doing a banking
business, one hundred dollars.
Persons and corporations carrying
on the business of furnishing abstracts
of land titles, or warranting the same,
fifty dollars.
Every fire or life Insurance company
or association doing business, whether
directly or through an agency or through a
broker, two hundred dollars for each
and every agency or broker.
Every agent or broker doing business
in the city of Savannah for every fire
of life insurance company which he
may represent in any way, including
each company to which he may send
business, shall pay the tax of two
hundred dollars In all cases where the
company does not pay the tax itself.
Brokers doing business under the act
of the Legislature of Georgia, approved
December, 14, 1894, and entitled “An
Act to provide for and regulate the
business of Insurance brokers in this
state, and to authorize insurance to be
procured by them beyond the limits of
the state upon property within the
state, and for other purposes,” are ex
pressly included, the meaning and In
tent being to make the agents and
brokers referred to responsible under
the pains and penalties of this ordi
nance for the specific tax of two hun
dred dollars, as provided for by ordi
nance of the city of Savannah, adopted
on the 25th day of September, 1895.
Every marine, surety or other insur
ance company doing business whether
directly or through an agency or
through a broker or an attorney, fifty
dollars for each and every agency or
broker or attorney. Every such agent,
broker or attorney doing such business
in the city of Savannah for every such
company which he may represent in
any way, shall pay a tax of fifty dol
lars in all cases where the company
does not pay the tax Itself, and this
provision shall apply to any agent,
broker or attorney who does business
for a marine company on what Is
known as "open policies.”
Every accident Insurance company
doing business,, whether directly or
through an agency or through a broker,
one hundred dollars, for each and every
agency or broker. Every company,
corporation or person not doing
the business of a regular life Insurance
company or of a regular accident in
surance company, but nevertheless en
gaged in the business of paying sick
or accident benefits to policy holders,
shall pay u specific tax of fifty dollars.
Every person who shall be sworn by
the Mayor (who is hereby authorized
to administer the oath for such pur
pose) as a public weigher of any goods,
wares or merchandise, twenty-five dol
lars.
Every average or Insurance adjuster
for companies for which he Is not the
local insurance agent, fifty dollars.
Keepers or proprietors of hotels, con
ducted on either European or Ameri
can plan, that contain seventy-five
rooms or upward, one hundred dollars.
Keetwrs or proprlttors of hotels, con
ducted on either EXtropeau or Ameri
can plan, containing under seventy-five
rooms, fifty dollars.
Hewing machine agent* or agencies,
fitly dollars; the same for ss/h and
svery agency.
Dealers In sewing machine*, or deal
ers In sewing machine supplies, or re
pairer* of sewing machines, fifty dot
tars
Dealers in coal, one hundred dollar*.
Dealer* In stationery or books, sell- j
log exclusively st wholesale, or x( IS- |
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tail and wholesale, one hundred dol
lars.
Retail dealers in stationery or books,
thirty dollars.
Oil mills, one hundred dollars.
Manufacturers of or dealers in fer
tilizers, not paying tax as a commis
sion merchant, one hundred dollars.
Every cotton or yam mill, fifty dol
lars.
Owners, proprietors, lessee or lessees
of each cotton compress plant, one
hundred and fifty dollars; every hand
cotton press, twenty-five dollars.
Owners, proprietors, lessee or lessees
of a junk shop, or Junk dealers, three
hundred dollars.
Cotton pickeries, to be confined ex
clusively to the purchase or sale of
cotton, one hundred dollars.
Buyers of loose cotton, who buy from
others than cotton merchants, one
hundred and seventy dollars.
Proprietors or owners of cotton gin
establishments, one hundred dollars.
Every commission merchant or fac
tor, one hundred dollars.
Every dealer in live poultry or coun
try produce, one hundred dollars.
House cleaning and upholstering, ten
dollars.
Dealers in bicycle supplies, thirty
dollars.
Repairers of bicycles, who are not
dealers in bicycle supplies, ten dol
lars.
