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? AN ORDINANCE To Regulate Licenses Within the Limits of theTownof Kingstree, S. CM for the Year A. D. 1917, and to Provide for the Collection of th e Same. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Kingstree, S C, in Council assembled and by the authority o? the same:? Section 1: That every person, firm or corporation engaged in or intending to engage in any trade, business, occupation or profession within the limits of the Town of Kingstree, S C, hereinafter mentioned and enumerated, shall on or before the tenth (10th) day of January, A D 1917, obtain a license therefor in the manner hereinafter provided. Section 2. That every person, firm or corporation commencing or engaging in any such trade, business or occupation within the Jimits of the Town of Kingstree, S C. after the tenth day (10th) of January. A D 1917, shall, in like manner, ojuiu the license therefor before entering upon or engaging in such trade, business, occupation or profession. Section 3. That every person, firm or corporation required by this ordinance to obtain the license to carry on or engage in any trade, business, occupation or profession, for which a license therefor is hereby required, shall, at the time of applying for such license, make a statement and iSle the same with the Clerk and Treasurer of said Town, setting forth: (1) his, her or its name and style, and in case of a firm, the name of the several members constituting such firm; (2) the trade, business,occupation or profession for which the license is required,and (3) the place where such trade, business, occupation or profession is to be conducted or carried on. Section 4. That the Clerk and Treasurer tf said town shall thereupon issue to such applicant, the proper license as required and provided for in this ordinance, the amount of said license having first been paid on or before the day i m tKn ?* rof confinn horonf UaiUCU 1U Hit IllOV OV.VblVM MV?VV? when such application is made for a license for the trade, occupation, business or profession established, carried on or engaged in at the time of such application. Provided that nothing herein contained shall in any manner affect any other requirement of law elsewhere enacted in regard to any such trade, business, occupation or profession. Section 5. TTiat if any person, firm or corporation shall carry on or engage in or conduct any trade, business or occupation or profession for which a license is required by this ordinance, without first obtaining and taking out the license therefor, as is hereby required, the said person, firm or corporation shall be liable for the said license required, and in addition thereto shall be subject for each offense to a penalty of fifteen (15) per cent of the amount of such license, which license and penalty shall be recovered as hereinafter provided; and if any -person, firm or corporation shall refuse or neglect to make out and deliver to the said Clerk and Treasurer, on or before the said tenth (10th) day of January, A D 1917, the statement hereinbefore lequired, the said Clerk and Treasurer shall proceed to ascertain as near of possible the trade, business, occupation or profession of such person, firm or corporation, and upon the information thus acquired, he is hereby empowered and instructed to issue the license herein prescribed to such (person, firm or corporation, having * first collected the amount of the (license required, together with the aforesaid penalty of fifteen per cent (15%) of the amount thereof herein imposed. fi That if the said license tax and penalty shall not be paid within fifteen (15) days after the said clerk's ascertainment hereinbefore provided for the said Clerk and Treasurer shall issue his proper execution to the Town Policeman for the collection of the same, and the said policeman shall thereupon and thereunder proceed to collect the said tax license and penalty, by distress and sale, or by levy and sale in the same manner as is now provided 'by daw for the collection of taxes, together with a further penalty of ten per cent (KW of the entire smount due for which said execution may be issued. Provided, that in lieu of the remedy herein given, suit may be brought in the name of the Town of Kingstree, S C. in any eaurtof competent juridiction for Ae