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License Ordinance
1919.1920
State of South Carolina
TOWN OF CONWAY
An Ordinance to Recrclato the MarUMc nr?a ~r *u,
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of Conway; to fix the amount and payment of License and Privi.
lege Taxes to be paid by any Person or Persons, Corporation or
? Corporations engaged or intending to engage in any Calling, Business,
Occupation or Profession in whole or in part, within the
said Town; and to fix the Punishment for the Violations of any of
the Provisions Thereof.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Wardens of the Town or
Conway in Council Assembled:
SECTION ONE
That no person or persons, corporation or corporations, shall
engage in, carry on or prosecute any calling, business, occupation
or profession, in whole or in part, within the Town of Conway
(save those excepted from the imposition of license by the Statutes
and laws of the State) at any time between the first day of
July A. D., 1919, and the first day of July, A. D.. 1920 without
first having paid to the Town a License therefor, according to tire i
following schedule and restrictions and provisions herein stated.
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1. Auctioneer, Mdse., Stock or any Class of Goods $ 10
2. Automobiles, or other motor vehicles kept for hire. . . . 10
3. Automobile, or other motor vehicles, dealers in 35
4. Automobile repair shop 20
5. Anyone charging a fee for any purpose whatsoever, from
$1.00 to $25.00 in discretion of Mayor
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6. Bank having capital stock of $25,000 or less 40
7. Bank having capital stock of $50,000 or more than
$25,000 50
Bank having a capital stock of $75,000 or more than
$50,000 60
9. Bank having capital stock of $100,000 or more than
$75,000 75
10. Loan and Trust Companies 15
11. Broker private; and money lender other than banks. . . 25
12. Barber Shop, 1st chair, $7; each additional chair 5
13. Bakery and Agent for sale of Bakery products, each
place of business 5
14. Bicycles, repair and renting 7.50
15. Blacksmith and Wheelwright 5
16. Boarding House?Transient 5
17. Books, Maps or other similar Articles (other than Text
J Books and Bibles) Agent or Peddler ($1.00 per day) ... 5
18. Bottling of Mineral and Soda water, ale and other soft
drinks by machinery 25 '
19. Bowling Alley 10
20. Brick, Cement, Lime and Shingles; Dealers other than
f retail Merchants 10
< 21. Broker, Commercial Agent and Dealer in Merchandise
V not having a store or warehouse in Town 15'
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nuggies, wagons or Carts, dealers or sale agents 251'
23. Bill Boards 3
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24. Clothes Cleaning: pressing and drying clothes, and '
clothing, other than Licensed Laundry 5
25., Commission Merchants and Broker 15
26. Cool Drink Stand and Confectionery 5 '
X 27. Coal and wood, each place of Business, or agent 10
28. Collector of Bills and Accounts, other than licensed
Lawyers or other officers of the law 10 '
29. Coffins and Undertaker's supplies, dealers in 25 r
30. Contractor or Contractors in temporary business, when *
contract is $800.00 or over 15 }
31. Cotton Gin, with one gin 10 i
r For each additional Gin 3
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"82. Dancing Halls 25 *
83. Dentist; doing badness of $2,500 or under 15 i
84. Dentist; doing business over $2,500 25 j
85. Draying; each, wagon or other vehicle 7.50 b
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36. Draying, each wagon or other vehicle. 6 months minimum
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(57. Drug Stores, with Soda Fountains 35
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38. Express companies, for business done within the Town,
in the State of South Carolina, not including that done
without the State 25
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80. Fertilizers, commercial: dealer in, other than Merchants
or licensed Broker and Commission Merchants. . 10
40 Flying jenny, Merry-Go-Round. or other amusements,
for the first week ( 25
41. For each additional week 10
42. Flour Mills ?
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43. Gasoline, Kerosene and similar inflamable oils; and
dealers by wholesale buying, selling and storing oil. . . . 25
44. Gasoline Filling Stations 5
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45. Horses, Mules, Sales Stable for 6 cars or less 50
For each additional car 5
146. Horses, Mules, Dealer in 50
47. Horse Traders 10
48. Hotels charging $2.00 and less per day 25
Hotels charging over $2.00 per day 35
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tj. ice Dealers retail, each place of business 10
50. Insurance Companies, Fire: 2 per cent, of premiums
collected within corporate limits
51. Insurance Companies, Life 10
52. Insurance Companies, health, accident and other Insurance
Companies 5
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53. Junk and Scrap Metal: Dealers in 5
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54. Lawyers, single or firm, having a gross income of
$2,500 or less 15
55. Lawyers having income of more than $2,500 25
56. Lightning rod agents and peddlers, per year 10
57. Lime?See brick dealers
58. Livery and feed stables 5
59. Lumber yard?See brick dealer
60.' Lumber Mfg., having gross income of $10,000 or more. 100
61. Lumber Mfg., having gross income of less than $10,000 50
62. Lumber Mfg., ground mill, circular saw 10
63. Laundry, Steam 25
64. Laundry Agents 5
65. Lunch Rooms 5
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66. Machine Shop 20
67. Market for buying and selling and otherwise dealing in
fresh meats, fresh products and uncured meats 10
68. Meat Dealer, other than Markets 5
69. Merchants general retail: Having a stock of general
merchandise of $1,000 stock or less 15
70. Merchants for each additional $1,000 stock.. 4
Amount of merchandise stock to be based on last inventory,
but where no inventory has been made a conservative
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71. Merchants, wholesale 50 *
72. Moving picture shows 25
73. Moving picture shows, Itinerant 25
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74. Occulist ($2.00 per day) 15
75. Opticians ($2,00 per day) 15 \
In connection with other Business 10
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io. i ipe iitcingi and Plumbers lo
77. Peddlers in Merchandise of whatever kind or character
on foot or wagon, each day $2, per year 10
78. Photographer 10