Exporters of cotton, lumber, naval
stores, or other merchandise, foreign or
coastwise, agency or representative of
firm of exporters, two hundred dollars.
Stevedores, fifty dollars.
Every lighterage or river transfer,
individual firm or company, one hun
dred dollars.
Every tow boat company, person or
persons, firm or corporation conducting
a tow boat business, fifty dollars for
each boat used in the business.
Every dredging company, person or
persons, firm or corporation conduct
ing the business of dredging, fifty dol
lars for each dredge used in the bus
iness.
Proprietors or owners of lumber
yards, fifty dollars.
Proprietors or owners of saw mills
or planing mills, with or without lum
ber yards attached, one hundred dol
lars.
Proprietors or owners of saw mills or
planing mills having an office or stor
age place in the city, or regularly sup
plying customers in Savannah by means
of vehicles, using the streets of the
city, shall be subject to this tax of one
hundred dollars.
Each sash and blind factory, or
agency of sash and blind factory, fifty
dollars.
On the owner or proprietor of every
steam engine used for hoisting pur
poses, or any other business where
steam is used, not regularly taxed, as
in this ordinance stated and enumer
ated, twenty-five dollars.
Dealers in brick or agents for sale of
brick, seventy-five dollars.
Dealers in wood, thirty dollars.
Keepers of warehouses for the stor
age of cotton, merchandise, goods, etc.,
for each warehouse, thirty dollars.
Proprietors or owners or keepers of
billiard or pool tables, other than those
used in private dwellings, ten dollars
for each table.
Proprietors or owners of bagatelle
tables, ten dollars for each table.
Proprietors or owners of ten pin al
leys, ten dollars for each alley.
Cotton shippers, twenty-five dollars.
Cotton weighers, twenty-five dollars.
Shoemakers, ten dollars.
Merchant tailors, thirty dollars.
Every circus, with or without a me
nagerie, for each and every day per
forming in the city, five hundred dol
lars, without discount.
Itinerant shows, one hundred dollars
per week or any part thereof, without
discount.
Flying horses, twenty-five dollars
per month or any part thereof, without
discount.
Other minor exhibitions, ten dollars
per week or any part thereof, without
discount.
Athletic exhibitions, where entrance
fee is charged, fifty dollars.
Dealers or vendors of goods, wares,
merchandise, drugs, and small wares,
selling or introducing the same for sale
by means of public exhibitions, one
hundred dollars per week, or any part
thereof, without discount.
Hand organs, or strolling bands of
musicians, five dollars per week, with
out discount.
Every person, company or corpora
tion engaged in the business of operat
ing or running a theater for theatrical
exhibitions, three hundred dollars per
annum.
Every theatrical troupe, minstrel
troupe or other troupe acting or per
forming in any public hall in this city
other than a theater, shall pay five dol
lars for each performance, without dis
count.
Every proprietor,of a concert hall or
variety show shall pay a license of
one thousand dollars.
Persons or partnerships running a
grist mill, thirty dollars.
Every person running a flour mill or
flour and grist mill, thirty dollars.
Bread or cake bakeries carried on by
means of steam, machinery or other
motive power, fifty dollars.
If carried on without steam or other
motive power, thirty dollars.
General contractors, whose contracts
are not confined to any particular Une
or department of work, seventy-five
dollars.
Master builders, masons, mechanics
and others, whether dealers or not, who
do not pay the tax required by the pre
ceding paragraph of general contrac
tors, thirty dollars.
Architects or other persons acting as
superintendent of construction, civil
engineers, surveyors, contractors,
thirty dollars.
Collectors, twenty-five dollars.
Cut rate ticket dealers, agents or
' broaers and ticket scalpers, fifty dol
lars.
Proprietors or owners of Intelligence
offices, ten dollars for each office.
Mercantile or commercial agencies,
one hundred dollars.
Boot-black stands, not Inside of a
building, to be located by the Street
and.Lane Committee, each, chair, five
dollars.
