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' PAGE TWELVE THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER II, 1924 Imposing a Licerso Tax on Persons Who Engage In, Prosecute or Carry On Any Business or Profession in the Town of Clinton. State of South Carolina, County of Laurens, Town of Clinton. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF, CLIN TON: • t Section 1. That no person, firm or corporation shall, after the first day of January, 1925, engage in, prosecute or carry on iany business or profes sion hereinafter named, within the corporate limi's of the Town of Clin ton, without having first paid a spe cial license tax therefor. The amount j of said special tax shall be the amount placed opposite each occupa tion, business or profession herein be low named, respectively, and the amount shall be the cost of said spe cial tax per annum, unless otherwise specified, to wit: Agents for lapndries, per an num 10.00 Agents for Oil Refining Com Bill posters, Whose gross an nual income is $3,000 or less, J36T ftWHlWI •••• «••• •••* «••• •-** Whose gross annual income is more than $3,000 for each additional $1,000 or less, per annum Whose gross daily income is $25 or less, per day ' Book agents, whose gross an nual income is $1,900 or less per annum Whose gross weekly income* is $500 or less, per week Whose gross daily income is $1.00 or less, per day Bakeries, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Bicycle dealers, whose gross annual inebme is $1,000 or less, per annum Banks and banking houses with an investment of $50,000 or less in the business, per an- 35.00 6.00 5.00 10.00 5.00 .50 25.00 7.50 i\um panics, per arnum 40.00 annum r - 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 Each additional pump operat ed, per annum Where stock of aecesorios and supplies are kept for sale, an additional charge required, per annum Auto washing depots or sheds not connected with other busi ness, per annum Automobile repair shops whose gross anHurd income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... Automobile hacks, whose gross anual 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 ea’h license issued to hm. 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, ox any public service driver or driv ers, either of hack or auto mobile, who shall transport from ptype to place within the City of Clinton, any woman or women for immoral pur poses, their license to do business 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 ergage in the same character 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 is $5,000 or less, per —annum f oo 5.00 2.00 15.00 19.00 10.00 10.00 >5.00 25.00 5.00 100.00 On each additional $1,000 in vested .* 1-00 Bowling Alley or Box Ball pro prietors whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 25.00 Og^ -Each altCjruiKMatedt erate business. 25.00 5.00 10.00 10.00 1.00 20.00 5.00 Dinner houses whose gross an nual income is $2,000 or less, per annum .... .... 26:00 Dentists whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 15.00 Whose gross annual income 4s more than $1,000, for each additional $1,000 or less, per annum 1.00 Express companies maintaining an x agency whose gross an nual income at such agency arising from business done wholly within the State of South Carolina, if $1,000 or less, per annum 35.00 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 15.00 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 10.00 Hay, grain, provisions' or mer- chandise brokers, who carry 40.00 10.00 1.00 7.50 12.50 2(W)0 25.00 5.00 Dealers in single beef or hogs, or offering for sale in wagons may take out special license by the day at the following rates: Those whose gross daily in come from single beef or hog amount to $20 or less, per day •' Dealers in calves, mutton, shoat or kid may take out special license by the day at the fol lowing rates: Those whose gross daily in come for each calf, mutton, shoat or kid is $10 or less, per day .... Provided, ■ however, that the license shall not have the right to sell under his daily license more than one ani mal. Bagging and Ties—Bagging and ties icworked, including cotton, mill waste products Brokers dealing in stocks and bonds, per annum Brokers, merchandise — mean ing a person, firm or cor poration who acts as an inter mediary between buyer and seller 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, per annum .... ...* Blacksmith shops, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum - For each additional forge op erated in a blacksmith shop, the license shall be increased per annum accordng to in- Barber shops operating one For, each additional chair .... Bottling works, whose gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum i v Pooiblacks, where the fee charged for shining shoes is .05, p^r 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, ppr year .... per day ,... Cotton brokers—cotton brok ers, factors, or merchants or exporters, each place of business Chiropractic—Same as doctors. Carpenter shop keeper, per year Contractors or firms of such, employing, taking or offering to take contracts not to exceed $50.00 “Exempt” From $50.00 to $500.00 per • annum From $1,000 to $2,000, per annum