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SHOT A NEGRO
OFF HIS HORSE
BELIEVED HE WAS PURSUED.
XKGHO HAD BROKEA
INTO TWO HOI'SES.
Detectives Hnrrierl to Scene ot
Shooting;. lint Ainu AA’ho Flrerl Gon
Had Made Hi* Escape—Shooting
Took Place at Alaiiama Junction.
Injured Alun Ha* a Chance to Re
cover—Bundle of t lot lie* and Gan
Left Behind.
Robert Bacon, a negro 21 years of
nge. was shot in the side with a load
of duck shot and mortally wounded
yesterday at noon, two miles from Sa
vannah on the Atlantic Cohst Line road
at a point known as the Alabama Junc
tion.
There were no eye-witnesses to the
shooting, and the identity of the man
Avho fired is as yet unknown. Bacon
v*as able, however, to give a minute
description of him to the detectives,
end the direction in which he went.
A telephone message was received at
Police Headquarters shortly after 1
o’clock, stating that a negro had been
murdered at the Alabama junction. De
tectives Wail and Murphy were detail
ed on the case. Accompanied by a Morn
ing News reporter they went to the
scene of the shooting on a special train.
Mounted officers Eivers and Best also
went to the scene to assist in captur
ing the guilty party, as it was stated
he had made his escape.
llucon AVa* Hilling Hone.
When the detectives arrived on the
scene the keeper of the signal station
and several laborers near by had mov
ed the wounded man to his father's
house, about 200 yards from where the
shooting occurred. He was perfectly
conscious, but in great pain.
According to Bacon’s statement, he
■was riding a horse, and w'as carrying
cows to pasture when he was shot. He
was knocked from the horse, but kept
his hold on the bridle, the horse stand
ing perfectly still. He said he did not
see the man who did the shooting un
til he was right on him.
He had just crossed the railroad
track, when, without a word of warn
ing, the man, who was sitting near the
load side, apparently having been in
hiding, rose, leveled his gun and fired.
He did not utter a word, and immedi
ately started running down the road in
the direction of the city. He carried
a large bundle of clothing, which he
left in the road after going about 100
yards.
Bacon managed to crawl back across
the railroad, where he was found by
those who went from his house to
see what had caused the shooting.
The description furnished toy the
wounded negro was that his assailant
was short and very black. He had a
single barrel gun, wore a white or
light-colored shirt and seemed a lit
tle crippled in one foot.
AsNiiilant Made Hi* E*eape.
Men at the signal station soon after
the shooting stated they saw the man
pass going in the direction of the city.
He had evidently hidden the gun, as
he did not have any at that time.
Some of those at the Florida Junction
slated they saw the negro leave the
dirt road, just before getting to a
trestle over the Ogeechee canal and
go towards the Georgia Car Works.
The bundle of clothing was exam
ined by the detectives, and brought
back to the city. From the articles it
contained it was evident the man who
did the shooting had robbed some
house and was under the impression
he was being pursued by Bacon, which
caused him to shoot.
Just how serious the wounded ne
gro’s condition is has not yet been de
termined. as no doctor had appeared
up to the tirrje the detectives left the
scene. The greater part of the load
entered his left side, just below the
arm pit. A portion of the load made
a great wound In his arm. The wound
ed man is a son of Israel Bacon, a
highly respected negro who is engaged
in truck farming, and also works for
one of the cotton compresses. He
conducts a farm on the Telfair place.
Two House* Were Robbed.
Last night Anna Wing, a colored
woman who lives about a mile from
where the shooting occurred, called at
police headquarters and stated that her
home had been broken into and a
large amount of clothing carried off.
She named the missing articles and de
scribed them, establishing beyond all
question that the bundle of clothing
which was found near the shooting
belonged to her and had been stolen
from her house.
Henry Verand, another negro who
ltve* next door to the Wing woman,
also called on the police and report
ed that his house had been broken
into and a single barrel shot gun stol
en. The gun has not yet been found.
It Is supposed that the negro who stole
It threw it in the grass beside the
road.
THE NATURE OF SIN
SUBJECT OF SERMON.
Instructions of Missloners Were
Along Similar Line*.
"Sin” ‘ was the subject of both the
sermon and the Instructions at St.
Paul s Church last night, and despite
the cold, rainy, weather, the church
was well-filled with attentive listeners.
Rev. Father Huntington conducted the
instruction* and Rev. Father Hugh
sori preached the sermon.
The sermon was characterized by
conciseness, clearness, and logical ex
position of the subject. Sin was treat
ed of in Its different stages. In Its dif
ferent classes, and in the different
ways in which it manifests Itself in
man. Its effects were pointed out and
the one way of salvation shown. The
sermon closed with an appeal to the
congregation to embrace the opportun
ity that had been given to escape the
consequences of sin.
