The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, December 27, 1922, Image 6
AN ORDINANCE
Imposing a .Loonse Tax on Person
Who Enga In, Prosecute or Carrj
on Any l1usiness or Profession ii
the City of Laurens.
State of South Carolina,
County of Iaurens.
City of Laurens.
B11 IT ORDAI'NI)D BY THiFl OIT1
C'OtTN(IL OF ril+, CITY OF IAU
RnwNS:
Section 1. That no person, firm 0:
corporation shall, after the first day
January, 1923, engage in, prosecuti
or carry on any business or professiol
hereinafter named, within the cor
porate limits of the 'City of Iaurens
without having first paid a special
license tax therefor, The amount ol
8aid special tax shall be the amounl
placed opposite each occupation, busi
ne.,s or profession herein below
nalled. respectively, an1d the amon
shall be the cost of said special taN
per annum, unless otherwise specified
to wit:
Agents for laundries. per an
num1.. .. ............ 10.0(
Agents for Oil Refining Com
Panies, per annum .. .. .. .. ..75.0(
Architects whose gross annual
income is $1,000.00 or less
Per annum .. .. .. .. .. ..$ 10.0(
Auctioneers whose gross an
nual income is $1,000 or less,
per annum .. .. .... .... 15.0(
Whose gross daily inme is
$25 or less, per day . . .. .. 5.0C
Auctioneers of horses, mares,
mules or stock horses or hors
es, Whose gross daily income
is $1,000 or less, per day .. 200.0(
Auctioneers of new furniture,
second-hand furniture or
hlousehold goods, whose gross
daily income is $300 or less,
per (lay ............ 2.0(
Auto filling stations, first pump
operated. per' annimil .. .. . . 15.0c
E1-ach additional Pump operit
(I, p r a1111111 .. ....... .. 10.0(
Where stock of accessories
and sipplies are kept for sale,
an additional charge rI4uire id,
per annum.............. 10.0c
Automobile Salesman, transient,
per (lay .... ............10.0c
A.uto W.ishing Dpots or SledIs
not coilnected withl other busi
ness, 101' yea1.. .........10.0c
Automobile repair shops whose
gross annual income is $1,000
or1 less, per annum . . . . . . 25.0(
Whose gross daily income is
$01 or les3, per day . . . . . . 2.5(
Automobile hacks, wljose gross
anual income is. $1,500 or
less, per annum .......... 25.0(
Whose gross daily income is
$100 or less, (hily .... .. .. 2.0(
The licensee shall be allowed
to operate only one aitono
bile hack under each license
-issud to 111m.
Any public service diver or
drivers, eitier of a hlack or
automobile, plying the streets
for hire, who shall be colivict
ed in tile City Court of trans
porting, having in possession,
selling or otherwise violating
any of the whiskey ordinancos
of the city, or any public ser
,,*ce driver or drivers, either
of hack or automobile, who
shall transport from place to
place within the City of Lau
rens, any woman or women
for immoral purposes, their
license to do business in said
city shall be immediately re
voked by the Mayor and Fin
ance Committee of . Council,
and no new license sail be
grauted to them during tile
calendar year to engage in
the same character or kind of
business.
Automobile. dealers or' agenlts,
Whose gross annual income Is
$1,500 01' less, per1 annum . . 25.0{
Balls and dances, where adlmis
sion is char'gedl, 1per day .. 5.01
Blottle mnanufactur'ers, 1)er un1
numn.....................75.01
Butchers or (dealer's in fresh
meats, whlose gr'oss annlual In-.
come1 is $5,000 or less, 1)0r an1
nulm.. ................25.0'
Dealers in single beef or hogs,
or offering for' saile in wagons
may take out special license
by th~e dlay at tile following
rates:
Those whose gross daily in
comel from single heef or hlog
amounts to $20 01' less, 1p0r day 2.0(
iflealers in calves, muiltton, shoat
or kidl may take out special li
cense by the (lay at tile fol
lowing r'ates:
Thiose wvohs gr'oss daily in
come1 for each calf, mutton,
61hoat 01' kid is $10 or less,
per1 dlay.. ..............2.0(
Pr'ovidled, hlowever', that tile
licensee shall nlot have thle
righlt to sell under01 Is (dally li
cense more tihan 0one animal.
