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■ * ' \J ' ■■ - ^ v'--V’f' ^v.4» iBmSDAY, DECEMBEtt 19, ItM AN ORDINANCE lMpoai«f a liceiiae Tax aa Persona Eafaga In, Prbaecute or Carry On Any Business or Profession In Tke TWn of CHnton. K- h 10.00 40.00 10.00 5.00 2.00 15.00 10.00 10.00 25.00 25.00 5.00 State of South Carolina, County of Laurens, Town of Clinton. BE n ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OP CLINTON:^ ^ ' ’ Section 1. That no person,* firm ui* corporation shall, after the first day of January, 1930, engage in, prosecute or carry on any business or profes sion hereinafter named, within the corporate limits of the Town of Clin ton, without having first paid a special license tax therefor. The amount of said special tax shall be the amount placed opposite each occupation, busi ness or profession herein below named, respectively, and the amount shall be the cost of said spMial tax per annum, unless otherwise specified, to wit: Agents for laundries, per an- Rum »•* Agents for Oil Refining Com panies, per annum Architects whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Auctioneers whose gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Whose gross daily income is $25.00 or less, per day Auto filling stations, first pump operated, per annum E^ch additional pump operat ed, per annum Where stock of accessories and supplies are kept^or sale, an additional charge required, per annum 10.00 Auto washing depots or shed not connected with other bus iness, per annum Automobile repair shops whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... Automobile hacks, whose gross annual income is $1,500 or less, per annum .- Whose gross daily income is $100 or less, daily The licensee shall be allowed to operate only one automo bile hack under each license issued to him. I Any public service driver or drivers, either of a hack or automobile, plying the streets for hire, who shall be convict ed in the City Court of trans porting, having in possession, selling or otherwise violating any of the whiskey ordi nances of the city, or any public service driver or driv ers, either of hack or auto mobile, who shall transport from place to place within the City of Clinton, any woman or women for immoral pur poses, their license to do buainess in said city shall be immediately revoked by the Mayor and Finance Commit tee of Council, and no new li cense shall be granted to them during the calendar year to engage in the same jharacter or kind of business. Automobile dealers or agents, whose gross annual income is $1,500 or less, per annum .... Balls and dances where admis sion is charged, per day .... Butchers, or dealers in fresh meats whose gross annual in come k $5,000 or less, per annum Dealers in single beef or hogs, or offering for sale in wagons may take out special license by the day at the fol lowing rates: Those whose gro^s daily in come from single beef or hog amounts to $20 or less, per day - Dealers in calves, mutton, shoat or kid may take out special license by the day at the following rates: Those whose gross daily in come for each calf, mutton, shoat or kid is $10 or less, per day Provided, however, that the licensee shall not have the right to sell under his daily license mow than one ani mal. Bagging and Ties — Bagging and ties reworked, ijncluding cotton mill waste products .... Brokers dealing in stocks and bonds, per annum Brokers, merchandise—meaning a person, firm or corpora tion who acts as an interme diary between buyer and sell- kr'for the consideration of a commission, with or without warehouse Broker in lumber—not carry ing stock, per annum Blacksmith shops, whose gross annual income is $750 or less, jicr jtimuxxi •••■ ■••• •••• •••• •••• Blacksmith shops, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or leas, per annum For each additional forge op erated in a blacksmith shop, the Ueense shall be increased per amram according to in- 85.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 .50 25.00 7.50 2.50 5.00 10.00 25.00 5.00 25.00 1.00 .50 15.00 15.00 15.00 25.00 7.50 10.00 shops, opjerating, one . di«ir, pf^^aanum _ ... — 1 For eadi additiqiial -- Bi^ posters, whose gross an nual income is $8,000 or less, (LRzmiKi •••• ««»« Whose gross annual inc<mie is more than $8,000, for each additional $1,000 or less, per •••• •••% •••• **•« Whose gross daily in come is $25 or less, per day Book agents, whose gross an nual income is $1J)00 or less, per annum 10.00 Whose gross v.'eekly income is $500 or less, per week .... Whose gross daily income is " fHOO^dass, per day 'Qiieries{ whose gross innual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Bicycle