New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-22
No. Ii.
AN ACT


To provide a 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
here with.
SECTION |. 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 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 he appropriated exclusively to the
support of public schools in the parish in
which the sum is paid. and the balance
placed in the State yreasurv 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 a ware
house, cotton or lumber yard. or other
place of public storage for hire. fifty dollars.
FOurth-FfOm each keeper OF livery
stable, sale stable or yard. or livery and
sale stable, with stalls or other accommodate
tons for horses or mules, twenty-five dol
lars: for every public hack. twenty-five dol
lars.
Fifth-From each keeper or proprietor of
a distillery, except distilleries used excl,l-
sively in distilling 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 a distlliery from
fruit or turpentine exclusively and for the
keeper or proprietor OF a brewery, fifty dol
lars; provided, that no license shall be re-
quired from any person who dis'ils 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 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, 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 a 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-tellcr. astrol-
oyer, clairvoyant. five hundred dollars
Tenth-FrOm the proprletors of all coffee
houses. bar rooms, grog shops. beer saloons,
or gardens, or cabarets, eighty-fye dol
lars; from the proprieturs 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, cotfeehouse 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 employe, distilled liquor in less GUAM
tity than one gallon, shall be liable to a fine
of one hundred dollars for each and every
ottense, to be recovered by motion by any