flagging and Tios-B~agging and
tics r'ewor'kedl, inlcludling cot
ton mill waste products . ... 15.0(
'Jroker's (ealing In stocks and
'bonds, '1)er year'............15.0(
B3rokers, merchandise-meaning
0- pers'on, fIrm or' corpor'ation
who acts as an Intermedihary
between buyer' and seller for
thc consider'ation or al commis -
slon, with or' without wvare
houhe .. ..,.,..... ...... 15.04
Brolcers in 1) lumer-n ot carrly
Ing stock, -p)er year' .. .. .... -25.04
Blacksmith shops), twVo forges,
wvhose gross annual income is
$260 or -less, per anlnum .. 10.04
Blacksmith shops, two forges,
-whose gross annual Income is
.$1,000 or less, per' annum .. 15.04
F'or each additional forge op
erated In a .blacksmith shop,
the license shall be Increased
per .anium according to in
coie, as herein gradluated .. 2.00
DarJger , hops, oper'ating one
einIr, whose gross ainnual in
edphie is $500 or .less, per an
A in .'". ....... .. ..7.50
Wjose gross annual Income Is
re than $500, for each ad
d jonlal $500 or less, .per an
n .. ......... .........1.00
s ~~3'01shops operating miore,
One, chair shall pay the
O goin$ cense for the 'first
* r n me for each addj
U I tf~r in accordance
hti JOQ as graduamted.
~ efW ose groe# annual
income is $3,000 or less, per
annum .. .. .. .. . .. .. 35.00
Whoso gross annual income
is more than $3,000, for each
additional $1,000 or less, per
annun ............... 5.00
Wlhose gross daily income is
$25 or less, per day .. .. .. .. 1.00
Book agents, whoso gross an
nual income is $1,000 or loss,
per annum ............ 25.00
Whose gross weekly incomo
is $500 or less, -er week .. 10.00
-Whoso gross daily income Is
$100 or less, per day ... .. 5.00
Building and loan associations,
or their agents, for business
(done .within this state, and
not including that done with
out the State, whose gross an
ntmal income from such busi
ness is $50,000 or less, per
annum ..1..5............15.00
Whoso gross annual income
from such business is more
than $50,000 on each addition
al $50,000 or less .. .... .... 5.00
Bakeries, whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum .............. 25.00
Bicycle dealers, wlhoso gross an
nual incomo is $1,0,00 or loss,
per annum ...... .... ...50
Boarding houses, taking regular
boarders, per annum . . . . .. 10.00
Banks and banking houses with
an investment of $50,000 or
less in tho business, -per an
num .... .. .. .. .. .. .. 50.00
On each adidtional $1,000 in
vested .............. 1.00
Bankers doing a private bank
ing business, with $2,500 or
less invested in the business,
per annum. .......... 25.00
On each additional $1,000 in
vested in the business . . .. 1.00
Bowling Alley or Box Ball pro
prictors whose gross aniual
income is $1,000 or less,/ per
annum .. .. .. .. .. .... . . 00.00
Each alley operated shall te
deemed and taken to be sep
arate business.
Bottling works, whose gross an
nual income is $1,000 or less,
per annum .. .... ...... 35.00
13ootblacks, where the fee charg
ed for shining shoes is .05,
per ailliii ............. 5.00
Weire the fee charged for
each shine is .10, per annum 10.00
1Mach an1d every boothlack do
ing business ol the streets of
tlhe City of laurens must be
licenised and must wear in a
conspiciois place a llinmbered
badge furnished by teh City
Clerk.
