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LICENSE ORDINANCE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, THE TOWN OF NEWBERRY. F OR THE PURPOSE OF MEETING in part the current expenses of the Town government of the Town of New berry, in the State of South Carolina, for the fiscal year beginning January 1st, 1904, and to meet in part such other indebtedness of said Town as may become due in said fiscal year; There fore, be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Newberry, in said State, in council assembled and by authority of the same SECTION 1. That no' person or per sons, firm, corporation or corporations, shall engage in, prosecute or carry on any callng, trade, business, occupation or profession hereinafter mentioned within the corporate limits of said Town at any time during said year without having first paid to said Town a license or privilege tax therefor as follows, to wit: Agents for, or dealers in fertil izer for sale......... .. ............ $20 00 Agents for, or dealers in pianos and organs (either or both)... 10 00 Agents for, or dealers in sew mg machines (connected with other business or alone)......... 2000 Agents for, or dealers in lighten ing rods............................... 2500 Agents for, or dealers in coal... 5 00 Agents for, or dealers in maps, books, newspapers, neriodicals and other like articles (other than licensed merchants who deal in same) per day $5.00 or per year............................... 20 00 Agents for enlarging pictures per day $5.00, or per year...... 2000 Agents for retailing goods per day $5.00, or per year............ 100 00 Agents or dealers selling mules, or horses, or cattle, either or all three, at public auction only, per day $25.00, or per year ................ 5000 Agents or dealers (other than sales stables) selling mules or horses, either or both, per week, $6.00, orpr year... 2500 A&aTts or dealers in f-uit trees per week $2.0, or per year .. 10 00 Agents for, or dealers in real estate; selling or renting, other than licensed lawyers)- 5 00 - .ees ................. 500 Ball, publi (when admission fee is charged) per night ..... . ... 200 Banks, capitalized at $50,000, or less .....---....... ............ 50 00 Banks, for every $10,000 capital in excess of $50,000 ...... ........ 10 00 Barber, for each shop ...... ....... 5 00 Blacksmiths, for each sho........ 500 Bill poster................................. 1500 Bootblacs, in barber shops, ho tels qr elsewhere, each......... 1 00 Boot or Shoe shop, making orre pairing ................---- ------ . 500 Bottling werks, soda water or. otherwise ....... ..................... 10 00 Building ana Loan Associations; a savings or investment com panies, and all companies or corrations (except licensed s) engaged in the sale or purchase of real estate, or oanin money on real estate orotherwise... ...... 25 00 Boardinghouse, publie............... 5 00 Book stores, licensed as mer cbmnts ...................... Chiropodists, per week, ........... 300 per year.............. 1000 Circus, with or without menage ne, per day, with street pa rade ........ ......... 10000 Street parade alone......... 50 00 For each side show, per day...... 10 00 Cleaning, dressino or dyein clothes (other t~nlice tailors) ..... ........ 250 Coal dealers, (alone or in cnnec tion with other business)...: 5 00 ntractors or builders, (for con tracts under $500)............ 5 00 ntractors or builders, for ntracts over $500 and not ex ceeding $2,500........... .. ..10 00 ntractors or builders for con ts over $2,500 and not ex- 0 'g $5,000...............15 0 tractors or builders for con tracts over $5,000 ............ 25 00 mmission merchants or com mission brokers, each or each firm and for each place of busi ness...........,............... 25 00 tton mills or factories, for each $50,000, or fractional p art thereof of its capital stock..... 12 50 tton seed oil mills............. 5000 tton seed oil mills that manu fagture fertilizers .........60 00 Cotton gi'n and press, 1 to 5 gins inclusive....... ............. 10 00 Cotton gin and press, over 5 gins, -for each additional gin 0 over 5...........................10 Cotton buyer, for each place of business...................10 00 Cotton seed buyer.............. 500 Cotton weigher................ 500 Conveyancer, drawing deeds, mortgages or contracts for compensation (other than li censed lawyers).............. 