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AN ORDINANCE. To Raise Supplies (or Ike Fiscal Tear Beginning May 1,1918, for Ike City of Union, S. C. Bo it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Union, S. C., in Council assembled, and by authority of the same: That a tax to cover the expenses and general purposes of the said City of Union, be as follows: 11 3-4 mills for General purposes and a special levy of 4 1-4 mills for maintenance of Carnegie Free library and to pay Interest on outstanding coupon bonds, from the 1st day of May, 1912 to the lBt day of May, 1018, shall be levied and collected In manner and form as follows: Section 1. A tax of Sixteen (16) mills upon every dollar of the value Of all tATfthln m?i " _ ? vdvowd, iwrsuuai property and stock in trade; In the Corporate limits of the City of Union, S. C. Section 2. That the taxes herein levied and assessed shall tifc due ahd collected by the City Treasurer during the Month of May, 191S. The City Treasurer shall prooeed to collect the said taxes herein levied, and he shall keep his books open from the 1st day of May, 1912 to the 1st day of June, 1912, for this purpose; after whloh time he shall proceed by distress or otherwise, as prescribed by law, to collect such taxes as remain unpaid, with a penalty of twenty per cent (20%) in addition thereto for such non-payment. Sec. 3. That the basis of value for taxation of real estate, personal property and stock In trade within the City of Union, S. C., shall be taken from the books of the Auditor of Union county, and such assessment shall AV- ?1 - * to nio Bttino as ieviea oy tne county Auditor In 1911 and 1912. Sec. 4. The sum of Two Dollars ($2.00) Is hereby fixed ae a commutation tax for the street or road duty; the said sum to be paid by all ablebodied male persons able to perform or cause to be performed the labor herein required, between the apes of twenty-one (21) and fifty (60) years, who reside within the corporate limits of the said C!ty, except ordained ministers and those exempt by law; and any person liable to this tax who shall fall to f>ay the same within the time specified, shall be required to work on the streets of Union four (4) days under the direction of the Street Overseer, whenever required by said overseer during the said period hereinbefore mentioned; and any person falling either to pay said commutation or perform said labor, when so required as before said, shall be brought before the Mayor's court, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined a sum not exceeding Ten Dollars ($10.00) or sentenced to Imprisonment not exceeding twenty (20) days with or without hard labor. Sec. 5. That all Ordinances or .f ?1 -I". ?'???? vii. viuiuauucB wuuiviiug wiui this Ordinance are hereby declared repealed. Done and ratified In Council assembled under the hand of the Mayor and Seal of the Said City of Union, this 21st day of March, 1212. T. C. Duncan, Attest: Mayor. W. D. Arthur,, (L. S.) - Clerk and Treasurer. AH OBDIHAHCH. Creating Special license by the City of Union, S. d, for the Fiscal Tear Beginning May 1st, Mil Be It Ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Union. S. C., In Council assembled end by authority of same: Section 1. That the following Special license Ordinance Is hereby adopted and Ordained by the City Council on the 20th day of March, 1912, for the Fiscal Year, beginning May 1st, 1912. That ?very person, nrm or corporation en {rased in or engaging in any trade business or profession hereinafter mentioned within the limits of the City of Union, 8. C., shall upon engaging In said trade, business or profession on or before May 1st, 1912 first obtain a license from the Clerk and Treasurer thereof, upon the order of the Mayor, and all licenses hereinafter mentioned, shall be nontransferable, except by written permission of the Mayor endorsed on said license, and per annum, if not otherwise specifically provided, and all said license, and per annum, and all annual licenses shall expire on the 1st (lay of May, 1913. Any license may be revoked at any time by the Mayor or the City Council. Sec. 2. Every Itenerant, trader or person (except licensed auctioneers) offering for sale or attempting to sell by sample within the City at public out-cry- onr otherwise, any goods, wares, fancy articles, spectacles, Jewelry, pictures, notions or other articles of like character or kind, shall pay in advance a license tax of not less than Five Dollars ($5.00) per day, Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) per week, or Two Hundred Dollars $200.) per year, and no plea of advertising or selling for any person firm or corporation of the City of Union, shall relieve the said itenerant, trader or person from the payment of said license. Bee. 3. Every Itenerant physician or vendor seller of medicine, pat* tent or of bis own make, or