Canvassors or peddlers selling
goods, wars or mercha adise
of whatsoe'er character or
kind, per year .... ...... 50.00
Per day .. .. .. ........ 15.00
Cotton brokers-cotton brokers,
factors or merchants or ex
porters, each place of busi
ness................ 20.00
Cotton buyers, per year.. ....15.00
Chiropractic-Samo as doctors,
Candy Manufacturer, per year 15.00
Carpenter shop keeper, per year 5.00
Contractors or firms of such, em
ploying, taking or offering to
take cont'acts not to exceed
$50.00 .. .... .. .. .. ...i',xempt"
From $50.00 to $500.00 -per an
num .. .. .. .. . . .. ..... 7.50
From $1,000 to $2,000, .per an
num ................ 12.50
From $2,000 to $5.00, per an
num (........................20.00
each additional $1,000 or less 1.00
Convassers-Itinerant not other
wise provided for . . . . . . .. 10.00
Cirouses, first ring .. . . .. .100.00
lOach additional ring .. .. 50.00
Whose gross daily income is
more than $5,000, per day, on
each additional .5,000 or less 25.00
Circus paradles, where exhibi
tions are held otut of the city
'limits ............... 250.00
Where exhibitions are held in
the city limits .. ..,.......100.00
Collection or claim agents,
whose gross annual income
is $1,000 or less, per o~nnum 10.00
Cabinet wvorkmon, whose ~ross
annual Income is $500 or less,
1)er annum ...... ........5.00
Cotton mills, per annum . . . . 500.00
Cotton seed .buyers, whose gross
annual income is $1,000 oir
less, per1 annutm.. ........ 10.00
Cotton ginneiries, first gin, wvhose
gross annual income is $1,000
01' less, pecr annum ... .. ...25.00
10ach additional gin . . . . . . 5.00
Cabinet andi general repair.
shops, 'whose grobs annual in-e
come is $300 01r less, per~ an
num~f ,...... .... .... 5.00
QJeaning, (lying or pressing
clotihng, where the gross an
nual income is $1,000 or less,
peri annfhium..............15.00
Cold drinlk stands, 1)0r annum.. 5.00
Conti'actoi's for moving houses,
wvhose gross annual income is
$1,000 or less, per annum . . 10.00
Coal companies or agencies,
where thle gross annual in
come is $2,500 -0or less, per
annum...... ........ .......*15.00
Conveyancers 0or scrivners wvhose
gross annuial Income is $500
or' less, per' annum .. ......5.00
Cotton seed oil mills wvith $100,
000 01' less invested, 1per an
num............ ....... 150.00
On each addlitional $1,000 in
vestedl, p)er annm.. ........1.00
Cotton weighers , whose gross
annual 'Income is $1,600 or
less, per annum ..........10.00
Directories-Nach and every
person compilinlg city dired
tories, per annum .... ......10.00
Dealers in junk, per day .... 5.00
.Por' annum .... ......... .. 15.00
Dealers in fr'uits, melons or veg
etables, selling from car ny
: Itinerant dealers, each car or
t raction thereof ...... .....100.00
Dealers in stocks and bonds,
per annum.. ............25.0
Dealers In wagons and other
vehicles, other than manufac
turer with or .with'out 'busi
ness, Rvhose 'gross annual In
come Is $7,500. or less, per an
num. .. . .... ..... .. ....25.00
J'ealers or agents for the sale of
fertilizers, whose gross annual
Income is $4,000 or less, per
annum ..4 .. . .. 35.00
iWihose gr'oss annual income is
more..than $4,000, on each ad
ditional $4,000 pr less, per an
num .. . ...-...-25.00
Dealers in pianos, organs, sew
Ing machines, iron safes, well
fixtures, and tombstones, not
connected with stores, whose
gross annual income is $1,000
or less, each, per annum ... 25.00
Dealers in second hand tbagging
ties etc. ............ 5.00
Dealers in soap, jewelry, iner
chaudise or other goods on
the streets, whose gross daily
income is $100 or less, per day 10.00
Per annum.... ..........50.00
Dealers in Green groceries, sell
ing from wagon, whose gross
daily Income is $50 or less,
per day............ .. .50
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 10.00
And each car operated shall
be deemed a separate busi
ness.
