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FROM STATESBORO
TO ATHENS
HR. GABBETT ENTHUSIASTIC.
VOHK OK STATESBORO AKD
SOUTHERN SOOX TO I)KGIK.
toinpany to Be Formed Under Laws
„f Maine This Week—Right ot
May. is Practically Settled and
ltoute Fully Determined—Rumor
That the Seaboard Will Take Over
the Statesboro and Saynnttah not
(onlirtned By President Gabbett.
Confidence in the success of the
project to build a railroad from States
boro to Athens was the cheering as
surance given yesterday by Mr. Cecil
Ga 'Oett, principal promoter of the en
ter! rise.
Mr. Gabbett talked interestingly
con erning the progress of his labors
to organize the company and interest
capital. After stating that the outlook
is very encouraging, he said work on
the roadway would perhaps commence
within the next five or six months. The
company was to have been organized
in Maine, under its law, this week,
but whether this had been done Mr.
Gabbett said he had not heard. After
the organization in Maine is effected
the company will be reorganized in
Georgia. .
Working' for Right of Way.
The route for the road has been defi
nitely determined. From Statesboro
the right of way is to Midville, from
jlidville to Louisville, from Louisville
to Thomson, from, Thomson to Wash
ington, from Washington to Smitho
nia. and thence to Athens.
The right of way has not all been
secured, and until it has been the
route between the places named can
not be exactly determined. The work
of closing the details for the exact
right of way will be proceeded with as
rapidly as practicable.
The line taps virgin territory and to
an already prosperous country, it will
bring the advantage of better markets
for products. To the towns along the
route it means added business, and to
Statesboro, where Mr. Gabbett has an
especial interest, it means better fa
cilities and increased population.
Seaboard and ibe S. & S.
Referring to the rumor that the Sea
board Air Line would secure control
of the Statesboro and Savannah Rail
way, of which Mr. Gabbett is president,
at the beginning of the new year, Mr.
Gabbett said such a move was not
likely. However, he said, he could not
say what might develop later.
There have been two postponements
of the annual meeting of the board of
directors of this road, and .this fact
caused many to think there was some
truth in the story. The next meeting
of the board of directors is set for
Dec. 13, in this city.
If the consolidation is effected it is
altogether probable that Mr. Gabbett
will thereafter devote all of his efforts
to the construction of the Statesboro
and Northern Railroad.
Statesboro is Prosperous.
Mr. Gabbett said more cotton had
been received in Statesboro this year
than ever before; and the merchants
are prosperous and jubilant. “The city
had recently established a waterworks
plant, and now hue electric lights,'*
said Mr. Gabbett. “It is building rap
idly and has the brightest prospects,
owing to the richness of the adjacent
country.”
He said he considered the people of
Statesboro as thoroughly loyal as in
any community where he has resid
ed. The lynching, he said, was an un
fortunate occurrence, and was more of
an accident than anything else. “I
never saw more law-abiding citizens
in my life than in Statesboro,” said
Mr. Gabbett.
BY WATERED RAIL.
The steamer Kansas City, of the
Ocean Steamship Company, will sail
for New York at 8 o’clock this morn
ing.
Mr. T. S. Moise, superintendent first
division. Central of Georgia, was out
of the city yesterday on business.
The railroads have pßaced in effect
home-seekers excursion rates from
Ohio, Mississippi gateways and points
beyond to Southern destinations. These
tickets are sold two days in each month
from December to April. The different
lines are doing all -within their power
to induce settlers to locate in the
South. The tickets are limited to
twenty-one days from date of sale.
Mr. George E. Armstrong, business
manager of the American Railway
Guide Company, Western section, with
headquarters in Chicago, called at the
several ticket offices in the city yester
day.
The Ocean Steamship Company is
distributing new cards in the interest
°f the line throughout Georgia, Florida
and Alabama. The steamship City of
Columbus is shown on the cards.
The Central of Georgia announces" a
fate of one and one-third fare on the
certificate plan to Atlant'a and return,
on ndcount of the poultry show, to be
hud by the Atlanta Poultry Associa
tion, Jan. 4 to U.
Mr. Duncan, chief clerk in the freight
agent's office at Columbia Has been
appointed freight agent, to succeed Mr.
Finney, transferred to Birmingham.
Mr. G. L. Candler, superintendent
of the Savannah division of the Cen-
Hal of Georgfa, returned yesterday
b -m a several days’ trip over the road.
'>n account of the Pan-American
Medical Congress, to be held at Pananfa
*Panama, Jan. 2, the railroads
have announced excursion l'ates to
' oion and return. The rate from Sa
'annah will be $70.80, and those who
ink advantage of it will be sent via
Orleans and the United Fruit
company’s steamship line. Tickets wiil
be sold Dec. 26, and will be limited
,f > thirty days. This is a rare chance
mi Savannah people to visit Panama
“t a, very reasonable rate.
•Mi James Menxlex, general freight
i of the Atlantic (Vast Line, la
Jfuveling in Southern Florida with
‘mm. Manager Horace M. Emerson
*>d other officials of the road.
