The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1872-03-30

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 Ii
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 O nonsuit; and any person, firm or cor
poration attempting to do business without IL
cense SHALL on written notice given by the col
lector to the Attorney General or district attor
ney, or district attorney pro tenn, 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 a penalty from the first of January, 1872, up
to the time the tax collectors sreceive their Ii
censes for 1872,
SEC. g. Be it further enacted, ETC., That the
tax collectors for the parish of Orleans shall re-
pective 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 a 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 all IL
censes collected by him and paid into the State
treasury the tax collector for the Fourth Dis
trict ten Der cent on all licenses collected by
him and paid into the State treasury; the tax
collector for the 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
Iloo +ol h1,h apI into tot
ury and the 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. 4 Be it further enacted etc, That each
and every license shall expire on the thirty-hrst
day of December in the year in which it was
obtained; provided, that any person. firm or
corporation engaging in any of the trades 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 license.
SEC. s. BE it further enacted, etc. That all
parts of an act to provide revenue, to levy and
collect taxes, to grant and collect licenses, to
provide certain penalties and forteitures 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 i'll 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
consistent Herewith, approved March 81, 1871,
so far as they appertain to the collection OF
| licenses as prescribed in this act, be and the
same are hereby repealed.
| SEC 6. Be it further enacted, etc, That this
act shall take effect from and after its passage
| (Signed) o. III. BREWSTER,
| Speaker of the House of Representatives.
tSignedD P. B. s. PINCHBACK,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
| Senate.
Approved March S, 1872.
! (Signed) H. c. WARMOTH,
! Governor of the State of Louisiana.
| A true copy:
+. j. HEBRON,
Secretary of State