The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-12-16
Proceedings of the Board Of Police Of the
Town of OpeIOusas.

proceedings of the Board Of Police Of the
Town of OpeIousas.
December 1st, 1871.
The Board met pursuant to a call from
his Honor, the presiding officer, were pres
ent: Messrs. A. b. Anderson, Mayor, presi-
ding; John Posey, W. R. Cochran, Fl. X.
Bodemuller and Thos. II. 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 O~pelousas, at its
session held, according to law, on the lst 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, soldin quanti-
ties less than a quarter Of a gallon, shall
pay the sum of 800 as a licence for said
year.
Cd. Each and every keeper ofa retail
store, in goods, wares and merchandise, in
Guiding wines and fermented and spirituous
liquors when sold by the quart or bottle,
and not drank on the premises, shall pay
$40 for his liccncc for the said year, 1879.
Sd. For each and every grocer or mer-
chant who sell no liquor, the sum of S25.
4th. For each and every commission and
merchant who sell by the wholesale, $40,
in addition to the ~licence fixed by sections
Nos. l, 2 OF 8, as the case may be.
9Th. For each and every billiard table
used for a lucrative purpose, the sum of
1925, inclusive Of the bar-room.
9th. For each and every produce and
merchandise broker, $40.
Tth. All transient theatres, ci:cuses, me-
nageries and other public shows, per day,
each, $50.
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, Sl5.
18th. 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.
BILE, $25.
14th. Each and every public ball, (per
balD, $40.
10Th. 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. 2 or 3 of this ordinance, $40.
18th. Photographic galleries, each $40.
18th. Real estate or land agencies, each
so.
| 10th. Each notary public, auctioncer, sur
geon, dentist, physician, attorney or coun-
sellor at law, and barber~shops, hacks, ON,
nibuses and carriages, owned by 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
oilers and harness makers, millinery stores,
where trimmings are sold, each SO.
2lst. Silver and watch smiths, each SIS.
22d. Dry goods merchants, each $25.
23d. Each and every druggist and Apoth-
ecary, $25.
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 eaclE
9th. No license issued under this ordin-
ance shall be transferable without the on
sent of the Board.
Be it ordained hat 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 colIectable from and
after thirty days after the publication ofthe
ordinance herein published.
and on the same day the following ordin.
ance was adopted, Mr.. I'll. K. Bodemuller
voting against it, to-wit:
Be it ordained that hogs shall no longer
be permitted TO range at large within the
corporation llmlts OF the toWn Oh OpeiousaS.
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 indefault ofany hogs so killed
being claimed by the owner, the Constable
shall haul the same off at the cost of the
town.
Be it 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 LIST, 1871.
A. B. ANDERSON, President.
Attest: P. LEoNcE HEBRARD, Clerk.