dealers, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Banks and banking houses with an investment of $50,000 or less in the business, per^ an num 100.00 On each additional $1,000 in vested 1.00 Bowling alleys or Box ball pro- prietbrs whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 25.00 Each alley operated shall be deemed and taken to be sep arate business. Bottling works, whose gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 25.00 Bootblacks, where the fee charged for shining shoes is .05, per annum Where the fee charged for each shine is .10, per annum Canvassers or peddlers selling goods, wares or merchandise of whatever character or kind not listed, per year Per day 1.00 Cotton brokers—cotton brokers, factors, or merchants or ex porters, each place of busi ness 20.00 Chiropractic—same as doctors. Carpenter shop keeper, per year 5.00 Contractors or firms of such, employing, taking or offering to take contracts not to ex ceed $50.00 “Exempt” From $50.00 to- $500.00 per annum 7.50 From $1,000 to 2,000, per annum 12.50 From $2,000 to $5,000, per annum 20.00 Each additional $1,000 or less 1.00 Circuses, first ring 100.00 Each additional ring .... 50.00 Whose gross daily income is more than $5^000, per day, on each additional $5,000 or less 26.00 Circus parades, where exhibi tions are held out of the city limits 250.00 Collection or claim agents, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 10.00 Cotton mills, per annum 150.00 Cotton ginners, first gin, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Elach additional gin Cabinet and general repair shops, whose gross annual in come is $500 or less, per an num Cleaning, dyeing or pressing clothing, per annum 15.00 Cold drink stands, per annum 5.00 Contractors for moving houses, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... 10.00 Coal companies or agencies, where the gross annual in come is $2,500 or less, per annum 26.00 Conveyancers or scriveners, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum 5.00 Cotton seed oil mills with $100,000 or less invested, per annum 150.00 On each additional $1,000 in vested, per annum Directories — Each and every person compiling city direc tories, per annum Dealers in junk, per day Per annum .... Dealers in fruits, melons or vegetables, selling from car by itinerant dealers, each car or fraction thereof Dealers in stocks and bonds, per annum Dealers in , wagons and other vehicles, other than manufac turers, with or without busi ness, whose gross annual in come is $7,500 or less, per annum , 10.00 Dealers in pianos, organs, sew ing machines, iron safes, well fixtures, and tombstones, not connected with stores, whose grross annual income is $1,000 or less, each per annum Dealers in soap, jewelry, mer chandise or other goods on the streets, whose gross daily income is $100 or less, per day ...! • Per annum Dealers in green groceries, sell ing from wagon, whose gross daily income is $50 or less, per day 22.00 And each wagon operated shall be deemed a separate business. Dealers in green groceries sell ing from car or common car- * rier, whose gross daily in come is $500 or less, per day 25.00 1.00 35.00 15.00 10.00 15.00 10.00 1.00 5.00 5.00 2.00 5.00 10.00 6.00 5.00 1.00 10.00 5.00 15.00 10.00 26.00 20.00 7.50 ’2.^' 2.00 25.00 10.00 car pi^raiad shall * b# dfeteeH a aisf$rate bvXf- ncss. Dinner houses whose gross an nual Income Is $2,000 or less, per annum .... Dentists whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 15.00 whose gross annual income is more than $1,000, for each additional $1,000 or less, per annum Express companies maintaining an agency whose gross an nual income at such agency arising from business done wholly within the State of, South Carolina, is $1,000 or less, per annum Electricians whose gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 10.00 Fire insurance companies, on amount of net premiums col lected, per annum Fruit trees or other trees and plant agents, whose gross > annual income is $500 or less, per annum 10.00 Fresh fish dealers without other business, whose gross annual income is $1,500 or less, per annum Hay, grain» provisiohs or mer chandise brokers who carry • no stock of goods in either warehouse or store room, . whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... Hair dressers or manicurists, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... Whose gross daily income is $50 or less, per day Harness shops, whose gross an nual income is $1,000 or less per annum 10.00 Hawkers or peddlers, selling or offering for sale, goods, wares and merchandise, whose gross daily income is $50 or less, per day Log dealers, whose gross an nual income is $2,500 or less, per