The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 25, 1919, Image 8
AN ORDINANCE
To regulate licenses within the
limits of the Town of Kingstree, S.
C., for the year A. D. 1920., and to
provide for the collection of the same.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the Town of Kingstree,
S. C., in Council assembled and by
the authority of the same.
Section 1.?That every person, firm,
or corporation engaged in, or intend- 1
ing to engage in any trade, business,
occupation or profession hereinafter |
mentioned in the Town of Kingstree,
S. C., shall on or before the loth
day of January, A. D. 1920, obtain a
license therefor in the manner here-!
inafter provided.
Section 2.?That every person, firm,
or corporation commencing or engagind
in any such trade, business, or
occupation in the Town of Kingstree, !
S. C., after the 15th day of January, i
A. D. 1920, shall in like manner obtain
the license therefor before entering
upon, or engaging insuch 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, shall
at the time of applying for such license
make a statement, and file the same
A'ith the Clerk and Treasurer of saidj
Town setting forth: (1) his, her or
its name and style, and in the case
of a firm, the name of the several
members constituting the said firm;
(2) the trade, business, occupation orN
profession for which the license is
required; and (3) the place where
such trade, business, occupation or
profession is to be conducted or car- j
vied on.
Section 4.?That the Clerk and
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Treasurer 01 saiu iv?u, suon v. ,
upon issue to such applicant the proper
license as required and provided
for in this Ordinance, the amount of
said license having first been paid
when such application is made for
the license for a 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 I
way affect any other requirements of I
law elsewhere enacted in regard to |
any such trade, business, occupation'
or profession. 1
Section 5.?That if any person,
firm or corporation shall carry on or
engage in or conduct any trade, busi-1
ness, or occupatioh or profession for
u hich a license is required by this j
Ordinance, without first obtaining a
license therefor, as herein required,
the said person, firm or corporation
shall be liable for the said license required,
and in addition thereto shall i
be subject for each offense to a penalty
of fifteen per cent (IbVc) 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 15th day of January, A.
D. 1920, the statement hereinbefore
required, the said Clerk and Treasurer
shall proceed to ascertain as nearly
as possible the trade, business, occu- j
pation, 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 required and pre-.
scribed to such person, firm, or corpcration,
having first collected the |
amount of the license required, to-!
gether with the aforesaid penalty of |
fifteen per cent (15c/c) of the amount
thereof herein imposed.
Section 6.?That if the said license
tax and penalty shall not be paid
within fifteen (15) days after the
Clerk's ascertainment nerein provmeu
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 saie, in the same manner
as is now provided by law for the
collection of taxes, together with a
further penalty of ten percent (10';) 1
of the entire amount 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 Court of competent jurisdiction
for the recovery of the said j
license tax and the penalties thereon.
Provided further, that the remedies j
provided for in this section for the'
col'ection of the said license taxes'
shall not in anywise interfere with, j
alter affect, nor restrict any other I
provision or provisions of this Ordinance,
or any other Ordinance for the
Town of Kingstree, S. C., providing
for and prescribing the punishment of
offenders against this Ordinance, or
any part thereof, on account of the.
non-payment of the said license taxes |
hereinafter prescribed and provided
for, and hereby imposed and required.,
Section 7.?That if any person,
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firm, or corporation snau eaun u^u,
engage in, exercise or carry on any
trade business, occupation or profession
for the exercising of, engaging
in, entering upon, carrying on or doing
of which a license 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, be subject to and liable for a
fine of not more than One Hundred
Dollars ($100.00) nor less than One
Dollar ($1.00); or by imprisonment
for not more than thirty days and not
less than five days, in the discretion
of the Mayor before whom the case
shal! be tried, and each day for which
or during which such trade, business,
occupation or profession shall be engaged
in, carried on, or conducted
without the license therefor, and the
payment of the license tax herein
prescribed and provided for, shall be
deemed and taken for a separate and
distinct offense. Provided the Council
in its judgment may extend the
time for the payment ,on the license
tax in a proper case, and upon due
application. And provided further
that no fractional part of any license
shall be granted. No conviction under
the provision of this section shall
entitle any such person, firm, or corporation
so convicted to thereafter
enter upon, engage in, carry on or
conduct, or exercise such trade, busi
ness, occupation or profession without 1
paying the license tax and obtaining
the proper license herein required
for such trade, business, occupation
or profession.
