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AN ORDINANCE \ To Regulate Licenses Within the Limits of the Town of Kings tS. C., for the Year A. D., 1921, and to Provide for the Collection of the Same. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Kinffsrtee, S. C., in Council assembled and by the authority of the same: ? ?n-n/1 in Ar Section l: mat every person, mm, ur wijwiouuu cugu6?u ??, ? .*? tending to engage in any trade, business, occupation or profession hereinafter mentioned in the Town cf Kir.gstree. S. C., shall on or before the 15th day of January, A. IX, 1921, obtain a iicense therefor in the manner hereinafter provided. Section 2: That every person, firm, or corporation commencing or engaging in any such trade, business, or occupation in tire Town of Kingstree, S. C., after the" 15th day of January, A. D. 1921, shall in like manner obtain the license therefor before entering upon or engaging is such trade, business, occupation, or profession. Section 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 same with the Clerk and Treasurer of said 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 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. * * * 1 1 ? ?~ ^ TAttm oUnll fliovo. Section 4: mat tne v^ier* ana ireasurcr UI iXUU 1VVTI1 kMUMi Witvi 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, occupaton, business or profession, established, carried on or engaged in at the time of such, application. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall in any way affect any other requirement of the law elsewhere enacted in regard to any such trade, business, occupation, or profession. Section 5: That if any person, firm, or corporation shall carry on or engage in or conduct any tadc, business, or occupation or porfession for wliich a license is required by this Ordinance, without first obtaining a license therefor^ herein required, the caid 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 fltteen per cent (15%) of the amount of such license, which license and penalty shall be recovered aa hereinafter provided; and if any person, firm, or corporation, shall refuse or neglecct to make out and deliver to the said Cloik and Treasurer, on or before the 15th day of January, A. D. 1921, the statement hereinbefore required, the said Clerk and Treasurer shall proceed to ascertain as nearly as 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 - nwiwnM snrVi nerson. firm, or corporation, having i- 1V\JU4?VU MIIU j/ftVWkavvM w t r ^ r first collected the amount of the license required, together with the aforesaid penalty of fifteen per cent(15%) 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 herein 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 ^id thereunder proc-jcd to collect the said tax license and penalty, by distress and 6ale, or by levy and sale, in the same manner as is now provided by law for the collection of taxes, together with a further penalty of ten per cent <10%) 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 Kmgstree, S. C. in any court of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of the said liceure tax, and the penalties thereon. Provided further that the remedies provided for in this section for the collection of the said licenese taxes shall not in anaywise 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.. prviding 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, firm, or corporation shall enter upon, engage in, exercise or carry o:. any trade, business occupation or profession for the exercising of, engaging in, entering upon, carrying on or doing of x which a license is hereby required, without first obtaining or taking cut 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 rtwxo. ruiiorc /1 oo ooi nor 1a?s than Ono Dollar <$1,001 or bv imnri sonment for not more than thirty days and not less than five days, in the discretion of the Mayor before whom the case shall be tried, and each day for which 01 during which such trade, business, occupation or profession shall be engaged .n, carried on, or conducted without the license therefor, and the payment of the license tax 'herein proscribed and provided for, shall be deemed and taken for a separate and distinct offense. Provided the Council in its judgmecnt may extend the time for the payment on the 1 incense 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 person, firm, or corporation so convicted to thereafter enter upon, engage in, carry on or conduct, or exercise such trade, business, occupation or profession without