New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-03
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nrAYoRALTY or NEW ORLEANS.
COMMON COUNCIL,
{ $3 Cityof New Orleans, December 49, 1865. &
7 [o No 5S 81 form ,os q ,axes
and licenses on Professions Callings and other bust
4 ness,5and on Carriages, Hacks, Days, and other
vehicles.
i BIZ ii ordained bY the Common Conacs Of Ne1c Or
zsaas, THAT from and after the istsday OF annary
Efs56, the taxes and licenses for professions, cangs
and other business throughout the city and parish
shall be fixed assessed and collected az the rates md
sums specially forth inithe following seclions
sEcTIoNi On every bank organized and doing
ander ne fee bankngaW of ms sa'e APP
SEC. 70 On every agent Of a bank not Incorporated
by The Slate ofLousiana, engaged lii buying or SELL
ing exchange, FIVE hundred dollars
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 in said city, shall pay an
an nuai taS Oh license of one per cent on the gross
amount of their premiums for fire risks, the same 10 be
assessed upon their last annual saement andln case
no annual has been made then The above said
tax of one perc shabe assessed upon their quar-
terly statements, which shall be furnished 10 the City
Treasurer Provided, that in no case shall said tax
be less than the sum FIVE hundred dollars upon each
and every company or agency aforesaid All
companies agencies not doing fire ms urance bust
ness excepting life agencies to pay five hundred dol
lars license orlax; and all agencies doing a life in
| sursnce bus mess only, one hundred dollars
SEC. A On every keeper OF lessee Of g theater or
u
SEC On each ard every race course, live hun
dred dollars.
SD. IS Every keeper of cock pit, two hundred and
| fffydoars. t
| SEc.7 On every establishment Where negroes are
kept for sale, FIVE hundred dollars.
SEC On every private banking noase or hfm Or
other than bills drawn upon sh pments made By The
parties themselves remiaiices for sales Of produce
made BY lhen1Ss hree hundred dollars. %#34 s@s$s
SEC. o. Every pawnbToker. five hundred dollars
SEC. 10. Every money broker, dealer in uncnrrent
money, gold and silver bullion, or gold dust three
SEC. Ii. Every keeper Of a hotel Or boarding house
accommodating one hundred persons or more, three
hundred dollars.
ern cabaret coffee house, house. pleasure garden
theatre saloon, room, cub-room, other establish
ment whatever, wherein spirituous malt liquors
sold by the glass wherein sprluous malt liquors
drank on the premises one hundred and fifty dol
lars.
@SEc. 13. On every merchant doing both a wholesale
and retail business, or wholesale business alone,
where liquors are sold, one hundred dollars
SEC. "a. On every resiaurat or eating-house where
liquor is sold bar, one hundred and fifty dollars.
SEC Is On every keeper or lessee of cotton press,
on each press, one hundred and twenty dollars
SEC 16. On every keeper Of grocery confectionery
store or shop doing exclusively retail business, in
which spirituous malt liquors soldby quantities
not less than m ordinary wine bottle or quart, and
where the same is not drank on the premises when sold
fifty dollars. #g5
SEc.I7 On every Jew elry store doing both whole
sale and retail business seventy-hve dollars.
seventy. Eve dollars.
sEc.ls Every cotton broker, seventy-fve dollars.
SEc.20 Onevcry cotton piekery, seyentyfve dollars
Sec. 81. On every Keeper OF restaurant or eating
house where no spirtuous malt liquors or wines
are sold or retailed bar and where no liquors
wines are sold or furnished, othe rWise than as ne
cessary to meals or repasis IN the establishment,
one hundred dollars.
SEC. %. Every merchant doing both wholesale
and retail business, whatever class where spruous
| or maltlquors are not sold, seventy-fve dollars
Sec. %. Every keeper Of stable where horses,
rages wagons or buggies are kept for hire sale,
the whole tax being levied on each and every stable
kept, seYeny-fiye dollars.
| SEC "a Every merchant, trader, or deaeF of what
ever Kind doing both wholesale and retail business
and previously specfed by this ordinance, what.
ever be the kind Of merchandise he deals trades in,
and where no sprtuous or malt liquors are sold, Sc
twenty-five dollars.
SEC IS. On every commission merchant seventy
FIVE dollars.
SEC. %. On every aucioneer, seveny-fve dollars.
SEC. 81. On every private hospital, seventy five
dollars.