Section 8.?That each and every license
applied for and issued under
the provisions of this Ordinance shall
be non-transferable, and shall be applied
for, issued and gratned with
the express understanding and condition
that should said license for any
reason be revoked, annulled, or cancelled,
or should such trade business,
occupation or profession, for the conducting
carrying on, or exercising
of which such license may have been
granted under this Ordinance, be interferred
with, restrained or prohibited
by any authority paramount to the
Town Council of Kjngstree, S. C., then
and in such case and event the said
Town of Kingstree, S. C., shall not be
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name to ine saiu licensee, vi muoe
claiming under him, her, or it, or
them, for any damages arising from
such revocation or cancellation or interference
with, restraint or prohibition
of such trade, business, occupation
or profession, or the license
therefor granted under the provisions
of this Ordinance.
Section 9.?That all licenses granted
and issued pursuant to and under
the provisions of this Ordinance shall
continue in full force and effect until
the 31st day of December A. D. 1920,
unless revoked or cancelled, or such
business, trade, occupation, or profession
be suspended within the provisions
of the Section next proceeding,
and the Clerk and Treasurer of the
said Town shall prepare the form of
license to be issued in all cases, applications
for all licenses hereunder and
in accordance herewith being made
and required to be made only to the
said Clerk and Treasurer of said
Town.
Section 10.?That the license charge
or fee for any trade, business, occu
pation or profession not hereinafter
named, enumerated, and specified
shall be determined and prescribed by
the Council at any regular meeting or
special meeting called for that purpose.
Section 11.?That the following
sums and airfounts shall be paid to
the Clerk and Treasurer of the Town
of Kingstree, S. C., hereunder, who,
upon receipt thereof, shall grant and
issue therefor the proper license herein
provided for the following trades,
businesses, occupations, or professions
hereinafter set forth and enumerated
and hereinbefore provided for
and for such other trades, businesses,
occupations, and professions as maybe
Council he hereinafter specified and
determined:
Agents for stoves, selling and
delivering, excepting merchants
paying regular and
proper license: $ 10 00
Agents selling and delivering
lightening rods: 10 00
Agents selling and delivering
medicines, per day $25. per
year: 500 00
Agents selling and delivering
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year: 100 00
Agents selling and delivering
fruit trees per day $5. per
year: 25 00
Agents selling and delivering
sewing machines: 25 00
Artists, per day $1.00. per week 10 00
Architects: 50 00
Auctioneering: Horses and
mules, not exceeding $50.
per head: 10 00
Horses and mules, exceeding
$50. per head: 100.00
Other live stock: 10 00
Other personal Property: 100 00
Automobile Livery Business:. 10 00
Automobile Repair Shop: 25 00
Automobile, agents for: .25 00 j
Bakeries and agents for and
dealers in fresh breads: 10 00 J
Banks, capital stock less than
$50 000: 50 00
Banks, capital stock $50 000.
to $100 000: 100 00
Barbers and Barber shops,
each chair: 10 00
Billiard or Pool rooms, each
table: I 25 00
Bicycle repair shops: 5 00
Bicycle rent shops: ; 5 00
Brokers and Commission Merr*
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chants,, same as iienerai
Merchandise:
Brick Masons (except when
working under Contractor): 10 00
Brick yards, and selling
brick: 5 00
Bootblack, each box $5. and [
stand: 10 00
Butchers and fresh meat markets:
50 00
Blacksmith shop, first forge
$10. each additional forge
$5. shop: (__ 15 00
Bowling alleys, each alley 5 00
Carpenters: (except when
working under Contractor): 25 00
Civil Engineers and surveyors;
each: 25 00
Cotton gins, 2 gin system,
$20. 3 gins or more 30 00
Contractors, each: 50 00
Coopers and Cooper shops: 10 00
Corn or grist mills, income
$1 000 or less: 10 00
Com or grist mills, income
$1 000 to $3 000: 15 00
Cook shops or restaurants: 15 00
Circuses, per day, single rifffe
$50 00: 2 or more rings:_i. 75 00
Carnivals per day, $50. per
week: 250 00
Coal, dealers or agents: 5 00
Dealers in Ice Cream, not in
Saloon: 5 00
Dealers in Coca Cola and other
soft drinks, not in saloon
or store: 10 00
Dealers in salt water fish: 10 00
Dealers in cider: 500 00
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ery Merchants: Same graduation
and license as provided
for General Merchandise:
Dealers in Horses and mules: 50 00
Dealers in: Hardware and
Hardware merchants, same
graduation and license as for
general merchandise:
Buggies and Harness: 20 00
General Merchandise: With
stock $100 to $1 000 20 00
With stock $1 000 to $3 000 40 00
With stock $3 000 to $5 000 60 00
With stock $5 000 to
$10 000 i 80 00
With stock $10 000. to
$20 000: 100 00
Coffins and Caskets: 50 00
Hides and Furs: 5 00
Lumber and Shingles (not
regular saw mills): 25 00
Organs and other musical instruments:
25 00
Furniture, (same graduation
and license as provided for
general merchandise).