'”>f *>f the most attiUcttve of the new
'“ '■ndars is that Just issued by the
’ 'board Air Line. There are four
* "ileal Illustrations, each bearing
months of the year. The first
“'■[ration shows the discovery of
tt ia by the Hpaulsh, the second Is
, h *'*b* at the battle of Hobklrk Hill.
(‘. b' l1 * depicts th* struggle between
(!,„ ' v *"iiitii- a nd the Merrlmae, and
vf 1 ,u rth Is a modern Industry view
‘-h krnen (Miming steel from the
n tl 11,11 ladle at the HlrinlngliMifi
d| H leant. The color work of the
ter |s rU h In tone and t he calender
'! „ ' 'bl *o the railway It advertises.
# >-five * cuts In etstrips to C< 11.
t/ ' r. A , Portsmouth. V*e.. wtll
* "ii* of the calendar*
High Class Druggists
AND- OTHERS.
better class of druggists, everywhere, are men of scientific attainments and high integrity,
Fc ,re t i ll * 1 Cl °l a S e ets of known value, in accordance with physicians’ prescriptions and
scientific formula. Druggists of the better class manufacture many excellent remedies, but
a waj s under onginax or officinal names and they never sell false brands, or imitation medicines.
ey are the men to deal with when in need of anything in their line, which usually includes
all standard remedies and corresponding adjuncts of a first-class pharmacy and the finest and
es ot toilet amcles and preparations and many useful accessories and remedial appliances,
he earning of a fair living, with the satisfaction which arises from a knowledge of the benefits
con erred upon their patrons and assistance to the medical profession, is usuallv their greatest
reward for long years of study and many hours of daily toil. They all know that Syrup of
igs is an excellent laxative remedy and that it gives universal satisfaction, and therefore they
are selling many millions of bottles annually to the weH informed purchasers of the choicest
remedies, and they always take pleasure in handing out the genuine article bearing the full
name of the Company California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of every package.
hey know that in cases of colds and headaches attended by biliousness and constipation and
of weakness or torpidity of the liver and bowels, arising from irregular habits, indigestion, or
over-eating, that there is no other remedy so pleasant, prompt and beneficial in its effects as
foyrup of £ lgs, and they are glad to Bell it because it gives universal satisfaotipn.
. ' J ' Tin S to the excellence of of Figs, the universal satisfaction whjch it gives and the
immense demand for it, imitations have been made, tried and condemned, Dut there are
+v, Vlt^Ua i , u SS lsts t° be found, here and there, who do not maintain the dignity and principles
of the profession and whose greed gets the better of their judgment, and who do not hesitate
to recommend and try to sell the imitations in order to make a larger profit Such preparations
sometimes have the name—“ Syrup of Figs”—or “Fig Syrup” and of some piratical concern,
fi ° tltloUC s y ru P company, printed on the package, but they never have the full name of
u i ° m P an y. California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of the package. The imitations
should be rejected because they are injurious to the system. In order to sell the imitations
they find it necessary to resort to misrepresentation or deception, and whenever a dealer passes
off on a customer a preparation under the name of “Syrup of Figs” or “Fig Syrup,” which
does not bear the full name of the California Fig Syrup Cos. printed on the front of the package,
he is attempting to deceive and mislead the patron who has been so unfortunate as to enter his
establishment, whether it be large or small, for if the dealer resorts to misrepresentation and
and deception in one case he will do so with other medicinal. agents, and in the filling of
physicians’ prescriptions, and should be avoided by every one who values health and happiness.
Knowing that the great majority of druggists are reliable, we supply the immense demand
for our excellent remedy entirely through the druggists, of whom it may be purchased every
where, in original packages only, at the regular price of fifty cents per bottle, b’ f as exceptions
exist it is necessary to inform the public of the facts, in order that all may decline or return
any imitation which may be sold to them. If it does not bear the full name o f the Company—
California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of every package, do not hesitate to return the
article and to demand the return of your money, and in future go to one of the better class of
druggists who will sell you what you wish and the best of everything in his line at reasonable prices.
The Governorship.
Willacooehee Sun: There are now
three announced candidates for Gov
ernor of Georgia in 1906—J. H. Estili,
of the Savannah News; Clark Howell,
of the Atlanta Constitution, ‘and former
Attorney General Boykin Wright, of
Augusta.
The Sun is personally acquainted
with all three of the candidates and
recognize in them gentlemen of emi
nent ability, and fully qualified to fill
the position to which they aspire.
While the Sun does not irrevocably
choose its candidate for the governor
ship thus early in the campaign, it does
not hesitate to say that the publishers,
In ti. ir individual capacity, supported
John Holbrook Estili two years ago,
and nothing has yet transpired to
change their .minds as to the superior
fitness of their candidate for the place.
The Sun is not disappointed with the
present administration. The qtate
needs now, as it did two years ago, a
thorough business administration. Be
lieving this, Candidate Estili looms up
In their minds as the man, par excel
lence, to place at the helm.
Statesboro Grocery Cloned By Sheriff.
