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a UccMe Tax oa PeraMB la. Pwwacate or Carry ikmr Baaiaaaa or Profoaoiim la Tm of CHataa. THE OaSTON OMOWICLE. CtIWTON. 8. a THE TOWN at Sbath CaroKna, MBty of Laurtns, et Clinton, ^iK^rr ORDiUNSD BY WS COUNCIL OF THE CANTON: flection 1. That no person, firm or n Bhall, after the first day oi January, 1031, tnfafe in, prosecute or cast7 on any buftiness or profession I hereinafter named, within the corpor- j dealers, whose gross ale Umits of the Town of Clinton, | annual income is |1,000 or arlthoat having first paid a specie’j le»*. per annum Ueenec tax therefor. The amount of I Bowling alleys or box Imll pro- said epacial tax shall be the amount 1 prietors whose gross annual Bill posters, whose gross an-' nuat income is $3,000 or len, pier annum .... Whose grots 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 $1,000 or less, per annum Whose gross weekly incom^ is $500 or less, per week .... Whose gross _dailY income 'is $100 or less, per day Bakeries, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per ^.00 500 5.00 10.00 5.00 .50 25.00 7.50 P' plarad opposite each occupation, busi- naas or profession herein below named, iWBpeatlvely, and the amount shall be the cost of said special tax per an- ES aam, unless otherwise specified, to A4rcnts for laundries, per an num Agents for Oil Refining Com panies, per annum X-irhitects whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Auctioneers whdse gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Whose gross daily income is $26.00 or less, perday Auto fillmg stations, first pump operated, pec annum . artdttnmal pntnp.flpgnii- ' 4i '■ ItV I? 10.00 40.00 10.00 5.00 2.00 15.00 ed, per, annum Where stock of accessories • and supplies are kept for sale an additional charge required, per annum Auto washing depots or shed not connected with other bus iness, 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 shall be allowed to operate only one automo bile hack und^ir each license iasued to him. Aay public ser\'ice driver or drivers, either of a hack or automobile, plying the streets for hire, wiw shall he convict-. ed in the City Cpurt of trans porting, hanng in possession, staling or otherwise violating any of the whiskey ordi nance! of the city, or any public service driver or driv er*, either of hack or auto mobile, who shall transport from place to place within the City of Clinton, any woman >or wonwn for immoral pur poses, their license to do business in said city shall h<‘ immediately revokwl 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 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 musts whose gross annual in come is $5,000 or Ics.s, per annum — Dealers in single bt'ef or 10.00 10.00 25.00 or. income is $1,000 or less, per annum 25.00 Each alley operated shall be deemed and taken to be sep arate business. Bottling works, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum 25.00 Bootblacks, where the fee charged for shining .shoe.se is ««05, per annum 2.50 Where the fee charged for each 8.line is .10, per annum 5.00 Canvassers or peddlers selling goods, wares or merchandise of whatever character or kind not listed, per year 10.00 Per day 2.00 Cotton brokers -Cotton brokers, factors, or men*haht8 or ex- er^ Mtth jtlace of bum Chirppractic—same as doctors. Carpenter shop keeper, per year 6.00 Contractors or firms-of such, employing, taking or offering to take contracts not to ex- to 5.00 i 5.00 “Exempt” $500.00 per 7.50 12.50 20.00 1.00 I(M).00 .50.00 income is $1,000 or less, per annum .4 .... Whose gross annual income is more than $1,000, for each additional $1,000 or less, per annum *... Express companies maintaining an agency whose gross an nual income at 8u:h agency arising from business done wholly within the State of South Carolina, is $1,000 or less, per annum Electricians whose gross an nual income is $1,000 or less, per annum F'ire insurance companies, on amount of net premiums col lected, per annum F’ruit trees or other trees and plant agents, whose gross — ; -t-,' . Machine sellers and vendhrs, 15.00 whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum .... Whose gross daily income is $1,000 or less, per dajr Manble ywrls or agencies, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum .... Mechanics, woridng on automo biles who do not maintain ygUBSPAY. BtCBMBBR W, jfW 35.00 10.00 16.00 a regular place of business, per annum Moving picture shbws, whose gross annual income it $2,500 or less, per annum Newspaper, whose gross annual income is 1,000 or less, per annum , Opera ))ouse hall, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or , . . , , less, per annum annual income is $500 or less, t . annum 10.00 grinders and itinerant j musicians, whose gross daily I income is $100 or less, per day 10.00' 20.00 1.00 10.00 10.00 40.00 10.0<1 10.00 30.00 $l,U0O or 6 25.00 25.00 5.00 hogs, or offering for .sale in wagons may take ou* special license by the day at the fol lowing rate.