annum Whose gross monthly income is $600 or less, per month .... Hotels whose gross annual in come is $5,000 or less, per annum 25.00 Whose gross annual income is more than $5,500, on each additional $5,000 or less, per annum 10.00 Horse or mule traders, trans ient, whose gn'oss daily in come is $1,000 or less, per day Horse and mule traders, trans ient, whose gross monthly in come is $10,000 or less, per month 15.00 Insurance companies, life, acci dent and health, maintaining agencies doing business with in the City of Clinton, whose gross annual income from such agencies is $1,000 or less, per annum 15.00 Ice dealers, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum 15.00 Ice cream venders, selling from carts, whose gross annual in- , come is $1,500 or less, per annum 10.0^ Ice cream venders, selling from wagons, whose gross annual income is $2,500 or less, per annum 25.00 Ice manufacturers, per annum 25.00 Jewelry, watch and clock re pairers, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Jewelers, itinerant, offering for sale jewelry, watches, clocks, etc., or repairing same, whose gross daily income is $100 or less, per day Laundries, run by hand, whose gross annual income is $1,500 or less, per annum Laundries, run by machinery, whose gross annual income is $2,500 or less, per annum .... Lawyers, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 15.00 Lightning rod agents or deal ers, whose gross annual in come is $2,000 or less, per annum 25.00 Whose gross monthly income is $500 or less, per day .... Long distance telephone com panies operating in city or agents of same, collecting toll, per annum Lumber yards, selling plank.s, shingles, framing laths or moulding, whose gross an nual income is $5,000 or less, per annum 40.00 Lumber yards or dealers selling other kinds of building mate rial other than the ones last before enumerated, whose an- . nual income is $2,500 or less, per annum Lunch counters, per annum .... Machine shops and foundries, whose gross annual income is $2,000 or less, per annum Merry-go-rounds, whose gross weekly income is $250 or less, per week Merchants or all persons, firms or corporations selling at re tail articles of trade or mer chandise for which a special license is not required, whose gross annual income is $10,- 000 or less from sales, per annum ..t .- Whose gross annual income b nraxp than $10,000, on each additional $1J)00 or less, per •••• •••«» •••• •••• •••• By Income b meant the 20.00 1.00 10.00 10.00 40.00 25.00 10.00 1.00 5!D0 2.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 15.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 15.00 2.00 10.00 S5.00 6.00 60.00 20.00 15.00 15.00 25.00 25.00 1.00 amount of goods sold by the licensee axid sworn statement must accompimy payment. Machine sellers ai^ venders, whose gross annual income b $500 or less, per annum .... Whose groM daily income is $1,000 or less, per day Marble yards or agencies, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... Mec^nics, working on automo biles who do not maintain a regular place of business, per annum Moving picture shows, whose gross annual income is $2,500 or less, per annum Newspaper, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Opera house hall whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Orgsth grinders and itinerant musicians, whose gross daily income is $100 or less, per day Oil and gasoline companies or agents, whose gross annual income is $15,000 or leas, per annum 40.00 Whose daily income is $100 ' or less, per day .... Occulists or opticians, itiner ant, whose gross daily in come is $50 or less, per day Opticians or occulists on their own account, or working for others, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Paint shops, per annum Pawn shops or money lending shops, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Planing mills, whose gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Photographers or artists, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... Whose monthly income is $1,000 or less, per month .... Whose daily income is $50 or less ,p€r day 2.00 Physicians whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... Printing office, job, whose gross annual incdme is $1,000 or less, per annum Plumbers, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Plumbers, whose gross income from one job is $20 or less, per job 1.00 Public weighers other than cot ton weighers, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum Restaurants or eating houses, whose gross annual income is $1,500 or less, per annum .... Railroad agencies, whose gross annual income from bu.smess done exclusively within this state is $100,000 or less, for the firs^ track, per annum .... 