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An Ordinance Granting Special License by the City Union, S. C., for the Fiscal Year Beginning May 1, 1918 Section 1. That the following Special License Ordinance is hereby adopted and Ordained l>y the City Council on the 14th day of March, 1918 for the Fiscal Year, beginning May 1st, 1918. That every person, firm or corporation e jgagcd in or engaging in any trade, business or profession hereinafter mentioned within the limits of the City of Union, S. C., shall upon engaging in said trade, business or profession on or before May 1st, 1918, first obtain a license from the 1 T>-? iL * vic^ ?i f in ncanuicr uiurcui, upuii the order of the Mayor, and all licenses hereinafter mentioned, shall be non-transferable, except by written permission of the City Council, endorsed on said license, kind per annum, if not otherwise specifically provided, and all annual licenses shall empire on the 1st day of May. 1919. Any license may be revoked at / any time by the Mayor or the City Council. Sec. 2. Every itinerant, trader or person (except licensed auctioneers) offering for sale or attempting to sell by sample within the City at public outcry, or 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 ($25.00) per week or Two Hundred Dollars ($ 200.00) per year, and no plea of advertising or selling for any person, firm or corporation of the City of Union, shall relieve the said itinerant trader or person from the payment of said license. Sec. 3. Every itinerant physician or vendor, seller of medicine, patent or of his own make, or practicing as an itinerant his profession or calling shall pay a license tax of not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) per day or Fifty Dollars ($50.00) ner week. and no plea of advertising or selling for any person, firm or corporation of the City of Union, shall relieve said physician, vendor or seller from the payment of said license. Sec. 4. Each 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 of such vehicle shall keep that number exposed on such hack, dray, carriage, buggy, automobile or other power vehicle. The Clerk and Treasurer shaV issue for each such dray, carriage, buggy, automobile or other power vehicle and hack and driver, such numbers at the issuance of license and place the number on the said license. Sec. 5. 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 Twentyfive cents (25c) from any point within the corporate limits of said City to said passenger's destination; provided no fee shall be charged for any passenger under five (5) years of age. The maximum fee to be charged for carrying baggage by hacks, carriages. buggies, automobiles or other power vehicles or drays shall not exceed Tventy-five Cents (25c) for .100 pounds; Fifty cents (50c) for 101 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 any suc'i public hack, cariage, buggy, automol ile, power vehicle or dray license; such license shall upon conviction he fined not exceeding Ten Dollars (*11.00) or imprisonment not exceeding twenty (20) days with or without hard labor. Sec. 1. Any driver or owner of any such hack or carriage or buggy or automobile or other power vehicle for hire as aforesaid, including Livery, Fe^d and Sales Stables, who shall run any such hacks, carriages, buggies, automobiles or other power vehicles who shall leave his or her or their hack, or carriage or buggy or automobile or other power vehicle before mentioned, for a distance greater than ten (10) feet in solicitation rf any pasenger or otherwise at any depot within the City of Union or who shall leave his, her or their nacK, ouggy, carriage, automobile or other power vehicle standing unattended within one block of any depot or upon Main street from the Court House to the Baptist church, shall pay a fine of Five Dollars ($5.00) or he imprisoned for a period of (101 with or without.hard labor in the discretion of the City Council. Sec. 7. Any person or persons holding license, convicted of selling, transporting or storing whiskey or other alcoholic liquor, said license shall he revoked. Sec. 8. The following schedule of license fees is- hereby adopted and made a part of this Ordinance. A Auctioneering in house or on street., not less than, per day $ 1.00 Tn discretion of City Council Automobile or other power vehicles kept for public hire or transportation of passengers, each - 25.00 or per day not less than $10.00 at discretion of City Council. Automobile Dealers . 