New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-20
LAWS or the STATE Of LOUISIANA
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
N o. L H
AN ACT

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To provide revenue, and grant and col
lect Licenses, to prescribe certain penal
ties and certain duties of judges OF courts
justices of the peace, State and parish Off
GERS, and to repeal all acts Inconsistent
herewith.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House Of Representatives. OF the State
of Louisiana in General Assembly con
vened, That there shall be levied and col
lected an annual amount as license or tax
First-Frbm each male inhabitant over
the age of twenty one years. not attached tt
the army or navy Of the United States, the
sum Of one dollar, ninety per cent of which
shall be appropriated exclusively to the
support of public schools in the parish 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,
from each importer or dealer in bar stores
one hundred dollars; from each and every
retail merchant, fifteen dollars.
Third-From each keeper of ware
house, cotton or lumber yard. or other
place Of, public storage for hire, fifty dollars
Fourth-From each keeper OF Il livery
stable, sale stable or yard, or livery and
sale stable. with stalls or other accommodate
lions for horses or mules, twenty-five 'do1-
lars; for every public hack, twenty-five dol
lars.
Fifth-From each keeper or proprietor OF
a distillery, except distilleries used exclu-
sively in distillng from fruit or turpentine,
three hundred dollars; from each keeper or
proprietor or manufacturer OF cordials,
liquors, wines or syrups one hundred dol
lars; from each keeper OF diatlllery from
fruit or turpentine Exclusively, and for the
keeper or proprietor of brewery, fifty dol
lars provided, that no license shall be re-
quired from any person who distils from
fruit for his own use and not for sale.
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 tar
gets, forty dollars; where there are more
than two tables, alleys or targets. two dol
lars additional on each table, alley or target.
Seventh-From the managers or lessees
of theatre, concert saloon, opera house or
museum, five hundred dollars: from the
owner Of any coffeehouse or beer saloon
where theatrical plays, dancing or singing
are performed, whether with or without
admission fee, one thousand dollars; from
each proprietor of q show, menagerie, race
course or cockpit, in the city OF New Or
leans, FIVE hundred dollars; provided, that
no distinction shall be made on account OF
race or color; and any violation of this
proviso shall incur forfeiture of such
license.
Eighth-From each keeper of cotton
press, cotton pickery or ginnery. two hun
bred and fifty dollars; provided, that this
article shall not apply to cotton gins on
plantations.
Ninth-From each fortune-teller, astrol-
oyer, ciairvOyant, five hundred dollars.
Tenth-From the propretors of all coffee
houses. bar rooms, grOg shops, beer saloons,
or gardens, or cabarets, eighty-hve dol
lars; from the proprietors of all bars
kept on steamboats, owned and registered
in this State, fifty dollars: all retail gro
ceries selling or giving away liquors by the
glass, shall pay, in addition to the grocery
license, coffeehouse license: and each re-
tail grocer or dealer in distilled liquors in
the State of Louisiana, without such addi-
tional license. and who shall keep for sale,
sell. or give away, either by himself or by
any empioye, distilled liquor in less guam
tity than one gallon, shall be liable to a fine
of one hundred dollars for each and every
offense, to be recovered by motion by any
person, after five days previous notice, be-
fore any justice court, which, when recov-
cred shall be paid by such justice to the
State Treasurer for the benea: Of the Char
ity Hospital fund.
Eleventh-From each proprietor or keep
er of a restaurant, eating house, oyster
saloon or reireshment saloon. in which
cakes. ice cream, and other refreshments
are furnished, one hundred dollars pro-
vided, however. that it shall be tie duty of
the Auditor OF Public Accounts to have
printed on the face Of all State licenses is
sued by tax collectors throughout the State,
article thirteen of the Constitution OF this
State.
Twelf,h-Every person keeping a hotel
fOr the entertainment of transient persons
,r travellers, two hundred and fifty dollars;
every keeper of a country inn, twenty-five
dollars: every keeper OF a pirate or public
boarding house for the entertainment
II persons by the week, month, or year,
,wenty five dollars: every keeper of a lodg-
ng house for the accommodation of night
odgers only, fifty dollars; provided, how
.ver, that it shall be the duty OF the Audi
or of Public Accounts to have printed ON
he face of all State licenses issued TO the
keepers of aforesaid places throughout the
State the provisions of article thirteen of
he constitution.
differentiation each peddler or hawker
Who peddles or carries goods, wares, mer-
handise or groceries for sale. or sells
hrough this State in boat Or other water
raft, zone hundred dollars: ia vehicle by
lorses or mules, fifty dollars; on foot,
EN- dollars.
Fourteenth-From each broker, acting as
gent between buyer and seller for per-
entage or other consideration. in the sale
f real estate, produce. merchandise for
reight, and from each factor or commits
ion merchant, ship or steamboat agent, one
hundred dollars; from each money. stock,
ote. exchange and insurance broker, one
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hirty dollars, and from each pawn broker
nd keeper Of junk store, five hundred dol
ars. --.'
Fifteenth-From each agent or represent
tive OF an insurance company. by or under
he laws of this State, and transacting an
insurance business therein. one thousand
ollars; from each insurance company or
gency not chartered by this State, but
business therein, che thousand
ollars; from each insurance company or
gency not chartered by the State but
an insurance business therein,
ne thousand dollars; provided, that no in
urance company whose license tax shall he
ne thousand dollars shall be liable |
o any assessment, State, parish or mu-
icipal throughout the State, other
han that imposed by this article and by
ectiOn six OF this act; from each banking |
Ompany or private banker or agency, un.
sss exempted by a charter from this State |
r the United States, one thousand dollars. |
Sixteenth-From each notary public,
hirty dollars.
standardization each apothecary or
ruggist, fifty dollars; provided, that no |
ruggist shall be licensed except he shall |
ave q diploma of some medical or phar-
society. From each physi-
ian and attorney at law, twenty dollars;
rovided, that before any physician, sur
con, or midwife, can obtain license, he,
he or they shall comply with the require
rents of section 2677 of the Revised Stat
ties, except those who are exempted from
1ch requirements by section 1881 of said
ct. Each attorney-at-law, before prac
o;pr in onv nourt in this State shall have