100.00 For each additional track .... 100.00 For each additional $1,000 or less, per annum Renovators of feather beds, whose gross annual income is $2,500 or less, per annum Whose gross monthly income is $150 or less, per month.... Real estate agents, whose gross income is $1,500 or less, per annum Scriveners, whose gross daily income is $10 or less, per day Shows, performances, exhibi tions of all kinds, except cir cuses or similar exhibitions, whose gross daily income is $500 or less, per day 25.00 Soda fountains, without or with store, whose gross annual in come ia $1,500 or less, per an num 10.00 Stables, sales, feed and livery, whose gross annual income is $4,000 or less, per annum Salvage or bankrupt sale man agers, or sale conductors, whose gross annual income is $5,000 or less, per annum .... Whose gross daily income is $50 or less, per day 5.00 Street trucks doing drayage, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum Street wagons or drays, one horse, whose gross annual income is $600 or less, per annum Whose gross daily income is $5.00 or less, per day Street wagons or drays, two horse, whose gross annual in come is $500 or less, per an num Whose gross daily income is $7.60 or less, per day Shooting galleries, whose gross annual income is $2,500 or less, per annum 'Whose gross weekly income is $500 or less, per week Whose gross daily income is $10 or less, per day Shoe shops, each bench, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Each additional bench Storage battery charging-xta- tions, per annum 10.00 Taxi cabs, per annum 25.00 No person, firm or corpora- ' tion shall let or hire any hacks, automobiles or other vehicle for hauling or trans porting passengers, within the corporate limits of the 10.00 10.00 35,00 1.00 10.00 15.00 10.00 5.00 35.00 1.00 50.00 .50 25.00 1.00 10.00 5.00 15.00 1.00 25.00 26.00 5.00 5.00 1.00 5.00 2.00 25.00 10.00 5.00 5.00 2.50 to^, without first obtaining a license therefor from the Town Clerk. Tailor shops, ladies and gents, whose gross annual income ia $1,000 or less, per annum .... Tin and tinker shops, whose gross annual income is $750 or less, per annum Telephone companies, local, per annum 100.00 Telegraph companies, or agen< cies, for business done within this state, and not including - that done without the state, whose gross annual inp^e from such business b or less, per annum .... 80.00 liansient deabrs in fruits, bread and cakes, meats or merchandise of whatsoever character and kind, selling from car or common carrier, except as, hereinafter proyj[d- * ^ ed, per an— Apple wagons, per day 2.00 This -Kecnse applbs to. any other fruits or vegetables such as cabbage, oranges, • grapes, etc. Undertakers, whose gross an nual income is $2,500 o/ less, per annum ....; Ecah additional $1,000 oi less, per annum Vulcanising shops, per annum Wood shops and wagon manu facturers, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum Wood dealers or brokers, who^e gross lyinual income is $500 or Jess, per annum Wheelwrights, whose gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Warehouse kept for storing cotton, grain, etc., whose gross annual income is $2,500 or less, per annum Each additional $1,000 or less, per annum Wholesale dealers in hay, grain, provisions, goods, wares, or merchandise, who carry a stock of goods either in a warehouse or store room, whose gross annual income from sales is $50,000 or less, per annum Each additional $1,000 or less, per annum Section 2. All licenses issued for one day only shall be double the amount above mentioned for Satur days, show days, Christmas days and other days of public gatherings. Section 3. That all licenses issued under and by virtue of this Ordinance shall be non-transferable and ex- cept a license for a day, a week or a month, shall terminate and end on the 31st day of December of the year in which they were issued; but may be-reV5ked at any time by the Town Council of the Town of Clinton on satisfactory cause being shotsm. Ex cept license issued for a day, a week, or a month, annual rates shall be charged for all licenses issued prior to June 30th of any year, three- fourths the annual rate shall be charged for all licenses issued after June 30th of any year and prior to September 30th of any year; and one- half the annual rate for all licenses issued after September 30th of any year, and prior to December 31st of any year. Section 4. That every person, cor poration or partnership, required by this ordinance to obtain a license to engage in any business, trade, profes sion or occupation, for which a license is required, shall at the time of ap plying for such