2.5.00 Automobile repair shop 15.00 Automobile Dray 15.00 Agents, or agency. persons, firms or corporations using trading stamps 100.00 Agents soliciting employees or laborers for manufacturing companies, railroad companies or any companies or individuals where such employees or laborers are to work outside of the corpor- i ate limits of the City of Union, S. C. 100.00 < Ammunition: Each person, < firm, or corporation dealing < in ammunition, whether load- i ed or unloaded, balls, shells, J cartridges, etc., each 10.00 B Barber shop for each chair 5.00 I Barber shop in suburbs, each chair 2.50 Bicycle, Repairing or renting 5.00 Bill posters, or agents, posting or tacking or distributing, per annum 25.00 1 Bill nosters?itinerant- nostinc or tacking or distributing, per day 1.00 Billiard and Pool room, each 250.00 Billiard and Pool room in suburbs 100.00 Book agents selling maps, books, periodicals and other like publications, per day, Five Dollars ($"5.00) per yr. 50.00 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 or in building on Main Street, year 5.00 Boot or Shoe Black in barber shop in suburbs, year 2.50 (No Boot and Shoe Black not to exceed 5c.) Bottling Works, or agents therefor 25.00 Bowling Alley or Ten Pin Alley each 50.00 i Butchers?Each and every dealer retailing fresh meats, such as beef, mutton, pork and the like, shall pay a license of Fifty Dollars per year; and shall have a fixed place of business, which said place shall be mentioned in the license, and said deal- : er shall not be permitted to sell from any other place; 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 Treasured of the City Council setting forth the name and postoffice address of the person proposing to sell. Second, that the animal butchered was raised upon the farm of the proposed vendor. Meat markets in suburbs $ 25.00 C Cotton Seed Agents, each buying seed for shipment out of City of Union, per annum. _$ 50.00 c?~~j a:i if.mi- 1- - v/ulluii oecu uii iviuis, eacn 1UU.UU Clothes cleansing or pressing establishments, per annum 25.00 Circuses, dog and pony shows, etc., each not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Hundred and Fifty Dollars (-150.00) per day, in the discretion of ' Ci.ty Council. Carnival Shows in the city, per week 350.00 D Dance hall when run for gain 100.00 Drays, each dray, cart or wag- , on, with one horse, per annum 10.00 Drays, each dray, cart, or wagon, with one horse, per annum 15.00 Dealers in second-hand merchandise of ^vhatever kind, per anum 10.00 , Dealers in pianos and organs (itinerant) per day, $5; per annum 25.00 E Express companies transacting and doing business in this City and other points within this State for corporations other than the Govern- 5 ment of the United State its officers and agents, per 1 annum 150.00 < Employment Bureaus, each person or firm, per annum 25.00 i Exhibition fairs, concerts, festivals or parties on street, per day or night in the discretion of City Council, not - 1UV.UU Klyinjr Jenny or Merry-Go- i Round, per month 25.00 Flyinp Jenny or Merry-GoRound, per week 15.00 Fish and Oysters, agents or dealers, per day 1.00 Fish and Oysters, apents or dealers, per year 15.00 Each person, apent or dealer shall have 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 further, that it shall be and is hereby 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 stret or sidewalk within the corporate limits of the City of Union, S. C. Fruit dealers, wholesale and retail, at discretion of City Council. H Hacks, buppies. or carriages for public hire, one-horse kept for hire outside of I.ivery Stables $ 5.00 Horses or mules, selling by auction, whether from a regular license or sale stable or otherwise, per day 50.00 .. . I. Ice cream saloon or dealer in 5.00 lee cream on streets, each person peddling or selling 100.00 Insurance companies, ea^h life 25.00 Insurance Companies; each Fire Insurance Company shall pay a license fee of 2% * of the premiums collected Insurance companies, Casualty, Accident, Fidelity, Guarantee, Liability or Plate Glass, each 10.00 Kerosene?Any merchant or merchandise broker in oils or agent of oil companies, or other person receiving illuminating or lubricating oils, either in carloads or less than j carloads, and selling and re-shipping the same in quantities of SO gallons , and upwards, shall pay a license fee < of per annum $-150.00 , L Laundries . 10.00 j Laundries, each resident agent soliciting for laundry outside of City 10.00 j Lightning rod agents or deal- c ers in 25.00 J Lunch dealers, exclusive of Sundays, per annum 25.00 . M Moving picture shows per year 50.00 . ? ; Optician, per year 25.00 ? Optician, per day r>.00 Opera house, per annum 50.00 j Oyster saloon (not including c sale of bulk oysters) per annum 10.00 t Oyster Saloon (including sale s of bulk oysters) per annum 15.00 \ Oysters, fresh in sealed cans.. 5.00 _ p v Pawn brokers, each 250.00 Photographers, each 10.00 j. Photographers, itinerant, each v per day 1.00 c Plumbers and Tinners per year 10.00 * R Restaurants, cafes and lunch ^ dealers, each, per annum 50.00 t Restaurants, cafes and lunch ^ dealers in suburbs, per year 25.00 Restaurants conducted in houses j according to hotel plan and which do s not keep, offer or expose for sale, ( any stock of goods, soft drinks, etc., may serve meals where meals are ^ prepare and served 'on table on Sun- * day. t No lunch dealer, restaurant or cafe shall be allowed on Main street from c court house to High School except j. those in a building conforming to the f. Fire Ivimit requirements. ^ Roasters?Peanut or popcorn j on street (other than at place r of business of owner) not at all on Main street, each $ 30.00 ^ Real Estate Agents 25.00 ^ Railroads for business done j. within the City of Union and / within the State, and not in- c eluding that done without the ^ the