paying the license tax and oDtaining the proper license therein required for such trade, business, occupation or profession. Section 8: That each and every license applied for and issued under the provision of this Ordinance shall be non-transferable, and shall be applied for, issued and granted 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 or carrying on or exercising of which such license may have been granted under this Ordinance, be interfered with, restricted or prohibited by any authority paramont to the Town Council of Kinkstree, S. C., then and in such case ana event the said Town of Kingstree, S. C. shall not be liable to the said license, or thjse claimirg under him, her, or it or them, for any damage arising from such revocation or cancelation 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: Thi.t all license granted and issued pursuant to and under the provision of this Ordinance shall oontinue in full force and effect until the 31st day of December, A. D. 1921, unless revoked or canceled, or such * * ' ~ ?U? nnfUtM I* A nMVtnOIATIC Dusmess, traae, occupation, or prvicuuuu uc aiu^uu^u muuu u>v (iivwiuvuo of the Section next preceding, aud 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 acccrdar.ce herewith being made and required to be made only to the said Clerk and Tresaurer of said Town. Section 10: That the license charge or fee for any trade, business, occupation, or profession not herein after named, enumerated, and specified shall be determined and prescribed for by the Council at any regular meeting or special meeting called for that purpose. Section 11: That the following sums and amounts shall be paid to the Clerk and Treasurer ?f the Town of Kingstree, S. C., hereunder, who, upon receipt thereof, shall grant and issue therefor the proper license herein provided for the following trade, businesses, occupations, or professions hereinafter set forth and enumerated and hereinbefore provided for and for such other trades, businesses, occupations, and professions as may by Council be hereinafter specified and determined: Agents for stoves, selling and delivering, excepting merchants paying regular and proper license, $ 25.00 Agents selling and delivering lightning rods, i 10.00 Agents selling and delivering medicines, per day, $25.00, per year 500.00 Agents selling and delivering books, per day $10.00 per year , I0(k00 Agents selling and delivering fruit trees, per day $5.00, per year 25.00 Agents selling and delivering sewing machines, 25.00 Artists, per day $1.00, per week 10.00 Architects, 60.00 Auctioneering: Horses and mules not exceeding: $50.00 per head, per day 10.00 Horses and mules exceeding $50.00 per head, per day lOO.or Other live stock, per day 10.00 Other personal property, per day 100.00 Automobile livery business, 10.00 Automobile repair shop, : 25.00 ? A/SP. /v/v f L 1- _ J A AA -L ^.utomoouc, agents ior, $zo.uv ior nrsi ma.sc ana iu.w fiu.il auditional make. Bakeries and asrents for and dcaclers in fresh breads,- 10.00 Banks, capital stock loss than $50.000.00 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, 1 25.00 Bicycle repair shops, 5.00 Bicycle rent shops, 5.00 Brokers and Commission Merchants, same as General Merchandise. Brick Masons (except when working under contractor),. 10.00 Brick yards, and selling or cJc, 5.00 Bootblack, each box $5.00 and stand, . 10.00 Butchers and fresh meat markets 50.00 Blacksmith shop, first forge $10.00, each additional forge $5.00, shop. 15.00 Bowling alleys, each alley, 5.00 Caroenters (except when working under contractor), 25.00 Civil Engineers and Surveyors, each, 25.0O Cotton gins,. 2 gin system $20.00, 3 gins or more 30.00 Contractors, each 50.00 Coopers and cooper shops, 10.00 Corn or grist mil's, mcome $1 000 or less, 10.00 Com or grist mills, income $1,000 to $3,000, 15.90 C ?ck shops or restuavants, 15.00 Circ"sos per day, rin?~le lino- 50.00. 2 or more rings, 7*.0r Carnivals per dry, $50.00, per week,- 250.90 Coal dealers or n^on *>> ???????????? 5.0f [S Dealers in Ice Cream, not in Saloon, 6.01 Dealers in Coco Cola and other soft drinks, not in saloon or storc__ 10.0< 1 Dealers in salt water fish, 10.00 Dealers in Cider, 500.0v Dealers in Groceries and Grocery 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 1 and license as for gencrael merchandise . buggies and Harness, 20.00 General Merchandise With stock $100 to $1,000, 20.00 With stock $1,000 to $3,000, 4t.OO With stock $3,000 to $i>,000, i 60.00 1 With stock $5,000 to $1U,000_ 80.00 1 With stock over $10,000, 100.00 Coffins and Caskets, 60.0i< Wulnc and fllHI) Lumber and shingles, (not regular saw mills,) 25.00 Organs and other musical instruments, 1 25.00 Furniture, (same graduation and license as provided for general 1 Merchandise.) , Clocks and watches, not in store, ; 25.00 Drays and Dray age, one horse $10.00 each, two horses, 20.00 Dealers in Plumbing fixtures, 10.00 ucntists, 25.00 Druggists and drug stores (same graduation and lisencc as provided 1 for general merchandise.) 