The Instructions took up the same,
subject. The inherency of sin in all
mortals was shown and the progress
It makes If not checked by divine pow
er. 'The two classes of sins, venial
and mortal, were defined and the dif
ferences between them shown. The
venial sins were pointed out as shut
ting the sinner off from God. but not
God from the sinner. They kept the
sinner from fully knowing God. but
did not In the leust lessen hla love for
the sinner.
The mortal sins, or "sins unto death"
sre of • more serious character. Their
sl?e<i |* to obliterate all the past acts
of Godliness. Yet even they esn be
forgiven, there being no limit set to
the Infinite tenderness grid willingnaas
to forgive that Is an attribute of
God.
The services during Ibe day were
well attended, especially (be service
held (I 111 o'clock. Her vices will con
llnu* throughout the Week ut lb*
hows (bat have been announced, and
the reel of 11* . hor<h and tire two
vMHtng clergymen are ana tone that
of s*v*intab continue at- ,
iThe best imported hops, carefully selected. Brewed by expert? fplS
in the most modern and cleanly brewery in America—no wonder Mmi
IMPERIAL PILSENErM
Now on sale at 120 places in Savannah.
JAMES O'KEEFE, Distributor,
Corner Broughton and Drayton Streets.
OFFICIAL.
ORDINANCES.
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
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
Plumbing Inspector
Storm Sewers
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 nnd
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 flrst 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 flrst day of January,l9os,
shall be subject to taxation from the
flrst 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 city on
the flrst day of January, 1905, shall
pay taxes upon such real property
upon the assessment thereof lawfully
adopted.
The value of real property
o be taxed under this section of this
ordinance shall be ascertained by means
or 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, stocks 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 property whatso
ever owned or hold on the flrst day
of January, 1905, and if any person or
partnership shall engage in business as
a wholesale or retail dealer In goods,
wares or merchandise of any descrip
tion whatsoever after the flrst day of
January, 1905, they shall pay a tax
on the value of sueh goods and mer
chandise (as they may be possessed of
on the day of the date of their be
ginning business In said city), which
tax shall be of such proportion of said
tax as the time left in said year shall
bear to the whole year; provided,
nevertheless, that sueh tax for a por
tion of the year shall In no event be
less than one-fourth of euch annual
tax, except such aa may be ex
empt from taxation bv the law* of thta
state or of the United Htatea.
The value of personal property to be
tased under this section of this ordin
ance, the particulars and character of
the businea* for which a las la required
under tb fourth section of thle ordht
||'*. *hwll be ascertained by means of
the let urn* beretngflet prescribed
Met 4 Kvery person transacting,
or offering to tratieert, any of the
kind* of business hereinafter eper I fieri
I whether la cotitiection with any other
business or not), shall pay tbe 14a
bereioeftei yrearr tbed for every o*p-
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. DECEMBER 15. 1904.
OFFICIAL.
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
chant!* or Auctioneers wltn 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 througn 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 ha
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 ordl
j nance of the city of Savannah, adopted
' on the 25th day of September. 1896.
Every marine, surety or other insur
i ance company doing business whether
directly or through an agency or
through u broker or an attorney, fifty
! dollars for each and every agency or
i broker or attorney. Every such ugent,
1 broker or attorney doing such business
! In the city of Havannah for every such
j company which he tnay represent In
! any way, shall pay a tax of fifty dot
-1 lis In all cases where the company
docs not pay tha tax Itself, and this
! provision shall apply to any agsnt,
, broker or attorney who does business
| for a marine company on what is
known as "open policies.”
I Every accident Insurance company
doing business, whether directly or
I through an agency or through a broker,
J one hundred dollars, for each and every
I agency c broker Every itMUpanr,
tor j*oi allot) or person not doing
the buelneaa of a regular life ineuranoe
company or of a regular a*cident |r
euianoe company, but uetaetheloss eg.
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gaged In the business of paying sick
or accident benefits to policy holders,
shall pay a specific tax of fifty dollars.
Every person who shall be sworn by
the Mayor (who is hereby authorized
to administer the oalh 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.
Keepers or proprietors of hotels, con
ducted on either European or Ameri
can plan, containing under seventy-five
rooms, fifty dollars.
Sewing machine agents or agencies,
fifty dollars; the same for each and
every agency.
Dealers in sewing machines, or deal
ers in sewing machine supplies, or re
pairers of sewing machine's, fifty dol
lars.
Dealers in coal, one hundred dollars.
Dealers in stationery or books, sell
ing exclusively at wholesale, or at re
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 yarn 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 ot 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,
aelllng or introducing the same for sale
by means of public exhibitions, one
hundred dollars per week, or any part
thereof, without discount.
