New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-19
THE CITY LICENSE ORDINANCE.
Its Adoption by one Board.

/ UAS oAulhduCc W tStdDllsD uE1IOrm rate o
taxes and licenses on professions, calling
and other business, and on carriages, hacks
drays and other vehicles for the year 1869
The Board went into Committee of tn,
Whole, on motion of Mr.. Fisher. The ordi
nance was then taken up in seriatim.
The first section taxing banks and bank
ing agency. not incorporated under the laws
OF the United States or of Louisiana, $1,000
finally passing after reduction on banks
to $1,000, and on private bankers to $500.
Section two provides that each insurance
company pay license tax at the rate one
and half per cent on the net premiums for
the TeaE 1868, less reinsurance and return
premiums, provided that in no case shall
SAID license be less than $4,000. Also, that
each insurance inspector shall pay twenty.
Eve dollars per annum.'
On motion of Mr.. Pandely $4,000 was
struck out and $3.50 inserted, and the sec.
tion as amended was adopted.
Section three, taxing ircorporated exnress
companies $3.50, passed.
SEC. 4. Book and job printing offices, en-
gravers and photographic printers, $50 each.
SEC. D. Theatres, amphitheatres, opera
houses or place used for theatrical amuse-
ment, $1,000.
SEC. 6. Every race course $1,000.
SEC Z, Cockpits $500.
SEC. =. Dealers in foreign and domestic
exchange $500.
SEC. 8. Every pawnbroker, whether en-.
gagged individually or as member ofa firm,
$3.50.
SEC. 10. Money broker, whether individu.
any or member OF nrm, $3.50, and every
insurance broker $50.
SEC. IL. Hotels accommodating not over
100 persons, $3.50; over 100 persons, $3.50;
boardinghouses accommodating over tifty
persons, $50, over ten and not over fifty.
so; every lodginghouse, for night lodgings
only, S75.
SEC. II. Clubhouses, where billiard tables
are used or spirituous liquors sold. $500,
:, SEC. IL. Private boardinghouses where
liquors are sold, $500.
A communication was received from
Messrs. Spalding & Bidwell, proprietors of
the Academy of Music, complaining of the
heavy tax upon theatres. On motion, the
vote on section five was reconsidered and
$500 substituted for $1,000.
SEC. IA. Wholesale merchants, whether in
dlvldually or as member of firm. whose
sales in 1868 exceeded 500 900, $3.50; when
SIoo @no a,a mCLo oNel 9ou,VUU, OuC not over
SlO0 0OO, 500. Every member of a firm as
wholesale or retail merchant, whose sales
exceed S25, 900, but not $50 900. $50.
SEC. 10. Business houses doing retail busi-
ness in merchandise only, whose sales in
1865 were over 5000. but not over S25, 600
$50 for each member of the firm, whether
resident or nonresident.
SEC. l6. Retail merchants not selling o1er
$4,000, $50 for each member of the fTm
SEC. II. Restaurants or eating honses
where liquors are not sold, except to puests
at meals, Sl0C. Where liquors are sold at
the bar, SlOO in addition. Coffee stands in
the public or free markets during market
hours $50; after market hours $50.
SEC. 10. Cotton presses for the first press
$3.50, and for every other press in The same
yard, $3.50, Every warehouse or cotton
YARD, TO pay as having one press. Every
person employed in ginning cotton, $3.50.
SEC. 10. Liquor dealers who sell not less
than bottle, not to be dunk on the prem
ises, S75. Every wholesale and retail gro
Gerry selling liquors in Aot less quantity than
one quart, $3.50. Retail grocery stores i'm
which liquors are not sold, SIS.
SEC. 20. Every person selling tobacco. ci.
gars and snuff at retail, SIS. Every mer-
chant tailor $50.
SEC. 81. Confectioneries, where liouors
are not sold, $50; where liquors are sold by
the bottle, $50; where by the glass, $500.
SEC. ~ Establishments where ice cream.
nothing else, $50.
SEC. %, Every stock, note and exchange
broker, $3.50.
SEC. a. Every member of firm doing
business as cotton broker, tobacco or col.
ton factor, $3.50.
SEC. 25: Every warehouse for picking or
rebaling damaged or other cotton, $3.50
SEC. 26. Every commission merchant or
member Of firm CHI 80
broker, $3.50.
SEC. ~. Every ship agent or broker, $3.50.
Sec. rs. Every member of firm engaged
IN the business of auctioneer, $3.50, and fin-
ing for selling real estate or personal prom
erty at public auction without brokers'
license, not less than $3.50 nor more than
$500. 'n"n
SEC. 20. Private hospital, $50.
SEC. 80. Shipping master, S25.
, SEC: VI. A Sal maker and keeper of a sail
lott, S25. Master ship carpenter, cauIker.
oloc6, pump and spar maker or master rig
ger, $40.
SEC. SO. Selling coal or coke BY whole.
sale, $3.50. Selling coal, coke and wood, by
wholesale and retail, $3.50. Selling coke and
coal alone by retail, $40. Selling wood bv
wholesale, $50. Selling wood by wholesale
and retail, $50. Selling wood by retail. $40.
Keeper OF coal OF lumber yard, $50.
Flatboat broker or dealer in fatboat lum-
Der, SIS, provided they deal only in sueb
lumber. under pentlty of S1OO.
SEC. 33 Every person, Individually or as
member OF hrm, doing business as an |
agent to sell coal, $3.50. Newspaper, peri |
odical, or advertising agent, $40. Ticket or |
freight agent for railroad company. $50.
Every person, individually or as a member |
Of f1rm, transacting business for any lot. |
terry, S2500.
Sec. "a. Dealer in carriages or other vehi.
cles, $3.50.
SEC. 35. Produce or merchandise broker,
$50. .....=
SEC. SO. Real estate or house broker. $50.
SEC. 81. Cotton. hay, sugar or produce
Teigher, $50.
SEC. 38. Bottling and selling malt LIQUORS
and wines not for use on the premises. Sl50. |
sec. 80. Every distillery, $500, and every
$3.50.
SEC, 40. Sugar or molasses refinery $3.50.
Sac Al; syrup, vinegar or cordial manu-
SEC. 42, Every keeper of warehouse
where produce, goods, wares and merchan.
iise are received on storage, Sl50 for each
md every warehouse.
Sec. 43. Each and every billiard table $40
or the first table, $50 for the second. and
Sl5 for every other table on the same pre-
nises.
SEC. "A, A ten'pin alley or alleys $50 for
hS Hioe, S-V iot lhS AbeCOnu ana Slo Tor
very other on the same premises.
SEC 45. Pistol or rifle gallery, $50.
SEC. 46. Sawmill, plAningmill, sash and |
blind factory, $3.50.
SEC. AZ, Job boat plying in the waters of
his port. $3.50. y
SEC. As. Undertaken, $780,
SEC. 49, Steamboat agent, $3.50,
SEC. so. Every peddler, $50.
SEC. 81. Master builder, or contractor, or
ub'coEtractor, employing habitually three
n more hands, and each of the lessees or
OF the revenues Of the city mar
cts SAn Haink Il.