Dinner houses whose gross an
nual income is $2,000 or less,
per annum ............25.00
Dentists whose gross annual in
come is $1,000 or less, per an
num .. .. ............ 15.00
Whose -ross annual income is
more than $1,000, for each ad
ditional $1,000 or less, per an
num ................ 1.00
Dogs, all kinds ........... 1.00
1Mach and every dog to be paid
for by person or persons upon
whose premises (log is kept.
The city police are hereby au
thorized to selYo and confine
every (log they find running
at large not having attached
a tag for tax furnished by the
City Clerk. Every dog taken
up $2.00 additional must be
pid. or the dog killed.
EIlectric power companies whose
gross annual income is $5,000
or less, per annum '.. .. .. .60.00
Whose gross annual income is
more than $5,000, for each ad
ditional $10,000 or less, per
annum.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .00
Express companies maintaining
an agency whose gross annual
income at, such agency arising
from business done wholly
within the state of' South
Carolina, if $1,000 or less, per
. -annum .............. 100.00
Electricians whose gross an
nual income is $1,000 or less,
per annum ............ 10.00
Provided that electricians may
take out license by the job at
the following rates:
Where the gross income is
$100 or less, per job . . . . . . 2.00
lire insurance companies, on
amount of net jrmiei iuils col
lected ................ 3%
Fruit trees or other trees and '
plant agents, whose gross an
nual income is $500 or less,
per annum........ ...'.. 10.00
Fresh fish dealers, with or with
out other business, whose
gross annual Income is $1,500
or less, per annumi .. .. .. 15.00
Fresh oyster dealers, with or
.without other business, whose
gross annual income is $1,000
or less, per annum .. .. .. .. 5.00
Flour mills, whose gross an
nual incoime is $1,000 or less,
each, per annum ..........15.00
Grist mills, 'whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, each
per annum ............ 10.00
Hay, grain, provisions or mer
chandise brokers . who carry
no stock of goods in either
w-rehouse or store room,
whose gross annual income is
$1,000 or less, per annum .. 15.00
Hair dressers or manicurists,
whose gross annual income is
$l,000 or less, per annum . . 10.00
Whose gross (daily income is
$50 or less, per day. .. .. ...1.00
Hariuness shops, whose gross an
nual income is $1.00 or less
per annum ...... ..........10.00
Hawkers or peddlers, selling or
offering for sale, goodls, wares
and merchandise, whose gross
daily income is $50 or less,
per (lay ...... ..........10.00
Hog dlealers, whose gross an
nual income is $2,500 or less,
per annum .. ............15.00
Whose gross monthly income
is $500 or' less, pecr month.. 10.00
Whose gross daily income Is
$50 or less, per day .... ....5.00
Hotels wvhose gross annual in
come is $5,000 or less, .per
annum ................60.00
Wh'1osei gross annual. income
is more than $5,000, on- each
add~itional $5,000 or less, per'
annum................ 2.0
Horse or mule .traders, transient,
'tyhose gross daily income is
$1,000 or less, por dlay . . . . 5.00
Horse and mule traders, trans
ient, whose grows monthly in
come is $10,000 or less, per'
month .. ........ .......15.00
Insurance conmpanies, life, ac
cIdent and health, maintain
ing agencies (going business
within the cit~y of Laurens,
whose gross annual income
from such agencies is $1,000
or less, per annum .. .. . 15.00
eo dealers, wvhose gross -annual
income is $500 or less, jper en
num ........ ..........5.00
Ice cream vender's, selling from
carts, whose gr.>s)5 annual in
come is $1,500 or less, per an
num .... ....... ...,...15.00
ice cream venders, selling from
wagons, whoso gross annual
income is $2,506 or less, per
annum .. .... .........25.00
Ice manufacturers, per annum 75.00
Jewelry, watch and clock re
pairs, whose gr'oss annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum .. .......... ...15.00
Jewelers, itinerant, offering for
sale jewelry, watches, clocks
etc., or repairing same, who
gross daily income is $100 or
less, per day ......... .. 6.00
Laundries, run bhy hand, whose
gross annual icnome is $1,500
$2,500 or less, per annum. . 35.00
Laundries, run by machinery,
whose gross annual income. is
$2,500 or less, per annum .. 25.00
Lawyers whose gross annual in-.
