New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-03

thereto, with all their furniture and equip
ments, 60 long Is the same shall be used for
that purpose only, or leased to raise revenue
'01 r iasr scSppSds ehape converts and
other public. buildings for religious worship,
with their furniture and equipments, and
the lots OF ground thereto appurtenant. and
usetd herewith, SO long as the same shall
be used for that purpose only.
Sixth-Cemeteries and graveyards set
apart and actually used for the purpose OF
interring the dead.
Seventh Household goods and mechan-
les and laborers' tools. to the amount OF two
hundred dollars.
PERSONS TRADES, PROFESSIONS AND oCCtFA-
yIoNs SUBJECT TO TAXATION.
SEC. 5. Be it, further enacted, etc, That
there shall be levied and collected all annu-
al tax
First From each male inhabitant over
the age OF twenty one years, not attached 70
the army or navy Of the United States, the
gum OF oue dollar, ninety per cent OF which
shall be appropriated exclusively to the
support Of public schools IN the pafisn IN
which the sum is paid, and the balance
placed in the State treasury to the credit OF
the Charity Hospital fund.
Second-From each wholesale or whole
sale and retail merchant, dealer or trader,
and from each importer, one hundred DOL
lars; from each retail merchant, dealer or
trader, whose annual gfoss receipts do not
exceed ten thousand dollars, fifteen dollars;
from each retail merchant, dealer or trader,
whose annual gross receipts GO exceed zen
Thousand dollars, twenty i've dollars; and
from each retail merchant, dealer or trader.
whose gross receipts exceed twenty thousand
dollars Gty dollars.
Third-From each keeper Of warehouse
or place of storage for hire, LUMBER yard,
furniture store or carriage warehouse, tWen-
ty-fve dollars.
Fourth-From each keeper Of livery sta
BILE, sale or feed stable, or yard, or
livery and sale stable, with stalls or ether
accommodations for less than fifty head OF
horses or mules, twenty-five dollars; ana
from every such keeper, with stalls or other
accommodations for more than fifty head OF
horses or muies, fifty dollars; from the
keeper or every pubic or private hack or
other vehicle, drawn by one horse or mule,
and used for hire, ten dollars; from The
keeper Or proprietofs of every public car
ridge, stage or omnibus, drawn by Two or
more horses or mules. and used for hire,
twenty dollars.
Fitth-From each keeper or proprietor Of
a brewery or distillery, except dlstilleries
used exclusively in distiiling from fruit; and
from each manufacturer OF cordials, liquors
or Wines three hundred dollars; from each
keeper of dstillery for distiilng from fruit
exclusively, twenty-five dollars.
Sixth-From each proprietor or keeper of
every billiard saloon, bowling alley or pistol
gallery, in which there is but one table,
alley or target, twenty-five dollars; where
there are two tables. alleys or targets, forty
dollars; where there are more than two
tables, alleys or targets, ten dollars add
tional on each table, alley or target.
Seventh--FrOm the managers or lessees OF
a theatre, concert saloon or museum, i've
hundred dollars; any theatre containing
museum, or in which other than legitimate
theatrical plays are performed, to pay double
license; from each proprietor OF a show
race course or cockpit, in the
parish of Orleans, and from each keeper OF
a Junk shop, five hundred dollars.
Eighth-From each keeper Of cotton
press, two hundred and fifty dollars, and
from each keeper Of a cotton pickery, two
hundred dollars.
Ninth-From each fortune teller, astrolo.
ger or clairvoyant, FIVE hundred dollars.
Tenth-All coffaehouses, barrooms. grog
shops or cabarets shall be divided into the
classes, and shall pay the license
affixed resp ctively thereto, VIZ:
First C,ass-ThOse whose sales of liquors,
w
per aunum. two huudred and fifty dollars.
Second C.ass-Those whose sales are less
than fifteen thousand dollars, but over five
dollars. one hundred and twenty
five dollars per anpunI.
Third Class-Those whose sales are less
than five thousand dollars, seventy-fve dol
lars per snnum. All retail groceries selling
liquors by the glass shall pay. il addition t.
the grocery license, the thlrd-class coffee
honse license.
Eieventh-From each proprietor or keeper
of a restaurant, eating house, oyster saloon,
or refreshment saloon in which cakes, ice
cream and other refreshments are furnished,
one hundred dollars; provided, however,
that when the total sales of such proprietor
or keeper Of restaurant. eating house,
oyster or ice cream saloon shall not exceed
two thousand dollars per annum, then and
in that case license OF only twenty-five
dollars shall be collected each year; pro-
vided, it shall be the duty of the Auditor OF
Public Accounts to have printed on the lace
of all State licenses issued by tax collectors
the State article thirteenth Of
the constitution Of.this State.
Twelfth-From each proprietor of board
ing, lodging house, hotel, inn or tavern, a
tax shall be collected, graduated pro rata,
to the number OF boarders or dodgers that
they are prepared to accomm odate therein,
at the rate of fifty cents per annum for each
lodgeT; provided, that no keeper of board
ing house, lodging house, hotel, inn or
tavern shall pay less than ten dollars per
keeper of a boarding hOuse entertain
ing three or less boarders or dodgers
shall be subject to pay any license. The
OF each boarding house, lodging
house, hotel, inn or taven, shall deliver, at
the beginning of each year, to the collector
or assessor of his or her parish or assess
ment district, statement of the number of
guests he or she is prepared to accomno-
date, said statement to be made under oath
before Justice Of the Peace, and to be filed
by said collector or assessor.
ThirteeDth-Frome each peddler or hawker
who pedGles or carries goods, wares, mer-
chandise or groceries for sale through this
State in boat or other water craft. one
hundred dollars; in vehicle drawn by
more than two horses, twenty five dollars;
in vehicle drawn by two horses, twenty
dollars; in vehicle drawn by one horse,
fifteen dollars: on horseback, Ten dollars;
on foot, five dollars; and from any peddler
Or hawker who sells the same on board OF
any iatboat, barge, steamboat, ship or
other vessel at the wharf, or IN the port OF
any city, town or village, or at any landing,
one hundred dollars.
Fourteenth-From each broker, acting as
agent between buyer and seller, for per
centage or other consideration, in the sale
Of real estate, produce, merchandise or
freight, and from each factor or commission
one hundred dollars; from each
money, stock, note, exchange or insur-
ance broker,i two hundred dollars; ard
from each pawnbroker, five hundred dol
lars.
Fifteenth-From each insurance company
with capital of one hundred Thousand
dollars or more, incorporated in this State,
and transacting an insurance business
therein, one Thousand dollars; from each
insurance company with capital of less than