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OFFICIAL.
* r a every produce, grocery, and naval
*,ores broker, and every resident agent
jLn-esenting non-resident dealers, mer-
and manufacturers, exclusive
o t ‘brokers in liquors, seventy-five dol
lars. .
i'. rsons other than a pawnbroker en
ea..ed in the business of lending money
* personal property or choses in
action two hundred dollars.
\ money lender as contemplated by
tb foregoing paragraph, being one
carries on the business of
1,- id ng his own or other peo-
‘ _ money, and not as a
g tf „ k and bond broker, chartered bank,
private banker, negotiator of loans on
£ ;ty, real estate agent, or dealer in
b , , and stocks, but who carries on
t l- business of lending money on per
ji'.ii security or personal property
ot l, than stocks and bonds, such an
c , ne .-hall be deemed a money lender.
U , kers or agents buying and selling
f , ' jvs on a margin, five hundred dol-
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
rolifct 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;
jail 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 au 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
c.i h 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
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 i-aw agtmL
broker or attorney who does business
for a marine company on what Is
known as “open policies.’’ :r c
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 a< 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 seyenty-flve
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 machines, 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.
Detail 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, three
hundred dollars; every hand cotton
press, twenty-five dollars.
Owners, proprietors, lessee or les
sees of a junk shop, or junk dealers,
five hundred dollars.
A junk dealer shall be anyone who
has an office or place of business In
the city of Savannah for buying or
acquiring in any way, for resale In the
city of Savannah, or for shipment or
removal from the city of Savannah,
any old or second-hand brass, tin, lead
,ir other metal of any description,
r "pe, hemp, sails, rubber or other ar
ticles commonly known as junk.
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.
1 roprietors or owners of cotton gin
establishments, one hundred dollars.
Every commission merchant or fac
one hundred dollars.
Every dealer tn live poultry or coun
try Produce, one hundred dollars.
House cleaning and upholstering, ten
hollars.
Dealers in bicycle supplies, thirty
dollars.
Repairers of bicycles, who are not
dealers in bicycle supplies, ten dol-
Exporters of cotton, lumber, naval
►’"res, or other merchandise, foreign or
■ astwlse, agency or reprueentatlve of
ot exporters, two hundred dollars,
stevedores, fifty dollar*.
. E y ery lighterage or river transfer,
ivldual, Arm or company, two hun
dred dollars.
Every low boat company, person or
J ’ •'sons, firm or corporation conducting
■ tow boat business, fifty dollars for
‘ n host used in the business
r.very dredging company, person or
I '>sons, firm or corporation < nndurt
-1 I* l ' hue I 'ACoa of dredging, one lltfu-.
1 “d doil,it* for each dredge used In
hue mesa.
*’ r ‘Pii*tors or owners of letriferf
> iopi lautrs or owners o t MV uHilt
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or planing mills, with or without lum
lars yards attached . one hundred dol-
Proprletors or owners of saw mills or
planing mills having an office or stor
age place in the city, or regularly sup
plying customers m Savannah by means
cltv Ve ihoifv us V? g th streets of the
city shah 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 week 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, concert
troupe, minstrel troupe or other
troupe acting or performing in any
hall in this city other than a theater,
shall pay five dollars for each per
formance, without discount.
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 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, in accord
ance with ordinance adopted in Cotin
. cil Jpfy 6th, _ 1904.
Proprietors’ or owpers 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 pane Committee, each, chair, five
dollars.
Dally 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 he 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 shail 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
dollar*. . ,
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.
Dressing or cleaning clothes, ten dol
tart.
. Breweries or persons manufacturing
any malt liquors, or agents of same
who have not already paid the whole
sale liquor and wholesale dealer's las,
five hundred dollars.
Hiewtfiss or manufacturers having
a storage place In the city of Msvaaoah,
r supplying customer* In
Savannah by mean* of vehicle*, using
the street* of Navunnah. shall b* sub-
I jsi tto this la* of flve hundred dollars,
| MsMufiictutprs of tldar or vinegar, or
other fifty duller#.
Telephone <ouipe|iie* or sschanges,
I'M* hundred dollars *4S,
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1904.
OFFICIAL.
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 fo 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; 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 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 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 wag-on, 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 paying 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,
automobile or locomobile for deliver
ing goods. 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 epeclfled.