practicing as an itenerant his profession or calling shall _pay a license tax ofemot less than Ten Dollars (siu.uu per u?y or Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per week, and no plea of advertising or selling for any person, firm of corporation of the City of Union, shall relieve said physician, vendor or seller from the payment of said license. Sec. 4. Bach dray, carriage, buggy, automobile or other power vehicle and each hack, for public hire, conveyance or transportation, shall have a number thereon, and the driver ol such vehicle shall keep that number exposed on such hack; dray, carriage, buggy, automobile or other power vehicle, and every driver thereof shall wear a duplicate number In a consplclous place. The City Clerk and Treas - " * ? v ...A|, urer snail ikbuw ior c^u Mini as*, Bugsy, automobile or othet power veklole and back and driver nob numbers at the Innance of license, and place the number on th? % said license. Sec. 6. The Maximum fee to be charged for each passenger within the corporate limits of the City of Union by such hacks, buggies, carriages or automobiles or other power vehicles, shall not exceed Twenty-five Cents (25) frorif any point within the corporate limits of s^ld City to said passenger's destination; provided no fee ehall be charged for any passenger under five (5) years of age. The maximum fee to be charged for carrying baggage by baoks, carriages, buggies, automobiles or other power vehicles or drays, shall not exceed Twenty-flve Cents (25c) for 800 pounds; Fifty cents (60c) for 301 to 1,000 pounds, from any point within the City of Union to any destination within the corporate limits of the City of Union; and upon any violation of the charges as above limited by {iny suoh publio haok, carriage, buggy, automobile, power vehicle or dfay license; such licensee shall upon conviction be Used not exceeding Ten Dollars ($10.00 or Imprisonment not exceeding twenty (BO) days with or without hard labor. Sec. 6. All publio drays, backs, carriages, automobiles or other power vehicles or buggies, horses or mules, or harness, etc., shall be subject to Inspection anywhere and at any time within the corporate limits of the City of Union, S. C., by the Mayor Or Chief of Police of said City; or any police officer at the Instruction of the Mayor or Chief of Police of said City, shall Inspect any such public dray, hack, carriage, buggy, automobile or other power vehicle, horse or mule harness, etc., and any such as are found unfit for use, shall not be allowed to be used for such purposes upon the streets of the said City. Each dray or hack or carriage or buggy or automobile or other power vehicle licensee as aforesaid who shall work or allow to be worked or use or allow to be used, any horse or mule, harness, dray, carriage, buggy or other vehicle or vehicles afte*. the same has been declared unfit by the Mayor or Chief of Police, shall npon conviction"*)? fined in a sum not exceeding Jen Dollars ($10.00) or be imprisoned with or without hard labor net exceeding twenty (20) days, for each offense. Sec. 7. The above sections in reference to Inspection and charges shall apply to the owners or managers of Livery, Feed and Sales Stables, who shall run drays, hacks, carriages, buggies, automobiles or other power vehicles for the use of the public for hire, under the provisions of this Ordinance. Sec. 8. Any driver or owner of any such hack or carriage or buggy or automobile or other power vehicle for 'lire as aforesaid including Livery Feed and Sales Stables, who shall run any such hacks, carriages, buggies, automobiles or other power vehicles, who shall leave his, her or their hack, or carriage or buggy or automobile or other power vehicle before mentioned, for a distance great- . er than ten (10) feet in solicitation of ' any passenger or otherwise at any depot within the City of Union, or who shall leave his, her or their hack, buggy, carriage, automobile or other J power vehicle standing unattended within one block, of any depot or npon . ssfpsag of Five Dollars (15.00) or be lm- ; prisoned tor & period of ten (10) days with or wlthoot hard labor, in the j discretion of the Mayor. Sec. 9. The following schedule of license fees is hereby adopted and made a part of this Ordinance: Auctioneering in house or on street, not less than, per day .. 1 00 in the discretion of the Mayor. Automobiles or other power vehicles, kept tor public hire or transportation of passengers, each 15 00 Automobile dealers or repair shop 15 00 Agents, or agency, persons, firms, or corporations using trading stamps .100 00 Agents soliciting employees or laborers for manufacturing companies, railroad companies or any companies or Individuals where such employes or laborers are to work outside of the corporate limits of the City of Union, S. C. ...100 00 Ammunition: Each person, firm or corporation dealing In ammunition, whether loaded or unloaded, balls, shells, car*-*J10 fto iriUK?