5 00 Dentists,or tooth extractors each 5 00 Dos, upon each and every dog e owner or person upon whose premises the same is kept shall pay the sum of.. 1 00 Druggists, licensed as merchants Exchange, bucket shop (firm, individual or corporation) car rying on the busmness of deal ing in options and futures in cotton, gramn, provisions, or other supplies, on margins or otherwise ....... .... 50 00 Express companies, each, for business done within the town of Newberry, and not including business done for the United Stts Government, or any iness done to and from inbeyond the limits of -State ..................... 50 00 gjenny...... ....... ... 0 00 ying jenny for less time than 1year at the rate of $10.00 Fresh fish.. .............................. 10 00 Hotels, each............................. 15 00 Horse or mule traders (other than licensed sale stables)...... 25 00. Horse or mule trader, transient per week............................... 6 00 Ice dealers. retail, each house or place of business............... 5 00. Insurance companies, each, life, fire or accident..................... 10 00 Junk shop, or scrap iron dealer 5 00 Jewelers, licensed as rachants Kerosene or other oil cc-ianies having an agency ur otfiie in the town of Newberry, or a stationary or portable tank or tanks for receiving and storing oil, selling or delivering oil within the limits of said Town, each ...................................... 100 00 Kerosene oil companies or agen cies having no stationary or portable tanks, but selling in original packages, each ........ 50- 00 Knitting mills.............. ............ 20 00; Laundry, steam, or agent for steam laundry........................ 10 00' Lawyers, each .............. .......... 5 00! Lunr yards, or dealers.. ........ 10 00 Livery, feed and sale stables-... 25 00 Marble yard ............... 10 00 Merchants: All merchants shall pay a license or privilege tax according to the following schedule of gross sales (cash and credit) and upon sworn returns the gross sales for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1903, shall be the basis upon which said license or privilege tax shall be com puted and paid: Sales amounting to $1,000 or under .................................... 00 Sales over $1.000 and under $3,000 10 00 Sales amounting to $3,000 and under $5,000........................... 12 00 Sales amounting to $5,000 and under $10.000 .............. ........ 15 00 Sales amounting to $10,000 and under $20,000......... ............. 2 00 Sales amounting to $20,000 and under $30,000..................... 25 00 Sales amounting to $30,000 and under $40,000................... ..... 30 00 Sales amdmting to $40,000 and under $50,000........................ 35 00 Sales amounting to $50,000 and under $60,000..... ................. 40 00 Sales amounting to $60,000 and under $70,000...................... 45 00 Sales amounting to $70,000 and under $80,000....................... 50 00 Sales amounting to $80,000 and under $90,009...... ...... .... 55 00 Sales amounting to $90,000 and . - under $100,000....................... 60 00 Sales amounting.to $100,000 and under $110,000....................... 65 00 Sales amounting to $110,000 and under $130,000.................. ..... 75 00 Sales amoonting to $130,000 and over . ... ......... ................ 8500 Merchants: All merchants who may not come within any of the foregoing classes by rea son of eir not having been in business during the whole-of the fiscal year ending Decem ber 31st, 1903, but have been in business in said town during part of said year, shall pay a icense or privilege tax upon their estimated gross sales for the yeat, said estimate to be made or computed upon the basis of - ross sales, upon sworn statements, for the time such merchant or merchants have been engaged in business in said town during the fiscal year ending December 31st, 1903, the rate or license shall be the same as that fixed in the foregoing schedule for merchants.. Merchante: And all merchants not embraced in any of the foregoing classes who may be ing business in said town on or aftor the. first day of Janu ary, A. D. 1904, shall pay a license or privilege tax of...15 00 Manufacturers of coffins........ 25 00 Newspapers, each.... ....... 5 00 Newsboys; selling papers on sre,ech................... 1001 Occulist or optician, prwe $5.00, per year...............25 00 Printing office, job ........... 00~ Piano and organ tuner or re pairer, per month $3.00, per Photographers, for each place of _ business ..................... o 00 Photographers, itinerant, per week .............. .......... 5 001 Physicians ............ 