1 Dealers in Dry Goods, (same graduation and liscnee as provided for 1 general merchandise.) ?. Dealers in Junk, Copper, iron, brass, etc., 10.00 I Express Companies, doing interstate business, T 50.00 \ Electricians, each, 10.00 \ - Electric plants, light or power, 50.00 V Dealers in Electric supplies, 5.00 E Fruit shops and regular fruit dealers in shops,- 10.00 ( t ruit dealers , other thai regular shop keepers, per day, 50.00 Feed stables, . 5.00 h Filling stations,- 10.00 t Green grocers, stock les= than $500, 10.00 C firpon tnwprs. stork excoeoinc 2500 15.00 u Gasoline or oil tanks, located in streets, 10.00 Gunsmiths and regular repair shops, 5.00 t Grist mills, same as com mills, 5.00 Hawkers and Pedlers, per day,?. 25.00 Hawkers and peddlers , per year, 500.00 Hotels of leas than ten, rooms, 10.00 Hotels of more than ten rooms, 15.0' ( Horse traders, (not including regular sales stables) per day, 25.00 Ice plants, manufacturing and selling, 50.00 Ice nouses and dealers in ice,_ 5.00 Ice cream and cold drink saloons, ? 5.00 Lawyers and collecting officers, each, 25.00 Laundries, 16.00 Laundries, agents lor foreign, 2.50 | Life Insurance, resident agents for, 25.00 g * ire Insurance, resident agent for, 25.00 fl Life Insurance non-residei:l agents for, 50.00 I Fire Insurance, non-resident agents for, 40.00 g Life arfd Fire Insurance, agents or agencies, 30.00 | Insurance for sick, health, benefit, or burial Insurance company, or g Industrial insurance, 25.00 | Itinerant repairers and novelty makers, sellers per day, 10.00 I Merry-go-rounds or Flying Jennies, per day $10.00, per week, 50.00 I Opera Houses and Play houses,- 2.50 = Motion or moving picture theatres and show houses, ? 25.00 fi Manufacturers, capital stock not over $3,000.00, 110.00 | Manufacturers, capital stock $3,000 to $5,000, 15.00 g Manufacturers, capital stock $5,000 to $10,000, ? 20.00 |1 Open air kitchens, per day o-00 = Open air kitchens, per year 60.00 | Oil tanks kerosene storage and wholesale. 50.00 I Oil tanks, gasoline, storage and whole sale, 50.00 Oecu list or opticians, resident, 10.00 Painters, ? 10.00 Planing mills, 10.00 printing offices and I publishing concerns. 20.00 Photographers, intinerant per day $1.00, per week $10.00, per year? 25.00 Photographers resident,? 15.00 Pedlers and hawkers per day in lots $25.00, per day on streets $100.00 per year 600.00 Physicians, ; 25.00 Pressing clubs, dying or denning or both,? 10.00 Oculists or optidans, non-resident or transient, per day. 5.00 Raffling, ring cr ball throwing and all games of chance prohibited. Railroad companies, 150.00 I Real estate companies, 20.0' | Rohl estate agents cr agencies, renting or sdling, 10.0r g Stables, public, livery, feod or both,? t. 10.00 i Saw milLs,- 10.0C | Restaurants, each 10.Of " Shoemakers and coblers_ , 1 10.0' f Snooting galleries, per day 50.0( Silversmitsh and Jewlers, (same graduation and license as for general meachandise). v Selling beef, not in regular stall or shop, per dav 5.0( . Selling pork, not in regular stall or shop, per day,- 1.0' ! Soda water and cold drink saloons, 5.0( YOU LOVE Why mar LIFE MORE * wema cigaret Take* on a Different Color When Your Blood la Rich and Free From Poison TRY TAKING PEPTO-MANGAN If You Feel Listless and Depressed. Your Blood Is Clogged and 7 Sluggish |^Hs9 Without knowing why, you find B yourself feeling unhappy. You go H around day after day half asleep. In- W Hj terest in what is going on around M^HDbT you lags and -life becomes dull. The ^ beauty of radient sunshine, lovely flowers and the entrancing miracles of life you miss entirely. Living, eating, sleeping, become more or less of a ^ore- mmfgm'i This is what clogged, sluggish blood does for you. It poisons your ~v^'; .j&r: thoughts. You are only half alive. ^ You need a good blood enriching tonic. * Take Pepto-Mangan for a few weeks and notice the big improve-I ment. Pepto-Mangan is an agreeable j tonic and is heartily endorsed by phy- j t!9 Bf " *> Mi sicians. Your druggist has Pepto-Mangan in f^T both liquid and tablet form. Buy f^ilk whichever you prefer; one has exactly , 1 the same effect as the other. Make ^ Vn. N sure you get genuine Pepto-Mangan. Ask for"Gude's" and look for the full name, "Gude's Pepto-Mangan," on the j package. Adv. Thick Coal Bed. The brown coal beds of Victoria / a ^ ire said to be the thickest In the world. At Morwell 780 feet of coal / uas been pissed through In a bore of / 1.010 feet The four principal areas fa ft MiJ ~>f occurrence cover- approximately / 1,200 square miles of an averuge Av f " Ut7e\ 'hlckness of 50 feet The depth of if 20 he coal seams below the surface It-pj van&> from HO to 500 reel, the aver- ttrei Iur* r>*"nj* <irs? u> Mif Hr?i nirn' - ??