«: Those whose gross daily in- • come from single beef or hog amounts to .$20 or lesii, per day ... Dealers in calves, mutton, shoat or kid, may take out gpe.’ial Itoen^e by the day at the following rates: Those whose gross daily in- ' come for each calf, mutton, ahoat or kid is $10 or less, per day . .. Provided, htwever, that the - Keenscc shalU nut have the right to'sell under his daily tieensc more than one animal. Bagging ami Ties —^ Bagging and ties reworked, including cotton mill waste products .... Bnricers dealing in stocks and tMuds, per annum Brokera, merchandise—meaning a person, firm or corpora- tkm who acts as an interme- <flary between buyer and sell ar for the consideration of a lion, with or without I is lumber—not carry- stock, per annum shops, whose gross imaaatiacomc is $750 or less. 1.00 5.00 6.00 5.00 15.00 5.00 10.00 25.00 5.00 coed '$50.00 From $50.00 annum ... . .. From $1,000 to $2,000, per annum From $2,000 to $5,000, p<‘r annum Each a^iitional less ... Oircuscs, first ring Each additional ring Whoso giYisH daily income is more than $5,000, per day, on each additional $5,000 or less Circ-us parades, where exhUiii- tions are hold out of the city limits ... 2,50.00 ('ollection or claim agents, 'whose gross annual income is $1,000 or loss, per annum 10.00 Cotton mills, per annum 1,50.00 Cotton ginners, first gin, whoso gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Each additional jfin Cadiinet and general repair shops, whose gross annual in come is $,5(K) or loss, ler an num Cleaning, dyeing or pro.ssing clothing, ]>cr annum ('old drink stands, per annum Contractors for moving houses, who.se gro.<is annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum >... Ccal ermpanies or agencies, where the gross annual in come is $2,500 or less, |M>r annum . Conveyancers or scriveners, whose gross annual ini'ome is $500 or less, per annutu {'otton seed oil mills with $100,000 or less invested, per ?•’> 00 —annum — On each additional $1,000 in vested, per annum Directories— Each and every tersoij compiling city direc tories, pef annum Dealers in junk, per day * Per annum - 16.00 Dealers in fruits, melons or vegetables, selling from car by itinerant dealers, each car or fraction thereof Dealers in stocks and bonds, per annum I Dealers in w'agons and other ; vehicles, other than manufac- } turers, with or without busi ness, whose gross annual in come is $7,500 or less, per annum .... J)ealers in pianos, organs, sew ing machines, iron safes, well fixtures, and tombstones, not Connected with stores, whose gross annual income is $1,000 I or less, each per annum 15.001 Dealers in soap, jewelry, mer chandise or oth^r goods on the streets, whose gross daily income is $100 or less, per day .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ..«* Pur annum 25.00 Dealers in green groceries, sell ing from wagoQ, whose gross dafly income is $50 or less, per day 2.00 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 And each car operated shall be deemed a separate busi- ntss. Dinner houses whose gross an nual iiscobe is $2,000 or lots, pw^aaimm flTdha 5.00 10.00 25.00 10.00 '..00 15.00 per Fresh fish deaJers without other business, whose gross annual income is $1,500 or less, per annum .. . , Hay, grain, provisions or mer chandise brokers who carry no stosk of goods in either warehouse 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 $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 liOg dealers, whose gross an nual income is $2,500 or less, per annum Whose gross monthly income is $500 or less, per month Hotels whoose gross annual in come hi $5,000 or less, per annum Whose gross annual income is mure than $5,500, on each additional $5,(K)0 or less, per annbm Horse or mule traders, trans ient, whose gniss daily in come is $1,000 or less, per day Horse and mule traders, trans- eint, whose gross monthly in come is $10,000 or less, per month Insurance companies, life, acci dent and health, maintaining agencies doing business with in the City of Clinton, whose gross annual income from such agencies is $1,000 or lesjf, |)er annum ; lee