recovery of the said license tax t and the penalties thereon. Provided further, that the remidies provided for in this section for the colflection of the said license taxes shall not in anywise interfere with, alter, affect nor restrict any other provision or provisions of this ordinance, or any other ordinance of the Town of Kingstree, S C, providing for, regulating and prescribing the punishment of offenders against this I ordinance or any part thereof, on ^ j account of the non-payment of the. ^ | said license taxes hereinafter pre*i ; scribed and provided for, and here- t ' by imposed and required. i i Section 7. That if any person, firm i or corporation shall enter upon, I ] engage in, exercise or carry on any j trade, business, occupation or pro-1 j fession for the exercising of, engaging in entering upon or carry- ] ing on or doing of which a license therefor is hereby required, without ] first obtaining or taking out such license as in that behalf is hereby ] required, such person, firm or corporation shall, for each offense, and ] every offense.be subject to and liable ] for a fine of not more than one hun- ] dred dollars ($100.00) nor less than one dollar ($1.00). or by imprisonment for more than thirty days nor ] less than five days, in the discretion ] of the Mayor, before whom the case ] shall be tried,anti each day for which ] and during which such trade, business, occupation or profession shall be engaged in. carried on or con- ] ducteji without the license therefor and the payment of the license tax j herein prescribed and provided for, shall be deemed and taken to be a ] separate and distinct offense. Fro- ] vided, the Council, in its judgment, may extend the time for the pay- ] ment of the license tax in a proper ] case and upon due application. And provided fuither, that no fractional ( part of any license shall be granted. No conviction under the provisions ( of this section shajl entitle any such person, firm or corporation so convicted. to thereafter enter upon, en- < gage in, carry on or conduct, or exercise such trade, business, occupation or profession without paying the ( license tax and obtaining the proper license herein required for such ( trade, business, occupation or pro- ( fession. Section 8. That each and every ( license applied for and issued under the provisions of this ordinance, ( shall be applied for, issued and granted with the express under- ( standing and condition that should said license for any reason be re- ( voked, annulled or cancelled, or < should suciv trade, business, occupation or profession, for the conduct- ( ing, carrying on, or exercising of which such license may have been ( granted under this ordinance, be in- ( terfered with, restrained or prohib- ( ited by any authority paramount to the Town Council of Kingstree, S C, ( then and in such case and event the ( said Town of Kingstree, S C, shall ( not be liable to the said licensee or ] those claiming under him, her, it or ftiAm #/>ii onn Homotypa ariaintr frnm 1 such revocation or cancellation, or interference with, restraint or prohibition of such trade, business, oc- ] cupation or profession, or the license 1 therefor granted under the provis- 1 ions of this ordinance. Section 9. That all licenses grant- I ed and issued pursuant to and under the provisions of this ordinance I shall continue in full force and effect until the 3l3t day of December, 1 A D 1917, unless revoked or canceled,or such business.trade.occupation or profession be suspended within the provisions of the section next preceding, and the Clerk and Treasurer of said Town shall prepare the I form of license to be issued in all I li J. t _1I l:_ r cases, appiicauuus xui an iiwuks i hereunder and in accordance here- I with being made and required to be made only to said Clerk and Treas- I urer of said town. Section 10. That the license charge I or fee for any trade, business, occupation or profession not hereinafter named, enumerated and specified shall be determined and prescribed I by Council at any regular meeting or special meeting called for that I purpose. Section 11. That the following I sums and amounts shall be paid to the Clerk and Treasurer of the Town I of Kingstree, S C, hereunder, who, I upon receipt thereof,shall grant and issue therefor the proper license I herein provided for the