From $2,090 to-$5,000, per annum * Each additional $1,000 or less LOO 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 25.00 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 ginnerr# firsrt gin, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Each additional gin Cabinet and general repair # shops, whose gross annual in come is $500 or less, per an num Cleaning, dyeing or pressing clothing, where the gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... Cold drink stands, per annum Contractors for moving houses, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Coal companies or agencies, 25.0d where the gross annual in come is $2,500 or less, per annum ' 25.00 Conveyancers or scrivners, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum 5.00 Cotton seed oil mills with $100,- 000 or less invested, per an num .... .... 4 150.00 On each additional $1,000 in vested, per annum Directories—Each and every * person compiling city direc tory, 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 manu facturers, with or without business, whose gross annual 15.00 income is $7,500 or less, per annum _ 10.00 15.00 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 .... 20.00 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 .... .... .... .... .... .... And each wagon operated shall be deemed a separate business. j 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 A ad each ear operated shall 7-50 be deemed a separate buai- 2.50 ness. Moving picture^, shows, whose gross annual income is $2,- 500 or less, per fcnnum .... Opera house. hall whose- gross annuel income is $1,000 or less, per annum Organ grinders and itinerant musicians, whose gross daily income is $100 or less, per day Oil and gasoline companies or Sagents, whose gross annual income is $15,000 or less, per annum ...> 40.00 Whose daily income is $100 or less, per day Occulists or opticians, ininer- 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 RWIUIVk •••• •••• •••• Lumber yards, selling planks, shingles, framing laths or moulding, whose gross an nual income is $5,000 or less, per annum .../I... .... Lumber yards dr dealers selling other kinds of building mater- 5.00 2.00 15.00 40.00 1.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 5.00 10.00 .50 1.00 10.00 5.00 15.00 10.00 25.00 15.00 25.00 7.50 10.00 2.00 25.00 2.00 warehouse or store room, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum ... 15.Q0 Hair dressers or manicurists, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... 10.00 Whose gross daily income is $50 or less, per day 1.00 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 2.00 Log dealers, whose gross an nual income is $2,500 or less, per annum 5.00 Whose gross monthly income is $500 or less, per month .... 10.00 Hotels whose gross annual in come is $5,000 or less, per annum .... .v.. ..v.-.—-rnr ..r:—25.00 Whose gross annual income is more than $5,000, on each additional $5,000 or less, per annum 10.00 Horse or mule traders, trans- sient, whose gross daily in come s $1,000 or less, per day ’ 5.00 Horse and mule traders, trans ient, whose gross monthly in- » come is $10,000 or less, per month .... * 15.00 Insurance companes, life, acci dent and health, maintaining agencies doing business with in the City of Clinon, whose gross annual income from such agendies 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 front carts, whose gross annual in come is $1,500 or less, per annum 10.00 Ic^ cream venders, selling from wagons, whose gross annual income is $2,500 or less, per annum .• 25.00 Ice manufacturers, per annum 25.00 Jewelery, watch and clock re pairs, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Jewelers, itinerant, offering for _ sale jewelery, watches, clocks, etc., or repairing same, whose gross daily income s $100 or less, per day ^ 2.00 Laundries, run by hand, whose ^ gross annual income is $1,500 or less, per annum ...! 10.00 Laundries, run by machinery, whose gross annual income is $2,500 or less, per annum.... 35.00 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, pee 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 whigh a special license is not required, whose gross annual income is $10,- 000 or less from sales, per annum 25.00 Whose gross annual income is more than $10,000, on each additional $1,000 or less, per annum .... 1.00 By income is meant the amount of goods sdld by the > licensee and sworn statement must accompany payment Machine sellers and vender!, ' whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum .... 20.00 Whose gross daily income is $i;000 or less, per day .... 10.00 Marble yards or agencies, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per ^nnura .... 10.00 30.00 V 25.00 / 15.00 5.Q0 50.00 15.00 15.00 25.00 Mechanics, working on auto mobiles who do not maintain a tegular place of business, per annum .... ffea, wnose nual income is $2,500 or less, per annum .... .... 20.00 Paint shops, per annum 10.00 Pawn -shops, or money lending shops, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 25.00 Planing mills, whose gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 10.00 Photographers or artists, whose gross annual income is $1,- 000 or less, per annum 10.00 Whose monthly income is $1,000 or less, per month .... 