come is $1,000 or less, .per an
num.......,.. .. .150
Lightning rod agents or ceal
e, whose gross annual in
come is $2,000 or less, per
annum . 26.00
Whose gross monthly income
is $500 or less, per day .. .. 5.00
Long siis tanco telephone com
panies, operating In city, or
agents of same, collecting toll,
per annum ............ 75.00
Lunch counters, per annum .. 15.00
No Sunday license shall -be
granted to any person to oper
ate a lungh room, restaurant,
confectionery store, fruit
stand whore other articles of
merchandise such as gro
ceries, meats, etc., are also
offered for sale in the same
room or building during the
week days.
Machine shops and foundries,
whoso gross annual income is
$2,000 or less, per annum . . 15.00
Manufacturers of fortilizers, 25,
000 tons or less, per annum 60.00
Each additional 1,000 tons . . 1.00
Merry-go-rounds, whose gross
nwcokly income is $250 or less,
per week ........... .. . 5.00
Merchants, or all persons, firms
or corporations selling at re
tail articlos of trade or mer
chandiso for which a special
gross annual Income Is $10,
000 or less from sales, per
annum .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 25.00
Wnoso gross annual income
is more than $10,000, on each
additional $1,000 or less, per
annumi................ 1.00
By Iwcomo is meant the
amount of goods sold by the
licensee, and sworn statement
must acconipany payment.
Medicino sellers and Tondors.
whoso grosi annual income is
$500 or less, per annum . . 50.00
Whoso gross daily income is
$1,000 or loss, per day . . . . 10.00
1lhrble yards or agencies. whose
fross annual income is $1.000,
or less, per annum . . . . . . ''00
Mechanics, working on automo
biles who do not maintain a
regular place of business, per
annum' 11....................10.00
Moving picture shows. whose
gross annual income is $2,500
or less, per annum . .. .. . 40.00
Newspapers, whose gross an
nual income is $1,000 or less,
per annum ............. 15.00
Opera house hall whose gross
annual income is $1,000 or
less, per annum ........ 40.00
Organ grinders and itinerant
musicions, whose gross daily
inecimue is $100 or less, per
day ................10.00
Oil and gasoline companies or
agents whoso gross annual In
colle is $li,000 or less, per
. 5.00
Whose daily income is $100 or
less, por (lay ... . ... 1.00
Occulists or opticians, itinerant,
Whoso gross daily nicome is
$.~,0 or less, per day.. .. ... 5.00
Opticians or occulists on their
own account, or working for
others, whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum..........,... .. 15.00
Lumber yard, selling planks,
shingles, framing laths or
moulding, whose gross annual
income is $5,000 or less, per
annuM .'. .... .. .. .... .. .25.00
Lumber yards or dealers sell
Ing other kinds of building
material other than the ones
last before enumerated, whose
annual Income from the sale
of such material is $2,500 or
less, per annum 4......... 10.00
Paint shops, 'per annum .. .. 10.00
Pawn shops, or money 'lending
shops, whose gross annual la
come is $1,000 or less, per
annum........ ... .. 15.00
Planing mills, 'whose gro. an
nual income is $1,000 or 2ss,
per annum .. .... .......10.00
Pool room, ikast table, per an -
nlum....... ................000.60
Each additional tale, per an
numn.. .. .......... ...00.00
,Photographers or artists, whose
gross annual income is $1,000
or less, per annum .. . . . . . . 1"0Ot
Whose monthly income is
$1,000 or less, per month ..5.00
Whose daily income is $50 or
less, pecr day ............2.00
Physicians whmose gross ann~ual
income is $1,000 or less, per
4nnum.... .... ...........15.00
Printing oflice, job), whose gross
