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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1A25 *= ( . 'v I .* Imposing a License Tax on Perkens Who Engage In, Preoecnteot Carry On Any Business or Profession In the Town of Clinton. , 10.00 40.00 10.00 5.00 2.00 15.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 25.00 25.00 6.00 I State of South Carolina, County of Laurens, Town of Clinton. ( ; BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF CLINTON; ' *- Sectiop 1. That no person, firm or corporation shall, after the first day of January, *1026, 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 bp the cost of said special tax per an num, unless otherwise specified, to wit: Agents for laundries, per an- DUHl •••• •••• •••• •••• •.••• Agents fojr Oil Refining Com panies, per annum — Architects whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per *••• ••• • •••• •••• •••• Auctioneers whose gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum y 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 accesories and supplies are kept for sale, an additional charge requited, per snnum •••• •••• •••• • * Auto washing depots or sheds not connected with other busi ness, 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 sh^ll be allowed to operate only one automo bile hack under each license issued to him. 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 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 engage iji the same character or kind of business. Automobile dealers or agents, whose gross annual income is $1,500 or leas, per annum .... Balls and dances where adfhis- sion is charged, per day .... Butchers, or dealers in fresh meats whose gross annual in come is $9;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 gross 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-wrtes: 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 1 -r*ght to sell under his daily license more than one ani mal. Bagging and Ties—Bagging and ties reworked, including 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- - er for the consideration of a commission, with or without iSe .... .... additional $l,OOOjDr ley, per. THE CLINTON L-U-ig-B ■MU!--' ■' I I.. * , ^ (* c. • -I- • •••* *I-W 6.00 10.00 5.00 .50 25.00 7.50 annum Whose gross daily income is $25 or less* per day Book agents, whose gross'am nual income is $1,000 or less, ^ per .annum — *... * Whose gross wdekly income is $500 or less, per week .... Whose gross daily incomg is $100 or less, per day .... .... Bakeries, whose gross annual 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 Alley or Box Ball pro prietors whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum :.. .... .: .25.00 Each alley operated shall be deemed and taken to be sep- erate business'. Bottling works, whose gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Bootblacks, where the fee charged for shining shoes is .05, per annum Where the fee charged for each shingis .10, per annum Canvassers peddlers selling goods, wares or merchandise of whatevei character or kind not listed, per year Per day^.> .... a IjOO Cotton brokers—cotton brokers, factors, or merchants or ex porters, each place of busi- •••• • •••• •••• •••• •••• • • • • Chirapractic—Same pa doctors. Carpenter shop keeper, per year .... 25.00 .... 10.00 5.00 10.00 10.00 20.00 Contractors or firms of such,^ 5.00 7.50 12.50 20.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 5.00 25.00 25.00 5.00 warehouse j... Broker In lumber—nut carry ing stock, per annum Blacksmith shops, whose gross annual incuute is $750 or less, pCY RTUUMW •••• •••• •••• •••• Blacksmith shops, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum For each additional torge op erated in a blacksmith shop, ~'the license shall be increased per annum according to in come. Barber shops, operating one . chair, per annum For each additional chair .... Bill posters, whose gross an nual Income is $$,000 or less, p€Y annum «••• *••• •••• •••• Whose gross anpusl income is more than fS,0QQ fpr each employing, taking or offering to take contracts not to ex ceed $50.00 .... “Exempt 1 From $50.00 to $500.00 per annum .... ^.. From $1,000 to $2,000, per annum .!.. From $2,000 to $5,000, per annum .._ Each additional $1,000 or less .!.. 1.00 Circuses, first rin& 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 .... 250.0(1 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 .... Eacb^ 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 .... 10.00 Cold drink stands, per annum 5.00 Contractors for.moving houses, v whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... 