Statesboro. Ga., Dec. 9.—The firm ot
O. C. Parker & Son, during a fancy
retail grocery business here in one of
the store rooms of the Simmon’s block,
w'as closed yesterday by Sheriff Ken
drick on an attachment taken out by
A. Ehrlich & Bro. of Savannah. The
amount involved is about S3OO. .Other
liabilities will probably reach $1,200,
With assets not known. The attach
ment is against the son, a single man,
and it is claimed that the business
passed into his hands some time ago
by a private s'ale, which, if true, will ex
clude the possibility of the father tak
ing a homestead exemption. O. C.
Parker is also proprietor of the Cen
tral Hotel, and has been in business
here for five or six months.
I’. S. Court at Valdosta.
Valdosta, Ga., Dec. 9.—Judge Speer
will convene the second session of the
United States court for the Southwest
ern division of the Southern district
here next Monday. The docket is a
large one, and it is expected the court
will be in session a week or more.
There are twelve cases upon the
criminal docket. Several civil cases
have been transferred from Savannah
and Macon. The deputies have been
out a week or more securing witnesses.
Tutt's Pills
will save the dyspeptic from many
days of misery, and enable him to cat
whatever be wishes. They prevent
SICK HEADACHE,
cause the food to assimilate and nour
ish the body, give keen appetite,
DEVELOP FLESH
and solid muscle. Elegantly sugaf
coated.
Take No Substitute.
OFFICIAL.
OFFICIAL PROCBEDIKGS OF COUN
CIL.
Continued from Eighth Page.
every keeper of a public or livery ata
ble, employing such vehicles tn his
business, and every other person keep
ing and using street railway cars, of
other vehicles. In other kinds of busi
ness, shall, upon paying the tax here
inbefore prescribed, take out a badge,
which will be furnished by the City
Treasurer, for each atreet car or vehi
cle to be employed In such business
(the number of street cars or vehicles
to be employed to be etated on oatn)
w hich shall be placed In a conspicuous
place on such vehicle or street car—
except vehicles kept by keepers of pub
lic or livery stables, to be let for hire,
and vehicles used for pleasure or con
venlence—and any person using or em
ploying any vehicle or street car on
such business without badge umxrn.
Picppt m iforMSld. "hull b* dotlbU*
taxed, and on conviction thereof In the
Police Court, uiey be fined In x su ra
not exceeding one hundred dollars, or
Imprisonment not more than thirty
days, or both, In the discretion of the
Court.
Keepers of sale and feed etablea, fif
ty duliete, but MKhtfig herein oonfaln-
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1901.
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ed shall authorize the keeper of such
sale and feed stables to sell any live
stock of any other person without first
paying the brokers’ or dealers’ tax as
required under this ordinance; every
keeper of a public or livery stable, fif
ty dollars; every keeper of feed stable
only, fifty dollars; every keeper of liv
ery, feed or sale stable, with privi
lege of selling live stock at auction,
one hundred dollars, and in addition
thereto, as a part of the same tax,
according to the number and character
of any vehicles employed In such busi
ness, either by letting for hire or in the
transportation of goods, passengers or
baggage, at the. rates above specified for
taxes to be paid by persons engaged
in the business of transporting, etc.,
for hire.
Persons employing or using one or
more vehicles of any sort to be drawn
by one or more horses or mutes in
connection with any business in which
he may be engaged, for the purpose
of delivering goods sold by them, or
in any other manner, shall pay, in ad
dition to the specific tax required of
them for such business, as a nart
thereof, a graduated tax similar to
that hereinbefore required of persons
engaged in the business of transport
ing, etc., for hire, according to the
number and character of such vehicles,
at the same rate.
Every owner of a wagon or other
vehicle used as moving advertise
ments, one hundred dollars.
Every push cart or barrow used as
moving advertisements, twenty-five
dollars.
Hucksters selling vegetables on the
streets, for which a badge shall be
issued and carried, six dollars; each
badge to be plainly exposed on the per
son of the huckster and not to be
transferable.
Dealers in ice cream, fruit, small
paint shops, vendors of small wares,
and keepers of a cook stove or cook
shop, ten dollars.
Persons selling from push carts or
other vehicles, except country carts
selling their own produce, one hun
dred dollars; upon payment of said
tax the treasurer shall furnish a
badge, which shall be placed in a con
spicuous place on such push cart or
vehicle.
Street dealers In poultry, for which
a badge shall be issued, ten dollars.
Manufacturers of patent medicines
not engaged in the business of a drug
gist, thirty dollars.
Persons or corporations doing mes
senger service or furnishing messen
gers on call, thirty dollars.
Agents, attorneys at law, brokers
and all other persons negotiating, or
advertising or offering to negotiate,
loans on re'al estate (except real estate
brokers negotiating loans In Immediate
(connection with sales or purchases
made by or through them), seventy
five dollars.
Burglar alarm companies or agents,
twenty-five dollars.
Dealers in bicycles, locomobiles, auto
mobiles, motor cycles, and all other
such vehicles, or agents for sale of
same, one hundred dollars.
Repairers of bicycles, locomobiles,
automobiles, motor cycles, land all other
such vehicles, who are not dealers in
same, nor agents for sale of same,
thirty dollars.
Manufacturers of baking powder, or
self-raising flour, or both, fifty dol
lars.