SEC. g. Every shipping master Or ship agent,
jseYenlyfye dollars
sEcsag Every keeper Of coalor lumber yard,
Sire 30. Every coal agent seventy-fve dollars.
SEC 81. Every produce or merchandise broker, sixty
SEC. go Every establishment for the boiling OF malt
liquors and Wines sixty dollars.
. SEC. 80. Every keeper of a warehouse where pro-
duce goods, wares merchandise received on
storage the whole tax being levied on each and every
warehouse kept sixty dollars.
SEC "a. Every ShIpbfoker, Sixty dollars.
SEC. g. Every keeper Of billiard liable, the whole
tax being levied each and every billiard table, sixty
dollars.
tax being levied each ard every alley sixty dollars
SEC. ST. Every keeper Of pistol gallery the whole
taxbeg levied each and every gallery, sixty dollars.
Sec 80. Every saw mill, planning mill or brckyard,
SEC. 3d. Every retail cigar store, sixty dollars
seq 40. Every printing office, sixty dollars.
SEC, A. Every keeper Of a hotel or boarding house.
accommodating less Than thirty persons, more
than one hundred persons, sixty dollars.
SEC az. Every job boat plying in,lhe waters OF the
| SEQ AS Every undertaken, sixty dollars.
SEC. IA. Every steamboat agent, fifty dollars.
SEC. as Every haWker or pedler, thirty dollars.
SEC. DO. On every master builder, or other person,
taking contracts for entire works by the job, such as
building paving, digging canals making levees, ETC.,
SEC az. On every dealer of whatever kind doing ex-
cnsiveya retail business, and where no liquors are
sold, twenty five dollars.
SEC 49, On every real estate or house broker, TWEEN
ty-fve dollars.
SEc.4e. On every dairy consisting of more than FIVE
cows, twenty-five dollars. zl
SEC. SO. Onevery confectionery, where liquors are
not sold, twenty-five dollars
SEC. 81 On every wood or charcoal dealer twenty
| Ave dollars
SEC So On every fruit store and on each and every
fruit stand where fruits alone are sold, twenty-five
dollars.
icecreams sherhess alone are sold, twenty dollars
/ SEc45 On.every keeper of an oyster stand Where
oysters in the shell alone sold htleen dollars.
SEC. SIS, On every intelligence office, twenty dollars
SEC. Sc On every veterinary doctor, twenty dollars
SEC. 81. Every owner and keeper of dislillery o
spriluous or alcoholic drinks, TWO hundred dollars
SEC. IS. Every brewer of malt liquors, two hundre
dollars.
i, SEC, SO, Every manufacturer Of sordials syrups
seventy Ave dollars. 49,.
i SEC 60 Every manufacturer Of soda or mineral WA
Ter, 10 be sold al wholesale, twenty-five dollars.
SEC. 81. Every soap boiler annery bone black, bi
sulphate Of lime camphneS spirits OF gas mahu!ac
l Hail
dollars.
Sec 50. For each and every public ball, which Ia:
shalt be paid before the Mayor shall issue licens
therefor. fifteen dollars.
SEC 3d. The tax drays, carts, etc. shall be eight
dollars per annum, and the price Of branding
numbering, as fixed by The adjudication for thut ser
vice. Provided, that such carts or wagons as used b
the owners for their own use exclusively make
carts, IN hauling to und from the stables of III
owner, may be furnished with red number, upon III
payment of license Of six dollars and twentY-iv
. cents for the number.
SEC Ga. The lakes on hacks, Stages and other TWO
81 horse carriages shall be twenty-five dollars per an
mum, and on cabs and other one-horse vehicles, eight
| cen dollars per annunl,
/ SEC. 65 tax OF fifty dollars shall be levied aRnu
ally on trucks or other fouwheeed carriages used fo
hauling more than tons at load, and such truck
fourwheeed carriages shall not have less than five
inch tires.
SEC sc. tax of thirty dollars shall be levied anuu
ally on all four-wheeted wagons drawn by two
more animals: and used for the transportation of bee
ale, porter, mtneTal-waer bricks, sand, stone, etc.
j SEC, e.. Every omnibus drawn by two NOR
Il horses mules, shall be taxed thirty dollars per al
mum.
SEC. 6a, Every omnibus shall be numbered in Il cor
spcuous place. the number to be OF the same dinner
draw aty1i GIi4 t