Justice v. City of Atlanta

The Political Code, § 1649, provides that “Ordinaries are authorized to grant licenses to peddle, to indigent and infirm persons, upon such terms as they in their discretion may impose.’ The City of Atlanta, by its charter (Code of Atlanta §§ 64. 65, 70), is authorized to require any person engaged in any trade, business, etc., within the city, to register their names and búsiness and pay a license to carry on such trade or business; and express authority is given to it (§70) to levy and collect from “itinerant traders” such tax as may seem proper. The city has exercised its power by imposing…