Retail dealers selling dressed poultry,
or fresh meats, in addition to the tax
of a retail dealer, seventy dollars.
Agencies and other business not
hereinbefore specially mentioned, thir
ty dollars.
Every drummer (other than a street
drummer or runner) or other person so
liciting trade or orders, or business for
another or for himself, whether resi
dent of this city or elsewhere and
having no fixed place of business in
this city, and every peddler and itiner
ant transient trader, and every tran
sient person, selling or offering to sell
by sample, shall pay the same tax re
quired of resident and stationary deal
ers in the same articles, and no of
ficer of the city shall be authorized to
reduce or in any wise change such tax
so required, nor shall such Itinerant
dealer be allowed to aell his wares
under the license of any auctioneer, or
the name ot any factor or commission
merchant who has paid hla tax aa
auch, until ha himself shall have paid
all taxea required of him by thla ordi
nance; provided, however, that any
tranalent person transacting, or offer
ing to transact, any of the kinds of
business mentioned In this paragraph,
selling or offering only to resident
dealers or manufacturers In the spe
cific article or commodity Bold or of
fered by him or her, and not bringing
Into or heaping In th* city any stock
for the purpose of dollv*ry, shall not
bs required to pay any lax or ilcena*
fe*
A a treat drummor or runner •olicit-
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ing customers for the local trade shall
pay a tax of one hundred dollars for
each house for which he solicits and
in addition shall wear a badge plain
ly exposed, designating his business.
In default of such badge he shall be
subject to a fine not exceeding fifty
dollars, and to imprisonment not ex
ceeding ten days, either or both, in the
discretion of the court upon conviction
before the Police Court of the city of
Savannah.
Every person or corporation
owning or holding in trust or on con
signment, personal property in said
! city on the first day of January, 1905,
liable to be taxed under the third and
fourth sections of this ordinance, except
stocks in banks and banking associa
tions organized under the laws of this
state or of the United States, shall
•make a return thereof, as provided by
an ordinance of the city of Savannah,
passed March 22, 1899, touching the
Board of Tax Assessors for the city
of Savannah, and under the rules and
regulations of said board.
The President or acting President of
any bank or banking association loca
ted in said city, shall, by the 21st day
of January, 1906, make a return to the
Board of Tax Assessors of the stock of
■ said bank or banking association, and
the value thereof, and shall be taxed
upon the basis of such value, and in
the event of the failure or refusal of
a President or acting President to make
this return, then it shall be the duty
of the Board of Tax Assessors to as
sess the said stock with the power in
the said Board of Tax Assessors to
double tax the said-bank or banking
association. Every person liable to
taxation under this ordinance
shall make a return of the
business in which he is engaged, and
of the number and character of the
vehicles by which his tax is to be
graduated by the Board of Tax Asses
sors by the 21st day of January, 1905,
and every person commencing to carry
on any of the said kinds of business or
Increasing the number of his vehicles,
or commencing to keep and use ve
hicles, after the first day of January,
1905, shall make a return thereof with
in ten days after so commencing or
increasing.
Section 6. The occupant of any
premises where a dog or dogs is or are
kept shall pay for every dog so kept
an annual license of one dollar. Upon
payment of this license a badge shall
be Issued to the person paying the
license for the dog: and every dog
found running at large without such
a badge shall be impounded, and if
not claimed in forty-eight hours, shall
be disposed of.
The ordinance of November 16,
1843. requiring badges to be
taken out for dogs, and prescribing
other regulations for dogs, so far as
the provision* of the same are not in
consistent with this ordinance, is here
by re-ordained and declared to be in
full force. • Every person failing to
take out a license for a dog, or falling
to pay such license, as required by
this ordinance, shall, upon con
viction before the Police Court
of the city, of Savannah, be eubject to
a fine not (and exceed three dollars, with
the alternative of imprisonment not to
exceed thfee days.
The number of dogs kept as provided
for in this section of this ordinance
shall be ascertained by means of the
returns now prescribed.
Every person having a dog
or dogs on the first day of Jan
uary, 1905, shall make a return there
of to the Board of Tax Assessors by
the 21st day of January, 1905, and ev
ery person bringing a dog or dogs Into
the city after that date, to be kept
here, shall make a similar return with
in ten days after so bringing In such
dog or dugs.
Sec. 6. All taxes hereby required for
real and personal property held on the
first day of January, 1905, and for bus
iness in whtch any person shall be en
gaged at that date, and of persons hav
ing vehicles and dogs In said city at
that date, shall be considered as due
on the first day of January, 1905, and
all taxes required of persons cornmenc
lng to transact any business for 'which
a tax Is required, after the first day of
January, 1906, or commencing after
that date to use vehicles and street
railway cars not then In use, or bring
ing any dog or dogs Into said city,
shall be due Immediately upon the
commencing of such business, using
such vehicles, or bringing such dog
Into the city. And all taxes of every
kind shall be payable to tb* City Treas
urer; provided, neverthelee*. that any
tax upon property assessed for the
whole year may be paid quarterly, at
the option of the taxpayer, computing
from the first day of January. Itot,
but In the event that any quarter’s tax
is not paid when 'he same Is payable,
then the Treaeurer shall loeut an ex
ecution for the amount of the tax for i
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the year remaining unpaid, as herein
after provided. But any person or
firm commencing business in thta city
after July 1, l’Jos.or running after thui
date vehicles for the transporatlon of
goods, wares or merchandise, or pas
sengers. which were not run before
that date, upon making prompt return
of the same within ten days, after such
business has commenced, or such ve
hicles have been run. he or they shall
be taxed on half of the yearly tax as
sessed by this ordinance, provided said
tax be paid within fifteen days after
such return: otherwise the entire tax
shall be collected. The term vehicle,
as used in this section, shall Include
street railway cars, automobiles, loco
mobiles. and all other motor vehicles.