5.00 Whose daily income is $50 or less, per day 2.00 Physicians whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 15.00 Printing office, job, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 10.00 Plumbers, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 10.00 Plumbers, whose gross income from one job is $20 or less, per job : 1.00 Public weighers other than cotton weighers, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum :.. 5.00 Restaurants or eating house, • whose gross annual income « $1,500 or less, per annum .... 25.00 Railroad agencies whose gross annual income from business done exclusively within this state is $100,000 or less, for the first track, per annum .... 100.00 For each additional track .... 100.00 For each additional $1,000 or less, per annum 1.00 Renovators of feather beds, whose gross annual income is $2,500 or less, per annum 10.00 Whose gross monthly income is $l60 or less, per month .... 5.00 Real estate agents whose gross income is $1,50Q or less, per annum 15.00 Scrivners whose gross daily in- colhe is $10 or less, per day 1.00 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 is $1,500 or less, pe ran- num .... 10.00 Stables, sales, feed and livery whose gross annual income is $4,000 or less, per annum 25.00 Salvage or bankrupt sale man agers, or sale conductors, whose gross annual income is $5,000 or less, per annum .... 25.00 Whose gross daily income is $50 or less, per day 5.00 Street trucks doing drayage, whose gross annual income is $500 or less 10.00 Street wagons or drays, one horse, whose gross ‘ annual .income is $500 or less, per annum Whose gross daily income is $5 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 i& $7.50 or less, per day Shooting galleries, whose gross annual income is $2,500 n or less, per annum Whose gross weekly income is $500 or less, per week .... Whose gross daily income is $10.00 or less, per day Shoe shops, each bench, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Each additional behch Storage battery charging sta 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 , town, without first obtaining a licenae therefor from the Town Clerk. Tailor shops, and agents whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 10.00 Tin or tinker shops whose gross annual income is $760 Telegraph companies, or agen cies, for business done within this state, and not including that done without the state, whose gross annual income from .such business is $2,000 or less, per aAnum .... Transient dealers in fruits, bread and cakes, meats or merchandise of whatsoever character and kind, selling . from car or common carrier, exepet as hereinafter provid ed, per annum .... Apple wagons where they raised the apples themselves may be issued license by the day at $2.00 except that no person or persons shall set up their stand or sell from their car or common carrier on any public street in the City of Clinton. Where ap plicants for license buy ap ples for resale their license shall be $25.00 per annum, subiect to same rules as ap ply *to day license as above. Undertakers whose gross an nual income is $2,500 or less, per annum 35.00 Each additional $1,00 or less, Tulcahizing shops, per annum 10.00 Wood shops and wagon manu facturers whose gross annual income is $600 or less, per ' annum Wood dealers or brokers, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum .... Wheelwrights, whose gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Warehouse kept for storing cotton, grain, etc., whose grqss 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, wlpse gross annual income from sales is $50,000 or less, per annum Each additional $1,000 or less, per-ainnum Section 2. All licenses issued for one day only shall be double the amount above mentioned for Saturdays, show days, Christmas days and other days of public gatherings. - Section 2 16.0Q 10.00 5.00 35.00 1.00 50.00 50 CITY BOARD OF HEALTH NOTES (By the Medical Department) It is the desire of the Medical De partment of the Board of Health of Clinton to write on different subjects from time to time, and offer some iuthoritative suggestions that may be of information to the public, and we hope may be of benefit. ‘ We wish to dipeuss at this time, “Smallpox” and especially the pre- ventation of smallpox, which is vac cination with virus. We have had a ease with smallpox that moved in here from another state. This case was properly quar antined and cared for, and we had only one case contracted from this focus, and he moved the case here. Neither one of these cases had ever been vaccinated. Science has abso lutely proved that by continued vac- cina'tion and re vaccination, that the dread disease of smallpox, (carrying with it not oAly the lawful rigid quarentining but inconvenient condi tions and heavy costs) may be com pletely* eliminated. In early years of specific prophy- lajtiA-Jigjttnafc_small}^x r _arm^ ton was common. " This lorm of vaccination was opened to serious criticism, and often carried a severe infected arm, that made people skepti cal in giving up to vaccination, but now with all the precautions employ ed in the psoduction of our best equip ped