25.00 Coal companies or agencies, where the gross annual in come is $2,500 or less, per annum ..^ Conveyancers or scrivners, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum 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 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/ ^rith or Without business, whose gross annual income is $7,500 or less, per. J annum TDealers in pianos, organs, sew ing machines, iron safes,.well fixtures, and tombstones, not connected with stores, whose gross annual income is $1,000 v 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 frpm wagon, whose gross daily income is $50 or less, per day .... And each wfgon 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 les%, per day And each car operated shall be deemed a separate busi ness. 2.501 Dinner houses whose gross an- nual income is $2,000 or less, per annum 85.00 Dentists whose gross annual income it $1,000 or Jess, per um ,..i .... .... .... .... .... .... Whose gross annual income is more than $1*000, for each additional $1,000 or less, per •••• ,.«• •••• «jwk Express companies maintaining An 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 Electricians whose gross an- / nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... 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 $506 or less, ^per annum Fresh fish dealers without other business, whose grofs annual income is $1,500 or less, per annum Hay, grain, provisions 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 $60 or less, per day .... Hampss shops, whose gross an nual income is 81,000 or less per annum .... ?... 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 $500 or less, per month .... Hotels whose gross annual in come is $5,000 or less, per 1.00 35.00 i 15.00 CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Organ grinders musiciftns, whose gross daily income is $100 of lass, 'per ^R •' •' ' ‘: • :v> - ■ y .. a, ' • . 1 ■ I V 4 i ‘ -W— and itinerant mm 1.00 40.00 5:00 2.00 10.00 10.00 15.00 10.00 1.00 10.00 2.00 1^.00 40.00 20.00 20.00 25.00 10.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 25.00 10.00 5.00 15.00 1.00»t .50 1.00 15.00 10.00 15.Q0 2.00 10.00 35.00. 15.00 10.00 5.00 15.00 10.00 25.00 15.00 15.00 15.00 25.00 7.50 10.00 10.00 20.00 2.00 25.00 2.00 .. 7.50 10.00 25.00 15.00 annum Whose gross annual income is more than $5,000, on each additional $5,000 or less, per annum Horse or mule traders, trans- sient, whose gross 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 r.... 15.00 Insurance companies, life, acci dent and health, maintaining agencies doing business with in the City oi Clinton, whose gross annual income from such agencies is $1,000 or less, per annum .... Ice dealers, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum Ice cream venders, selling front carts, whose gross annual in come is $1,500 or less, per annum Ice cream venders, selling from wagons, whose gross annual income is f2,500 or less, per annum 25.00 Ice manufacturers, per annum 25.00 Jewelry, watch and clock re pairs, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum ....X - Jewelers, itinerant, offering for sale jewelery, watches, clocks, ets., 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 Lightning rod agents or deal ers, whose gross annual in come is $2,000 or less, per annum 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 Lunch counters, per annum .... Machine shops and foundries, whose gpss annual income is $2,000 or less, per annum Merry-go-rouncjs, whose gross weekly income is $250 or less, per week 25.00 [ 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 ffom sales, per annum Whose gross annual income is more than $10,000, on each additional $1,000 or Jess, per annum .— By income is meant the amount of goods sold by the licensee and sworn statement must accompany payment. Machine sellers and venders, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum .... Whose gross daily income is $1,000 or less, per day .... Marble yards or agencies, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... Mechanics, working on auto mobiles who do not maintain a regular place of business, jpef annum • •••• Moving picture shows, whose gross annual income is $2,- 500 or less, per annum Opera house hall whose gross annual income is $1,000 or lesib pci 1 Annum day .... .... i... .... ...^ ■.... %--* Oil and gasoline companies or agents, whose gross annual income is v $16,p00 of lass, per annum .... .... 