The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-28
COST OF CITY GOVERNMENT.

| In spite OF the opposition OF Mayor Leeds,
the City Council has mapped out for the cur
rent year schedule of expenditures amount
ing to grand total of s3,449, 1872. Equally
without the consent, and in spite of the
earnest argument and protestations OF his
Honor, the Board of Administrators have re-
solved to meet these expenses, in part, by
levying tax Of one hundred and fifty cents
on each one hundred dollars Of taxable
property as assessed, the now corrected
roll of assessments amounting to
size, 045, sis. There are four distinct taxes
included in the above: To redeem and pay in
terest on city bonds, a tax of twenty-six cents
on each hundred dollars; to support the po-
lice force of the city, tax of forty-two cents;
to support public schools, twenty five cents,
and to pay the current expenses of the city
ffty-serea cents, or total tax Of one and
half per cent, which, if collected in full
would yield s1,7S5, 6S2. Judging from
the experience of the past few years it is
not probable that more than one and
the end Of the year. II business
is no better than it has been
for the past three years a still larger pro-
portion Of the tax of 1876 will pass into the
class Of back taxes. Much property is wholly
non productive, and great deal more is pro-
ducing less than enough to pay for repairs,
insurance and a very moderate tax Tax de-
faults for 1875 and preceding years amount to
millions of dollars and as the means of enforc-
ing payment are no greater, while the ability
to pay is not increased, the Council can not
calculate upon much smaller percentage Of
delinquency than heretofore.
Licenses are expected to yield another
large sum, between 100000 and 100000.
A smaller proportion Of the revenue from
this source is liable to be lost TO the city than
OF taxes. owing to the liability of any unli-
censed place of business to be closed and to
other stringent penalties for non-payment.
The license tax is put upon about two hun
dred and sixty kinds of business. and reaches
almost every profession and vocation. The
largest license is that paid by lottery COM
pany, $500. license Of $1,000 is charged
for q bar-room with theatrical performances,
while q bar-room or cotfse-house without a
theater is 500, and theater without bar
room $3.50. Banks, banking houses, compa-
MES and agencies pay $1,000, as do insurance
com panies if mixed or combined. license OF
$500 is charged for each pawn-broker, to each
fire. river, marine or accident insurance COM
pany, race course, saughter-house, sugar
shed, private underwater. A license of $3.50
is charged for each commercial agency, am
phitheater, cockpit, junk store, museum,
opera-house, premises not strictly private, or
theater. Exchange dealers pay $500, also
private markets A license of 5000 is charged
for dry-docks, express companies and trans
portation companies. license OF slO0 is
charged for ship agencies, agents selling By
sample, auctioneers, bar-rooms, bathrooms,
billiard saloons, boarding houses selling l.
quors, ship brokers, cabarets, cotton gins,
cotton pickeries, cofse-houses, CONNECTION
cry where liquors are sold, commission
merchants, iron foundry and machine shop,
wholesale grocery, public hall. wholesale
merchant, sugar refinery, restaurant, stock
dealer or undertaken. A license of $50 is
charged to freight or ticket agents, lottery
agents. bottlers brass foundry, produce and
merchandise brokers, real estate, house and
stock brokers, confectioneries cotton brokers,
family grocery where liquors are kept or
sold, hawkers of imitation jewelry, clothing
or dry goods, private hospital. towboat or job
boat, saw-mill. ship yard steamboat agent
cake and soda water stands, stock dealer and
ten. pin alley. Each cotton press pays $780,
each warehouse S75, each coffee house with
instrumental music 500.
The most numerous ayocations are assessed
for license tax ranging from $50 to So.
Ii taxes and licenses for 1876 were paid in
full there would still be 8 large deficit, which