and scientific houses and with the proper thechnique of vaccination, with an individual tube and scarifer, all aseptic, there is no danger, and a lit tle sanitary dimple is the only mark that should remain. Smallpox has been reported in 35 states this year, and some places the mortality has been as high as 40 per cent. The Board of Health is anxious that we may be able to stamp out small pox and all vulnerable points that are liable to have smallpox, by immuniz ing every person by vaccination and re-vaccination. The question of immunizing an in dividual is not when one might have been vaccinated, but whether your vaccination will take or not, as often as your arm takes the vaccination, that shows your system is not im- muned against the disease, apd that you would be a subject to exposure though the disease might be modified | to a milder type. The state law com- That all licenses issued i pels all school children to be vaoci- under and by virtue of this Ordinance shall be non-tvansferable and ex cept a license for a day, a week or a month, shall terminate and end on nated to attend school and recom mends vaccination every five yeirs, whether there be an ep demic or not. In case of an epidemic one should the 31st day of December of the year j be vaccinated every two weeks until in which they were issued; but may j a “take” is secured, unless you are be revoked at any tme by the Town Council of the Town of Clinton on satisfactory cause being shown. 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 rates 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, furnish- to the Tovui 10.00 2.50 1.00 6.00 2.00 25.00 10.00 5.00 5.00 2.50 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. Sect’on 6. Where a license is im posed by this Ordinance upon any business, profession, or occupation, satisfied that immunity exi The PoaM of Health desires that the citizc ship may haartily tobperate in the suggestions relative to this sub ject, that we may be gble to practically eliminate smallpox and its liability of invasion. The Board of Health at its last meeting recommended a Magazine Hygeia edited, by the American Medi cal Journal of the United States, for laymen especially, as a magazine of splendid Worth and authority an vari ous subjects of health and hygiene. GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS One Year Subscriptions-*- 2 Woman’s Home Companion $2.50; each additional $1.25. 2 American Magazines $4.00; each additional $2.00. 2 Pictorial Review $2.75; each additional $1.50. 2 Christian Herald $3.00; each additional $1.50. Cm. the- fiity, ^ £ee me for other offers for Gift subscriptions. Call 243 at 12:30. JAS. W. CALDWELL tiornw 59 Thornwell St Clinton, S. C. or prosecuted .the previous year. The Town 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. Section 8. For any business, trade, occupation or profession not enumer ated in Section 1 of this Ordinance, the license shall be fixed by the May- qr less, per annum . Telephone companies, local, per 10.00 annum .. 100.00 or. Section 9. The license taxes herein • imposed are levied for the purpose of , - raising funds to meet the annual or- and such business, profession or occu- dinary expenses of the Town of Clin- pation is carried on or conducted by 1 ton for the fiscal year commencing an agent, clerk or employee, such on the 1st day of January of any year ; agerft, clerk, or employee shall be sub- hereafter and for the purpose of pay- ject to all the penalties herein impos- j ing in whole or in part any legal in- ed should the said business, profession debtedness of the said City incurred or occupation be carried on or prose- {for ordinary expenses therof falling cuted without the license imposed hav-'d”» *:—i * ing been paid in the same manner as if such agents clerk or employee Avere the proprietor of such business, pro fession oi* occupation. Secton 7. That every person, firm, oompany 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- iment under oath, before an officer I qualified to administer oaths, and file s|ud 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. (8) The amount of business propos ed to be done during the current year and in thoae cases in which such in formation is required, the amount of business done the previous gear in the same occupation, trade, business, or profession if same was carried on due during the said fiscal year. All annual licenses must be paid on or before January 15th of each year, on penalty of an additional 10 per cent charge after January 15th, or 25 per cent additional after February 1st. If license is not paid by Febru ary 15th the business will be closed bj* the Police Department and action brought in the Recorder’s Court, un der Section 5 of this Ordinance for the misdemeanor of doing business without license. > Section 10. This Ordinance shall go into effect on the 1st day of January A. D., 1925. Done and ratified by the City Coun cil of the City of Clinton and the cor porate seal of the said City of Clin ton hereto affixed this the 1st day of December A. D., 1924, and in the One Hundred and Forty-Ninth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. J. F. JACOBS, Attest: Mayor. MARY CHALMERS, \ City Cleric and Treasurer.