The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1877-12-22
Ordnance No. "a,

Relative to special taxes and Licenses on
trades, professions, occupations, etc.
Sec. !. BE il ordained BY the Mayor and
Trustees of Me Ioun of IHiboGaur IL co,n.-
ell assembled the taxable year OF this
Corporation shall commence OH the first
day of January of each year and expire on
the Thirty-tirst day Of December thereof
prorided, that persons commencing busi-
ness on and after the first day of July Of
each year, shall be required to pay only
one half of the annual tax or license upOh
such occupation or business.
SEC. 9. BE IL further ordained etc. That
the following specific taxes and licenses DO
and are hereby levied and assessed upon
the trades, professions and occupations
hereafter specified, tO-wit:
Upon each aud every cOffee-hOuso, bar
room, Grog shop, Beer-SaloOn, Grocery
store, selling or giving away liquors by the
glass, or in quantities ltss han u quart or
wine bottle full Eighty five Dollars. $500.
Upon each and every billiard table, for
ty five Dollars, $500.
Upon each and every hotel for the enter
tainment of transient persons, or travellers
Ten Dollars. $1,000.
Upon each and every private or public
boarding house for the entertainment Of
OF persons by the day. week, month or
year. Ten Dollars. $1,000.
U,
Saloon, Oyster Saloon, Eating Saloon, Cot.
ton Pickery or Press, DrygoOds store, con-
fectionary store, Drug and ApOthecary
store, and upon each and every Physician,
Civil Engineer. Dentist, AuctlOneer. Ten
Dollars. $1,000.
| Upon each and every Grocery store,
where liquors are not sold in quantities less
than by the quart Or wine bottle full. Ten
| Dollars. $1,000.
Upon each and every livery Stable. Ten
Dollars. $1,000.
| Upon each and every Omnibus carrying
| persons. or for hire, and upon each and
every 'Dray or Cart, conveying freight or
| for hire. Five Dollars. $500.
Upon each and every Butcher and Bar
! Der. Five Dollars. $500.
. Upon each and every Menagcrie and Cir
| Gus. Ten Dollars. $1,000.
Upon each and every Concert, Show or
| Public Exhibition other than the above,
and not for Charitable purposes. Two Dol
lars. $500
Upon each and every Vendor OF Patent
| Medicine, and upon each and every keeper
OF Whesls of Fortune or other gambling de
| vice, for each day of continuance thereof.
Two Dollars and a half. $3.50.
Upon each and every Peddler, who ped
dies or carries tor sale fruits, vegetables,
or other produce of the field raised in
another place than the State of Louisiana.
Five Dollars. $500.
SEC. 3rd. BE it further ordained etc., That
before furnishing IA License to any keeper
OF II cotfee-house or to any keeper OF
| drinking saloon other establishment,
where liquors are sold by the glpss, it shall
| be the duty of the Tax Collector to reu uire
q bond with good and sufficient suretes in
the sum of Five hundred Dollars, the said
bond to be accepted and approved by the
Mayor, and to be inscribed in the office of
the Recorder of the Parish, the condition
whereof shall be that the proprietor of
such establishment shall keep and maintain
q quiet and orderly house, and shall allow
in. calculated to alarm or disturb the quiet
and tranquility of the neishborhoOd, the
penalty for the violation of such condition,
to be, for the first offense, Twenty Five
Dollars. and for any Subsequent offence
Fifty Dollars, and the revocation of his
license for the year during which such Of
fence shall have been committed. The above
penalties to be collected and enforced by
suit before any court OF competent jurisdic-
rion.
BE il further ordained etc. That all urdi-
nances or parts of ordinances conflicting
with the provisions of this ordinance or
inconsistent Herewith, be and are hereby
abrogatcd and repealed.
Adopted December 7th., 1877.
(Signed) Al. PERRIN, S. T. GRISAMORE.
} Clerk Town Council. Mayor.
A true copy.
, A. J. PERRIN,
Clerk Town Council.