5 00 Physicians, itinerant, per month 10 00 Restaurant ...................... 5 00' Stable-sale only........... .... 2000! Tailor, merchant................ 5 00 Tailors, not merchant, .engaged in making or repaing, or either............................ 00 Telegraph Companies or Agen cies, each for business done within the Town of Newberry, and not including any business done for the United States government, or any business done to or from points beyond the limits of this State .100 00; Telephone Companies, for busi Iness done exclusively within the Town of Newberry, and not including any business done for the United States government, or any business done to or from points beyond the limits of this State......100 00; Undertakers or Embalmers, either or both................ 800~ Warehouse, for storage by the public......................2 00 Wood yard ...................... 500 SEC. 2. That for any calling, trade, business, occupation, or profession not: enumerated or provided for in this or dinance or any other ordinance of. said. Town now of force, the license shall be: regulated and imposed by the Town Council of said Town at any meeting of the same. SEC. 3. That the Town Council of said Town hereby reserves the right to re fuse or revoke any license for any cause which may seem to it just. SC. 4.at anynersn, firm or I corporation making any false or fraud ulent return, where a return is neces sary or required under this ordinance, shall, upon conviction, be punished as hereinafter provided, for the violation of this ordinance or any part thereof. SEC. 5. That whenever in this ordi nance the term "dealetr" is used the same shall include not only the princi pal, but in his, her or their absence shall include any agent, clerk or em ployee managing tYle business respec tively referred to; and generally, where a license is herein imposed upon any business and the same is carried on or conducted by an agent, clerk or em ployee, such agent, clerk or employee, shall be subject to the penalties im posed in this ordinance for its violation, should the said business be carried on without taking out such license, in the same manner as if he, she, or they were the proprietor or proprietors of said business. - SEC. 6. Any violation, of this ordi nance or any part thereof shall subject the offender or offenders each to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, on to imprisonment with or without hardf labor upon the streets or other public works of said Town for a period not ex ceeding thirty days, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 7. 'That any person or persons, firm or cdrporation, or the agent, clerk or employee in charge of or managing the same, who shall engage in, prose cute or carry on any calling, trade, business, occupation or profession upon which a license or privilege tax may hereafter be i:rposed by the Town Council of said Town, without first hav ing taken out a license therefor, shall, upon conviction, be each fined in a sum not ex.ceeding7 one hundred dollars, or iinprisoned with or without hard labor pon the streets or other 'public works of said Town for a period not exceedin thirty days, at the discretion of the :ourt. SEC. S. That each day any person or persons, firm, or corporation shall vio late this ordinance or any part thereof, by reason of any failure or refusal to take out any license herein proiided for, shall constitute a separate offense, and such offender, or offsnders, shall be for each dly's offense subject tothe penalties herein provided. SEC. 9. That this ordniance shall not operate as a repeal of any ordinance of said town now of force imposing a li cense or privilege tax upon any callig, trade, business, occupation or profes sion, except such part or parts only, of said ordance or ordinances now of force as may impose a license upon any calling, business, occupation or profes sion herein specifically named or enu merated. SEC. 10. This ordinance shall be of force and effect on and after the first day of Janua, A. D. 1904. Done and ratified under the corporate seal of the Town of Newberry, [L.S.] in the State of South Carolina, this 30th day of December, A. D. 1903. JNO. W. EARHARDT, Mayor of Newberry, S. C. Attest: T. 0. STEwART, C. & T. T. C. N. Valuable Land for Sale 82 acres 5 miles of Whitmire-25 acres in cultivation, 5 to 6 acres good meadow. Seven lots adjoining the corporate limits of Newberry. Good' building sites. Terms and prices reasonable. 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