The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-22

EXTRA SESSION.
-H CIrY HALL, NEW ORLEANS,
December Is, 1868.
The board met In extra session pursuant Ia
adjournment.
Present: President Kearny, and Messrs. Rose
Athens, Walker, Montgomery, Grandpre, Fisher
Pandely, Wynne. Farrell and Breen.
The reading Of the minutes of last meeting was
dispensed with.
On motion Of Mr.. Fisher, the board resolved
itself into o co'amittee of the whole on the
license ordinance.
Mr.. Kearny In the chair.
After the committee had risen, and reported
through its chsirman favorably upon the ordi-
nance as smeldsd, and recommended its adop-
fion,
Mr.. Fisher moved to take up the ordinance on
Its first reading.
Adopted.
The ordinance was then taken up on its first
reading and adopted. and, under q suspension of
the rules. was placed on its second reading and
adopted by the following vote
Yess-Messrp. Kearny. Rose, Walker, Mont
gomery. Grsndpre, Fisher, Pandely. wynne, Far
reIl and Breen.
Nsys-None.
Licenses Pro.ssion Csings and other Business and
Carriages, HseI, Drsys and Vehicles year
BE Il ordained. That from and after the drst day
of January, 1858, the taxes and licenses on pro-
fessions, callings and other business, shall be
assessed and collected ct the rates and sums
specially set forth In the following sections:
Section l. Every bank and banking agency not
incorporated under the laws Of the United States,
or Of the State pf Louisiana receiving deposits,
dealing In gold, silver, uncurrent money or ex-
change, tn, usand doll lrs and each and every
person, whether individually or as Q member of
q firm, engaging In business a. private banker,
receiving deposits or dealing in gold, silver, un-
current money or bills of exchange, i've hundred
dollars.
Sec. 2. Each and every insurance company do
ing business In ihe city of New Orleans, every
private underwater Of insurance policies. and
every person. whether individually or as q mem
Der Of o firm engaged In business as q policy
broker, shall psg tax or license at the rate Of
one and half PER cent. per annum on the net
amount Of premiums for the year ending Decem-
Der 81, 1868. less reinsurance and return premiums
only, and If NOT In business one year. then q
prorata according to the last quarter receipts
Prouided, that in no case shall said license be
less than seven hundred and fifty dollars Every
insurance inspector shall pay tax Of twenty.
Sec. 3. Every Incorporated company engaged
In transporting money, merchandise, baggage,
furniture or other articles by express two hundred
and fifty dollars,
Sec. l. The proprietor of every book and Job
printing Office, ;dfiy dollars; and every engraver
or lithogrsphc printer, fifty dollars.
Sec. 5. Every theater, smphitheater, opera
house, or place used for theatrical amusement,
five hundred dollars.
Sec. 6. Every race course, one thousand dol.
lars. s1-- $3.50
Sec. Z. Every keeper of cock pit, five hun.
bred dollars.
Sec. g. Every person or firm dealing in foreign
and domestic exchange not receiving deposits or
doing q banking business. three hundred dollars.
Sec. 9. Every pawn-broker, whether engaged
individually or ds member OF firm, seven hun
bred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 10. Every person, whether individually or
as q member of ia firm, transacting business as
broker, in buying or selling gold or silver coin,
bullion, gold duSt. stocks, promssory notes. bills
Of exchange, or, uncurrent money, two hundred
and fifty doliare.t
Every person Engaged in business as an insur.
ance broker, 6ftl dollars.
Sec. III. EverJ. per son keeping hotel for the
entertainment % transient persons or travellers,
accommodating got over one hundred persons,
one hundred and fifty dollars
Every keeper a. hotel for the entertainment
of transient per3ons or travellers, accommodating
over one hundred persons, seven hundred and fifty
dollars. l.tl.
Every keeper .of private or public boarding
houses for the entertainment OF persons by the
week or month, accommodating over fifty persons
fifty dollars.
Every keeper ct private boarding house for
the entertainment OF persons by the week or
month, accommodating over ten and not over fifty
persons. twenty-five dollars.
Every keeper Of lodging house for the accom-
mediation OF night dodgers only, seventy-fve dol
lars. al
All private bosSding houses accommodating less
than ten boardsss, shall be exempt from o tax
Sec. IL. Every!club house where billiard tables
are used or spr.Iuous liquors sold or supplied to
members, five tdred dollars.
Sec. Is. EverS:. private boarding house where
epirituous, malt or vinous liquors are sold two
hundred dollars.t
Sec. IA. every person doing business, whether
individually az q member Of firm, as a whole
sale merchant, Those sales In 1868 exceeded the
sum Of one hund,} Id thousand dollars, one hundred
and fifty dollars.tt
Every person abing business, whether individu.
ally or as a meesber of firm, whose sales ex.
ceeded In 1868 Ia sum of fifty thousand dollars,
but did not exce;p one hundred thousand dollars,
one hundred dols3rs.
Every person ling business individually, or as
q member Of hs1l, a. wholesale and retail mer.
chant combined those sales in 1868 exceeded
twenty five thousand dollars but did not exceed
fifty thousand do;h rs fifty dollars.
Sec. Is. Every Srm or business house doing
retail busnefs exclusively in merchandise
whose sales In tS6S did not exceed twenty five
thousand dollsrt but exceeded fifteen thousand
dollars, shall pa the sum OF fifty dollars for each
and every membsi, whether resident or non resi-.
dent.
SEQ. l6. Every 1rm or business house doing q
retail business exclusively In merchandise whose
sales In 1865 did rst exceed fifteen thousand dol
lars shall pay tho sum of thirty dollars for each
and every menser, whether resident or non
resident 49,
Every person, whether Individually or as q
member Of q frpi commencing business on or
after the nrst day r January, iooe, "a merchant,
shall nav licenss for the year of fifty dollars.
Sec IL. Every keeper Of q restaurant eat
ing house where spirituous or malt liquors are
not sold, except u guests at meals or repass, one
hundred dollars,
Every keeper q restaurant or eating house
where liquor is yold at the bar, one hundred
and fifty dollars Ii addition to said enc hundred
dollars. :, I
Every person kteping stand in any Of the pub
lie markets for ,he sale of prepared coffee,
tea, chocolate AID cooked food during market
hours. twenty dollars.
Every person keeping . stand 10 any Of the
public or free markets for the sale OF prepared
coffee. tea and chocolate only after market hours,
twenty dollars. 5. ..-ar
Sec. Is. Every otton press two hundred and
fifty dollars for the first press, and if there be
more than one. ons hundred and fifty dollars for
every other press, II kept within the same yard or
warehouse. Each separate warehouse or cotton
yard to pay Is having one press.