-n, ciu., mvu .. Barber shop, for each chair ... 5 00 Barber shop In suburbs, each chair . 2 BO Bill posters, or agents, posting or tacking or distributing. per annum 25 00 Bill posters?Itenerant, posting or tacking or distributing, per day 1 00 Billiard and Pool Room, each 100 00 Bicycles, for each person, firm or corporaUon. keeping same for rent 10 00 Brokers, agents or dealers In stocks and bonds 50 00 Book agents selling maps, books, periodicals and other like publications, per day, One Dollar (|1.00); per year bo w Boot or Shoe Black, with privilege of chair on street, each 10 00 Boot or shoe black with privilege of chair on street, each per month , 1 00 Boot or Shoe Black, in barber shop on Main street, year ... R 00 Boot or Shoe Black in barber shop in suburbs, year 2 B0 Each Boot or Shoe Black shall wear a badge in a conspicuous place, having upon It a number; said badge 1 to be Issued by the City Clerk and Treasurer at the Issuance of license and place the number on said license. - _ - ? - AST AA Bottling worics, eacn so w , Bowling alley on Ten Pin alley, ? ^each >60 00 Butcher*-?Each and every dealer > retailing freah meat*, such as beef, mutton, pork and the like, ehall pay I a license of Fifty Dollar* per year; - Fifteen Dollar* ($16.00 per quar ter, and Shall hay* a fixed place of > business, which said place shall be ' mentioned in the license, and said ? dealer shall not be permitted to sell from any other place; provided that i such dealer paddling and selling from house to bout* with on* vehide shall par an additional 1 loans* of Twenty-five Dollars per annum, or 8even and one-half Dollars par quarter; Provided that this section shall not apply to persons selling any of the aforesaid kinds of meats in quantities of not less than one-quarter of the animal. Such person shall first make and file an affidavit with the Clerk and Treasurer of the City Council, setting forth the name and postofflce address of the person proposing In Rail HflrnnH Tho? ?1 mal butchered was raised upon the farm of the proposed vendor, Third, That the meat to be offered If In sound and wholesome condition; upon filing such affidavit the Clerk of the City Council may give the proposed vendor a certificate setting forth that he hae complied with this artlole and he shall then be permitted to make sale of Meat without license. Cotton Seed agente, each* buying eced for shipment but of City of Union per annum .60 00 Cotton Seed Oil'Mills, each ..100 00 Clothes oleanlng or pressing establishment, per annum .. 26 00 Circuses, dog and pony shows, etc., each not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($26.00) nor more than One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($160.00) per day, in the discretion of the Mayor. Drays, each dray, cart or wagon, with one horse, per annum ... - in nn Draye, each dray, cart or wagon -with two horses, per annum 16 00 Dealers in second-hand merchandise of whatsoever kind, per annum 10 00 Dalers in pianos and organs (itinerant) per day $5; per annum 26 00 Express companies transacting and doing business in this City and other points within this State for corporations other than the Government of the United States, its officers and agents, per annum 160 00 Employment Bursaus, each person or firm, per annum ... 26 00 Exhibition of any nature outside of opera house or upon streets, In the discretion of the Mayor, not to exceed ..160 00 Exhibition, fairs, concerts, festivals or partibs on street, per day or night, in the discretion of the Mayor, not to exceed 160 00 Exhibition, play or show, lecture, musical ante, cement v for rAwnrd nnfiMa era house, day or night, in the discretion of the Mayor, not to exceed 150 00 Plying Jenny or Merry-GoRound per annum 100 00 Plying Jenny or Merry-GoRound, per month 25 00 Plying Jenny or Merry-GoRound, per week 15 00 Plying Jenny or Merry-GoRound per day 6 00 Pish and Oysters, agents or dealers, per day 1 00 Pish andt Oysters, agents or dealers, pv year * 10-4)0 Bach person, ag$nt or dealer shall licenseand said dealer shall pot* be permitted to sell from any other place; provided farther, that It shall be and Is hdtaby declared to be unlawful for any and all person, or persons to sell or offer for sale or expose same for Sale in or upon any street or side-walk within the corporate limits of the City of Union, 8. C. - Fruit dealers, wholesale, each person or firm, per annum . ...