dealers, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum Ice cream venders selling from carts, whose gross annual in come is $l,50<j or less, per annum lee cream venders sel,ing from wagons, whose gross annual income is $2,500 or less, per annum Ice manufacturers, per annum Jewelry, watch and clock re pairers, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Jewelers, itinerant, offering for sale jewelry, watches, clocks, etc., or repairing same, whose gross daily income is $100 or le.ss, per day 2.00 Ijiundries, run by hand, whose gross annual income is $1,500 or less, per annum lO.Oft ^undrie-S Oil and gasoline convpanies or agents, whose gross annual income Is $15,000''"or less, per annum Whose daily income is $100 or less, per day Occuiists or opticians, itiner ant, whose gross daily in-, come is $50 or less, per day Opticians or occuiists on their own account, or working for others, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Paint shops, per annum Pawn shops or money-lending , shops, whose gross annual inc'ome is $1,000 or less, per annum 25.00 10.00 1.00 40.00 6.00 2.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 a license therefor from the Town CUark. Tailor shops, ladles and gents, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or'less, per annum — Tink and tinker shops, whose gross annual inoome is $750 or less, per annum — Telephone companies, local, per annum .... 100.00 Telegraph companies, or agen cies, for business done within this state, and not including that done without the stats, whose gross annual Income from such business Is $2,000 or less, per annum 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, per day , This license applie.s to any other fruits or vegetables such as cabbage, oranges, grapes, etc. Undertakers, whose gross an nual income is $2,500 or less, per annum Each additional $1,000 or less, per annum Vulcanizing shops, per annum I Wood shops and wogan manu- I facturers, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum Wood dealers or brokers, whose gross annual incoiiie is $.500 or less, per annum Wheelwrights, whose gross an nual inoome is $1,000 or less, per annum .... . fand in those cases in Vrhich' tudi in formation if required, the amoant of I business done the preyfeus ia I the same occupation, trade, hAMuess, or profession if same or pposcmitcd the pfevio|is jHUi The Town Clerk shall oa as- 25.00 2.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 2.00 seas and eoUect the proper lieease tax as provided for in this Ordinaave, and upon such tax being 'paid, shall issue to the applicant the proper lieense. j Section 8. For any business, trade, I occupation, or profession not enoner- : sted in Section 1 of this OnHnaace, 1 the license shall be fixed by the Kay- j or. I Section 9. The license taxSa herein hmpos^ are levied for the pnrpoae of raising funds to meet the aahoal or dinary expenses of the Town of Clin ton for the fiscal year conunendnK 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- ' debtedness of the said City incurred ' for ordinary expenses thereof falling ; due during the said Tiscal year. All annual licenses must be paid on {or before Jannary 13th of each year, I on penalty of an additional !• per I cent charge after January ISth. If H- I cense is not paid by February ISth j the bnaineas will be closed by the . _ { Police Department and action brought ! in the Recorder’s Court, under Section 15 of this Ordinance for the nUade- • meanor of doing business without , license. Section 10. This Ordinance shall go into effect on the 1st day of January, A. D., 1931. Done and ratified by the Town Council of the Town of Clinton and the corporate seal of the sm^ Town of Clinton hereto affixed this the lat 35.00 10.00 15.00 10.00 5.00 15.00 1.00 15.00 15.00 10.00 25.00 25.00 15.00 25.00 1.00 10.00 5.00 / 10.00 25.00 .50 10.00 15.00 10.00 5.00 16.00 1.00 20.00 25.001' 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, who.ie gross annual in come is $2,000 or less, per %nnum 25.00 Whose gross monthly income is $500 or less, per day ... 6.00 Long distance telephone com panies operating in city or agents of same, collecting toll, per annum ' 50.00 Lumber yards, seJling planks, shingles, framing laths or moulding, whose gross an nual inceme is_$5^000 or less, per annum .... .. 40.00 Lumber yards or dealers selling other kinds of building mate rial other than the ones last' before enumerated, whose an nual income is $2,500 or less, per annum 20.00 Lunch counters, per annum .... 