The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-12-09
Proceedings of the Board of Police Of the
Town Of Opel0usas.
December 1st ISL

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December LIST, 1871.
i The Board met pursuant to a call from
his Honor, the presiding officer, were pres
emit: Messrs. A. B. Anderson, Mayor, presi-
ding; John Posey, W. R. Cochran, II. X.
Bodemuller and Thos. H. Lewis.
There being a quorum present, the Board
proceeded to business.
On motion the following ordinance was
adopted unanimously, to-wit:
AN ORDINANCE.
The following is adopted by the Board of
Councilmen of the town of Opelou>as, at its
session held, according to law, on the 1st of
December, A. d., 1871, for the purpose of
fixing the licences on trades and professions,
and the tax on the property of the town of
Opelousas, to be levied for the year 1872,
to-wit:
1st. Each and every keeper Of a coffee
house, grog-shop, bar-room or retailer of
wine or intoxicating liquor, sold in quaint
ties less than a quarter of a gallon, shall
pay the SUN of 500 as a licence for said
year.
I'd. Each and every keeper ola retail
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Guiding wines and fermented and spirituons
liquors when sold by the quart or bottle,
and not drank on the premises, shall pay
$40 for his licence for the said year, 1872.
Sd. For each and every grocer or mer-
chant who sell no liquor, the sum of $25.
4th. For each and every commission and
merchant who sell by the wholesale, $40,
in additionSto the licence fixed by sections
Nos. !, 2 OF 3, as the case may be.
9Th. For each and every billiard table
used for a lucrative purpose, the sum of
Sl25, inclusive of the bar-room.
9Th. For each and every produce and
merchandise broker, $40.
It'll. All transient theatres, circuses, me-
nageries and other public shows, per day,
each, S25.
sth. Each and every public hotel, Or boar.
ding house with lodging, $25.
9th. Each and every restaurant keeper,
SIS.
10th. Each and every private boarding
house, SIS.
1lth. Each and every beer-saloon where
malt liquors are exclusively sold, $50.
18th. Each and every oyster saloon, $40.
18th. Each and every livery and feed sta
bic, s25.
14th. Each and every public ball, (per
balD, $40.
18th, Each and every concert for lucrative
purposes, s..
10th. Each ice-crcam: sherbet, soda water
or cake saloon, exclusive of the ~licence fixed
in sec. Nos. . or 3 Of this ordinance, $40.
18th. Photographic galleries, each $40.
18th. Real estate or land agencies, each
$40.
10Th. Each notary public, auctioncer, sur
geon, dentist, physician, attorney or coun-
sellor at law, and barber~shops, hacks, ON.
nibuses and carriages, ownedby parties not
keeping a livery or feed stable, and used for
hire, each $40.
goth. Each and every drove Of horses,
mules, hogs or cattle of any kind stopping
in this town for the purpose of selling the
same; brick-kilns, where brick are sold,
bakeries, trimming and carriage shops, sad
dlers and harness makers, millinery stores,
where trimmings are sold, each $40.
2lst. Silver, and watch smiths, each $l5.
22d. Dry goods merchants, each $25.
23d. Each and every druggist and Apoth-
ecary, 1926.
Oath. Each and every pedlar, $40.
25th. Each person composing a firm of
any of the above mentioned professions or
pursuits, shall be subject to the license pres
cribed.
Goth. Every person having more than one
store or place of bushes or who follows
more than one of the pursuits herein emu
merated, shall pay license on each.
9th. No license issued under this ordin-
ance shall be transferable without the con-
sent of the Board.
Be it ordained that that the tax on immo-
vable property is hereby fixed at the rates
of one quarter of one per cent for each one
hundred dollars of said property.
Be it further ordained, that the licenses
| above ordained shall be collectable from and
after thirty days after the publication ofthe
ordinance herein published.
And on the same day the following ordin.
ance was adopted, Mr.. II. X. Bodemuller
voting against it, to-wit:
Be it ordained that hogs shall no longer
be permitted to range at large within the
corporation limits of the town of Opelousas.
Be it ordained that any hog found ranging
at large, in contravention of this ordinance,
shall be shot by the Constable, and turned
over to the owner upon payment, to the
town Constable, Of 81 per head for each hog
so killed, and in default ofany hogs so killed
being claimed by the owner, the Constable
shall haul the same off at the cost of the
town.
Beit further ordained, that this ordinance
shall take effect fifteen days after its first
publication.
The Board then adjourned until the first
regular meeting.
Opelousas, December 1st, 1871.
A. B. ANDERSON, President.
Attest p. LEoNCE HEBRARD, Clerk.