$ 10 00 Hacks, bngles or carriages for public hire, one-horse kept for hire outside of Livery stables 10 00 Hacks, buggies or carriages for publlo hire, two-horse, kept for hire outside of LIyery stables 15 00 Horse or mule traders, each per annum 60 00 Icecream saloon, or dealer In.. 6 00 Icecream on streets, each person peddling or selling 10 00 Insurance companies, each Life 25 00 Insurance companies, each Fire 15 00 Insurance companies, Casualty Accident, Fidelity, Guarantee, Liability or Plate Glass, each 10*00 Kerosene?Any merchant or merchandise broker In Oils or agent of OH companies, or other person recelYIng illuminating or lubricating oils, either In carloads or less than carloads and selling and re-shlpping the same In quantities of 50 gallons and upwards, shall pay a license fee of, per annum $160 00 Laundries % 10 00 Laundries, eaoh resident agent soliciting for laundry outside of City 10 00 UnvlTur nlrtnra shows, ner daY 2 00 Moving picture shows, per week 10 00 Moving picture shows, per year 50 00 Oocullst or Optician, per year 25 00 Occullst or Optician, per day .. 8 00 Opera house, per annum .. .. 80 00 Oyster Saloon '"(not Including sale of bulk oysters) per annum 10 00 Oyster Saloon ( Including sale | of bulk oysters, per annum .. 15 00 Pawn brokers, each 100 00 Photographers, each 10 00 Photographers, Itinerant, each per day 1 00 Plumbers and Tinners, per year 26 00 Plumbers andTlnners, per month 10 00 Plumbers and Tinners, per day 1 00 Restaurants, eafee and lunch dealers, eaoh, per annum .. f 60 00 Restaurants, cafes and lunch dealers in suburbs, per year 25 00 Restaurants conducted In house- , es aocordlng to hotel plan and which de not keep, offer or expose for sale, any stock of goods, soft drinks, etc., may serve meals where meals are preysreu ana du ?cu uu muiv, on Sunday. No lunchdealer, restaurant or eafo Shall be allowed on Main treat from- eonrt bouse to High school, except those in a building conforming to the Fife Ltmlf requirement. Roasters peanut or popcorn on street ( other than at plaoe of business of owner) each 80 0< i 1 % Railroads, (or business don* within th* City of Union and within th* State, and not including that done without the State, eaoh 200 0 Real estate broker, or agent .. 26 O Stables?livery, feed and sales, Including street carriages hacks, buggies and dfays, per annum 50 0 Stables, Livery, feed and sale in suburbs without privilege of street carriages, hacks, buggies and drays, per annum .. 25 0 [ Soda tfotintmns, each 6 0 Shooting galleries, each 25 0 1 No shooting galleries will be allowed on Main street. Skating rink, each per month 5 0 Skating rink, each per year .. 60 0 Telegraph companies transacting and doing business between points In this city and any point or points in this State for Individuals onycorporatioas other than the*Gov ernment of the United States, its officers and agents 50 0 Telephone companies transacting and doing business between any point or points in this State for individuals or corporations other than the Government of the United States, its officers and agents 100 0* Sec. 10. For each and every busi ness not .specified above, a license fe< shall be charged in the discretion o the Mayor, not exceeding One Thous and Dollars ($1,000.00) That all 11 cense fees herein, mentioned are dut and collectable on May 1st, 1912, am the said licenses are subject to in spectlon by Mayor or policemen a any time.. Sec. lfvsptny person, persons, com pany, firm or corporation embrace* ^.mentioned in any of the foregoinj SaRCjn or sections of this Ordlnanct aKl^reqolred therein to obtain license or to pay- for the performing or car rying or. of their respective buslnesi or for the transaction of the same who shell fail, refuse or neglect t< pay the license or amount thereii specified- In advance, and each ant every person, firm or corporation glv ing, shoving or attempting to give oi show any of the performances, shows or exhibitions without having receive* and paffi for their license to do so and any person or persons, firm oi corporation violating any part oi parts oi;.thljs Ordinance, shall be required |o pay a fine of not less thai One Dollar ($1.00) or more than On< Hundred ^Dollars ($100.00) or work a< or without hard labor for not mor< than thirty! (30) days, for each ant every day so .offending, in the discre tlon of the Mayor. tO 111 * ' ah v/iumouuoD ur pai u of Ordinances coniflctlng with this Ordinance, Is hereby repealed. Done and ratified In Council assembled under the hand of the Mayoi and Seal of the Said City of Union thte 20th day of March, 1912. T. C. Duncan, Attest: Mayor. W. D. Arthur, (L. 8.) Clerk and Treasurer. Netieet Attention Democrats. The' Democratic clubs of Unloi County are hereby oalled to meet li jfcspectlfce precincts on th 27tl PV?086 C< which wilt?meet In Union, B. c!!, ol the*. 5th day of May, next, at 11 o'clock a. m. Each club Is entitled to send on< dtittate to the County convention fo: every twenty-five of Its enrolled mem berSbtp, or majority fraction thereof. Presidents of the various clubs wil pleaee see that meetings are held oi the date named. A. full attendance of the delegate to the Cotmty Convention, is urged. W. W. 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