Fee. 7. If any person or corporation
shall refuse or neglect to pay any tax
required by this ordinance within thir
ty days after the same shall be due
and payable as above provided, or shall
neglect or refuse to pay any double
tax assessed, as above provided for.
twenty days after notice has been
served on such persons or corporations
of such assessment, the City Treasurer
shall issue executions therefor and for
the further sum of one dollar for cost,
and the City Marshal shall proceed
with such executions In tne same man
ner as a Sheriff does under the execu
tions from the Superior Courts of this
State, subject to the provisions of the
act of the General Assembly of the
State of Georgia, passed February 27,
1877, and acts amendatory thereof.
Every person or corporation who
shall pay his or its taxes on real or
personal property, or both, promptly
within fifteen days after th*
first of April, July, October
and January, the time herein
before specified for the payment
thereof, shall be entitled to a deduction
of 10 per centum of the amount there
of, and the City Treasurer is hereby
directed to make such deduction upon
the receipt of the tax; and every per
son or corporation who shall pay any
other taxes required by this ordinance
promptly within thirty days after the
same shall become due, shall be en
titled to a reduction of 10 per centum
of the amount thereof, and the City
Treasurer is hereby directed to make
buch a reduction upon the receipt of the
tax.
Sec. 8. Every person transacting
or offering to transact, either of the
kinds of business hereinafter named
who are in business on the first day ot
January, 1905. shall, within thirty days
after the first day of January, 1905,
take out a license therefor, viz: Every
auctioneer, every broker, every com
mission merchant, every plumber, every
barber and ail others doing business
without any stock in trade; every
owner or lessee of a Junk shop or cot
ton pickery; every junk dealer, every
vendor of small wares, hucksters,
hawkers, including dealers in ice cream,
fruit and poultry, keeper of a cook
stove or cook shop; and It is hereby
declared to be the meaning of this or
dinance that the license granted to any
auctioneer shall not authorize such
auctioneer to sell for any transient
dealer, unless such transient dealer has
first paid all taxes required of him by
this ordinance. Every licensed auc
tioneer shall have the privilege of ap
pointing one assistant crier, and who
shall be a citizen of Savannah, whose
name shall be recorded in the Treas
urer’s office and entered on the license
issued. And no person shall be per
mitted to be an auctioneer or vendue
master until he shall have complied
with the conditions contained in Sec
tion 3562 pf the Code of Georgia. And
in every lioense taken out by the owner
or lessee of a Junk shop or cotton pick
ery, or by a Junk dealer, It shall be
distinctly expressed that such a junk
shop or cotton pickery, or Junk dealer,
shall always be subject to the visita
tion of the police of the city, and that
such persons shall not purchase from
any one under the age of 16 years, a
duplicate of which license, signed by
the person of persons taking out the
same, and expressing his or their assent
to such conditions, shall be retained by
the City Treasurer, and on refusal to
submit at any time to such visitation,
or on conviction in the Police Court of
having purchased from any one undei
the age of 16 years, such license shall
be revoked, and such junk shop or cot
ton pickery shall immediately be closed
by the Mayor. And every such Junk
shop, Junk dealer or cotton
pickery license shall be subject
to the further condition that
the same shall be subject to
revocation by the Mayor or Recorder
If, on examination before him in the
Police Court, he shall be satisfied and
shall so pronounce that any stolen
property is found in such Junk shop,
or in the possession of any junk deal
er; and such condition shall be ex
pressed In the license of every such
Junk shop or dealer. Every person re
quired by the provisions of this sec
tion, and by the ordinance passed In
Council March, 14th, 1883, In reference
to taking out licenses, who shall com
mence to transact, or offer to transact,
in this city any of the kinds of busi
ness mentioned in this section, after
the first day of January, 1905,5ha1l take
out license before commencing business,
as provided In said ordinance, passed
March 14th, 1883, which said ordinance
is of force. The license herein provided
for shall be issued by the City Treas
urer. And if any person transacting,
or offering to transact in said city,
either of the kinds of business in thte
section specified, shall be found with
out such license displayed In a con
spicuous manner in his, her or their place
of business, he, she or they shall, on
conviction thereof in the Police Court,
be fined in a sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars, or Imprisonment not
more than thirty days, or both, in the
discretion of the court.
