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AN ORDINANCE State of South Carolina, The Town of Newberry. For the purpose of meeting in part the current expenses of the Town government of the Town of Newberry, in the State of South Carolina, for the fiscal year begin ving-january ist, -196, and to meet in part such other indebtedness of said Town as may become due in said fiscal year; Therefore, be it .rdained by the Mayor and Alder men of the Town of Newberry, in said State, in council assembled and by authority of the same: Section r. That no person or persons, firm, corporation or cor porations, shall engage in, prose cute or carry on any calling, trade, :business, occupation or profession hereinafter mentioned within the corporate limits of said Town at any time during said year after the publication of this ordinance with out having first paid to said Town a license or privilege tax therefor as -follows, to wit: A. Agents for, or dealers in fer tilizer for sale, $ 20 00 -Agents for, or dealers in pi anos and organs, (either or-both), 10 00 Agents for, or dealers in sewing machines (con-. nected with oth& business or alone) 2000 Agents for, or dealers in lighfning rods, -25 00 g6nts for, or dealers in coal 5 oo -Agents for, or dealers in naps books, newspapers, Periodical and other like -artides :(other than licens ed merchants who deal in same) per day $5.oo or per year, , 25 00 Agents for enlarging pic tures, per day, $5.oo or per year, 20 oo Agents for retailing goods .per day $5or per year 1000oo A!gents or dealers selling mules, or horses, or:cattle, either or all three, at poly 1k auction only, per day, $25, or per year . 50 oo ~Ad nts or dealers (other dthan licensed sales sta .bes) -selling mules or ho,rses, either or -both, per -. 4reek $5 or- per year, .25 00 -Agents or -dealers :in. fruit *eeseper weeke$2 or per year, 10 00 Agents for, or.dealers in real -estate; selling or renting (other than licensed law yers), 00o B. Bakeries, $.5 00 ~Ball, public (when admis-' sion fee is charged) per. night, . 2 00 -Banks, capitalized at $, 000o, or less 50 00 Banks, ifor every $w0,o00 capital in excess of $5o, 000, 10 00 Barber, for each #9p, 5 00 Blacksmith, for each shop 5 00 Bill poster, 7 50 Bootblacks, in barber shops, hotels or elsewhere, each 1. 00 Boot or shoe shop, making or repairing, 1 5 00 Bottling works, soda water -or otherwise.. 10 oo Building and Loan Associa tions; loan, saving or' in vestment companies, and all companies or cotpora tions (except lidensed banks) engaged in the sale or purchase of real estate or loaning money on real -estate or otherwise, 25 00 *Boarding houses, public,. 5 oo C. - Chiropodists, per week $3; per year, -$ 10 00 Circus, with or without me .nagerie, per day with street parade, 100 00 Street parade alone $50; for each side show, $io per day. Gleaning, dressing or dye ing (other than licensed tailors, 2 50 Coal dealers (alone or in connection with other business), 5 00 Contractors or Builders for contracts under $500, 5 00 Contractors or Builders for contracts over $500 and not exceeding $2,500, 1o oo Contractors or Builders for contracts over $2,500 and not exceeding $5,oo0, 1 - Contractors or Builders for contracts over $5,000, 2' Commission Merchants or Commission Brokers, each or each firm and for each place of business, 2; Cotton Mills or Factories. for each $50,000 or trac tional part thereof of its capital stock, 12 Cotton Seed Oil Mills. 5C Cotton Seed Oil Mills that manufacture fertilizers. 6c Cotton Gin and Press, i to 5 gins inclusive, IC Cotton Gin and Press, over 5 gins, for each additional gMn over 5 Cotton Buyer, for each place of business. 10 Cotton Seed Buyier, Cotton Weigher. Conveyancer. drawing deeds mortgages or contracts for compensation (other than licensed lawyers),. D. Dentists or tooth extractors. Dogs, upon each and, every dog, the owner or person upon whose premises the same is kept shall pay the sum of Druggists, licensed as mer chants. E. Exchange, bucket shop (firm, individual or cor poration) carrying on the business of dealing in op tions or futures in cotton, gram, provisions or. other supplies, on margins or otherwise. $ 50 Express Companies, each, for business done within the Town of Newberry, and not included busi ness done for the United States Government, or any business done to.and from points beyond the limits of this state. -50 F. Flying Jenny, $ 50 Flying Jenny for .less time than one year at the rate of $10 per.week. Fresh Fish, '- 1 Gun Spop, etc, ~ $ 15 Hi. Hac$ks, used for hire $ 1o Harness Shop, etc.,5 Hotels, each, 1 Horse or Mule Traders (othei-s than licensed sale Istables). 25 Horse or Mule Trader, transient, per week, 6 House Painters, per year, 5 Ice Dealers. retail, eachi house or place of busi ness, $ 5 Insurance'Companies, each life, fire or accident, . 