New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-23
No. IL.
AN ACT
Secretary of Stat

To provide revenue. and grant and col
Iect 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 |. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House OF Representatives OF the State
of Louisiana in General Assembly con-
vencd, That there shall be levied and col
lected an annual amount as a license or tax ::
First-From each male inhabitant over
the age of twenty-one years, not attached to
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 livery
stable, sale stable or yard or livery and
sale stable. with stalls or other accommodate
lions for horses or mules, twenty-five dol
lars.
Ffth-From each keeper or proprietor OF
"a distnlery, except distilleries used exclu-
sively in distilling from fruit or turpentine,
three hundred dollars; from each keeper or
proprietor or manufacturer OF c0rdlals,
liquors, wines or syrups, one hundred dol
lars; from each keeper of a distlllery from
fruit or turpentine exclusively, and Tor the
keeper or proprietor of a brewery, fifty dol
lars: provided, that no license shall be re-
qnired from any person who dlstlls from
fruit for his own use and not tor 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 a theatre. concert saloon, opera house or
museum, FIVE hundred dollars; from the
owner of any cotfeehouse or beer saloon
where theatrical plays, dancing or singing
are performed, whether with or without
admission fee, one thousand dollars; from
each proprietor of a show, menagerle, 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 TINS
provso shall incur forfeiture OF such
license.
EightIl-From each keeper of cotton
press. cotton pickery or ginnery: two hun
dred and fifty dollars; provided, that this
article shall not apply to cotton gins on
plantations.
Ninth-Fro,n each fortune-teller astrol-
oyer, clairyoyant, five hundred dollars.
Tenth-Fro.n the proprietors of all coffee
houses, bar rooms, grog shops, beer saloons,
or gardens. Tor cabarets. elghty-fye dol
lars: from the proprietors Of all bars
kept on steamboats, owned and registered
in this State. fifty dollars; all retail gro
cpries 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 employee, distilled liquor in less guam
tity than one gallon, shall be liable to fine
of one hundred dollars for each and every
otense, to be recovered by motion by any