Every person, company or corpora
tion required by this section to pay a
specific or business tax shall take out
a license or receipt, which shall state
the business or occupation in which
such person, company or corporation
Is authorized to engage, and which
shall be exhibited to the city marshal
or his deputy, at any time upon de
mand. And If any person, company or
corporation shall engage in any busi
nees or occupation for which such li
cense or receipt is required without
first taking out the same, or who shall
fail or refuse to exhibit the same upon
demand to the city marshal or his dep
uty, such person, company or corpor
ation shall, upon conviction before the
Police Court of the city of Savannah,
be subject to a fine not to exceed one
hundred dollars, and imprisonment not
to exceed thirty days, either or both.
In the discretion of the court.
No specific license or permit
to do business sifall be trans
ferable by any person or firm
unless the transferee be the bona fide
successor at the same place of the
transferer and unless all indebtedness
due on said license by the transferor Is
fully paid and anew bond
given by the transferee, where
ever a bond is required by
ordinance. But a person or firm
may transfer his license or permit from
one place to another with the per
mission of Council.
Sec, 8. On and after the first day
of January, 1805, the price of a license
to sell malt, vinous or spirituous liq
uors at retail within the corporate and
Jurisdictional limits of said city
tor one year shall be two
hundred dollars net, without
discount; but a license to sell at retail
may be letued upon paying one-fourth
of th* sum due for a yearly license and
upou giving notes besting • per cent.
Interest from January 1, liwo. when
parties are already In business, and
from date in rase parties
business during the year, with indorse
ments or sureties satisfactory to the
Mayor, to secure the payment of the
other three-fourths of said sums in
three equei payments, on tbs twelfth
of March, twelfth of June, anti twelfth
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of September, 1905, provided, however,
that upon default of any all the
note* shall become due and pay
able, the said payments to be
made whether the persons giving
such note* or surety shall go out
of business or not, and the applicant
shall be required to submit, as securi
ties. two responsible freeholders of this
city, as prerequisite to the Issue of said
license (no officer, clerk or employe of
the city shall be taken as security on
such bond or notes, and it shall be the
duty of the Mayor to pass upon such
notes or bonds before any license Is
issued hereunder); and no license for
the sale of malt, vinous, or spirituous
liquors shall cover any other business
whatever than the sale of malt, vinous
or spirituous liquors, and shall apply
to but one place for the sale of said
liquors, whether under one roof or oth
erwise. under a penalty of not more
than one hundred dollars. And no bar
room shall be licensed which has not
an entrance to it separate and distinct
from the entrance to the dwelling; and
the license may. In the discretion of the
Mayor or Recorder, be forfeited for any
violation of any State law or city or
dinance; and in the case of forfeiture
the license shall not be renewed for
the space of two years, except by per
mission of Council. And It shall be the
duty of the Clerk of Council to publish
quarterly an alphabetical list of all
persons licensed to sell liquor as afore
said. All such licenses shall be taken
out by persons already engaged In busi
ness within thirty days after the first
day of January 1905. and in the case
of persons wishing to commence busi
ness later In the year, before commenc
ing business; and any dealers In liquors
as aforesaid, falling or refusing to take
out a license to sell liquors, as afore
said, shall be liable to a penalty of not
more than one hundred dollars for
every day any such person may sell
without a license, or be Imprisoned for
thirty days, or both, upon conviction
thereof In the Police Court.
Bee. 10. That the Clerk of Council
be, and he is hereby directed to report
to Council at the first meeting In every
quarter the amount of money expend
ed for each department up to date of
report, and as soon as any department
making any disbursements shall have
reached the limits provided In the
budget, the Clerk of Council shall at
once notify the head of that depart
ment.
Sec. 11. This ordinance shall be sub
ject to alteration and repeal, In whole
or in part, at any time during the year
1905, should It be deemed advisable;
and no such amendment or repeal in
any particular shall be construed to im
pair the right of Council to assess and
levy a tax for the whole of said year
1905, whenever made.
Sec. 12. All ordinances and parts of
ordinances conflicting with the provis
ions of this ordinance are hereby re
pealed; provided, nevertheless, that so
much and such parts of ordinances
heretofore passed as provided for the
issuing and enforcement of executions
for any tax assessment, or part of tax
or assessment, required by any such or
dinance and now remaining unpaid,
shall continue and remain of force so
as to Authorize the Treasurer to issue
such executions and the Marshal to col
lect the same, until such taxes or as
sessment shall be fully paid.
By Alderman GaiTunkel.
An ordinance, providing for the In
spection, testing, proving and regula
tion of gas und electric meters In the
city of Savannah, Ga., prescribing
proper punishment for infractions of
this ordinance, creating the office of
inspector of meters in this city, de
fining and fixing his duties and for
other purposes connected therewith.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Sa
vannah. In Council assembled, that
from and after the passago of this
ordinance, each and all gas and elec
tric meters, then in use or thereafter
to be used in this city, shall be subject
to inspection, testing, proving and reg
ulations as hereinafter prescribed, to
the end, that the same shall register
accurately, the quantity of gas or elec
tricity, respectively, consumed or used
on the premises whereon such meters
may be located.