annual laconme is $750 or -less,
per~ annum .... .... .... ...15.00
Plumbers, whloso gross annual
inconmo is $1,000 or less, per
annum .. ..... ...15.00
'Plumbers, wvhose gross Income
from one job is $20 or less,
perjibb....... .. ...... ....2.00
Public wveighiers, othier than
cotton weighers, whose gross
annum income is.$500 or less,
"per annum .. ....... ..5.00
Railroad ticket ofices, per an
num .. .. ............ 50.00
Restaurant or eating h-ouse,
whose gress annual income is
$1,500 or less, por~ annum . . 25.00
Rail road agencies iwhose grosn
annual incomo from business
dlone exclusively wvithin this
state is $100,000 or less, for
the first track, per annum .. 250.00
For each additional track .. 100.00
For each additional $1,000 or
less, per annm. .. .. .....1.00
Renovaters of feather :beds,
*whose gross annual income
is $2,600 or loss, per annum 25.00
.Whose gross monthly income
is $150 or lens, por month .. 15.00
Real estate agents whose gross
incomeO is $1,500 or less, per
annum .... .... ..; .. .. 15.00
Serlvners 'whose gross daily in
,ome is $10 or less, per day 1.00
bhows, performances, exhibi
:ntions of all kinds, except cir
hies or similar exhibitions,
1whose gross daily income is
*$500 or less, per day .. .. .25.00
~oda ,fountains, wjghopt or' with
store, whose gross ainnual in
come Is $1,500 or lees, .per an
num ..,.. .,, .. .., .. . 15.00
~table, feed only, whose gross
bannual income is $1,000 or
loss, per annum .... .. ....10.00
gable, livery only, whose 'gross
aunnual Income is $1,500 or
~less -pr alnu v .... . . 15.00
ables, sales on y, whose gtuBS
'nnual incom4 is $2,500 or
Voss, per arnnu n~ e, *.,. . . .40.00
$abos, enies, ed . nd liIey,
W segross au 0n
is $4,000 or less, per annum 50.00
Salvago or bankrupt sale man
agers, or sale conductors,
whqse gross annual income is
$5,000 or less, per annum . 50.00
Whose gross daily income is
$50 or I , per day .... .. .. 5.00
Stock ymai whose gross annual
Income 4500 or less, per an
ntum......,.. ..........5.40~
Surveyors whose gross annual
Income is $1,000 or less, per
annum .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10.00
Whose income per job Is $5 or
less, per job,..... ........ 1.00
Street hacks or carriages, one
horse, whose gross annual in
come is $1,500 or less, per an
1111111 .. .. . . ... . .. .. .. . . 15.00
Street hacks or carriages, two
horses, whose gross annual
income is $2,000 or less, per
annun.... ............ 25.00
No person ,filrm or corporation
shall let or hire any hacks,
automobiles or other chicles
for hauling or transporting
passengers, within the cor
porato limits of the city, with
out first obtaining a license
therefore fro mitie City Clerk,
and every person, firm or cor
poration running or operating
e5uch 'a hack or vehicle shall
have the registered number
on tume legibly printed or
otherwise marked upon said
vehicle in letters of not less
than three inches in height
and one inch in width; and ev
ery driver in charge of such
vleile must wrear a numn
berod bad& furnished by
Cit y Clerk. Owners and driv
ers iust ominply with the City
Ordxhiane herein, and any
percs-on. Arm or corporation vi
*lating any of the %above pro
vistens shn11. upon~ convic
tion, . he fined not exceeding
five dollatrs, or .be imprisoned
Io 10 1% Cy oe, ,- .t ,4 for
ea chl.- %ri 4e -y v) lation
t hereof.
Street nucks doing dniyage
whose go 3 rzi'iz n nc-one is
$500 or less.......... 15.00
Street ~wa'ns or d one
horse. whose crs nnual in
come is $ o0 er less. p-r .n
$5 or less. pCer Iay.. ....... .50
Street wagons or d : ,wo
horse. whose 'ross .wa in
coic is $~50 o- es, per an
num .... ........ .... .