#*<: I * * ! .' .-.'Mt-.t -*UM?e . ihows, tented or otherwise, not hereinbefore designated add classified ^ j per day $10.00, per week. ....? 50j00 ailors (merchant),? 10J)0 J elegraph Companies or agencies, each, for business done within the Town of Kingstree, S. C., to and from points within the Wj State and not includi;;g any business done to and from points JBJ without the State and not including any business done for the ant United States Government, whose gross receipts are less than $1,500, 1 I L 2^ fin "elegraph Companies, and agencies, each for business done wihtin tMB the Town of Kiugctrec, S. C., to and from points wit!iin the flB the State, and not including business done to and from points SB| without the State and not including business done for the IBM United States Government, whose gross receipts exceed oBH $1,600, * f 60.00 ?B 'elephone Companies and agencies (local) 60.00 'elephone Companies and agencies., each (long distance) for buainoss done within the Town of Kingstree. S. C.. to md from points w within the State and not including business dene to and from points without the State, and not including business done for 1 the United States Government, whose gross receipts are less 1 than $250.00, 20.00 1 "elephone Companies and agencies, each (long distance) for business done within the Town of 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 any business done for the United States Government, whose gross roceipts j exceed $250.00, ! 25.00 J mners and tin shops, 10.00 'obacco warehouses, each, 100 00 JBj "obacco re-drying plants, each, 10.00 jpholsteripg ana upholstering shops, : 5.00J^HS undertakers, 25.0QHHH Vatchmakers and watch and clock repairing, Vail paper hangers and shop 6.0ffl| Varehouses, each, storage for hire,. 25.00HM iottling' plants and companies, 2f>.OO^^Hj| lhairvoyant, fortune teller or palmist, per day, $5.00 per week, 26.00 Section 12: For any other trade, occupation, business or profession not ereinbefore specifically mentioned and designated, a license tax of not less BH nan $1.00 and not more than >100.00 to be prescribed and fixed by Council JltS )n and after January 15th, A. D. 1921, a penalty of 15% will be added to all npaid licenses. Section 13: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with EHj his ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. Passed and ratified in Council assembled on this 21st dr.y of December, ^Hg L D. 1920. M. A. SHULER (L. S.) H| Mayor. Seal) J. F. SCOTT, V Clerk and Treasurer. V "Some Folks like 'em and Some Don't." This may apply to aotne I . Lyceum Attractions, but it certainly dooes not apply to the ^ Merry Rondoliers j j LYCEUM'S LIVELIEST ENTERTAINERS ? / Five Talented Young Artists THERE ARE THREE LADIES AND TWO MEN itf Widely Varied Vocal and Orchestral Combinations. They heave plenty of "SNAP" and "PUNCH". .Their's is the ? Originaal High-Speed "PEP" Program that Pleases Everybody. Union High School J Monday Night, January 3, 1921 j* * Boost for the Good Roads in Williamsburg H de this , fl te ' ^jjjferjfflJ ApBlpW m /^AMELS fit your cigarette def V^ sires so completely you'll agree they were made to meet your tastei B WT Unique flavor, fragrance and melWBKf low-mild-body due to Camels quality and expert blend of choice Turkanc* c^10^ce Domestic tobaccos J Iff< are a revelation! You will prefer the I Camel blend to either kind of tobacco I smoked straight! 1 With Camels you can go the limit I without tiring your taste. They ] leave no unpleasant cigaretty after- 1 taste; no unpleasant cigaretty odor! 4 lorn W ^et a ^ne on Camels win kfjflHV you so completely compare them ^ w )l- puff-for-puff with any cigarette in la aro mold ararywhara ~ ~ JO the world at any price. You'll pre"no'ZZZ'c aZZf'wa fer quality to coupons or premiums! igly raeommand tkla \ ~ R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Win?to?-S*I?*, N.C.