Sec. 2. Be It further ordained, that
the office of Inspector of meters Is
hereby created, and such officer shall
be appointed by the Committee on
Water, with the approval of the May
or, and he shall hold office during such
period of time as he shall satisfactor
ily perform the duties thereof; that
is to say, he may be removed at any
time by the Committee on Water, with
the approval of the Mayor, and a suc
cessor appointed in his place. The
salary of said official shall be such as
shall be fixed by the Committee on
Water, to be paid out of the city
treasury of Savannah, in equal month
ly Instalments.
Sec. 3. Be It further ordained, that
such Inspector shall be charged with
the duty of Inspecting, testing, prov
ing and regulating gas meters and
electric meters in the city of Savan
nah as prescribed herein, shall have
his office in and be attached to the
water department, and shall in addi
tion to the foregoing, perform such
other duties as may be assigned to
him by the superintendent of that de
partment or by the Committee on
Water.
Sec. 4. Be It further ordained, that
whenever any person In this city who
may have a gas or electric meter on
his premises, and who may be liable
to pay for consumption or use of gas
or electricity, shall desire to have such
meer inspected, tested, proved and reg
ulated, he shall, by himself or agent,
present to the city treasurer of Sa
vannah a written request to said In
spector to Inspect such meter, to ex
amine, lest, prove and ascertain the
accuracy of the registration of the
name, and to correct the same, if nec
essary, and shall then and there pre
pay to said city treasurer, the fee
for such work, towlt: One dollar for
each such meter removed from such
premises, tested, proved, (sealed and
replaced), whereupon, the said city
treasurer shall send at once the said
written request to said Inspector.
Thereupon, it shall be the duty of said
inspector to inspect, examine, test and
prove said meter so complained of. in
the presence of said complaining con
sumer, If he so desires, or In the pres
ence of the gas or electric company’s
employe, if It so desires, and if said
meter shall be found to be correct In
its registration, then said Inspector
shall stamp, seal or mark such meter
so found to be correct with some
proper, distinguishing and Intelligible
device, (and shall replace the same as
it was before), but. If. upon such test
and examination, the said meter shall
be found to register Inaccurately, then,
and In such event, upon the written
order of said Inspector on the city
treasurer, the fee paid by said con
sumer, as hereinbefore provided, shall
be returned to him, und a like amount
shall be paid to the city treasurer by
the gas or electric company, as the
case may be. whose manufacture of
gas or electricity has been consumed
on said premiaes, as a payment or
remuneration for the (removal), test
ing, (correcting, aeallng and replacing)
of such meter, and It shall be the duty
of such gas or electric company to
make such payment within five days
after it shall have been notified In
writing by the inepector of meters,
that such meter has been found to be
Inaccurate and haa been (corrected),
and stamped, sealed or marked aa
aforesaid (and replaced). Th* said
five days shall date from the time,
when such written notice shall have
been mailed by the Inspector In the
Savannah poetoAi< •, addressed to said
gas or electric company.
Th* apparatus used by the Inspector,
end the mode of Uotiitg practised by
nim shall be such a* may be approv
ed by tbs CeiutulUe* mi Water
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If in testing and proving any sue!
meter, the inspector shall find that i‘
is so worn, that it cannot be correct
ed and made useful and adequate foi
the purposes of registration, he shat
condemn the same and give written
notice accordingly to the gas or elec
tric company interested, as the cas*
may be, and said condemned meter
shall not be replaced, but it shall be
the duty of such gas or electric com
pany in suck event, to replace said
vseless meter, with anew one, which
must be previously proved to be cor
rect by the Inspector and be sealed
or marked by him. and for said serv
ice the said company shall pay a fee
of twenty-five cents into the city treas
ury, and the city treasurer's receipt
for the same shall be exhibited to the
inspector, before he shall seal or mark
said meter to be correct.
Sec. 5. Be It further ordained, that
it shall not be lawful for any gas or
electric company, under any circum
stances, to charge or collect, in the
city of Savannah, for any greater
amount of gas or electricity, aa the
case may be. than is registered by
the meters, respectively.
Sec. 6. Be It further ordained, that
In case any gas or electric company
in the city of Savannah, or any official
thereof, shall fall or refuse to com
ply with the provisions of this ordi
nance, or any of them, such person,
corporation or official of such cor
poration so violating the same, shall
on conviction before the Police Court
of the city of Savannah, be punished
for each and every such offense by
a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or
Imprisonment not exceeding thirty
days, either or both, in the discretion
of the court.
Sec. 7. Be it further ordained, that
all ordinances and parts of ordinances.
In conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Committee of the Whole.
Resolved, That the Street and Lane
Committee be authorized to expend
$1,250.00 in the house drainage depart
ment for the purpose of extending th*
16-inch outlet sewer on West Brctod
street to the harbor line.
Adopted.
By Committee of the Whole.
Resolved, By the Mayor and Aider
men of the eity of Savannah, in Coun
cil assembled. That the num of $356.25
for municipal taxes for th# year 1993
against the 8a van Hah Port Boelety be
and the same is hereby, directed to be
paid from the treasury of the city of
Savannah to the Savannah Port So
ciety to be applied to the payment of
said taxes.
Adopted.
By Committee of the Whole.
