New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-04
tlFFICTAT OFFICIAL
naAlYoRALTY or NEW ORLEANS.

i naAYoRALTY or NEW ORLEANS. 4
COMMON 5coUN Gil,
4 City New. Orleans December %, 1855. !.
L ss'a 5Ssi uniform a,s of,sres
4 and licenses on Professions Calngs and other bust
i ness, and on Carriages, Hacks, Days, and other
4 Vehicles. +
i Bs II ordained 81 Tie Common Council Of Nec Or
leans That from and after the LIST day Of January,
1855, the taxes and licenses for professions cangs,
and other business throughout The city and parish,
shall be fixed assessed and collected at The rates and
sums specially set forth in The following sections
sEcTioN 4 On every bank organized I'd; and n. doing
business the free banking law OF this Stale ap-
proved April 30, 1855, FIVE hundred dollars h
SEC. q On every agent of bank not incorporated
BY The Slate Of Louisiana, engaged IN buying or sell
| ing exchange, five hundred dollars.
SEQ 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 in said city, shall pay
annual license Of per cent. on the gross
OF their premiums for ire risks, the same TO be
annual statement has been made, then The above said
of per cent shall be assessed upon their quar-
tterIy statements which shall be furnished 10 the City
Treasurer; Provided, that in case shall said tax
be less than the sum Of five hundred dollars upon each
and every insurance company or agency aforesaid All
companies oragencies not doing fire insurance bust
ness excepting life agences) pay five hundred dol
lars license or lax; md all agencies doing life in
surance business only. one hundred dollars.
Il Al. a
phheater, three hundred dollars. u
| SEC.5 On each and every race course, five hun
dred dollars.
sEc56. Every keeper of cock pitt two hundred and
SECT On every establishment where negroes are
kept for sale, five hundred dollars. f Dell s5 ,5s
SECS. On every private bankiDg-ho or firm, or
person persons buying and selling bills of exchange,
other than bills drawn upon shipments made ny The
parties themselves remittances for sales of produce
made by hem three hundred dollars,
SEc.9. Every pawnbroker 1--WE hundred dollars.
SEc.1O. Every money broker. dealer in uncurrent
money, in gold and silver bulllon or gold DUST three
sEc11. Every keeper Of a hotel or boarding house
accommodating one hundred persons or more, three
SEc.12. Every keeper of grog shop bar-room, tav-
ern cabaret coffee house, beerhouse pleasure garden
theatre, saloon bal room or other establish
ment Whatever wherein sprituGus malt liquors
sold by the glass, or wherein spiruous malt liquors
are drank the premises, hundred and fifty dol
lars.
SEC. 49, On every merchant doing both a wholesale
and retail business, or wholesale business alone,
where liquors are sold, one hundred dollars.
SEC. ID. On every restaurant eating house where
liquors. sold bar, hundred and fifty dollars.
seq Is On every keeper or lessee of cotton press,
on each press, one hundred and tweny-fy dollars.
SEC 16. On every keeper of grocery, confectionery
store shop, doing exclusively retail business in
which splrituons malt liquors sold by quantities
not ess.than ali ordinary Wine bottle or quart, and
where the same is drank the premises when sold,
fifty dollars. &#
sEc.17 On every jewelry store doing both whole
sale and retail business, seventy-hve dollars.
sSEc.ls Every stock, mole, and exchange broker,
seventy five dollars, !
l5SEc.19 Every cotton broker, seventy.fve dollars
SEC. 20. every cotton pckery, seventy dollars.
SEc.21 on every keeper Of resaurat 81 eating
house where no spirituous or malt liquors or vines
ava soJd II 1t a bar and where M linuors a.
wines ara sold or furnished othe Twse than as ne
cessary to meals or repasls in the establishment,
one hnnd red dollars.
SEC. %. Every merchant doing both a wholesale
and retail of whatever class where sprituous
or mali LIQUORS are not sold, seventy-fve dollars
SEC a3 Every Keeper OF a stable where horses car
rages ya9ons or bllppies kent for ire or sale
Kent sayentv.fVe dollars. 7-5z7@1 d. 's'.r
Sc Sd Every me reliant. trader. or dealer of what,
aver kind doing both 4 whole and retail business
and not previously speciiied BY this ordinance what.
be The kind Of merchandise he deals or trades In
and he re no spiritl1ous or malt liquors are sold Sc
twenty-five dollars. TX $g51a5 @-s155
SEC. 25.S On every commission merchant seventy.
Ave dollars. ',''9-'i' $50 ''i''s-
SIC 26 On every auctioneer seye nty-iye dnIIars
E SEc3a7 On every private hospital seyeniv-fva
dollars. $50 n
SEC, 9s Every shipping master or shin agent
seventy fve dollars. 1880 ~ $50 49,
e SEC 90 Every keeper of a coal or lumber ward
seVenty-fiyeZ dollars @i5IS75 -.5f>.9T Sa5 $500 -
SEC, 80 Every coal agent seyenty-fye dollars
SEC jl Every produce or merchandise broker sixty
dollars
SEC. Every establishment for the boiling of malt
LIQUORS and wines sixty dollars
SEC. 49, Every keeper of a warehouse where pro- !
duce, goods. wares Or merchandise are received on
The whole tax being levied on each and every
e SEC 34 Every shipbroker. sixty dollars.
SEC 35 Every keeper Of a billiard table the whole
tax being levied on each and every billiard liable sxy
dollars
rs SEC. SO. Every keeper of ten pin alley, the whole
tax being levied on each ard every alley sixty dollars
Sec. 81. Every keeper of pistol gallery the whole
being levied on each and every gallery sixty dollars
NJ SEC. :}S Every saw MILL planning mill or backyard,
sixty dollars, NJ
SEC. &c. Every retail cigar store sixty dollars.
\ SEC. 40. Every printing Office, sixty dollars.
SEC. A. Every See per OF hotel boarding house,
accommodating not less than thirty PERSONS nor more
than one hundred persons, sixty dollars.
SEC AZ Every job boat plying in the waters of the
port, sixty dollars.
SEC AZ. Every undertaken, sixty dollars.
SEC, ID. Every steamboat agent, fifty dollars.
SEC as Every hawker or pedler, thirty dollars
See 46 On every mas lei builder, or other person,
taking contracts for entire works by the job, such
building paving digging canals, making levees, etc.,
seventy-fv dollars.
SEC az On every dealer of whatever kind doing ex-
clusyely a retail business, and where no liquors are
sold twenty. five dollars.
SEC as On every rea! estate or house broker TWEEN
ty-fye dollars.
Size 40 On every dairy consisting of more than Eve
COWS, twenty-five dollars.
SEC So On every confectionery. where liquors are
mi sold TWENTY-FIVE dollars
SEC ST. On every wood or charcoal dealer, twenty
Ave dollars,
See So On every fruit store, and each and every
frni, stand where fruits alone are sold twenty-five
dollars
SEC So. On every keeper of an establishment where
ce-creams or sherbets alone are sold twenty dollars