1 Junk shop, or scrap .iron I Jeweers, licensed as mer chants. K. Kerosene or other oil com panies having an agency or office in the Town of Newberry, or a stationary or portable tank or tanks for receiving and storing oil, selling or delivering oil within the imits of the said town each, $ 1oc Kerosene Oil Companies or Agencies having no sta tionary or portable tanks but selling in original packages, each, 50 Knitting Mills, 20 L. Laundry, steam, or agent for steam laundry, $ 10 Lawyers, each, shall pay on their income according to the scale of rates fixed for merchants. Lumber yards, or dea4ers, 10 Livery, Feed or Sale Stable, 25 Marble Yard, $ 1c Merchants: All merchants shall pay a license or privi lege tax according to the following schedules of gross sales (cash and cred it) and upon swvorn re turns the gross sales for the year ending December 31, 1905. shall be the basis upon which said license or oo privilege tax shall be com puted and paid: oo Sales amounting to $T,000 or under, S 5 0C Sales over Si.oon andt under S3,ooo, 1 00 oo.Sales amotlting to S3,.ooo and under $5,ooo, 12 00 Sales amounting to $5,000 and under $io,ooo 15 00 50 Sales amounting to $io,ooo oo and under $20,000, 20 o Sales amounting to $20,000 oo and under $30,000, 25 00 Sales amounting to $30,000 00 and under $40,ooo, 30 00 Sales amounting to $40,000 and under $50,ooo. 35 00 oo Sales amounting to $50,ooo and under $6o,ooo., 40 00 oo Sales amounting to $6o,ooo oo and under $70,000, 45 00 00 Sales amounting to $7o.0ooo and under $80,ooo. 50 00 Sales amounting to $8o,ooo and under $90,ooo. 55 00 oo Sales amounting to $90,000 and under $ioo.ooo. 60 oo Sales amounting to $1oo,ooo oo and under $110,000, 65 00 Sales amounting to $110,ooo and under $130,000, 75 00 Sales amounting to $130.000 and over, 85 o 5o Merchants: All merchants who may not come within any of the foregoing class es by reason of their not having been in business during the whole of the fiscal year ending Decem ber 3f$t, 1905, but have been in busifiess in said Town during a part of said year, sh41l pay a li 00 cense or privilege tax upon their estimated gross sales for the year, said es timate to be made or com puted upon the basis of gross sales, upon sworn statements, for time such merchant or merchants have been engaged in bus 00 . iess in said Town during the fiscal year ending De 00 cember 31st, 1905, the rate of license shall be the same~ as that fixed in the fore going schedule for mer 00 chants. . Merchants: And all - mer 00 chants not embraced in any of the foregoing class 00 es who may begin busi 00o ness in said Town on or 0o after the first day of Jan uary, A. D. 19c06 shall pay~ a license or privilege tax 00 of i5 oo IManufacturers of Coffins, 25 00 01Newspapers,' each, -$ 5 00 Newsboys, selling papers on streets, each, I00 0. SjOculist or Opti6ian, per week, $5.00, per year, $ 25 00 0o~ P. Printing Office, job, -$ 5 00 Piano or Organ Tuner or 01Repairer, per month, $3-oo -per year, 8 00 Photographers, for each place .of .business, 5 00 Phtographers, itinerant, per week, 5 00 Physicians shall pay on their income according to scale of rates fixed for mer chants. Physicians. itineran -, per 01month, 10 00 Restaurant. $ 500 S.. Stables, sale only. $ 20 00 Sign painters, per day $1.00, 0 per year, 5 00 [Stock yard, etc., per week I$3.00 per anntum, 10 00 aol T. Tailor, merchant, $ 5 o Tailors, not merchant, en gaged in making and re pairing, or either, ,5 00 Telegraph Companies or A Sgencies, each for business 00done within tile Town of -Newherry, and not includ 00 ing any I>usiness done for the United States govern ment, or any business done to or from points beyond the limits of this state, 100 00 Telephone Companies, for business done exclusively within the Town of New Kberry, and not including any business done to or from points beyon(I the limits of this state. 100 0< U. Undertakers or Embalmers. either or both. S 8 o 1iEmbrella repairer. per day. SI.oo. per annum. 5 0 WV. Warehouse, for storage by the public. $ 25 0 Woodyard, 5 C Section 2. That for any calling trade, business. occupation or pro Iession not enumerated or provid ed for in this ordinance or any oth er ordinance of said Town now o: force, the license shall be regulate( and imposed by the Town Coun cil of said Town at any meetinc of the same. Section 3. That the Town Coun cil of said Town hereby reserve the right to refuse or revoke an3 license for any cause which ma' seem to it just. Section 4. That any person, firn or corporation making any false o1 fraudulent return, shall upon con, viction be punished as herein afte1 provided for the violation of thi. ordinance or any part thereof. Section 5. That whenever ir this ordinance the term "dealer" i. used the same shall include not onl the principal, but in his, her o1 their absence shall include an3 agent, clerk or employee managing the business respectively referre to; and generally, where a licens< is herein imposed upon any busines. and the same is carried on or con ducted by an agent, clerk or em ployee, such