Daily newspapers printed by steam,
or other motive power, one hundred
dollars.
Every weekly or other newspaper
printed by steam or other motive pow
er. fifty dollars.
Every dally newspaper worked by
hnnd, twenty-five dollars.
Every weekly newspaper worked by
hand, ten dollars.
Job printing offices worked by steam,
gas, water or other motor, fifty dollars.
Job printing offices worked without
steam, gas, water or other motor,
twenty-five dollars.
Every proprietor of a book bindery
without a printing office, fifteen dol
lars.
Manufacturers of soda water, selling
from founts, twenty-five dollars.
Manufacturing and bottling soda,
fifty dollars.
Selling soda water from founts, ten
dollars for each fount.
Public laundries, run by steam or
slectrlclty, fifty dollars.
Public laundries, run without steam
or electricity, twenty-five dollars.
Bottlers of beer or ale. fifty dollars
Hoap boilers or tanners, for each es
tablish men t, ten dollars.
Barber shops, four dollars for each
choir, and If cigars or tobacco be sold
thersln, an additional tat of ten dollars
shall be paid.
Persons engaged In the business of
gas filling or plumbing, or both, shall
take out X Mesnss, for which he shall
pay thirty dollars, and shall comply !
with the provision* of an ordlnanc*
adopted February 9th, 1991, and amend- I
*d November IWh, ISM. and further I
emended April HHh, IXtt,
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supplies, other than manufacturers
seventy-five dollars.
Daguerrean artists, photographers
ambrotypers and portrait painters’
twenty-five dollars.
Steamboat, vessel or other agencies
fifty dollars.
Every agency for ocean steamships
each line, two hundred dollars (200.00)’
Broom factories, thirty dollars.
Lampblack factories, fifty dollars.
Manufacturers of plaster or cement
fifty dollars.
Coppersmiths, fifty dollars.
Manufacturers of stills, one hundred
dollars.
Ice factories, one hundred dollars.
Ice factories h’avlng a storage place
or office in Savannah, or regularly sup
plying customers in this city by means
of vehicles using the streets of Sa
vannah, shall be subject to this tax
of one hundred dollars.
Each and every veterinary surgeon
thirty dollars.
Wholesale dealers in ice, one hun
dred dollars.
Every retail dealer In Ice, ten dollars
Each and every museum, twenty-five
dollars.
Gas companies, five hundred dollars.
Every electric light company, five
hundred dollars.
Restaurants or eating houses, twen
ty-five dollars.
Rice pounding or cleaning mills, with
or without grist mill attached, one hun
dred dollars.
Fortune tellers, palmist or astrolo
gers, five hundred dollars.
Pressing or cleaning clothes, ten dol
lars.
Breweries or persons manufacturing
any malt liquors, or agents of same
who have not already paid the whole
sale liquor and wholesale dealer’s tax,
five hundred dollars.
Breweries or manufacturers having
a storage place in the city of Savannah,
or regularly supplying customers in
Savannah by means of vehicles, using
the streets of Savannah, shall be sub
ject to this tax of five hundred dollars.
Manufacturers of cider or vinegar, or
either, fifty dollars.
Telephone companies or exchanges,
six hundred dollars each.
Each Independent telephone of two
stations, two dollars and fifty cents.
Street railroad companies, whether
under the control of another company
or not. In lieu of the specific tax here
tofore required, shall pay to the city
of Savannah for the privilege of doing
business in the city and for the use of
the streets of the city, at the rate of
one hundred dollars per mile or
fraction of a mile of track of the main
line, eliminating all switches and dou
ble tracks, and conforming the charge
to one line of track on each street used
in the city of Savannah by said rail
road company, (and it shall be the duty
of street railroad companies to make a
return under oath, through their prop
er official, of the amount of their track
age in the city of Savannah), and in
addition thereto, twenty-five dollars for
each and every car at any time used
by such company in the city; ft shall
also be required that each and every
railroad company doing business in this
city shall take out badges for all cars
employed by them, which badges shall
be furnished by the City Treasurer,
and which shall be numbered. It shall
furthermore be required that each and
every car employed by each and every
street railroad company shall have
such badge as hereinbefore provided se
curely fastened in a conspicuous place
upon the inside of each car.