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 Lumber yards, selling planks, shingles, framing laths or moulding, whose gross an nual income is $5,000 or less, per annum Lumber yards or dealers selling other kinds of building mater ial other than the ones last before enumerated, whose an nual income is $2,500 or less, per annum I... 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 10.00 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, per day 2.00 Physicians whose gross annudfl income is $1,000 or less, per annum «••• ~ •••• Printing office, job, whose gross annual income 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 Public weighers other than cotton weighers,-whose gross •annual income is $500 or less,' per annum .... r Restaurants or eating house, whose gross annual income is $1,500 of les^, per annum .... 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 .... Renovaters 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 .... .... Scrivners, whose gross daily in come is $10 or less, per day Shows, performances, exhibi tions of all kinds, except cir cuses or similar exhibitions, whose gross daily income is 21>.00 Transient dealers in fruits, bread and cakes, meats or merchandise of whatsoever character and , kind, selling from car or common carrier, •except as hereinafter provid ed, per annum Apple wagons where they raised the apples themselves may be issued license by the day at $2, 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 re-sale their license shall be $25 per annum, sub ject to same rules as apply to day license above. Undertakers, whose gross an nual income is $2,500 or less, per annum Each additional $1,000 or less, per annum 1.00 15.00 10.00 35.00 10.00 15.00 5.00 35.00 10.00 1.00 50.00 .50 Vulcanising shops, per annhm Wood shops and wagon manu facturers, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum Wood dealers or brokers, whtffe gross annual income is $500 * or less, per annum .... 10.00 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 1.00 Wholesale dealers in hay, grain, provisions, goods wares, or - merchandise, who carry a'. stock of goods either in a v warehouse or store room, whose gross annual income from sales is $50,000 or less, per annum Each additional $1,000 or less, per annum > Section 2. All licenses issued for one day only shall be double the amount above mentioned, for Satur days, show days, Christmas days and other days of public gatherings. Section 3. That all licenses issued 5.00 under and by virtue of this Ordinance shall be non-trAnsfcrable and ex cept a license for a day, a week or a month, shall terminate and end on the 31st day of December of the year in which they were issued; but may be revoked at any time by the Town Council of the Town of Clinton on satisfactory cause being shown. Ex cept license issued for a day, a week, or a month, annual rates shall be charged for all licenses issued prior to June 30th of any ..year, three fourths the annual ratq shall be charg^i for all licenses Issued after June aOth of any year and prior to September 30th of any year; and one- half the annual rate for all licenses issued after September 30th of any year, and prior to December 31st of any year. Section 4. That every person, cor poration or partnership, required by this ordinance to obtain a license to engage in any business, trade, profes- the license Mayor. Section 9. The license taxes herein imposed are levied for the purpose of raising funds to meet the annual or dinary expenses of the Town of Clin ton for the fiscal yeas'commencing on the 1st dap of January of any year hereafter and for the purpose of pay ing in whole or in part any legal in debtedness of the said City incurred for ordinary expenses thereof falling due during the said fiscal year. All annual licenses must be paid oa or before January 15th ef each year, on penalty of an additional 1$ per cent charge after January 15th, or 25 per cent additional after* February 1st. If license is net paid by Fehru-, ary 15th the busindw will be closed ! by 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^ 1926. > 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 7th day of December, A. D., 1925, and in the One Hundred and Fiftieth year of the Sovereignty and independence of the United States of America. „ J. F. JACOBS, Attest: Mayor. MARY CHALMERS HOjLLAND, City Clerk and Treasurer. WANTS Ratee for advertising in this column using are one cent per word for each ii tion, with a ihinimnm charge of 2Sc, payable invariably in advance. I OR SALE—Second-hand typewriter and office stove. Apply at the Chronicle Office. 