The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-05
MAYoRALTY OF NEW ORLEANS,
City Hall, Dec. 81, 1865.
mo. l2O6-N.

AT OhDlNANDE TO establish uniform OF Taxes
Lcepees on Profession, CAlDgs other Business an
Is carriages Hacks Drays and other Vehicles for the
Be ii ordained, That from and after the first da
oil January, 1869, the taxes and licenses on pro
iesslons, calllngs and other business, shall b
assessed and collected at the rates and sum
specially set forth in the following sections:
| Section l. Every bank and banking agency no
Incorporated under the laws of the United States
or OF the State of Louisiana, receiving deposits
dealing In gold, silver, uncurrent money or ex
cnspge, one thousand doll irs; and each and ever,
person, whether individually or as a member o.
firm, engaging in business as private banker
receiving deposits or dealing in gold, silver I'M
current money or bills of exchange, five hundred
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 MEM
per OF hrm engaged in business as policy
broker, shall pay 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, 1865, less reinsurance and return premiums
| only, and If not in business one year. then a
pro rata according to the last quarters receipts
| Pr0ctded, that in no case shall said license be
| less than seven hundred and fifty dollars Every
insurance inspector shall pay tax of twenty.
| i've dollars per annum.
Sec. 3. Every incorporated company engage d
IN transporting money, merchandise, baggage,
furniture or other articles by express two hundred
and fifty dollars.
| CcC. IL 1uo proprietor OF every DOCK and lob
printing office, fifty dollars; and every engraver
or photographic printer, thirty dollars.
Sec. D. Every theater, amphitheater, opera
house. or place used for theatrical amusement,
| i've hundred dollars
| sec. 6. Every race course, seven hundred and
| fifty dollars.
Sec; Z; Every keeper of cock pit, five hun.
| bred dollars.
sec. s. Every person or firm dealing in fort i IN
| and domestic exchange not receiving deposits or
DONG banking business, three hundred dollars.
sec. 3. Every pawn broker, whether engaged
individually or as member of firm, seven hun.
dred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 10. Every person, whether individually or
as member OF firm, transacting business as
broker, in buying or selling gold or silver coin,
bullion, gold dust, stocks, promissory notes. bills
OF exchange, or uneurrent money, two hundred
and fifty dollars.
Every person engaged in business as an insur.
ance broker, fifty dollars.
Sec. III. Every pelson keeping hotel for the
entertainment OF transient persons or travellers
accommodating not over one hundred persons,
two hundrt d and fifty dollars.
Every keeper of hotel for the entertainment
OF transient persons or travellers. accommodating
over one hundred persons, seven hundred and fifty
dollars.
Every keeper Of private OF public boarding
houses for the entertainment of persons by the
week or month, accommodating over fifty persons
one hundred dollars.
Every keeper of 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, seyenty-fye dol.
lars.
All private boarding houses accommodating less
than ten boarders, shall be exempt from tax
therefor.
Sec. u. Every club house where billiard tables
are used. or spirituous liquors sold or supplied TO
members, five hundred dollars.
sec. Is. Every private boarding house where
splrltuous, malt or vinous liquors are sold two
Sec. II. every person doing business, whether
IN 1lVlduaIy or as member of firm, as a whole
sale merchant, whose sales in 1865 exceeded the
and fifty dollars.
Every person doing business, whether ndiyidu.
ally o. as member of firm, whose sales ex.
ceeded in 1868 the sum of fifty thousand dollars,
but did not exceed one hundred thousand dollars,
one hundred dollars.
Every person doing business individually, or AZ
member OF firm, as wholesale and retail mer.
chant combined whose sales in 1868 exceeded
twenty hye thousand dollars but did not exceed
nifty thousand dollars, fifty dollars.
Sec. 10. Every firm or business house doing |
retail business exclusively in merchandise |
whose Gales in 1865 did not exceed TWENTY-FIVE |
thousand dollars, but exceeded fifteen thousand |
collars, shall pay the sum OF fifty dollars for each
and every member, whether resident or non resi-
dent.
Sec. l6. Every firm or business house doing a
retall business exclusively in merchandise, whose
sales IN 1865 did not exceed fifteen thousand dol
lars, shall pay the sum of thirty dollars for each
resident.
Every person, whether individually or as a
member OF firm commencing business on or
alter the first day of January, 1862 as merchant,
shall pay license fol the year of fifty dollars.
Sec. IL. Every keeper of a restaurant or eat
ng house where spirituous or malt liquors are
lot sold except to guests at meals or repasts, one
hundred dollars.
Every keeper Of restaurant or eating house
where liquor is sold at the bar one hundred
dollars.
Every person keeping stand in any Of the pub.
&c or free markets for the sale of prepared coffee
ga, chocolate and cooked food during market
lours, twenty dollars.
Every person keeping q stand in any of the
public or free markets for the sale of prepared
once, tea and chocolate only after market hours,
wenty dollars.
Sec. IS. Every cotton press two hundred and
lily dollars for the first press and il there he |
nore than one one hundred and fifty dollars for
very other press, il kept within the same yard or
Farehouse Each separate warehouse or cotton !
ard to pay as having one press.
Every proprietor engaged in ginning cotton one
Sec. 10: Every person, whether individually or
membar OF firm, keeping a retail store in
.ne n spritoons and malt liquors and wines
ollie OF, quart, not to be drunk on the premises
twenty-five dollars.
Every person keeping a wholesale and retail
lmiy grocery store in which spirituous and malt
Quors and wines are sold in quantities not less
IAN an ordinary wine bottle or quart, one hun. 8
red and fifty dollars.
Every person keeping retail grocery store in
hich liquors are not sold, fifteen dollars. :
sec. 20. Every person engaged in selling tobac.
}, cigars and snuff at retail, twenty-five dollars
Every merchant tailor thirty dollars. h
sec. Il. Every keeper Of confectionery where Q
luors are not sold, fifty dollars. Where LIQUORS o
Q sold-by the bottle seventy.fv dollars Where B
uors ere sold BY the glass two hundred dollars. il
sec. ~. Every keeper of an establishment
here ice cream, sherbet or soda water, pies e.
rty dollars. = '@' :,
SEQ. q. Every stock, note and exchange broker K
e hundred dollars. n
sec. "a: Every person, whether individually or 81
member OF q firm doing business as a cotton a.
topacco factor, or as a cotton broker, one
ndIed and fifty dollars. M
sec -. Every person keeping yard, ware
use or sned for repairing, picking, rebaling OF
liars. -