New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-20

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Ii ton Tations 10 prise Nov. is55..... %
4 LII l. Adams, Fourth District police station,
ralions to prisoners for Nov 1855 81 Is
Firing night gun. ........... 10 10
| Sundries, petty expenses 10 De-
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+. Waterman & Bro, bill rope Insane Asy-
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NJ Feiy, eighteen pair blankets, Third Dis
4 trici lock. up. Observation-Disclosures. as s.
g sB leakIey, repairs 10 Black Maria, Aug,
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4 !. &, Muller, medical attendance on horse of
4 black Maria, Oct IL, 1S55.....s......... 8 s.
4 P. Dunnigen, horse-shoeing at city Work
4 house observation-disclosures. 80
| Baptiste Macera, repairs to prison wagons,
True ey Della Advertising notice chieiof Fire -
| Department, where engines are placed... 40 OF
The following ordinance was read by it.
1 title, and on motion, made the order Of the day
| for next Thursday evening ate o'clock, P. M.
AN ORDINANCE TO establish uniform rate of taxes
and licenses Professions Callings, and other bust
1 ness, and on Carriages, Hacks Drsys, and Other
| Vehicles
| Be ii ordained by the Common Council of Ne1o Or.
| leans That from and after the LIST day of January
1856 The taxes and licenses for professions calings
| and other business throughout the city and parish
shall be fixed, assessed and collected at the rates and
1 sums specially set forth in the following sections:
/ SEeTIoNi On every bank organized and doing
business aHder the free banking lazy q this Stale, ap
| proved April so, 1858, FIVE hundred dollars.
| SIC. 2 On every agent OF bank not incorporated
by The State OF Louisiana, engaged in buying and sell
| ing exchange, five hundred dollars
1 SEC. 8. Each and every insurance company, doing
business in the city of New Orleans, and each and
| every agency of an insurance company foreign or
otherwise, doing business said city, shall pay an
annual tax or license of per cent the gross
amount of their premiums for lire risks, The be
assessed upon their last annual statement and in
no annual has been made then the above said
tax of one per shall be assessed upon their quar-
terry statements, which shall be furnished 10 the City
Treasurer; Provided, that in case shall said tax
be less than the Of FIVE hundred dollars upon each
and every insurance company agency aforesaid.
SEC. 4. On every keeper or lessee OF a theater or
amphi,heaer, FIVE hundred dollars
SEC. S. On each and every race course, which is
governed by regular Jockey Club which is kept
for public amusement, and from which the owners or
lessees derive profit, five hundred dollars.
SEC. O. Every keeper of cock pit, i've hundred dol
lars.
SIC 2. On every establishment where negroes are
kept for sale, Ave hundred dollars.
SEC 8. On every private banking house or firm, or
person or persons buying and selling bills of exchange
other than bills drawn upon shipments made By The
parties themselves remsiances for sales of produce
made by them, three hundred dollars.
SEC 8. Every pawnbroker, three hundred dollars.
SEC 10. Every money broker. dealer in uncurrent
money in gold and silver bullIon or gold dust, three
hundred dollars.
SEcl2 Every keeper of grog shop, bar-room, tay-
ern cabaret coffee house, house, pleasure garden
THEATRE saloon, balroom euboon1 or other establish
ment whatever, wherein spifuohs or malt liquors
sold by the glass wherein spirituous malt liquors
are drank on the premises, two hundred dollars.
SEC 10. On every merchant doing both wholesale
and retail business, where liquors sold, TWO hum
dred dollars,
SEC ID. On every restaurat eating house where
liquor is sold at a bar, two hundred dollars.
SEC Is. On every keeper or lessee of cotton press
each press, one hundred and twenty-five dollars
SEC TO- On every keeper OF grocery, confectionery
store shop doing exclusively retail business. in
which sprtuous malt liquors are sold by quantities
not less than an ordinary Wine bottle quart, and
where the same is not drank on the premises when Sold
one hundred dollars.
Sec. IL. On every je~elry store doing both whole
sale and retail business, seventy-five dollars.
SEo.ls Every stock, note, and exchange broker,
seyenlyhye dollars
SEC 49, Every cotton broker, seventy-6ve dollars.
SEC. 30 On cotton pekery, hundred dollars
SEC. 81, On every keeper Of restaurant or eating
house where no spirituous malt liquors or wines
are sold reiaed at bar, aud where no liquors
wines are sold or furnished, otherwise than as ne
cessary to meals Iepasis in the establishment
seventy-hye dollars.