license, or at any other time as may be required by the Town Council, to furnish to the Town Clerk, or auditor of the city, such other and further information as may be necessary for correctly ascertain ing the license to be assessed and col lected. Section 5. Any person, firm, com pany or corporation prosecuting or en gaging in any business or occupation or profession, or keeping or maintain ing any establishment named in this Ordinance without having first paid the license tax imposed thereon, shall upon conviction, be fined not exceed ing one hundred dollars, or be impris oned not exceeding thirty days with or without hard labor at the discre tion of the officer trying the case. Section 6. Where a license is im posed by this Ordinance upon any business, profession or occupation, and such business, profession or occu pation is carried on or conducted by an agent, clerk or employee, such agent, clerk or employee shall be sub ject to all the penalties herein impos ed should be said business, profession or occupation be carried on or prose cuted without the license imposed hav ing been paid in the same manner as if such agent, clerk or employee were the j)roprietor of such business, pro fession or occupation. Section 7. That every person, firm, company or corporation, required by this Ordinance to obtain a license to engage in business, trade, profession, or occupation for which a license is required, shall at the time of apply ing for such license, make a state ment under oath, before an officer qualified to administer oaths, and file ^said statement with the Town Clerk, setting forth: (1) His or her name, style of firm, name of company, or corporation. (2) The trade, business, profession, or occupation for which a license is required. (3) The amount of business propos ed to be done during the current year (NM te those cases hi w^h formation is required, the. a business done the pravioas the same occupation, trmie, or profession if same was cafried tM: or prosecuted the previous year. The Town Clerk shall thereupea seas and collect the proper licmiaa as provided for In this Ordinance, tSA a iT iMPi upon such tax being paid, ^ to the applicant the pnqier Ucenaa* Section 8. For any business, occupation, or profession net ated in Section 1 of this Ordinance, the license shall be fixed by the Kay* or. Section 9. The licenee taxes herda imposed are levied for the purpoae of raising funds to meet the or* dinary expenses of the Town of Clin ton for'the fiscal year cammendag on the lit day of January of any year hereafter and for the purpose of pay- hag- in whole or ip jmrt any legal in- of the said CHy incnmd for ordinary expeuMs thereof falling due during the said fitcxi year. All enaual licenses aesit he paid ea or bofore January 15th of oadi year, on poaalty of an additional 1$ per cent charge after January 15th. If B- cenae ia not paid by Fehrnary 15th the buaineas will be cloecd by the Police Department and action breeght in the Recorder’s Court, under Section 5 of this Ordinance for the miade- meanmr of doing baainees without licenae. Section 10. This Ordinance ahall go into effect on the 1st day of Jan uary, A. D., 1930. Done and >ratified by the Town Council of the Town of Clinton and the corporate seal of the said Town of Clinton hereto affixed this the 18th day of December, A. D., 1929, and in the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth year of Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. JACK H. YOUNG, Attest: Mayor. D. C. HEUSTESS, City Clerk and Treasurer. MEN ANSWER CALL TO FLOOR Presbyterian Vanity Basketball Gete Underway. Seascm Opens With Clemson December 18. With the end of the gridiron sea son, the ones who love to run around on a hardwood floor, scantily dressed, have gotten down to real work. Un der the direction of Coach Johnson and Capt. Bobby Caldwell, the squad is fast rounding into form. A schedule vf sixteen games (none of which an at all easy) has been arranged. Those who have answered the call 30 far are: Capt. Caldwell, Gosnell, Hamilton, Cheatham, McNaull, Senter, Bowen, M. Adair, Roberts, Snipes, E. Wyatt, Mason, and others whose names are not obtainable «t present. The schedule arranged is as follows: Dec. 18—Clemson at P. C. Jan. 7—Carolina at Columbia. Jan. 10—Wofford at Spartanburg. Jan. 16—Erskine at Due West. Jan. 17—Clemson at Clemson. Jan. 18—Furman at P. C. Jan. 26—Newberry at P. C. Jan. 30—College of Charleston at Charleston. Jan. 31—The Citadel at Charleetoo.^ Feb. 1—The Citadel at Charleeton. Feb. 4—Furman at Greenville. Feb. 13—Erskine at P. C. Feb. 16—Wake Forest at P. C. Feb. 18—College of Charleston a$ P. C. Feb. 22—Wofford at P. C. Feb. 26—Newberry at Newberry. 4