16.00 Machine shops and foundries, whose gross annual income sa $2,000 or lass, per annum 16.00 Merty-go-rcunds, whose grass weakly incorhe is $250 or less, per week 25.00 Merfhants or all persons, firms or corporations selling at re tail articles of trade or mer- chandiEs for which a special license is not required, whose gross annual income is $10,- 000 or less from sales, |Mr annum ... 25.00 Whose gross annual ineoma is more than $10,000, on each additional $1,000 or less, per airaum 1.00 By income is meant the anount od goods sedd by tha ^ HM«saa apd sworn stataiiMifl % Jiiilltabebmpaay paymwrt. nusl incqme is $1,000 or less, per annum * , Photographers or artists, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum Whose monthly income is $1,000 or less, per month ... W hose daily income is $50 or less per day Physicians whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum i5.00 Printing office, job, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or less, per annum FMumbers, whose gross annual inoome i.s $1,000 or less, per annum • .. . .. Plumbers,, whose gross income from one job is $20 or less, per job Public weighers other than cot ton weighers, whose gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum Restaurants or eating houses, whose gross annual income ia $1,500 or leas, per annum ... Railroad agencies, whose gross annual income from business done exclusively within this state ia $100,000 or less, for the first track, per annum For each additional track For each additional $1,000 or le.-ia, per annum .... . .. Renovators of feather beds, whose gross annual income is $2,500 or le.^s, per annum Whose gross monthly income is $150 or less, per month U.al esUte agents, whose gross income is $1,500 or leas, per annum Scriveners, whose gross daily income is $10 or less, per day Sho^v3, performances, exhibi tions of all kinds, except cir- cu.ses or similar exhibitions, whost groas daily inoome is $600 or less, per day 25.00 Soda fountains, without or with 8t.>re, whose gross annual in come is $1,500 or less, per an num .... 10.00 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 trucks doing drayage, whoee gross annual income is $500 or less, per annum Street wagons or drays, one horse, whose gross annual income is $500 or heu, per annum .... >^hose gross daily income is $5.00 or less, per day Street wagons or drays, two horse, whose gross annual in come is $500 or less, per jin- num 5.00 Whose gross daily income ia $7.60 or lest, per day .... .... Shooting galleries, whose gross annual income ia- IC500 or iMa,- per annum Whose gross weekly income is $500 or less, per week .... Whose gross dally income is $10 or lest, per day Shoe shops, each bench, whose gross annual income is $1,000 or'less, per annum Each additional bench Storage battery charging sta tions, per annum Taxi cabs, per annum No person, firin or corpora tion shall let or hire any hadet, automoMlea or other ▼chicla for hguling or tiana- porting paasangera, within tha farparate Mmita -the cotton, grain, etc., whose •- grress annual income is $2,500 i or less, per annum 35.00 Each adcfitional $1,000 or less, per annum 1.00 Wholesale dealers in hay, grain, provisions, goods, wares, or mert'handise, who carry a stock of goods either in a warehouse or store room, , whose gross annuyl income j from sales is $.50,000 or less, per annum .. 50.00 Each additional $1,0(X) or less, per annum ,.50! Section 2. All licenses issued for- one day only shall be double the 10.00 amount above mentioned for Satur-j days, show days, Christmas days and other days of public gatherings. Section 3. That all licenses issued dav yf Dacamiwr.^, D,, 1030. and in of Sovereignty and Independence of- the United States of America. JACK H. YOUNG. Attest: Mayor. D. C. HEUSTESS, City Clerk and Treasurer. LAND SALE The State of South Carolina, County of Lauvens. In Court of Common Pleas. The Federal Land Bank of Columbia, Plaintiff, vs. D. R. Scurry, et al. Defendants. Pursuant to a Decree of the Court In the above stated casa, I will sell at under and by virtue of this Ordinance • outcry to the highest bidder, at shall be non-transferable and ex-{Laurens, C, H., S. C., on Saiesday in cept a license for a day, a week or a j January next, being Monday, the 5th 6.00 month, shall terminate and end on;day of the month, during the legal the 31st day of December of the year'hours for such sales, the following de in which they were issued; but may {scribed propert>, to wit: be revoked at any time by the Town “All that tract, piece or parcel of Council of the Town of Clinton on | i*nd situate, lying and being in the ratisfactory cause being shewn. Ex- \ County and State aforesaid, contain- 1-ept license issued for a day, a week,! ing nine hundred fifty-one and onc- or a month, annual rates shall be 100.00 chaiged for all licenses issued prior 100.00 to June 30th of any year, three- , fourth.