Every automobile or locomobile used
as carriers of passengers for hire, con
veying six or less passengers, ten dol
lars; more than six, twenty-five dol
lars.
Proprietors or keepers of a skating
rink, twenty-five dollars.
Undertakers or coffin warehouses,
thirty dollars.
Persons engaged in load
ing or unloading vessels by
as carriers of passengers for hire, con
veying six or less passengers, ten dol
lars; more than six, twenty-five dol
lars.
Proprietors or keepers of a skating
rink, twenty-five dollars.
Undertakers or coffin warehouses,
thirty dollars.
Persons engaged In loading or unload
ing vessels by horse power, twenty-five
dollars for each hoisting apparatus
used.
Express companies, five hundred dol
lars, and, in addition thereto six dol
lars for every one-horse baggage ex
press wagon, and twelve dollars for
every two-horse baggage express wag
on employed by such companies.
Bill posters or distributors of bills,
or advertisements, one hundred dollars.
Blacksmith shops, each forge, eight
dollars.
Cooper shops, twenty dollars.
Carriage repositories, one hundred
dollars.
Every carriage or wheelwright shop
for manufacturing or repairing, twen
ty-five dollars.
Cigar manufacturers or retailers,
twenty dollars.
Dye houses, twenty dollars.
Millinery establishments, ten dollars.
Gunsmith establishments, ten dollars.
Foundries, exclusively brass, thirty
dollars; other foundries, fifty dollars.
Machine shops, fifty dollars.
Every foundry and machine shop, one
hundred dollars.
Menageries, fifty dollars per day.
Marble and stone yards, fifty dollars.
Wholesale or retail dealers or ship
pers In fish or oysters, doing business
outside of city market, fifty dollars.
Shipping masters, one hundred dol
lars.
Shooting galleries, one hundred dol
lars.
Proprietors or keepers of green gro
ceries. orte hundred dollars.
Every dealer playing a tax as a whole
sale dealer, and every green grocer,
shall be permitted to carry on any bus
iness in the way of buying and selling
goods, wares and merchandise here
inbefore taxed, paying a less tax than
that of a wholesale dealer, without
paying any other specific tax, provided
that such business strictly belongs to
his special line of business for which
he has paid a specific tax.
Stencil cutters, twenty dollars.
Tailors, not registered as merchants,
ten dollars.
Proprietors or owners of marine rail
ways or dry docks, fifty dollars.
Every person engaged In the busi
ness of transporting or carrying goods,
wares, merchandise, passengers or bag
gage for hire, by means of wagons,
drays, trucks, carts, omnibuses or car
riages of any description, or of letting
carriages or other vehicles for hire,
shall pay a tax according to the num
ber and character of vehicle employed
In such business, vis.: Every person
employing one-horse cart or wagon, six
dollars; every person employing one
horse dray or truck, eight dollars: ev
ery person employing one-horse cab,
hock or buggy, or vehicle of any de
scription not otherwise specifically
mentioned, six dollars; every person
employing one two-horse cart or wag
on, dray or truck, or any other two
horse vehicle for drayage purposes,
twelve dollars; every person employ
ing one two-horse cab, hack, buggy,
omnibus, carriage or vehicle of any
description, eight dollars; every per
son employing one three-horse dray
or truck, eighteen dollars; every per
son employing one four-horse drey or
truck, twenty-five dollars; every per
son employing one four-horse omnibus,
thirty dollars, and tbe tag to be paid
by any person employing mors than
one vehicle of the same or different
kinds shall be according to the num
ber of vehicles employed at th# rata#
above specified
Every person transacting or of
fering to transact the buslnaae of
transporting or carrying goods, etc ,
passengers or baggage for hire, by
mesne of wagons, drays, trucks, street
railway car*, or other vehicles, and
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