The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1872-03-23

ney TO receive Tee OF fifty dollars in eacl
case from the amount recovered. And an,
physician who shall falsely pretend to hav,
been professor of any medical college, or t.
hold literary or professional titles to which h
is not entitled, shall be forever barred from
right to practice medicine in this State, and
failure to supply evidence to substantiate an!
claim to such titles by prober diploma or othe
documentary or other satisfactory evidence
shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the Stat,
Penitentiary not less than six months nor NOR,
than five years.
Eighteenth-Tha the only legal evidence thai
license has been paid shall be the appropriate
form OF license issued by the Auditor, and NJ
receipt issued by a tax collector in place of the
license itself shall be valid.
Nineteenth-From each and every butcher OF
market dealer of any kind, from each and every
person who keeps stand or stall in market
place, five dollars.
Twentieth-From each merchant tailor, one
hundred dollars.
Twenty-frst-From every contractor, sub-con
tractor and stevedore, twenty dollars.
Twenty y-second-From the owner of every cof
fee stand, or soda or mineral water fountain
trult stand or stall of any kind on the streets
Or tombola ten dollars.
Twenty y-third-From every incorporated com
pany other than railroad, whether domestic OF
foreign, engaged in transporting merchandise in
this State, one hundred dollars.
| nty-fourth-From the owner of every tow
boat for public use or hire in the waters of this
State, one hu ndred dollars.
Twenty -ffth-From the proprietor of every
transient circus, menagerie or other public show
or exhibition, twenty-five dollars, in advance
for each performance or exhibition.
| IWenty-sixth-From every travelling agent OF
emplOye OF any mercantile house, who sells OF
contracts for the sale of goods, wares and mer-
chandlse, by sample or otherwise, shall paw
license tax of one hundred dollars; and any
such agent or employe who shall, when called
upon to do so, fail to pay said license tax, shall
be subject to fine of one hundred dollars, re-
coverable as other fines, for every sale thus
made, One-haf of which shall 60 to the nformer
provided, that when such agent or employe re-
presents a house which has paid State license
tax, he shall only be liable for the license i'm
posed 6y the parish OF municipal corporation in
| which he proposes to sell.
Twenty seventh-Every person having more
than one shop, store or other establishment, or
who shall exercise or follow more than one pro-
fession, trade, calling business, shall pay the
tax on each separately.
Twenty eighth - Each partner of any firm
doing business in the State, IN any line of occu-
patton, whether resident or nonresident, active
or SILENT shall pay license herein prescribed.
Twenty ninth-Parties having tax assessed
against them other than real estate, shall not
receive license to pursue their occupation until
they shall pay the tax due upon such assess
ment.
Thirtieth-All forfeitures collected as herein
expressed in the country parishes rural dis
tricts, be paid oveSto the parish treasurer, for
the exclusive use of the poor OF the parish, to
be expended as directed by the police juries of
the several parishes, instead of the Charity
Hospital of New Orl ans.
SEC. g Be it further enacted, ETC., That from
and after the passage of this act it shall not be
lawful for any person or corporation to carry ON
or pursue, practice or follow any OF the trades,
professions or occupations enumerated in the
foregoing section of this act in the State before
paying the tax levied thereon, and obtaining
license therefor, if not already licensed, from
the collector of the State taxes and no person
or corporation carrying on profession, business
or occupation subject to the payment OF a IL
cense, as herein provided shall be allowed to
collect any claims for services rendered in such
profession, business or occupation, unless he,
she or it can, upon demand, exhibit the tax col
lector's receipt for such license, according to
law; and failure to exhibit such license re-
ceipt, by any person or corporation liable to
such license shall, in any suit instituted by him,
her or it, entitle the party defendant in such
suit to non-suit; and any person, firm or cor
poratiOn attempting to do business without Ii
cense SHALL on written notice given by the col
leGtor to the Attorney General or district attor-
ney, or district attorney pro tem., be enjoined
in the name of the State from proceeding fur
ther in the transaction of their respective busi-
ness or vocation until such license shall have
been paid; provided, no person shall be liable
to penalty from the first of January, 1872, up
to the time the tax collectors receive their IL
censes for 1872,
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That the
tax collectors for the parish of Orleans shall re-
ceive for the collection of licenses in their res
peetiye districts the following compensation,
viz: The tax collector for the First District
five per cent on all licenses collected by him
and paid into the State treasury the tax col
lector for the Second District, seven and half
per cent on all licenses collected by him and
paid into the State treasury; the tax collector
for the Third District, ten per cent on all Ii
censes collected by him and paid into the State
treasury; the tax collector for the Fourth Dis
trict, ten per cent on all licenses collected by
him and paid into the State treasury; the tax
collector foR$ffe Fifth District, ten per cent ON
all licenses collected by him and paid into the
State treasury; and the tax collector for the
Sixth District, fifteen per cent on all licenses
collected by him and paid into the State treas
ury. and tax collectors of all the parishes
In the State, except those in the parish of Or
leans, ten per cent on all licenses collected and
paid into the State treasury.
SEC. A. Be 1t further enacted, etc, That each
and every license shall expire on the thirty-frst
day of December in the year in which it was
obtained provided, that any person, firm or
occupations, subject to license by this act, after
the first day of July in each and every year
shall be liable for only half q license.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, ETC., That all
parts of an act to provide a revenue, to levy and
collect taxes, to grant and collect licenses, to
provide certain penalties and forfeitures, to
provide for the creation and removal of revenue
officers, and to define their duties, to punish
certain crimes and misdemeanors, to create liens
and mortgages in favor of the State in certain
cases, to regulate the manner of the payment of
moneys from the treasury, to prescribe certain
duties of the justices of the peace, State and
parish officers, to provide for the collection of
hack taxes or licenses and to repeal all acts in
so far as they appertain to the collection of
licenses as prescribed in this act, be and the
same are hereby repealed.
SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, ETC., That this
act shall take effect from and after its passage.
tSignedD o. H. BREWSTER.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
tSignedl r B. S. PINCHBACK.
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved March 5, 1872
gSignedl H. C. WARMOTH.
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy
II. j. HEBRON,
Secretary of State.