Whose gross daily income is
$7.50 or less. per day...... .
Each and every draynmen Jo
ing business in the Ci4v of
Laurens muist wear in
spicuous place a nu:nbered
badge furnished by the City
Clepk an( must have N
marked on each side of his
dray the cnme number borne
by said badge.
Shooting galleries. whose gro.ss
annual income is $.500 or
less, per annum ........ 25.00
Sign painters. whose gross an
nual income is st.o+ or less,
per annumn ............ 10.00
Whose gross weekly income
is -$500 or less, per week .. . . 5.00
.Wiose gross daily income is
$10.00 or less. per day .. .. 1.00
Shoe Sh6ps. each bench, whose
g-oss annual income is $1,000
or less, per annum . . .. .. 10.00
Each additional bench .. .. 2.50
Storage battery charging sta
tions, per annum ........10.00
Tailor shops, and agents whose
gross annual income is $1,000
or less, 'per annum . ... .. 25.00
Terra-cotta dealers, whose gross
annual Income Is $1,500 or
less, ier annum........ . 15.00
Tin or tinker shops whose gross
annual incomle is $750 or less, .
per' annum .. ...... .....7.501
Telephone companies, local, per
annum .. ... .... .... .....100.00
Telegraph companies, or agen
cies, for business (lone within
this state, and not including
that (lone 'without the state,
whose gross annual incime
from. such business is $2,000
or less, per annum .... ......7%.00
Transient dealers in fruits, bread
andl cakes, meats or merchan
(1180 of whatsoever character
and kind, selling fromt car or
common carrier, except as
hereinafter provided, per an
num ..i .... ...... .....25.00
Apple wagons wh~ero they
ratisedl the alppes themselves
may be Issued license by the
day at $1.00 except that no
person or persons shall set
upl their stand or sell from
their eai. or common carrier
on any public street in the
City of Laurens. (Where ap
plicants for 'license buy ap
1)10s for resale their license
shall he $25.00 per annumfl,isub
jact to same rules as apply to
day license as above.
Undlertakers wvhose gross an
nual income is $2,500 or less,
per annum .. .... .......35.00
Each additional $1,000 or less,
per annum .. .... ........ .l.00
Vulcanizing shops, per atIthm 10.00
Wood shops and wagons m'anu
facturers whose gross annual
Income is $500 or less, per
annum .. ...... .........15.00
Wood dealers or brokers, whose
gross annual income is $500
or. lo3s, -per annuml . .. ....10.00
Wheelwrights, whose gross -an
nual income Is '$1,000 or less,
per annum .. .... .,..--.-,.5.00
Warehouses kept for storing
cotton, grain, etc., whose gross
annual income is $2,500 . or
less, per annum ...'. .36.00
Elach additional $1,000 or less,
per annum ..,. . .... .. 1.00
Wholesale dealers in hay, grain,
provisions,~ geo s, wares, or
mnerchandise, 'who carry a.
stock of goods either in a
:wareliouse or store room,"4
'whose gross- annual income'
from sales 4s $50,000 or -less,
nor annum ....... " . 50'00
10lach additional 41j000 o#-10oo
per annum ......... . . .50
000, 2. All iooIsose4 to3 one
day'oli1y qhall Q Jlet olth$t
Sec. 3. That all licenses issued un
der and by virtue of this Ordinance
shall be non-transferablo and ox
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 revoked at any time by the City
Council of the City of Laurons on
satisfactory cause being shown. Ek
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 rato shall be charged for
"I licenses issued after June 30th of
any year and -prior to September 30th
or any year; and one-nult Yne annual
rates for all icenses issued after Sep
teiber 30th of any year, and prior to
December 31st of any year.
Sec. 4. That every person, corpor
ation or partnership, roquired by this
ordinance to obtain a license to en
gage in any business, trade, profes
sifon or occupation, for which a license
is required, shall at tho time of ap
plying for such .license, or at any
other time as may be required by the
City Council, furnish to the City Clerk,
or Auditor of the city, such other and
further information, as may be neces
sary for correctly ascertaining the 11
conso to be assessed and collecte(d.