Hand organa, 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 thla city
othrr than a theater, ahall pay five dol
lars for each performance, without dla
count.
Every proprietor of a concert hall or
variety ahow shall pay s license of
one thousand dollars
Peraons or partnerships running a
grist mill, thirty dollars
Every person running a flour mill or
flour and grial mill, thirty dollars
Eread or laks hskertss carried us try
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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 line
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
brokers 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
hand, 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
electricity, fifty dollars.
Public laundries, run without steam
or electricity, twenty-five dollars.
Bottlers of beer or ale, fifty dollars.
Soap boilers or tanners, for each es
tablishment, ten dollars.
Barber shops, four dollars for each
chair; and if cigars or tobacco be sold
therein, an additional tax of ten dollars
shall be paid.
Persons engaged In the business of
gas fitting or plumbing, or both, shall
take out a license, for which he shall
pay thirty dollars, and shall comply
with the provisions of an ordinance
adopted February 9th, 1898, and amend
ed November 30th, 1898, and further
amended April 19th, 1899.
Dealers in paints, oils and builder’s
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 having 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 aollars.
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 Btreets of the city, at the rate of
one hundred dollars per mile or
fraction of a mile of track of the main
line, eliminating ail 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 aurh company In the city; it 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 badge* shall
be furnished by the City Tieosurer.
and which shall be numbered. It shall
furthermore be required that each and
every car employed by aach and every
street railroad company shall have
such badge as hereinbefore provided ne
utron the inside of **i h car
Kvery automobile or IwvaiuWk used
as < cuke** of pawn gee* for bp* cn
weylbg sis or leas F-aaeng..*. left d#- ,
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iars: 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, one 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, viz.: 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,
hack 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 dray or
truck, twenty-five dollars; every per
son employing one four-horse omnibus,
thirty dollars, and the tax to be paid
by any person employing more than
one vehicle of the same or different
kinds shall be according to the num
ber of vehicles employed at the rates
above specified.
Every person transacting or of
fering to transact the business of
transporting or carrying goods, etc.,
passengers or baggage for hire, by
means of wagons, drays, trucks, street
railway cars, or other vehicles, and
every keeper of a public or livery sta
ble, employing such vehicles in his
business, and every other person keep
ing and using street railway cars, or
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 street car or vehi
cle to be employed in such business
(the number of street cars or vehicles
to be employed to be stated on oath)
which 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
venience—and any person using or em
ploying any vehicle or street car on
such business without badge affixed,
except as aforesaid, shall be double
taxed, and on conviction thereof in the
Police Court, may 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.
Keepers of sale and feed stables, fif
ty dollars, but nothing herein contain
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 mules 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 part
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 atov# or cook
shop, ten dollars.
Persons selling from push carta 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
vetiU’l*.
Htreet 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 dullara.
prisons or corporations doing mas
sengei eel vice or furnishing inegaen
gere on rail, thirty dollars
Agents stlorneye at law tughars
and ah other persons negotiating, or 1
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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, (and 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 sell his wares
under the license of any auctioneer, or
the name of any factor or commission
merchant who has paid his tax as
such, until he himself shall have paid
all taxes required of him by this ordi
nance; provided, however, that any
transient 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 sold or of
fered by him or her, and not bringing
into or keeping in the city any stock
for the purpose of delivery, shall not
be required to pay any tax or license
fee.
A street drummer or runner solicit
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 tn 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, 1905, 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 5. 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 provisions 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 failing
to pay such license, as required by
this ordinance, shall, upon con
viction before the Police Court
of the city of Savannah, be subject to
a fine not to exceed three dollars, with
the alternative of imprisonment not to
exceed three 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 dogs.
Bee. 6. All taxes hereby required for
real and personal property held on the
first day of January, 1905, and for bus
iness In which 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 commenc
ing 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 the City Treas
urer; provided, nevertheless, 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, 1906;
but In the event that any quarter's tax
Is not paid when the same Is payable,
then the Treasurer shall Issue an ex
ecution for the amount of the tax for
the year remaining unpaid, as herein
after provided. Ilut any person or
Arm commencing business In this city
after July 1,1905,0 r running after thui
date vehicles for the trsnsporatlon of
good*, warts or merchandise, or pas
senger*. which were not run before
that date, upon making prompt return
of the seme within ten days, after such
business has rommencod, or such ve
hicles have been run, he or they shall
toe taxed on half of tbs yearly tax as
sessed by this ordinance, provided said
tax be paid within fifteen days after
atn h return; otherwise the entire tax
shall be nollected, The term vehicle,
as used In this section, shell Include
street railway rare, automobiles. Ism*
mobiles, and ell other motor vehicles.
hw T. if any person or flbrporitton
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