79. Itinerate, ($1,00 per day), per week 5
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^v/. i-nysicians, naving a gross income of $2,500 or less. ... 15
U. Physicians, having a gross income of more than $2,500 25
^2. Pianos and Organs. Dealer or Agent other than retail
Merchants carry articles in stock 50
fcl. Picture Agent and Peddlers, ($2.00 per day), per week 10
v?. Pool Room: 1st Table $25.00, each additional table.... 10
*5. Printer and Publisher 15
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$6. Repair Shop, general 7.50
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, 87. Railroad Corporation for business done within the town
l in the Slate of South Carolina, not including business
I done without the State 200
88. Real cstaic dealers acting as sales agents for owners. . . 10
89. Restaurants 5
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90. Shows and plays: Circus at the discretion of the Mayor;
per day, not less than $50 nor more than 100
91. Shows and plays, other than circus, at the discretion of
the Mayor; per day, not less than $2.00 nor more than
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92. Sewing machine agent 10
93. Soda fountain, connected with other business or alone,
other than Drug Stores 10
94. Steamboat (each boat) Freight or Passenger 25
95. Shoe and Repair Shop 5
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96. Telegraph Companies 40
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98. Tobacco: Warehouse or Warehouse Company 35
SECTION TWO
1. Each person or corporation required by the foregoing*
schedule and so notified by Town Clerk shall make a return according
to said Clerk's notification, in the Stock, gross income or
receipts of such person or corporation in the calling, business occupation,
or profession in which they may be engaged, and upon
failing to do so, or upon making a false or fraudulent return, the
person or corporation so failing shall he subject to the penalties
provided herein for the violation of this ordinance. The Clerk of
the Town shall make return for those failing or refusing to make
such upon the best information available to him and shall charge
against delinquents the license herein provided and the further
sum of Two Dollars, penalty for non return, in addition thereto
and such fee and penalties shall be collected as other license fees
and payments in this Ordinance nvovided.
SECTION THREE
1. License upon any person or corporation intending to engage
in any calling, business, occupation or profession, in whole
or in part; within the Town of Conway shall he im;x?>ed upon such
person or corporation as herein classified., and shall be due and
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business.
2. Kadi and every merchant, or any other person, firm,
company or corporation (loin*;* any kind of business within the
coi'i orate limits of the town, except such as ar specially taxed
by this ordinance, shall be repaired to hare a separate lineense
for each and every place of business.
o. License u])on the business of transportation by individuals
or companies shall not include any business done for the United
States (Government, or for business done to or from points beyond
lite limits of this State; nor shall any tax be placed upon interstate
commerce.
1. License upon the sale of fresh meats shall not include the
| selling or offering for sale of fresh beef, pork, mutton, fish,
I poultry, veal, produced or grown by the vendor except regular
butchers, market and meat dealeres who keep a regular place of
{business within the corporate limits of the Town; but nothing
herein shall be construed to prevent imposition of fees for inspection,
or tiie proper regulations of traffic in meats by the
Town Board of Health.
5. License upon any calling, business, occupation or profession
or upon any plays, shows or other public amusements, not
named or provided for in this Ordinance, shall be fixed, as to the
amount and time of payment, in the discretion of Mayor at not
less than Thrno /? * nn\ ?- * -
? uui mure man i weivty-tive
($25.00) Dollars.
SECTION FOUR
1. Any violation of this Ordinance or any part thereof, shall
subject the offender or offenders, each, upon conviction thereof,
to a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars or to imprisonment
for a period not exceeding Thirty Days at the discretion of the
Mayor.
2. Any person, firm or corporation, or the agent, clerk or
employee in charge of or managing for the same who shall engage
in any calling, business, occupation or profession upon which
a tax is hereby imposed by authority of the Town Council without
first taking out a license therefor as herein required, shall upon
conviction thereof be fined in a sum not exceeding One Hundred
Dollars or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding Thirty Days
in the discretion of the Mayor.
It. Each day any person, firm, or corporation, or the managing
agent thereof, shall violate this Ordinance, or any part
thereof by reason of failure or refusal to take out any license
herein provided for shall constitute a seperate offense subject to
punishment and penalties herein provided.
SECTION FIVE
Automobiles licensed shall have displayed at all times on
the wind shield the word sign "TRANSFER" with number, furnished
by the town; and all drays licensed shall have displayed at
all times on the side of body a metal number furnished by the I
Town. I
SECTION SIX I
The foregoing schedule of license is for one year, and no I
license shall be issued for less time until after January 1st follow- I
ing date of this Ordinance, when it may be issued for a less 1
length of time. I
SECTION SEVEN I
1. All licenses payable under this Ordnance shall be due on I
the First day of July, A. 1)., 1919, at the office of the Town Clerk,
and Treasurer; and the not taking out a proper license within I
fifteen days thereafter shall subject the delinquents to the pun
ishments and penalties in this Ordinance provided. I
2. This Ordinance shall he of force and effect immediately I
upon its ratification by the Town Council. I
Done and Ratified by the Mayor and Wardens of the Town I
of Conway in Council assembled on this 2nd day of June in the I
year of our Lord one thousand nine himrlreH ?na
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the hundred and forty-third year of the Sovereignty and Inde- I
pendence of the United States of America. I
L. I). MAGRATH, Mayor.
M. G. ANDERSEN,
D. M. BURROUGHS,
W. A. FREEMAN,
S. P. HAWES,
Attest: J. T. MISHOE,
C. H. SNIDER, W. H. WINBORN, M
Clerk. Wardens. H
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