SEE %, Every merchant doing both a wholesale
and retail business of whatever class where spiruous
malt liquors not sold, seventy.fv dollars.
SEC. 3d. Every keeper OF stable where horses, car
riages wagons or bngges are kept for hire or sale,
the whole tax being levied on and every stable
kept, seventy-6ve dollars. E=ezzea.a= .
SEC d. Every merchant, trader, or dealer of what
ever kind, doing both wholesale and retail business
and previously specified by this ordinance, what
ever be the kind Of merchandise he deals trades I'M
and where spirituous malt liquors are sold. Sc
ventY-fye dollars.
SEC. rs. On every commission merchan, seventy.
Ave dollars.
SEC. 90, On every auclioneet, seyeaty.Gye dollars
SEC. "a. On every private hospital, seventy five
dollars.
SEC %. Every shipping master or ship agent,
seventy.6ve dollars
SEC, 90 Every keeper of coal or lumber yard,
seventy-fve dollars.
SEC. 30. Every coal agent seveny-fye dollars.
Sec. 81 Every produce or merchandise broker sixty
dollars.
SEC 80 Every establishment for the bot,ling of malt
liquors, sixty dollars.
SEC. 80. Every keeper of warehouse where pro.
duce, goods, wares or merchandise received on
storage the whole tax being levied on each and every
warehouse kept, sixty dollars.
SEC. "a. Every shpbroker, sixty dollars.
SEC. 49, Every keeper of billiard Ia ble the whole
tax being levied on each and every billiard table, sixty
dollars.
tax being levied OH each ard every alley sixty dollars
SEC. 81. Every keeper Of pistol gallery lie whole
tax being evisd ON each aud every gallery sixty
Sec. %, Every saw mill, planning mill or backyard,
sixty dollars.
SEC, 3d. Every retail cigar store, sixty dollars
SEC 40 Every printing office, sixty dollars
SEC. Al Every keeper of hotel or boarding house,
accommodating notices. than fly persons, than
one hundred persons, sixty dollars.
SEC A. Every job boat plying in The waters of the
port, sixty dollars.
SEC AZ. Every undertaken sixty dollars,
SEC. AZ. Every steamboat agent fifty dollars.
SEC. 90 Every haWker or pedler fifty dollars.
Sec. At. On every master builder, or other person,
taking contracts for entire works by the job, such
building, paving, digging canals, making cvees, ETC.,
nifty dollars.
SEC. az. oneyery dealer of whatever kind doing ex
clusivelya retail business, and where liquors
Sold twenty-five dollars.
SEC As On every rea! estate or house broker TWEEN
ty-fve dollars.
SEC. 40 On every dairy consisting Of more than Eve
cows, twenty five dollars,
SEC, So On every confectionery, where liquors are
not sold, twenty-five dollars.
Sec. 81 On every wood or charcoal dealer, twenty
five dollars. t&
SEC 81 On every fruit store, and on each and every
frui alan where IN NNa ty-6y
dollars.
SIC So On every keeper of an establishment where
ice creams sherbets alone old twenty dollars
SEC 81 On every keeper of oyster stand where
oysters in the shell alone are sold, twenty dollars.
SEC, So On every intelligence office, twenty dollars
SEC 56, On every veterinary DOCTOR twenty dollars
SEC 81 Every owner and keeper of distiilery OF
spitituons alcoholic drinks, five hundred dollars.
SEC. So. Every brewer of malt liquors, ----.
Skc. So Every manufacturer of eordals or syrups
seventy FIVE dollars,
SEC. So Every manufacturer of soda or mineral wa.
ter 10 be sold at wholesale, -.
SEC. 6i Every soap boiler, tannery, bone black, bi.
sulphaie of lime, camphine or spirits OF gas manniac
turer, or sugar or measses boiling mandatory, SILKY
dollars.
SIC. &C. Every manufacturing establishment en-.
poying twenty or more operatives, and where spirit
nous or malt liquors moi manufactured, sixty dol
lars.
SEC. SO. Every manufacturing establishment EN-.
poying not less than ten than twenty opera
lives, and where spirituous malt liquors no
manufactured, twenty five doas.
SIC. o. For each and every nublic ball, which tas
shall be paid before the Mayor shall Issue license
therefor, Eileen dollars.
SIC, 65 The tax days, carts, etca shall be eight