Sec. 6. Any person, firm, company
or corporation prosecuting or engag
ing in any business, occupation or
profession, or keeping or maintaining
any establishment named in this Or
dinance without having first paid the
license tax imposed thereon, shall, up
on conviction, bo fined not expoeding
one hundred dollars, or be inipris
sned not exceeding thirty days with
or without hard labor at the discre
tion of the officer trying the case.
Sec. 6. Where a license is imposed
by this Ordinance upon any business,
profession or occupation, and sucg
business, profess ion or occupation is
oarried on or conducted by an agent,
clerk or employee, such agent, clerk
or employee shall be subject to all
the penalties herein imposed should
the said business, profession or oc
eu pation be carried on or prosecuted
without the license inposod having
beei paid in the same manner as if
such agent, clerk or employee were
the proprietor of' such business, pro
fession or occupation.
Sec. 'I. That every person, firm,
comnpany or corporation, required by
tiN 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, iake a state
:uent under oath, before an oflicer
qualified to administer oaths, and file
said statement with tho City Clerk,
setting forth:
I1) His or her name, style of firm,
nane of company, or corporation;
(2) The trade, business, profes
Mon. or occupation for 'which a li
eense is required;
1:') The amount of business pro
posed to be done during the current
year and in those cases in which sucli
information is required, the amount'
of business done the previous year
in the same occupation, trade, busi
ness or profession if same was car
previous year.
The City Clerk shall thereupon as
sess and collect the proper license tax
as provided for In this Ordinance,
and upon such tax being -paid, shall
issue to the applicant the proper
license.
Sec. 8. For any business, trade, oc
cupation or profession not enumerat
ed in Section 1 of this Ordinance, the
license shall be fixed by the City
Council of the 'City of Laurons at any
regular or special meeting thereof.
Sec. 9. The license taxes herein
imposed are levied for the purpose of
raising funds to meet the annual or
dinary expenses of 'the City of Lau
reng for' the fIscal year commencing
on'the 1st day of January of any year
hereafter and for the purpose of pay
ing in whole or .in part any legal In
debtednless of the said City incurred
for ordinary expenses thereof falling
(due during the said fiscal year. Li
censes must be paid on or .before Jan
uary 15th of the year in which they
are due and payable. See Sec. 5 for
further information.
Soc. 10. Trhis Ordinance shall go in
to effect on the 1st day of January A.
D. 1923.
Done and ratified b~y the City Coun
cil of the City of Laurons andl the cor
porate seal of the said City of Lau
rens hereto aiflxed this the 'l6th day
of December A. D. 1922 and in the
One Hundred and 'Forty-Soventh) year
of the Sovereignty and Independence
of the 'United States of America.
1W. H. DIAL,
Attest: 61ayor.
&lPANilj1Y W. CR10WS,
City Clerk.
AN ORDINANCE
Stao of South Ca4rolina,
.County of Lauirens,
City of i,aurens.
B10 IT OHbDAINED by the 'City Coun'.
cil of the City of Laurens:
Sec. 1. That all able-bodied male
residents of tihe City of Laurens, be
tweeni tihe ages of 18 and 60 years,
shall each ipay a per capita tax, for
street improvements, the sum of $2.00,
on or before the 1st day of Starch,
1923, and all persons failing to pay
said street tax en or before that date
shall pay to the -City Clerk thle sum
of $4.00 .as such street taxes, and fail
uire to (10 50 shall, upon conviction,
be punished as otherwise p~rovi'ded by
the City Ordinanco.
Done and ratified by the City Coun
cil of 'the City of -Lau rens and tha cor
porate seal of 'the. said City of Lau
rens hereto affixed this the 15th <ty
of iDecember A. -D, 1923, and in the
One Hundred and Forty-Severfth year
of the Seorpignty and .Indopendnce
of the United States of- Anierica.
City Clerk.
Dr:KINd5S PlII