Clocks and watches, not in
store: 25 00
Drays and Drayage, 1 horse 0
$5. each 2 horse: 10 00
Dealers in plumbing fixtures- 10 00
Dentists: 25 00
Druggist anc) drug stores:
(?ame graduation and license
as provided for general
merchandise).
Dealers in Dry Goods (same
graduation and license as
provided for general merchandise).
Dealers in junk, copper, iron,
brass, etc: 10 00
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business: 100 00
Electricians, each: 10 00
Electric , plants, light or
power: 50 00
Dealers in Electric supplies:. 5 00
Fruit shops, and regular fruit
dealers in shops: 10 00
Fruit dealers, other than regular
shop keepers, per day: 50 00
Feed Stables: 5 00
Green grocers, stock less than
$500: I. 10 00
Green grocers, stock exceeding
$500: 15 00
Gasoline or Oil Tanks, located
in Streets: 10 00
Gunsmiths and regular repair
shops: 5 00
Grist Mills, same as corn mills 5 00
Hawkers and Pedlers, per day: 25 00
Hawkers and Pedlers, per
year: 500 00
Hotels of less than ten rooms: 10 00
Hotels of more than ten rooms 15 00
Horse traders (not including
regular sales stables) per
day: 25 00
Ice Plants, manufacturing and
selling: t>u uu
Ice houses and dealers in Ice: 5 00
Ice cream and cold dring
saloons 5 00
Lawyers and collecting officers,
each: 25 00
Laundries: 10 00
Laundries, agents for foreign: 2 50
Life Insurance, resident agents
for: 25 00
Fire Insurance, resident agents
for: 25 00
Life and Fire Insurance,
agents or agencies: 30 00
Life Insurance, non-residents
agents for: 50 00
Fire Insurance, non-residents
agents for: 40 00
Insurance agents for sick,
health, benefit, or burial
insurance company, or industrial
insurance: 10 00
Itinerant repairers and novelty
makers, sellers per
day: 2 50
Merry-go-rounds, or flying
Jennies, per day $10. per
week: 50 00
Opera Houses and play
houses: 2 50
Motion or moving picture
theatres and show houses:. 25 00
Manufacturers, capital stock
not over $3 000 10 00
Manufacturers, capital stock
$3 000. to $5 000: 15 00
Manufacturers, capital stock
$5 000. to $10 0000:' 20 00
Open air kitchens, per day:.. 5 00
Open air kitchens, per year 50 00
Oil tanks, kerosene storage
and wholesale: 50 00
Oil tanks, gasoline storage
and wholesale: ? 50 00
Oculists or Optician, resident: 10 00
Painters: 1 10 00
Planing mills: 10 00
Printing Offices and publishing
concerns: 10 00
Photographers, itinerant per
day $1. per week $10, per
year: ? 25 00
Photographers, resident: 15 00
Pedlers and hawkers per day
in lot $25. Per dky on street
$100. per year 500 00
Physicians: 25 00
Pressing Clubs, dying or clean- s
ing or both: ; 10 00
Plumbers: 15 00
Oculists or opticians, nonresident
or transcient, per day: 5 00
Raffling, nng or ball throwing
and all games of chance
prohibited:
Railroad Companies: 150 00
Real Estate Companies:' 20 001
Real Estate agents or agencies,
renting or selling: 10 00
Stables, public livery, feed or
both: 10 00
Saw Mills: 10 00
Shoemakers and cobblers: 10 00
Shooting Galleries, per day: 50 00
Silversmith and Jewelers
(same graduation and li
cense as ior general merchandise:
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Selling Beef, not in regular
stall or shop, per day: 5 00
Selling Pork not io regular
stall or shop, per day: J 00
Soda water, and cold drink
saloons: 5 00
Shows, tented or otherwise,
not hereinbefore designated
and classified, per day $10per
week: 50 00
Tailors (merchants): 10 00
Telegraph Companies or 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 business done
for the United States Government,
whose gross re- i
ceipts are less than $1 500 25 00
Telegraph Companies, and
agencies, each for business
done within the Town of
Kingstree, S. C., to and
from points within the
State, and not tintluding
business done for the U. S.
