New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-04

Adopted.
On section twenty.eight, which was as
follows:
SEC. %. Every member of a company or
firm, and every person not connected with
a company or firm, keeping public baths,
twenty-five dollars.
Mr.. Fitzenreiter moved to reduce the
license to $40.
The motion found no seconder.
Mr. Turnbull moved to reduce the license
to SIS.
Mr.. Fitzenreiter accepted the amend
ment, which was carried.
On section thirty, which was as follows:
SEC. 80. Every member Of q company or
firm, and every person not connected with
a company or firm, doing business as pro
duce or merchandise broker, fifty dollars.
Mr.. Fitzenreiter moved to amend BY
making the license S25 instead Of $50.
The motion found no seconder.
On section thirty-f which was as fol-
lows:
SEC. 81. Every member OF a company or
firm; and every person not connected with
a company or firm, conducting sugar or
molasses refinery, two hundred dollars.
Mr.. Fitzenreiter moved to reduce the il
cense to one hundred dollars.
The motion found no sec0nder.
On section forty which was as follows.
SEC. 40. Every member of company or
firm, land every person not connected with
a company or firm, running or owning, tow
boats or Job boats, in the waters OF the port
or city OF New Orleans twenty-five dollars.
Mr.. Fi-zenreiter said this section had
been in the license ordinance for years, but
no license had ever been collected under it.
The towboat companies, falling back On an
article Of the constitution that provided
that no tax should be levied on commerce,
except Ieyee dues He moved that the sec
ton be stricken out
The motion found no seconder.
On the first clause Of section torty-six,
which was as follows:
SEC. 46. Every member OF a company OF
firm, and every person not connected with
a company or firm, carrying on an iron
foundry, in connection with a machine or
pattern maker shop, TWO hundred dollars;
for conducting a brass foundry, il c0pnec-
ton with a machine CT pattern maker shop,
fifty dollars.
Mr. Fitzenreiter moved that the license
on foundry shops be reduced to $I00.
The motion found no Eeconder.
The Mayor expressed hope that this
motion would be entertained. He was op-
posed to tax on industry, and several sug-
gestions looking to a reduction Of the license
tax had been made without being seconded
by the Council.
Mr.. Brewster moved that the license tie
reduced to $50.
Mr.. Fltzenreiter accepted tie amend
ment, which was adopted.
On section forty-seven, which was as tol-
lows:
SEC. AZ. Every member Of company or
firm, and every person not connected with
a company or firm, keeping dairy OF three
or more cows, fifteen dollars.
Mr. TurnbulI moved 70 reduce the license
to $40.
Adopted.
Mr.. Sturcken moved TO strike cut section
sixty-one, which was as follows:
SEC. 81. Every butcher doing business il
a city market. ten dollars.
Adopted.
On section sixty-four. which was as :o!-
lows;
SEC. g. Each and every attorney and
counselor at law, notary public, and aver
age adiuster, surgeon, surgeon dentist phy-
sican, twenty dollars. Each and every
midwife, ten dollars
The Mayor suggested TO strike out lie
words notary public" OIL the ground that
it had been decided tina. notalies were rot
subject to city taxation.
A motion was made to that effect ard
was adopted:
The Mayor further suggested that section
sixty-seven, which was as follows. should
be stricken out, as the Supreme Court had
decided that manufacturers were not liable
to taxation:
SEC. e.. Every member Of company ~
firm, and every person not connected "vitn
a company or firm, doing business as a
brewer, dlstiller or reCtitier of spirits, fifty
dollars as a baker, twenty-five dollars
for manufacturing bone black, bisuIplare
of lime, boxes, barrels, cigars, candies, cor
dials, chocolate, tobacco, ice, soda or se!tZer
water, maccaroni, vermicelh, vinegar,
syrup, soap, Or any other article not other
wise provided for in this ordinance, fifty
dollars.
On motion the section was stricken out,
in accordance with the Mayors suggestion.
The remaining sections Of the ordinance
were read and the yeas and nays were
called on the adoption Of the whole oral
nance as amended.
eas-Fitzenreiter, Brewster, Sturcken,
Turnbull-4.
Nays-None.
The ordinance was declared adopted.
Administrator of improvements.
Mr.. Brewster presented the credentials Of
Hon. James Lewis as Administrator Of
The certificate Of the Second District
Court, the certificate of the Recorder Of
Mortgages, the bond, etc, were read by the
The Mayor said the credentials we're the
same as those Of other Administrators.
On motion of Mr.. Turnbul1, the creden-
,ials were received, and Mr.. Lewis was
as Administrator Of Improve
nents.
The Council then adjourned.
II. CONQUEST CLARKE,
Secretary.
To the Citizens OF New Orleans and Louis-
lana.
The laws of Louisiana preventing the
establishment Of an agency in that State
for the sale of tickets in the Public Library
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