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An Ordinance Granting Special License by the City Union, S. C.f for the Fiscal Year Beginning May 1, 1918 Section 1. That the following Special license Ordinance is hereby adopted and Ordained by the City Council on the 14th day of March, 1918 for the Fiscal Year, beginning May 1st, 1918. That every person, firm or corporation engaged 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 Clerk and Treasurer thereof, upon the order of the Mayor, and all li censes hereinatter mentionen, snail be non-transferable, except by written permission of the City Council, endorsed on said license, iand per annum, if not otherwise specifically provided, and all annual licenses shall expire on the 1st day of May, 1019. 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 poods, 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 6r Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year, and no plea of advertising or sellinp 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 callinp shall pay a license tax of not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) per day or Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per week, and no plea of advertising or sellinp 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, buppy. automobile or other power vehicle and each hack for public hire, con veyance 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, buegies, 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 Twenty-five Cents (25c) for 300 pounds; Fifty cents (50c) for 301 to 1.000 pounds, from any point within the City of Union to anv destination within the corporate limits of the City of Union; and upon any violation of the charges as above limited by any such public hack, cariage, buggy, automobile, power vehicle or dray license; such license shall upon conviction be fined not exceeding Ten Dollars ($10.00) or imprisonment not exceeding twenty (20) days with or without hard labor. Sec. 6. Any driver or owner of any such hack or carriage or buggv or automobile or other power vehicle for hire as aforesaid, including Livery, Peed and Sales Stables who shall run anv such hacks, carriages, buggies, automobiles or other power vehicles who shall leave his or her or their hack, or carriage or buggv or automobile or other power vehicle before mentioned, for a distance greater than ten (10) feet, in solicitation of any pasenger or otherwise at any denot within the Citv of Union or who shall leave his, her or their hack, buggy, carriage, automobile or other power vehicle standing unattended within one block of any denot or upon Main street from the Court House to the Rantist church, shall pav a fine of Five Dollars ($.r>.00) or be 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 whiskev or other alcoholic liquor, said license shall be 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 stroof nnt loaa than, ner rlnv St 1 no 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 $10.00 at discretion of City Council. Automobile Dealers 25.00 Automobile repair shop 15.00 Automobile Dray 15.00 Apents, or acrency, persons, firms or corporations usinpr trading stamps 100.00 Agents soliciting employees or laborers for manufacturing companies, railroad companies or any companies or individuals where such employees or laborers are to work outside of the corporate limits of the City of Union, S. C. 100 00 Ammunition: Each person, firm, or corporation dealing in ammunition, whether loaded or unloaded, balls, shells, cartridges, etc., each 10.00 j B Barber shop for each chair 5.00 I Barber shop in suburbs, each chair 2.50 Bicycle, Repairing or renting 5.00 Bill posters, or agents, posting or tacking or distributing, per annum 25.00, .Bill posters?itinerant, posting or tacking or distributing, per day 1.00 Billiard and Pool room, each 250.00 Billiard and Pool room in suburbs 100.00 Book agents selling maps, books, periodicals and other like publications, per day, Five Dollars ($*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 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 bfe mentioned in the license, and said dealer 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 Treasurer of the City Council setting: forth the name and postoffice address rf the person proposing to sell. Second, that the animal butchered was raised unon 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 Cotton Seed Oil Mills, each 100.00 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 City Council. Carnival Shows in the city, per week 350.00 D Dance hall when run for gain 100.00 Drays, each dray, cart or wagon, 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 whatever kind, per anum 10.00 Dealers in pianos and organs (itinerant) per day, $5; per annum 25.00 E Express companies transacting and doinp business in this City and other points within this State for corporations other than the Government of the United State its officers and agents, per annum 150.00 Employment Bureaus, each person or firm, per annum 25.00 Exhibition fairs, concerts, festivals or parties on street, per day or niprht in the discretion of City Council, not to exceed 150.00 i Flyincr Jenny or Merry-GoRound, per month 25.00 | Flvinp: Jenny or Merry-GoRound, per week 15.00 Fish and Oysters, agents or dealers, per day 1.00 j Fish and Oysters, agents or dealers, per year 15.00, Each person, agent or dealer shall; have a fixed place of business, which , said place shall be mentioned -in the license and said dealer shall not he! 