following trades,businesses.occupations or pro- I fessions hereinafter set forth and enumerated and hereinbefore pro- i vided for: Agents for stoves, selling and delivering, excepting merchants paying regular and proper license $ 10 00 I Agents selling and delivering lightning rods 10 00 I Agents selling and delivering medicines.any kind,pr day 25 00 I Agents selling or delivering medicines, any kind, pr yr 500 00 I Agents selling and delivering books, per day 10 00 I Agents selling and delivering I books, per year... 100 00 I Agents selling and delivering fruit trees, per day 5 00 I Agents selling and delivering fruit trees, per year 25 00 I Agents selling and deliver- ( ing sewing machines 25 00 ? j? ?i aa. in nn ( ttxusus. pr uajr, ?i.uu, pi ji xv w \ Architects with income from $1,000.00 to $3,000.00...... 20 00 ( Architects with income from $1.00 to $1,000.00 10 00 ( Auctioneering live stock,per day 100 00 ( V . Auctioneering live stock on street, per day 100 00 Auctioneering on street or * ? k.iiMinrr nnr /4oV 1 HO OA 1U UUIJUIiJg, pt I Kit* J ivv w 1 Automobile livery business.. 5 00 Automobile repair shop 5 00 Automobile, agents for 15 00 Bakeries and agents for and dealers in fresh breads 10 00 Banks,capital slock less than $50,00.00 35 00 Banks, capital stock $50,000 to $100.000 50 00 Barbers and barber shops, each chair 3 00 Billiard or pool rooms, each table. 10 00 Bicycle repair shops 5 00 3icycle rent shops 5 00 Brokers and commission merchanst.same as general merchandise. 3rick masons 10 00 Brick mills 10 00 Brick yards and selling brick 5 00 Boarding and lodging houses five or more boarders or lodgers 5 00 Boarding honses taking only school children, exempt. Butchers and fresh meat markets 25 00 Blacksmith shops, first forge 10 00 Rlanlfvmifh ahnna f?iiph addi tional forge 5 00 Bowling alleys, single alley.. 5 00 Bowling alleys, each additional alley 5 00 Barpenter shop keepers, not contractors 5 00 Bivil engineees and surveyors with income less than $1.000.00 - 5 00 Bivil engineers and surveywith income from $1,000 to $3,000.. 10 00 Bivil engineers with income exceeding $3,000 15 00 Botton gins, two gin system 10 00 Botton gins, three gins or more system 15 00 Bontractors with income less than $1,000 10 00 Contractors with income $1,000 to $3,000 15 00 Contractors with income exceeding $3,000 20 00 Cotton seed oil mills 25 00 Corn or grist mills, income $1,000 or less 5 00 Corn or grist mills, income $1,000 to $3,000 10 00 Cook shops or restaurants 10 00 Circuses, single ring,per day 50 00 Circuses, two rings or more, per day 75 00 Carnivals,# per day 50 00 Carnivals, per week 250 00 Coal, doalers or agents 5 00 1 Dealers in ice cream, not in saloon 2 50 [)ea!ers in coca-colaand other soft drinks, not in saloon or store 5 00 Dealers in salt water fish 10 00 Dealers in cider 500 00 Dealers in horses and mules, income $1,000 or less 10 00 * J> 1 jeaiers in norses ana muies, income $1,000 to $3,000 25 00 dealers in buggies and harness 10 00 Dealers in general merchandise: With stock $100 to $1,000.. 5 00 With stock $1,000 to $3,000 10 00 With stock $3,000 to $5,000 15 00 With stk $5,000 to $10,000 20 00 With stk $10,000 to $20,000 25 00 Dealers in coffinsjand caskets 10 00 Dealers in automobiles 15 00 Dealers in hides and furs 5 00 )ealers in lumber and shing!es(not regular sawmills) 5 00 )ealers in organs and other musical instruments 10 00 Dealers in furniture, same classification and graduation and license as general merchandise. Dealers in clocks and watches, not in store 25 00 ?rays and drayage(each one horse dray J o uu )rays and drayage (each two-horse dray) 10 00 )ealers in plumbing fixtures 10 00 Dentists with income less than $1,000 10 00 )entists with income $1,000 to $3,000 15 00 )entists with incom'e $3,000 to $5,000 20 00 Druggists and drug stores: With stock less than $1,000 5 00 With stock $1,000 to $3,000 10 00 With stock $3,000 to $5,000 15 00 Withstockexceeding$5,000 20 00 Dealers in junk.copper.iron, brass, etc 10 00 Cxpress companies doing intrastate business 50 00 electricians with income less than $1,000 5 00 electricians with income exceeding $1,000 15 00 electric plants,lightor power 25 00 Dealers in electric supplies.. 5 00 '"Vuit shops and regular fruit dealers in shops 10 00 rruit dealers other thanregular fruit dealers, per day 50 00 reed stables .