^ the annual rate shall be 1.00 half (951 lx) acres, more or less, bounded on the north by lands of R. F, Wade, S. H. (>og|j^anii, Lucy M. Denney, and Chappells road; on the charged for all licenses issued after j east by lands of Rook Brown and pub- June 30th of any year and prior to , lie road to Island Ford; on the south 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 Jierson, cor- hy lands of Lillian S. Jenkins and Ar chie Smith; and on the W'est by lands of Archie Smith and R. F. Wade, as will more fully appear by plat of same made by W. G. Pitts, surveyor, on December 20th, 1883, and recorded poration or partnership, required by {in the office of the Clerk of Court of this ordinance to obtain a license to i Common Pleas for Laurens County, in engage in any business, trade, profes sion or occupation, for which a licen.'ie is required, shall at the time of ap plying for such license, or at any other time as may be required by the said State, in Plat Book No. 1, on the 23rd day of June, 1919, and being the same land conveyed to D. R. Scur ry by Mrs.^ Lillian S. Jenkins by deeds, cne dated Jan. 25. 1893, and recorded 25.00 25.00 5.00 5.00 5.Qp 1.00 other and further information as may be necessary for correctly ascertain ing license to be assessed and col lected. Section 6. Any person, firm, com pany or corporation proj'ecuting 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 ii^ris- oned not exceeding thirty days with or without hard labor at' the dia<gu- tion of the officer trying the case. Section 6. Where a license is im- a Town Council, to furnish to the Town,on the 8th day of Feb. 1893, in Deed Clerk, or auditor of the city, such Book 5, page 837, conveying one hun dred fifty (150) acres, known as the Scott Williams place; the other deed dated Dec. SO, 1896, and recorded on Jan. 8, 1896, in DMd,Book 7, page 153, conveying eight hundred sixty- one (861) acres of land known si the D. V. Scurry Und.” check or certified check, as earnest money, or evidence of good faith, the same to be applied on the bid ahonld there be a complianee with the same; * hut should the BUfcessful bidder fail to make such deposit immediately at the time of the acceptance of his hid, then the said premises shall he at once re sold, at such bidder's risk, on the same salesday or upon some subse- pos^ by this Ordinance upon any ■ quent salesday» at the option of the business, profession or, occupatiear^plaintiff or its attorney, and such business, profession or ooca-j Tesyns of Sale: One-fifth (1-6) of pation is carried on or conductad hy I the :bM< to^^ jMdd -ig.CMh, Md an agent, clerk ..or employee, aoch agent, clerk or employee shall ^ .sub ject to all the penalties herein dvl^os- ed should the said business, pro^||ion or occupation be carried on or pbkse- cuted without the license imposed hav ing been paid in the same manner as if such agent, clerk or etnployee were the poofMietor of sueh boHlneM, pNiU ~ fession or occupation. . Section T. Tlut' every pierson, firm, 10.00 conH;>any or corporation, required by this Ordinance to obtain a license, to engage in business, trade, jtrofession. or occupation for which a licenM.is required, shall at the time of apply ing for such licem^, make a state ment under oath, before an oSfle^ qualified to administer oaths, a|idiflte said statement with the Town diitk, setting forth: p ^ (1) His or her name, style of ffihn, name of com|lany, or carporatfan. (2) The trade, buaiaeea, profiMioii, or ocevpntijpn fqr eddeh a Ikfiiiiie is reqtured., (t) Tha mrnmt at 2.00 25.00 5.00 6.00 2.60 10.00 25.00 balance <« credit, payable ia eight ft) equal annual inetallmente baaring le- g^ interest from date, Paecbaaei^-to pay for papers, stamps and recor^ng. THOfl. W. BENNETT, C. C. C. P. and G. S., Laurens, S. C» Dated Deoenkber Ix, 1930.—l-l-Ste. NOnCR TO nOCKHOLDBKfl The regular annual aaeetiqf' ef stockholders of the OemoieraM Ba^ of Clinton, Sw C., will be held Toes- day, January It. ttll, at 4:M aVieck p. m., in the office ofi'the Bank, to elect directors for eati^q; pear, and to tmmaot such bnainese as may ceoM before the meeting. l-l-3te. H. D. Henry, Presj^eat. Why ^ aMve year TSift fnkkm" by gislir HMMMi tkiii C m nttracli^ me wimt the MM ha h|d #$ Am ptlea ff taadtyatf ‘ IAS. W. CAiftWItL,