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 strct J or sidewalk within the corporate lim-1 its of the City of Union, S. C. F ruit dealers, wholesale and retail, at discretion of City Council. H Hacks, buggies, or carriages for public hire, one-horse kept for hire outside of Livery 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 Ice cream on streets, each person peddling: or selling: 100.00 Insurance companies, each 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 carloads, and selling and re-shipping the same in quantities of 50 gallons and upwards, shall pay a license fee of per annum $'150.00 L Laundries 10.00 Laundries, each resident agent soliciting for laundry outside of City 30.00 Lightning rod agents or dealers in 25.00 Lunch dealers, exclusive of Sundays, per annum 25.00 M Moving picture shows per year 50.00 O Optician, per year 25.00 Optician, per day 5.00 Opera house, per annum 50.00 Oyster saloon (not including sale of bulk oysters) per annum 10.00 Oyster Saloon (including sale of bulk oysters) per annum 15.00 Oysters, fresh in sealed cans._ 5.00 P Pawn brokers, each 250.00 Photographers, each 10.00 Photographers, itinerant, each per day 1.00 Plumbers and Tinners per year 10.00 R Restaurants, cafes and lunch dealers, each, per annum 50.00 Restaurants, cafes and lunch dealers in suburbs, per year 25.00 Restaurants conducted in hobses according to hotel plan and which do not keep, offer or expose for sate, any stock of goods, soft drinks, ete., may serve meals where meals afe prepare and served on table on Sunday. No lunch dealer, restaurant or cafe shall be allowed on Main street froin court house to High School except those in a building conforming to the Fire Ijimit requirements. Roasters?Peanut or popcorn on street (other than at place of business of owner) not at all on Main street, each $ 30.00 Real Estate Agents 25.00 Railroads for hlisinpaa rtrmo within the City of Union and within the State, and not including that done without the the State, each? Southern Railroad 300.00 Union & Glenn Springs R. R.__ 200.00 S Stables?Sales and Feed Stables 38.00 Stables, livery, feed and sales including street carriages hacks, buggies and drays, ^ per annum Stables, livery, feed and sales in suburbs without privilege of street carriages, hacks buggies and drays, per annum 25.00 Soda Fountains, each 5.00 Shooting galleries, each 25.00 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 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 100.00 Sec. 9. For each and every business not specified above, a license fee shall he charged in the discretion of the City Council, rot exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1000.00). That all license fees herein mentioned are due and collectable on May 1st, 1917. and the said licenses are subject to inspection by Mayor or policemen at any time. Sec. 10. Any person, persons, company, firm or corporation embraced or mentioned in any of the foregoing section or sections of this ordinance and required therein to obtain license or to pay for the performing or carrying on of their respective business or for the transaction of the same who shall fail, refuse or neglect to pav the license of amount therein specified in advance, and each and every person, firm or corporation giving, showing or attempting to give! or show any of the performances.! shows or exhibitions without having received and paid for their license to do so, and any person or persons firm or corporation violating anv part or part*? of this ordinance, shall he 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) davs, for each and every dny so offendintr, in the discretion of the City Council. 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 Mavor and Seal of the said City of Union, this 8th day of March. 1918. L. C. WHARTON, Mayor. Attest: W. D. ARTHUR, Clerk and Treasurer. 14-3 Swat the fly; shoot the spy; kill the kaiser. AN ORDINANCE To Raise Supplies for tfce 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 and general purposes of the said City of Union to 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 the interest on outstanding coupon bonds from the first of May, 1918 to the first of May, 1919 shall be levied and collected in man tier and form as follows: Section 1. A tax of Sixteen (10) mills upon every dollar of tlie value of all taxable real estate, personal 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 he due and collected by the City Treasurer during the month of May, 1918. The City the said taxes herein levied, and he shall keep his books open from the 1st day of May, 1918, to the 1st day of June, 1918, for this purpose; after which 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 per cent) in addition thereto for such non-payment. _ Section 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 be the same as levied by the County Auditor in 1917 and 1918. Section 4. The sum of Two Dollars ($2.00 Is hereby fixed as a commutation tax for the street or road duty the said sum to he paid by all ablebodied male persons able to perform or cause to be performed the labor herein required, between the ages of twenty-one (21) and fifty (50) years who reside within the corporate limits of the said City, except ordained ministers and those exempt by law, and any person liable to this tax who shall fail to pay 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 failing 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 (?0) days with or without hard labor. Section 5 Thnt oil o parts of Ordinances conflicting with this Ordinance are hereby declared repealed. Done nnd ratified in Council assembled under the hand of the Mayor and Seal of the said City of Union, this 8th day of March, 1917. L. C. WHARTON, Mayor. Attest: W. D. ARTHUR, (L.S.) Clerk and Treasurer. 14-3 A GOOD FRIEND A good friend stands by you when n need. Union people tell how Doan's Cidney Pill have stood the test. Mrs. I. N. Sprouse of 263 W. Main St., Jnion, endorsed Doan's three years go and again confirms the story. Jould you ask for more convincing estimony ? "About three years ago I was in a ?ad fix with kidney trouble," says = *Irs. Sprouse. "I was nervous, had evere pains in tne small of my back nd seemed to be bothered more at igrht than in the daytime. I couldn't est comfortably. I was always hirsty and my kidneys didn't act | ijfht. 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