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 tn his
business, and every other person keep
ing and using street railway care, 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 euch 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 nt auction,
1 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, passenger* or
baggage,at the rates above specified for
taxes to be paid by persona 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 mults 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
l thereof. S graduated tag similar to
| that hereinbefore required of persona
engaged tn the business of transport.
I log, etc., for hire, according to the
i number and character of euch vehicles,
I a* *he seioe rets.
Every owner of • wagon or ether
vehicle usad a* moving agvsrttee
uwrnu ou* hundred debars,
Every push cart or barrow used eg
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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 tn a con
spicuous place on such push cart or
vehicle.
Persons selling watermelons from
wagons, ten dollars for each wagon.
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 retal 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 bicycle*, 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 faetbr 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 klndß 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 he
subject to a fine not exceeding fifty
dollars, and to Imprisonment not ex
ceeding tan days, either or both, tn the
discretion of the court upon conviction
before the Police Court of the city of
Savannah.
Every person qr corporation
owning or holding In trust or on con
signment, personal property In said
city on the first day of January, 19(15,
liable to he taxed undOr 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 Unite.d 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 br
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 suoh
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,'ls here
by re-ordalned and declared to be In
full force. Every person falling 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, wltL
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, arid 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 day* after so bringing In such
dog or dogs.
Mec. 6. All taxes hereby required for
real and personal property held on the
first day of January, 1906, and for bus
iness In which any person shall be en
gaged at that date, and of persons hav
ing vthlcles and dogs In said city at
that data, shall be considered as due
on tha Ural day of January, I*o6, and
all taxes required of persona commenc
ing to transact any business for’which
g tax la required, after the first day of
January, I*o6, or commencing after
that data tn use vehicle* and street
railway cars not then In use, or bring
ing any dog or doge Into said city,
shall he due immediately upon tha
utuusMit lsi of Sip to business, using
such vehicles, or bringing awah dog
I Into the city. And alt tease of every
‘ kind Shall tie payable to tha City Traua-
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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, aa herein
after provided. But any person or
firm commencing business In this city
after July 1. 1905,0 r running after that
date vehicles for the transporatlon of
goods, wares or merchandise, or pas
sengers, which were not run before
that date, upon making prompt returrt
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.
See. 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 execution's In the 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 tha
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 the
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
such 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 all 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-,
tlon $562 of the Code of Georgia. And
In every license 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
Buch 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 Buch conditions, shall be retained by
.he Clerk of Council, und 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 this
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
ness or occupation for which such li
cense or receipt is required without
first taking out the same, or who shall
tall 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 a Will 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
glyen by the transferee, wbere
ev*r 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.
(tec. 9. On and after the first day
of January, 1906, the |>rlc* of a license
to sell mslt, vinous or spirituous liq
uors st retail within the corporate and
jurisdictional limit* of sld city
lor one year shall be two
hundred end luenly-flve dollera, with
I ten per •'•nt. dterount If peld on nr be
fore rLrua> let, l#os and
I' no lleenee for the aela of malt,
vinous, or spirit qoue llqawre
shell cover any other business
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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 ahull be the
duty of the Clerk of Council to publish
quarterly an alphabetical list of all
person* 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, 1903, 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 taka
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.
See. 10. That the Clerk or 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 he 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.
See. 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 stich taxes or as
sessment shall be fully paid.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Alderman Grayson—
Resolved, That the Streets
and Lanes Committee be, ami
it is hereby directed to con
fer with the Director of Pub
lic Works, with the view of securing
plans and estimates for the closing of
Bilbo canal, such plans and estimates
to be presented for the consideraton
of Council.
There being no further business
Council took a recess, subject to the
call of the chair.
J. ROBERT CREAMER.
Clerk of Council.
NOTICE.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
City of Savannah. Office, Clerk of
Council, Dec. 17, 1904.—The following
ordinances are published for the in
formation of all concerned.
J. ROUT. CREAMER,
Clerk of Council.
FIREWORKS.
An ordinance to permit the firing of
firecrackers and fireworks during the
Christmas holidays as herein provided.
Section 1. Be It ordained by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Sa
vannah, In Council assembled, that the
firing of firecrackers and fireworks Is
hereby permitted in the city of Savan
nah on Liberty street and south of
Liberty street, (except on Bull street,
north of the parade ground), from Dec.
24 to Jan. 1, both Inclusive, and the
ordinance heretofore passed on this
subject Is amended accordingly. Ex
cept as herein provided, firing of fire
crackers and fireworks In the city of
Savannah is forbidden under penalties
of existing ordinance.