Government, whose gross receipts
exceed $1 500 50 00
Telephone companies and
agencies (local) 50 00
Telephone companies and
agencies, each, (long distance^
for business done
within the Town of Kingstree,
S. C.f to and from
points within the State ^nd
not including business done I
to and from points without
the State, and not including
business done to and from
points without the State
and not including business
~ done for the U. S. Government,
whose gross receipts ?
exceed $1 500 50 00
ceipts are less than $25020 00
Telephone companies and
agencies, each (long distance)
for business done
within the Town o? Kingstree,
S. C., for and from
points within the State, not
including any business done
to and from any points without
the State, and not including
and business done
for the U. S. Government,
whose gross receipts exceed
$250: 25 00
Tinners and tin shops: 10 00
Tobacco warehouses, each: 100 00
UDholsterers and upholster
ing shops: 5 00
Undertakers: 10 00
Watchmakers and watch and
clock repairing: 5 00
Wall paper hangers and shop: 5 00
Warehouses, each, storage for
hire: 25 00
Bottling plants and companies:
_ 25 00
Clairvoyant, fortune tener or
palmist, per day $5. per
week: 25 00
Section 12.?For any other trade,
occupation, business or profession not
hereinbefore specifically mentioned
and designated, a license tax of not
less than $1. and not more than $100.
to be prescribed and fixed by Council.
On and after January 15th, A.
D. 1920, a penalty of 15% will be
added to all unpaid licenses.
Section 13.?That all Ordinances or
parts of Ordinances inconsistant with
this Ordinance be and the same are
hereby repealed.
Passed and ratified in CounciJ assembled
this 15th day of December,
A. D. 1919.
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Mayor.!
(Seal) J. F. SCOTT,
Clerk and Treasurer.
ADMINISTRATE NOTICE
All persons indebted to the estate !
of John S. Fulton, deceased, are here- [
by requested to make payment there-'
of to the undersigned administratrix, j
and all persons having claims against i
said estate are requested to present
the same, duly verified, to L. W. Gil- j
land, Attorney, Kingstree, S. C.
SALLIE W. FULTON,
Administratrix of the estate of
John S. Fulton, Diceased.
TRESPASS NOTICE
All persons are herby warned
against cutting and hauling wood,
from the lands of the undersigned,
also against hunting thereon or trespassing
in any manner. Violation of
thic rifttirp will hp nrospcuted to the
extent of the law.
Estate of J. J. McCullough,
Per, A. E. McCULLOUGH.
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Letters to Santa Claus
Exceyton, S. C., Dec. 18, 1919. j
Dear Santa Claus
1 want you to bring me a wheel and
rifle, some fire crackers. I am in the
third grade and 1 am twelve years
old.. *
Your friend
Frank Hughes.
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i Excelton, Dec. 18, 1919.
Dear Santa:
I thought I would write you a love
letter telling you about Christmas, I
and how old I am. I am nine years,
old and in the third grade. I want j
some nuts, apples, oranges candy,
bananas and a doll that will open and
shut her eyes.
Luther Cox.
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Leo, S. C., Dec. 22, 1919.
Dear Santa Claus:I
want you to bring me a doll, a
box of oldmaid cards, some candy,
oranges, nuts and raisins. That is all
I want ycu to bring me.
Mabel Thomas.
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Hemingway, S. C., Dec. 18, 1919
Dear Santa Claus:I
want a wheel and some raisins,
apples, and candy. I am a little hoy
nine years old. I am in the third
grade.
V Ronole McDanieK
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