agent, clerk or em ployee shall be subject to the pen alties imposed in this ordinance foi its protection, should the said busi ness be carried on without taking out such license, in the.same man ner as if he, she or they were th< proprietor.or proprietors of sait business. Section 6. Any violation of thi. ordinance or any part thereof shal subject the offender or offenders each to a fine not exceeding on< hundred dollars or to imprisonmeni with or without hard labor upon the streets or other -public works od said Town for a period not exceed ing thirty days, at the discretion a' the court. Section 7. That any person 0: persons, firm or corporation, or th< agent, clerk or employee in charge or managing the. same, who shal engage in, prosecute or carry oi any calling, trade, business, occupa tion or profession upon which a li cense or privilege tax may here after be imposed by the Towr Council of said Towvn, without hav ing taken out a license therefor sha, upon conviction, be each fined in a -sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment with 01 without hard labor upon the streets or other public works of said Towr for a period not exceeding thirty days, at the discretion of the court Section. 8. That each day an: person or persons, firm or corpora tion shall violate this ordinance o1 any part theref, by reason of any failure or refusal to take out an: j.license herein provided .for, shal constitute a separate offense, an<( such offender or offenders shall be for each day's offense subject t< the penalties herein provided. Section 9. That this ordinanc< shall not operate as a repeal of an: ~ordinance of said Town now o: Iforce imposing a license or privi ~'lege tax upon any calling, trade business, occupation or profession Iexcept such part or parts only o said ordinance or ordinances nov of, force as may impose a licens< upon any calling, business, occupa tion or profession. herein, specified named or enumerated. Section 10. This ordinance shal be of force and effect on and af ter the sixth day of January, A. D 196. Done and ratified under the cor porate seal of the Town o Newberry, in the State o (sEAt) South Carolina, this 4t1 day of January, A. D. 1906 A. TP. BROWN. Mayor of Newberry. S. C. Attest: Eugene S. Werts, C. & T. T. C. N. *cONFEDERATE SOt.DIERs EXEMPT. By an act of the legislature. ap *proved February 25, 1904, "call sol diers and sailors of the Confederate states who enlisted from this state aI( wim \VreX honorahly dischlarged from such service shall hereafter be exempt from the charge of any li cense for the carrying on of any business or profession within the state. or any city. town or village therein; Provided. That such sol dier or sailor shall file with the clerk of court of the county in which he resides the proper evidence of his service in the Confederate war: Provided, further, That no part - nership shall exist in any business - or profession with any person not ;a bona fide soldier or sailor of the Confederate states." Loma1 is DISTILL Fine Wines, Whiski Quality and Fla Mail orders promptly supervision of our Mr. receipt. Remit with all orders, decline to receive Whis Established Lomax Dis 24 South Atlant SBUTHERN -Through Pullmai on All Throi Convenient Scd Local -1 'Winter Tourist F effect to all F1 ~For full informati Routes, Etc., C( .Southern Rai Agen KBrooks Morgan, Asst Gen. Pass. Agent, Atlanta, Ga, SEAB' IAIR - LINE NORTH - SOUTH Two Daily Pullman Ve: Between SOUTH ai FIRST-CLASS~DINI The Best Rates and Roi Via Richmond and \ Norfolk and Steair Nashville, Memph Louis, Chicago, Ne Points South and South, and Jacksonville and and Cuba. PossITIVELy THE SHO) NORTH AN W"For detailed informatiori man reservations, etc., appi board Air Line Railway, or : Passenger Agent, Columbia C. F. STEWART, A SAVA NNA W. L BRROUGHS, Tray, NOTICE FINAL SETTLEMEM Notice is hereby given that the undersigned w111 on the 5th day of February, 19o6, make a final set tlement on the estate of M. L. Kin ard. deceased, and will immediatelyj thereafter apply to the Probate Judge for Newberry County for Letters Dismissory as Administra tor of said estate. W. W. Kinard, Administrator. Newberry, S. C., Jan. 8, 1906. [illung Co, E RS OF," [es, Brandies, Etc. vor Guaranteed. filled under personal D. C. Loebwon day of as Express Comtantes key C. 0. D. 125 Years. tillig Co., Pryor St. a, Ga. lSleeping Cars ~.gh Trains. edules .on All rains. ates are pow in orida pomnts. on as to Rates, >nsult nearest lway Ticket t, or R. W H unt, Division Pass. Agent, Charleston, S. C. DARD - RAILWAY. - EAST -- WEST. stibuled Limited Trains id NEW YORK. MS CAR SERVICE, iate to all Eastern Cities Vashington, or via ers.-To Atlanta, is, Louisville, St. w Orleans, and All est-To $avannah all points in Florida TEST L INE BETWEEN D SOUTH. L, rates, schedules, Pull r to any agent of The Sea los. W. Stewart. Traveling ,S.C. sst.Gfeni. Pass. Agt., kH, GA. Pass Agot Colimbia S C