25.00 1.00 10*00 5.00 JERSEY BULL—Prices J. M. Pitts. reasonable. CHICKENS FOR SALE—WUl be de livered. Call 340. lip FOR SALE—Charleston Wakefield cabbage plants, 20c per hundred. Phone 209. J. H. Donnan. LOST—One bunch of keys on or about the 10th. Finder please re turn to J. M. Pitts. Ite NOTICE—Don’t keep free boarders in your flock. Feed Purina and get eggs while eggs are high. Clinton Hatchery & Fede Co. 12-lf-5te 15.00 1.00 sion or occupation, for which a license n $500 or less, per day 26.00 i is required, shall at the time of ap- 25.00 Soda fountains, without or with ^tore, whose gross annual in come is $1,500 or less, per an num 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 .... Street trudks doing drayage, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum 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 is $7.50 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 25.00 Storage battery charging sta- 5.00 50.00 15.00 10.00 25.00 FOR SALE—All wool, medium weight men’s home-knit socks, 76c pair. Mrs. Lena S. Lyles, Route 3, Clin ton, S. C. 12-24-4tp FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms on second floor, to persons without children, or would rent unfurnished. Apply to Mrs. T. J. Blalock, Phon* No. 110, Clinton/ S. C. l-7-4tp 25.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 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, land 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 the said business, profession or occupation be carried on or prose cuted without the license imposed hav ing been paid in the same manner as 10.00 i ^ suc ^ a & en t> clerk or employee were the proprietor of such business, pro fession or occupation. Section 7. That every person, firm, s j company or corporation, required by 5 QQ ! this Ordinance .to obtain a license to 2^50 en £ a £ e 1° business, trade, profession, of occupation for which a license is WANTED—All round commercial. artist with commercial engraving house experience. Apply to T. W. Pritchard, box 638, Charlotte, N. C. Good opportunity for right man. Send samples stating salary wanted. 5.00 1.00 NOTICE—No hunting or trespassing of any kind allowed on our prem ises. John H. Young, John T. Young, Copeland-Stone Co., John C. Davis, Jack H. Davis, W. Watts Davis, G. Wash Hunter, J. G. Young. 12-17-4tp GET PAY EVERY DAY—Distribute 150 necessary products to establish ed users. Extracts, soaps, food prod ucts ,etc. World’s largest company will back you with surprising plan. Write The J. R. Watkins Company, Dept. K-4, 231 Johnson Ave., Newark, N. J. l-8~4tp WHAT DO P. S. JEANS 5.00 2.00 25.00 5.00 no? jpqcctwoscpccacooacgoaac 1.00 tions, per annum .... 10.00 Te( l uire d, shall at the time of apply- U f 20.00 1.00 10.00 10,00 i 40.00 10.00! Taxi cabs, per annum .... * No parson* 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 license therefor from the Town Clerk. > Tailor shops, and agents, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Tin or tinker shops, whose gross annual income is $750 or le^s, per annum .... Telephone companies, local, per annum 100.00 -4 Telegraph companies, or agen cies, fqr 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 annum 25.00 ‘ n ^ * or 8UC ^ 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 and in those cases in which such in formation is required, the amount of business done the previous year in the same""occupation, trade, business, or profession if same was carried on 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, tradd, occupation, or profession not enumer- 30.00 t ated in Section 1 of this Ordinance, ( BILIOUSNESS Retired Minister Tells How He Keeps in Good Form. 10.00 10.00 The Rev. Lewis Evans, a well- known retired minister, past 80, living at West Graham, Va., says: “bor years I had been suffering with my liver. Sometimes the pain would be very intense and my back would hurt all the time. Black-Draugiit was the first thing 1 found 4haf relief. would give me any "My liver has always been si i ways i ish. Sometimes it gives me a lot S i ouble. 1 have suffered a lot with it—pains in my side and back, and bad headache, caused from ex treme biliousness. ‘After 1 found Black-Draught, I would begin to take it as soon as I felt a spell ipeii coming oa and it re lieved the cause at once. I can recommend it to anybody suffering from liver trouble. A dose or two now and then keeps me In good form." Made from selected medicinal roots and herbs, and containing no dangerous mineral drugs, Black- Draught la nature's own remedy for a Tired, ‘ Sold everywl lazy liver, rnere. buckoraugmt UV£R MfDKlbt / > V X *L:* /' ii niMwiyr I X / / y v L L A •is: /