State, each? Southern Railroad 300.00 Union & Glenn Springs R. R 200.00 S ' Stables?Sales and Feed Stables 35.00 * Stables, livery, feed and sales including street carriages ^ ??vnii, aiiu mays, per annum 50.00 . Stables, livery, feed and sales ^ in suburbs without privilege of street carriages, hacks buggies and drays, per an-1 1 '! num 25.00 t Soda Fountains, each 5.00 Shooting galleries, each 25.00 j No shooting galleries will be allowed on Main street. Skating rink, each, per month 5.00 Skating rink, each, per year.. 15.00 T Telegraph companies transacting and doing business between points in this city and any point or points in this State for individuals or corporations other than the Government of the United , States its officers and agents 50.00 ( Telephone companies transact- _ ing and doing business be- * tween any point or points in this State for individuals or corporations other than the ( Government of the United t States, its officers and agents 100.00 , Sec. 9. For each and every busi- ( ness not specified above, a license fee shall be charged in the discretion of the City Council, not exceeding One s Thousand Dollars ($1000.00). That all 1 license fees herein mentioned are I due and collectable on May 1st, 1917, and the said licenses are subject to j inspection by Mayor or policemen at ( any time. f Sec. 10. Any person, persons, com- ^ pany, firm or corporation embraced or mentioned in any of the foregoing section or sections of this ordinance * and required therein to obtain li- f cense or to pay for the performing or t carrying on of their respective busi- t ness or for the transaction of the same who shall fail, refuse or neglect ] to pay the license of amount therein < specified in advance, and each and every person, firm or corporation f giving, showing or attempting to give ' or show any of the performances, shows or exhibitions without having i received and paid for their license < to do so, and any person or persons firm or corporation violating any < part or parts of this ordinance, shall be required to pay a fine of not less than One Dollar ($1.00) or more than ( One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or ] work at or without hard labor for not more than thirty (30) days, for J J each and every day so offending, in the discretion of the f.itw rnimnil Sec. 11. All ordinances or parts of ordinances conflicting with this ordinance is hereby repealed. Done and ratified in Council assembled under the hand of the Mayor and Seal of the said City of Union, this 8th day of March. 1018. T,. C. WHARTON, ? Mayor. Attest: W. D. ARTHUR, * Clerk and Treasurer. 14-3 Swat the fly; shoot the 'spy; kill the kaiser. . * AN ORDINANCE ro Raise Supplies for the Fiscal Year Beginning May 1, 1918, for the City of Union, S. C. Be 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 ind general purposes of the said !3ity of Union to be as follows: 11 3-1 Hills for general purposes and a jpecial levy of 4 1-4 mills for maintenance of Carnegie Free Library ind to pay the interest on outstandng coupon bonds from the first of Vfay, 1918 to the first .Vnv, 1919 thall be levied and colli U 1 in mauler and form as follows: Section 1. A tax of Sixteen (16) nills upon every dollar of (he value >f all taxable real estate, personal >roperty and stock in trade, in the jorporate limits of the City of Union, 5. C. Section 2. That the taxes herein evied and assessed shall he duo and :ollected by the City Treasurer durnf? the month of May, 1018. The City he said taxes herein levied, and he hall keep his books open from the st day of May, 1018, to the 1st day if June, 1018, for this purpose; after vhich time he shall proceed by disress or otherwise as prescribed by aw, to collect such taxes as remain inpaid, with a penalty of twenty per ent (20 per cent) in addition thereo for such non-payment. Section 3. That the basis of value or taxation of real estate, personal iroperty and stock in trade within he City of Union, S. C., shall be takn from the books of the Auditor of Jnion County, and such assessment hall be the same as levied by the bounty Auditor in 1017 and 1018. Section 4. The sum of Two Dollars $2.00 is hereby fixed as a commuation tax for the street or road dutv he said sum to be paid by all abletodied male persons able to perform ir cause to be performed the labor lercin required, betw'een the apes of wenty-one (21) and fifty (HO) years vho reside within the corporate limts of the said City, except ordained ninisters and those exempt by law, ind any person liable to this tax vho shall fail to pay the same within he time specified, shall be required o work on the streets of Union four 4) days under the direction of the Street Overseer, whenever required ly ??m overseer nurinp rne saw peiod hereinbefore mentioned; and iny person failing either to pay said :ommutation or perform said labor, vhen so required as before said, hall be broupht before the Mayor's :ourt and upon conviction thereof. ihn.ll he fined a sum not exceeding Pen Dollars ($10.00) or sentenced to mprisopment not exceeding twenty |20) days with or without hard la>or. Section 5. 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