New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-26

furnished Tor wharrnger's office, Third Dis
trict, approved bv Administrator of Com
merce, $l3 IS.
John Burke, clerk Superior District Court,
Oh account, under ordinance NO. 22l4, Ad
ministration series, for arranging. indorsing
and docketing tax bills transferred to said
court from other courts, $4,000.
An ordinance levying the city debt tax for
the year 1871
Be IL ordained ny the Council of the city
of New Orleans that in accordance with
section fifteen of an act of the Legislature
No. %, approved April %. 1872, and with
ordinance No. 1893 Administration series,
adopted November Is, 1873, a tax at the
rate of ST. 80 $40, to be called the city
debt tax, is hereby levied and assessed on
all the taxable property within the city of
New Orleans, on the 500, of valuation ac-
cOrding to the assessment for the said year.
An ordinance levying tax for current city
expenses for the year 1874.
Be it ordained by the Council OF the city
of New Orleans, That in accordance with
section fifteen of act No. -, of 1872, ap-
proved April &c. 1872, and with ordinance
No. 1898, Administration series, adopted
November Is. 1873 tax for current city
expenses for the year 1874 is hereby levied
and assessed upon all the taxable property
within the city of New Orleans, at the rate
of 81 IL 30 cents on the $500 OF valuation, ac-
cording to the assessments tor the said year.
An ordinance levying public school tax
for the year 1874.
Be it ordained by the Council of the city
of New Orleans, That tax OF ne-tOurth
of one per cent on the taxable valuation of
all property in the city of New Orleans be
and is hereby levied for the support of the
public schools of the city for the year S74
IN, I'd fnnr nf M
80, Of the session of the General Assembly
OF 1873.
An ordinance imposing and levying park
tax for the year 1874.
Be it ordained by the Council of the city
of New Orleans, That tax OF One-eighth
of one per cent, for park purposes, on the
assessed valuation of all property, as per
assessment rolls, be levied and assessed for
the year 1870, in accordance with section
seven of act No 81, extra session, approved
March l6, 1870, to be collected in said year.
with the other city taxes IN addition thereto,
An ordinance 10 establish the rate of IL
censes for professions, calings, and other
business, and for carriages, hacks, drays,
and other vehicles for the year 1871.
Be it ordained by the Council of the city
of New Orleans, That the yearly rate of
licenses, from and after the first day OF
January, 1874, for professions, calliags, and
other business carried on wlthln the corpo
rate limits of New Orleans, and for car
riages, hacks, Grays, and other vehicles,
within said city, are hereby assessed and
directed to be collected, at the sums spe
cially set forth in the following sections:
SECTION /. Every bank, banking house,
banking company, or banking agency, re-
ceiving deposits, OF dealing In gold, silver,
uncurreut money, or exchange, or doing
any banking business, Cne thousand dollars.
SEC. ,. Every mem Der OF firm or com
pany, and every person not connected with
firm or company, dealing IN foreign or do
nestle exchange, not receiving deposits or
doing a bank Nc business, three hundred
dollars.
SEC. 3. Every member Of a firm or com
pany. and every person not connected with
a firm or company, pursuing the business Ut
pawnbroker, five hundred dollars.
SEC. !. Every member Of a firm or com
pany, and every person not connected with
firm or company, dealing in gold or silver
coin, bullion, gold dust, stocks, promissory
notes, bills of exchange or uncurrent
money five hundred dollars.
Every member of a firm or company. and
every person not connected with I. firm or
company, doing business as d broker IN
stocks, notes, exchange. gold aud silver,
one hundred dollars.
SEC. }. Each and every insurance com
pany located and doing exclusively ire
insurance business in the city of New Or
leans; every agency doing SUCH business in
said city tor any Insurance company or
companies not therein located, for each and
every company by sai,. agent represented;
and every private underwater OF fire in
surance policies exclusively, five hundred
dollars.
Each and every insurance company To-
odd nd ION x,ln alu in
surance business ia the city OF New Or
leans; every agency doing such business in
said city for any insurance company or COM
panieS not therein located. tor each and
every company by said agent represented:
and every private underwater of marine
insurance policies exclusively, five hundred
dollars.
Each and every insurance company, To-
Gated and doing exclusively !. river. lnsur-
ance business IN the city OF New Orleans;
every agency dong such business in said
city, for any insurance company or COM
panies not therein located, Tor each and
every company by said agent represented,
and every private underwater OF river in
surance policies exclusively, five hundred
dollars.
Provided. however, that il any Of the
said companies or parties in this section
above referred to, in lieu OF transactins ex-
clueively ire, marine or river Insurance
business, shall combine their occupation,
then, and in that event, the companies or
parties doing mixed insurance business
shall pay, upon each branch OF the insur-
ance business pursued by them, the amount
herein respectively imposed upon such
branch or branches.
Every lite insurance company or agency,
and every accident insurance company or
agency, three hundred dollars.
Every insurance inspector, twenty five
dollars
SEC. i. Every incorpolat el and other
company, and every person not connected
with such company, engaged IN transport
ing money, merchandise, baggage. furniture
or other articles by express or transfer. one
hundred dollars.
SEC !. Each pro DrietOr Of a book or JOB
printing office, twenty-five dollars; and each
proprietor of an engraving or photographic
printing office, fifteen dollars.
SEC s. Every person, firm or company,
printing or publishing daily newspaper in
the city of New Orleans, the sum OF one
hundred dollars.
SEC 9. The proprietor OF theatre, am
pfitheatre, opera house or place used for
theatrical amusement, Two hundred and
fifty dollars.
Every proprietor OF a transient theatre,
circus, menagerie or other public exhibition
or show, ten dollars for each day, perform
ance, for ten days or under and five dollars
per day for each additional day over ten.
The place for holding any such transient
exhibition shall be designated by The
Mayor.
Every proprietor Of 4 museum, five hun
dred dollars.
Every itinerant player on hand organ or
other musical instrument, five dollars.
Every proprietor Of an electrical machine
exhibited upon the streets, ten dollars.
SEC. 10. Every proprietor OF a race course,
FIVE hundred dollars.
SEC. II. Every keeper OF cockpit, one
hundred and fifty dollars.
SEC. l.. Every member of company or
firm, and every person not connected with