The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-07
MAYoRALTY OF NEw ORLEANS, !
City Hall, Dec. 81, 1865. /
mo. l206-N. ST.

oRDNASGE to establish uniform S mia ate Of Taxes snf
isss. ''A'' Dr"' AO0 0'nsi 'hi'i'' i0' 'n' 's'
BE IL ordained, That from and after the first day
| of January, 1869, the taxes and licenses pro-
fessions, callings and other business, shall be
assessed and collected at 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,
of the State of Louisiana, receiving deposits, or
! dealing in gold, silver, nncurrent money or ex-
change, one thousand doll rs ; and each and every
! person, whether individually or as a member OF
firm, engaging in business as private banker,
receiving deposits or dealing in gold, silver, un-
current money or bills OF exchange, five hundred
dollars.
Sec. 2. Each and every insurance company do
| ing business in the city of New Orleans, every
| private underwater of insurance policies. and
| every person, whether individually or as a men,
| Der Of firm engaged in business al a policy
| broker, shall pay tax or license at the rate of
one snd a 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 a
pro rata according to the last quarters 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
| five dollars per annum.
Sec. 8. Every incorporated company engaged
| in transporting money, merchandise, baggage,
furniture or other articles by express, two hundred
| and fifty dollars.
! Sec. 4. The proprietor of every book aud job
! printing Office, fifty dollars; and every engraVer
! or ithOgrsphic printer, thirty dollars.
Sec. 5. Every theater, smphitheater, opera
! house, or place used for theatrical amusement,
| Eve hundred dollars.
Sec. 6. Every race course, seven hundred and
| fifty dollars.
Sec. Z: Every keeper of cock pit, five hun.
| dTed dollars.
Sec. s. Every person or firm dealing in fortiE IN
| and domestic exchange not receiving deposits or
| doing banking business, three hundred dollars
Sec. 8. Every pawn-br0ker, whether engaged
| Individually or as a member Of firm, seven hun
| dTed and fifty dollars.
Sec. 10. Every person, whether individually or
es member of firm. transactiDg business as a
broker, in buying or selling gold or silver coin,
bullion gold DUST stocks, promissory notes, bills
Of exchange, or uncurrent money, two hundred
and fifty dollars.
Every person engaged in business as an insur-
snce broker, fifty dollars.
Sec. IL. Every person keeping hotel for the
entertainment OF transient persons or travellers,
accommodating not over one hundred persons,
tH hundred and fifty dollars.
Every Ike roper of hotel for the entertainment
of transient persons or travellers. accommodating
over one hundred persons, seven hundred and fifty
dollars.
Every keeper Of private or public boarding
houses for the entertainment of persops by the
week or month, accommodating over fifty persons
one hundred dollars.
Every keeper of private boarding house for
month, accommodating over ten and not over fifty
persons, twenty-five dollars.
Every keeper of a lodging house for the accom-
mediation OF night dodgers only, seVenty-6Ve dol
lars.
All private boarding houses accommodating less
than ten boarders, shall be exempt from a tax
therefor.
Sec. II. Every club house where billiard tables
ere used. or spirituous liquors sold or supplied to
members, five hundred dollars.
Sec. Is. Every private boarding house where
spirltuous, malt or Vinous liquors are sold two
hundred dollars.
Sec. IA. every person doing business, whether
Individually or as a member of firm, as a whole
sale merchant whose sales in 1868 exceeded the
sum OF one hundred thousand dollars, one hundred
and fifty dollars.
Every person doing business, whether indvidu-
ally o. as a member of firm, whose sales ex.
ceeded in 1868 the sum of fifty thousand dollars,
but did no. exceed one hundred thousand dollars,
one hundred dollars.
Every person doing business individually, or as
q member of firm, as wholesale and retail mer.
chant combined whose sales in 1868 exceeded
twenty five thousand dollars, but did not exceed
fifty thousand dollars, fifty dollars.
Sec. 10. Every firm business house doing
a retail business exclusively in merchandise
whose sales in lS6S did not exceed twenty five
thousand dollars, but exceeded fifteen Thousand
dollars, shall pay the sum OF fifty dollars for each
aud every member, whether resident or non resi-.
dent.
Sec. Is. Every firm or business house doing a
retail business exclusively In merchandise, whose
sales in lS6S did not exceed fifteen thousand dol
lars shall pay the sum of thirty dollars for each
aid every member, whether resident or nom
resident.
Every person, whether individually or as a
member OF firm commencing business on or
after the first day of January, 1869, as merchant,
she'll pay license for the year of fifty dollars.
Sec. IL. Every keeper of a restaurant or eat
ug-house where spirtuOus malt liquors are
not sold, except to guests at meals or repasts
hundred dollars.
Every keeper of a restaurant or eating house
where liquor is sold at the bar, one hundred
and fifty dollars in addition to said one hundred
dollars.
Every person keeping a stand in any Of the pub.
lie OF free markets for the sale of prepared coffee,
tea, chocolate and cooked food during market
hours, twenty dollars.
Every person keeping a stand 10 any of the
public or free markets for the sale of prepared
coffee, tea and chocolate only after market hours
twenty dollars.
Sec. Is. Every cotton press two hundred and
fifty dollars for the first press, and if there be
more than one, one hundred and fifty dollars for
every other press, II kept within the sane yard or
warehouse. Each separate warehouse or cotton
yard to pay as having one press.
Every proprietor engaged in ginning cotton one
hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 10. Every person, whether individually or
as membar Of firm, keeping retail store in
which spirituous and malt liquors and wines are
SOLO IN quantities OF no less than an ordinary wine
bottle or quart, not to be drunk on the premises,
seventy.fve dollars.
Every person keeping a wholesale and retail
family grocery store in which sprituous and malt
liquors and wines sre sold in quantities not less |
tnan an ordinary wine bottle or quart, one hun.
dred and fifty dollars.
Every person keeping retail grocery store In |
which liquors are not sold, fifteen dollars.
Sec. 20. Every person engaged in selling tobac-
CO, cigars and snuff at retail, twenty-five dollars
Every merchant tailor thirty dollars.
:. sec. Il. Every keeper Of a confectionery where
liquors are not sold, fifty dollars. Where liquors
ere sold by the bottle seventy five dollars. Where
liquors are sold by the glass two hundred dollars.
Sec. ~. Every keeper Of an establishment
where ice cream, sherbet or soda water, pies