Sec. 2. The firing of firecrackers
or fireworks In front or Into Forsyth
Park Is hereby forbidden under the
said penalties.
Sec. 3. That all ordinances and
parts ot ordlnan-es In conflict with
this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed Dec. 15, 1897.
BONFIRES.
An ordinance to permit bonfires In
the Park Extension or parade ground
during the Christmas holiday.
Section 1. Be It ordained by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
Savannah, In Council assembled, that
the building of bonfires In the Park
KxLenslon or parade ground, from Dec.
24 to Jan. 1, both Inclusive, is hereby
allowed.
Sec. 2, That all ordinances and
parts of ordinances In conflict with this
ordinance are hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed Dec. 15. 1897.
INSPECT AND REPAIR YOUR
SIDEWALKS.
Notice to Owners of Real Estate.
In conformity with resolutions
adopted by the City Council, on March
11, 1904, notice Is hereby given:
I. To owners of abutting realty,
their lessees and agents, to keep In re
pair the sidewalks along their respec
tive frontages, including the small Iron
boxes for gas and water connections,
wahh payments, and the like, which
latter have metal covers adapted to
the sidewalk level.
11. In case of suits for damages
against the Mayor and Aldermen of
the city of Savannah for Injuries to
persons or property, sustained by per
sons by reason of holes In sidewalks,
broken, displaced or loose brick or
stones, or of gas or water boxes, with
out covers, or protruding above side
walk level, or of other defects or ob
structions In and on sidewalks, the
owners of abutting realty or other
persons whose negligence may have
caused such defects and obstructions,
will be vouched to defend, and will be
held responsible for nil damages
awarded against the city on account
of such Injuries to persons and prop
erty.
111. Sidewalks throughout the city
are being inspected, and notices have
been and are being sent to owners of
abutting realty, and to whom It may
concern, to repair sidewalk defects
promptly, or bear the consequences of
their neglect of duty.
Savannah, Ga„ July 1, 1904.
GEO. M. GADSDEN.
Director of Public Works.
RIDS WANTED.
Office Director of Public Works,
Dec. 23,. 1 904.—Bid* will be received
at this office until Friday, Dec. *O,
1904. at 12 o'clock noon, city time, by
the Streets and Lanes Committee, for
furnishing feed as follows:
No. 1 Timothy Hay, per 100 pounds.
No. 2 Timothy Hay, per 100 pounds.
Best quality Mixed Oats.
All to be weighed at City Lot. En
velope# to be marked, "Bid* for Feed.’’
The city reserves the right to reject
any or all bids. I'crference given to
party who can deliver feed from on*
location. Rid* to be opened In pres
ence of bidder.
I'ICOI‘OSAI.H I’Olt MTTIII.H.
Keeled proposals will be received at
this office until Friday. Dec. to,
I*o4, at 12 o’clo. k noon, city time, by
the streets and Lams Committee, for
furnishing the • Ify with supplies to be
purchased during the month of
January. 1905, such as Harness.
CHI*. Paints, Iron Dm* Cement
Brick, Hardware, Tools, Lumber and
such other materials as la used by
this department
All proposals must be made on offi-
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ctal forms, which can be had at thli
office on or after this date.
Envelopes to be marked. “Proposals
for Supplies.’ The city reserves the
right to accept or reject any or aft
bids. Bids to bo opened In the pres
ence of bidder.
GEO M. GADSDEN.
Director of Public Works,
ARTIFICIAL STONE SIDEWALK.
Office Director of Public Works, Sa
vannah. On., Dec. 23, 1904.—Bids will
be received at this office by the Streets
and Lanes Committee until Saturday.
Jan. 7. 1905. at 12 o'clock, city time,
for laying artificial stone sidewalk on
Whitiker street between Anderson
and Fortieth streets. In pjaces where
sidewalks hue not been laid.
Bids to state price per square yard,
laid.
Specifications furnished on appli
cation.
A certified check for SIOO to accom
pany all bids.
GEO. M. GADSDEN,
Director of Public Works.
City of Savannah, Office Clerk of
Council, Savannah, Ga., Nov. 15, 1904.
Parties desiring to retail liquor dur
ing year 1905 will file their applica
tions at once, so that same can be
read before Council In accordance
with city ordinance.
J. ROBERT CREAMER.
Clerk of Council.
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