Resolved, by the Mayor and Aider
men of the city of Savannah in Counoil
assembled, That the sum of $1,118.95 be,
and the same is. hereby appropriated
out of the treasury of the city of Sa
vannah to be paid to the Union Society,
or to J. H. Estlll, president thereof,
so that said sum may be applied to the
payment of taxes against said society
(municipal), for the year 1908.
Adopted.
By the Committee of the Whole.
It appearing that certain amounts
of money hereinafter named have been
assessed against certain churches in
the city of Savannah for their propor
tion of street paving along their front
ages, and It being clear to Council that
said churches are Institutions which
tend to the inculcation of morality,
obedience to law and good order gen
erally, therefore it is resolved by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
Savannah, in Council assembled, That
the sum of money hereinafter named
be appropriated from the treasury of
the city of Savannah to be paid out
to said churches, or the officials there
of, to be applied to the payment of
said respective assessments for pav
ing, that is to say:
First. To the trustees of Grace
Methodist Episcopal Church the sum
of $214.14 shall be paid as aforesaid, to
be applied in the payment of the assess
ment against them for the portion
chargeable to said church In the pav
ing of Park avenue with vitrified
brick.
Second. That the sum of $183.56 be
paid out of the treasury to the trustees
of the Lutheran Church of the Ascen
sion, to cover the payment of the bills
against said church for the paving
of State street with vitrified brick,
the said sum to be applied to staid
bill.
Third. That the sum of $186.92 be
paid as aforesaid to the Duffy Street
Baptist Church, or its officer*, to be
applied to the payment of the assess
ment against said church for paving
Abercom street with virtrlfted brick.
Fourth. That the sum of $331.74 be
appropriated as aforesaid to the Rev.
J. S. McCarthy, to be applied to the
payment of the bill for street paving
against Bt. Patrick's Church for re
placing the stone pavement on West
Broad street with one of vitrified brick.
Fifth. That the sum of $165.74 be.
and the same Is hereby, appropriated
as aforesaid to St. Michael’s Church,
or the senior warden thereof, to be
applied to the assessment against said
church for Its proportion of the street
paving on Habersham street of vitri
fied brick.
Sixth. That the amount of $148.03
be, and the same Is hereby, appropri
ated as aforesaid to Grace Methodist
Episcopal Church, or to the officers
thereof, to be applied to the payment
of the bill against tf-tid church for Its
portion of the paving of Jefferson street
with granite blocks.
Adopted.
There being no further business.
Council took a recess, subject to the
call of the chair.
J. ROBERT CREAMER.
Clerk of Council.
ARREARS FOR GROUND RENT.
City of Savannah, Office City Treas
urer, Dec. 1, 1994.—The following lots
are in arrears for ground rent, of
which owners are hereby notified.
C. S, HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
Calhoun Ward—Lot 3, 2 qrs.; west
1-5 lot 4, 2 qrs.: east H lot 42. 2 qrs.
Chatham Ward—East 1-8 lot 10, 2
qrs.; west 2-3 lot 10. 2 qrs; lot 21, 2
qrs.; mid. 1-2 lot 27. 2 qrs.
Columbia Ward—North Vi lot 25, 2
qrs.
Crawford Ward—North V 4 lot 21, 2
qrs.; lot 25, 2 qrs.; lot 26, 2 qrs.; lot
27, 2 qrs.; lot 35, 2 qrs.; northwest
part lot 68, 2 qrs.
Elbert Ward—West part lot 24, 2
qrs.; southeast part lot 24, 2 qrs.;
east 2-3 lot 29. 2 qrs.
Franklin Ward—Part lot 21, 2 qrs.;
lot 24, 2 qrs.; east Vi lot 27, 2 qrs.
New Franklin Ward—West Vi lot 1.
2 qrs.; lot 2, 2 qrs.; lot 9, 2 qrs.; east
Vi lot 14, 2 qrs.
Greene Ward—Lot 7, 2 qrs.; lot t, 2
qrs.; east Vi lot 11, 2 qrs.; south Vi
lot 16, 2 qrs.; south Vi lot 25. 2 qrs.
Jackson Ward—East Vi lot 13, 2 qrs.;
lot 27, 2 qrs.; lot 28, 2 qrs.
Jasper Ward—Lot 9, t qrs.; west At
lot 21. 2 qrs.; lot 24, 2 qrs.; lot 37, 2
qrs.; lot 42, 2 qrs.; west Vi lot 46. 2
qrs.
Lafayette Ward-West Vi lot TANARUS, 2
qrs.; lot 21, 2 qrs.; lot 22. 2 qrs.; lot
42. 2 qrs.
Monterey Ward—East Vi lot 11, 2
qrs,
Pulaski Ward—Lot 4, 2 qrs.; tot I, 1
qrs.
Stephens Ward-Lot 16, 2 qrs.
Troup Ward—West Vi lot 1 2 qrs,
Warren Ward- -U>t 22. 3 qrs.
Washington Ward—North 1-3 of
south % lot 11, 2 qrs.; lot 31, 2 qrs.
All persona having interest In above
lots sr* hereby notified that if th*
* mounts now due are not paid to the
city treasurer uo or before Dec. $4
met , will pro-red *0 the morning of
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