* 5 00 ireen grocers,stock less than $500 5 00 ? j jreen grocers, stocK exceeaing $500.. 10 00 , jasoline or oil tanks located in streets T? 1 00 lunsmiths and regular repair shops 5 001 Irist mills, same as corn mills. 5 00 j Garage, automobile repair's: 5 00 i Garage, automobile livery..... 5 00' Garage, automobile dealers 15 00 Hawkers and peddler9,pr dy 25 00 Hawkers and peddlers.pr yr 500 00 _ Hotels of less than 10 rooms 10 00 Hotels of more than 10 rooms 15 00 Horse traders (not including regular sales stable*) per lay 25 00 Hide and fur dealers ... 5 00 Ice plants, manufacturing and selling - 25 00 Ice houses and dealers in ice 5 00 j Ice cream and cold drink saloons 5 001 Lawyers and collecting officers: With inc less than $1,000 10 00! With inc $1,000 to $3,000.. 15 00 j With inc $3,000 to $5,000.. 20 fiO i With inc $5,000 to $10,000 25 00! Laundries 10 00, Laundries,agents for foreign 2 50! Life insurance, resident agts for ... 10 00 Fire insurance, resident agts for....... 10 001 Life insurance, non-resident agents for 20 00 j Fire insurance, non-resident agents for 20 00 Insurance agents for sick, health,benefit or burial insurance company,or industrial insurance 5 00 Itinerant repairers and novelty makers or sellers, per day 2 50 Merry-go-rounds or flying jennies, per day 10 00 Merry-go-rounds or flying jennies, per week 50 00 Opera houses and playhouses 2 50 Motion or moving picture theaters and show houses 10 00 Manufacturers, capital stock not over $3,000 10' 00 Manufacturers, capital stock $3,000 to $5,000.. 15 00 Open-air kitchens, per day 5 00 Open-air kitchens, per year 50 00 Oil tanks, kerosine storage and wholesale 25 00 Oil tanks, gasoline storage and wholesale 25 00 Oculist or optician, resident 10 00 Paint shops and paiht contractors 5 00 Planing mills 10 00 Printing offices and publishing concerns .. 10 00 PKntrkcrrflnhprs; Der day. $1.00; per week, $5.00; per year 15 00 Physicians: Income $1,000 to $3,000... 15 00 Income $3,000 to $5,000 20 00 Income $5,000 to $10,000.. 200 * Income less than $1,000 10 00 Pressing clubs, dyeing or cleaning or both 10 00 Plumbers with income less than $1,000 IX) 00 Plumbers with income $3,000 to $5,000 20 00 Oculists or opticians, nonresident or transient, per day 5 00 Raffling, ring or ball-throwing and all games of chance prohibited. ? - 1 A AA Real estate companies iu w Real estate agents or agencies, renting or selling .. 10 00 Stables,public,livery, feed or both 10 00 Sawmills 10 00 Shoemakers or cobblers 5 00 Shooting galleries: per day, $1.00; per week 5 00 Silversmiths and jewelers, same classification, graduation and license as for general merchandise. Selling beef, not in regular stall or shop, per day 3 00 Selling pork, not in regular stall or shop, per day 1 00 Selling bicycles, not in regular shops or stores 5 00 Soda-water and cold drink saloons : 5 00 Shows, tented or otherwise, not hereinbefore designated and classified, per day, $10.00; per week 50 00 Newspapers, printed outside of Kingstree and published in Kingstree 25 00 Tailors (merchant) 5 00 Telegraph Companies o r Agencies, each, for business done within the Town of Kingstree, S C, to and from pcints within the State and not including any business done to and from points without the State, and not including any business done for the United States government, whose gross receipts are less than $1500 25 00 Telegraph Companies o r Agencies, each, for business done within the Town of Kingstree, S C, to and from points within the State, and not including any business done to and from points without the State, and not including any done for the United States government, whose gross receipts exceed $1500 5U uu Telephone Companies and Agencies (local) 15 00 Telephone Companies and (Continued on page 8). i ... 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At low r special representative, Mr id explain the wonderful ,ts. f ? lanager Florence House. . i - " . ? - . r Jlfl y <^;-| f LEJBY I S U (i I O.i i - South Caroling R OIL ^ 3c per gallon l FURNITURE POLISH ] Cans, 35c and 25c. | 9 ips and Chemically 1 len Dusters of dust and leave a clean * them. They save your ,y for themselves in ser- V/1 niture Co. Opposite Court House ind MULES I i ? uary6. Come in j crptvour choice. i please, 1 ive Stuck Co. I - - s. o 1