New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-22
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN THURSDAY, DECEMBER - 1883

maker shop, not connected with an iron
foundry, twenty-five dollars.
Each and every person conducting brass
foundry, fifty dollars.
Each and every proprietor of copper,
tin, or sheet iron mandatory, fifty dol
lars.
Each and every proprietor of a general
iron repairing shop, twenty-five dollars,
Every proprietor of blacksmith shop,
J twenty-five dollars.
Sec. SO. Every dairy consisting of more
than four COWS, fifteen dollars.
SEC. 81. Every keeper of stand where
oysters are opened for consumers, fifteen
Every keeper of stand where oysters
raw, cooked or otherwise prepared, are sold
twenty-five dollars, and where oysters are
sold by wholesale, fifty dollars.
Sec. 55. Every keeper of an intelligence
Office, twenty-five dollars.
SEC. Sc. Every veterinary surgeon, chiro-
podist and cleaner of privies, ten dollars.
SEC. 81, Every person giving public ball
II at public ball room, for which permits
sion shall first be obtained from the Mayor
ten dollars for each night.
Every person keeping hall for concerts,
assemblies, balls and public meetings, let
ting out the same for hire, one hundred and
fifty dollars per annum.
Sec. SO. The tax on drays, carts, furniture
wagons and other vehicles of same descrip'
ton, shall be fifteen dollars per annum, and
the price of branding and numbering,
twenty-five cents.
All milk and market carts and such carts
as are used only for the delivery of mer-
chandise sold by the owner, or in hauling
to or from his stables. five dollars per an.
mum. to be marked with red number, the
cost to be twenty-five cents.
Sec. SO. The tax on hacks, stages and
other two horse carriages shall be twenty
dollars per annum; and on cabs and other
one'horse vehicles, fifteen dollars per
annum.
Sec. 60. tax of forty dollars per annum
shall be levied on trucks, timber wheels,
or four-wheeled vehicles used for hauling
heavy articles, and such trucks or four
wheeled vehicles shall have not less than
fveinch tires.
SEC. 81. A tax of thirty dollars shall be
levied annually on all four.wheeled wagons
used for hauling sand, stone, flour, cotton,
tobacco. sugar, etc.
SEC. 60. A tax of thirty dollars shall be
4 levied annually on all four.wheeled wagons
used in transporting beer, ale, porter, cider,
mineral waters, sarsaparilla or other arti-
Giles.
SIC. SO. For each and every omnibus
drawn by two or more horses or mules, used
| in conveying passengers for hire, tax Of
thirty dollars per annum.
Sec. Ga. Every omnibus shall be num-
bered in a conspicuous place, the number
| to be of the same dimensions as those for
| dray; and every omnibus shall have lamps;
and for any contravention of this section
the owner thereof shall pay fine of one
| hundred dollars.
SEC. 65. The tax on any private carriages,
| kept for the pleasure or use of the owner
and drawn by two or more horses, shall be
| twenty-five dollars, and for other private
/ xyohinlac dro xur, INV fan d11lora
SEC. &C. All drays, carts, trucks, timber
| wheels and wagons shall be branded with
| their number and the last numeral in the
year in a circle. Owners of groeers', ex.
press, baggage and Otner private wagons
may have their names, residences and mum.
bers painted in full on each side of said We
hicle in place of brand.
Sec. 81. Every transient theatre. circus,
menagerie, or other public exhibition or
show, shall pay in advance tax of fifteen
dollars for each days performance, for any
term under ten days and for ten days or
more, ten dollars per day. The place for
holding any such transient exhibition shall
be designated by the Mayorsand removed
at any Time he may deem proper.
Every itinerant player on haudorgan or
other musical instrument, five dollars.
SEC. 6S, Each resident or non resident
| pc rtner of hrm, whether active or in COM
mendam, shall pay the full amount of tax
on the profession, trade, calling or business
| in which the firm is engaged.
SEC. 50. Every notary public, claim agent,
retail druggist, surgeon dentist and average
adjuster, fifty dollars per annum.
Every collector of accounts and custom
house broker, twenty-five dollars.
Every wholesale and retail druggist, one
hundred and fifty dollars.
SEC. 20. All commercial agencies or estab.
lishments for giving information of the
standing OF commercial firms, five hundred
dollars.
SEC. II. Every person keeping tarpaulins
for hire, twenty-five dollars.
Sec. Y. Every person keeping hand.trucks
for hire, fifteen dollars.
SEC. 70. Every person having more than
one shop, store or establishment, or who
shall exercise or follow more than one pro.
fession, trade, calling or business, shall pay
the tax on each separately.
SEC. "A. No person shall exercise or fol-
low. either transiently or permanently, any
Of the trades, professions or callings or
other business taxed by this ordinance
without first paying a tax and obtaining
from the proper officers of the city a receipt
or license for the same in conformity with
existing ordinances, under the penalty of a
fine of not less than fifty nor exceeding two
hundred and fifty dollars.
SEC. 70. Every person owning or com.
handing any steamboat or seagoing vessel
is forbidden to permit any person to remain
on board of such vessel while lying at any
of the wharves of New Orleans as transient
boarders or dodgers, those persons employed
on board excepted, unless the said owner,
commander or captain shall have previously
obtained a license from the Controller of the
city, which shall be registered at the Mayors
office, and for which said owner, commander
or captain shall pay to the Treasurer of the
| city the sum Of one hundred and fifty dollars
| for the year ending the first day of January
| foi1oWiDQ the taking ont of the license AnV
owner, commander or captain who shall
fail to comply with the provisions of this
section shall be fined fifty dollars for each
and every offense.
$50. rs. Every person doing business
or pursuing any avocation under authority
| of this ordinance shall be required to keep
! hung up or posted in q eonspicuous place in
his counting room, store or place of bust
ness certificate, signed by the Treasurer
and Controller, that he has paid his license.
| SEC. II. all fines and penalties imposed
| for the infraction of the provisions of this
/ ordinance shall be recoverable before any
| court Of competent jurisdiction for the ben
| eft of the city treasury.
/ SEQ. 70. Every person receiving orders
for selling goods by sample, otherwise than
| It store, shop or warehouse, for the keep
| ing of which license shall have been
| duly obtained, one hundred and City dollars.
SEC. 70. Every person buying and selling
\ on the levee at the basins of either of the
canals, or elsewhere in the city, except at
their store, shop or warehouse, thirty dol
lars.
SEQ. so. Every keeper Of stable, where
horses, mules, carriages, ouggies or other
vehicles are kept on livery or for hire or
sale, one hundred and fifty dollars.
SEC. 81. Every clarvoyant, astrologer,
j fortune-telier, keeper of gift store and cup
toseer, one thousand dollars.