The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-12-08
ADJOURNED MEETING

MAYORS OFFICE, December 6, 1877.
The Council met this day at IL O'Clock A
NJ, pursuant to adjournment.
Members present Fred Duffel, Mayor ;
JOS, Burbridge, DIR. B. Claverie, Aldermen
LIST ward; II. s. Boudreaux, S. Ricard, 2nd
ward; v Maurin, Ursin Landry, 3rd ward.
The reading of the minutes was dis
pensed with
The committee appointed to prepare and
fix the rates of licenses for the year 1873,
presented the following Ordinance, which
was read and adopted section by section,
and finally adopted as whole:
AN ORDINANCE
To establish the rates of licenses for profess
sions, callings and other business for the
year 1878.
Be ii ordained By the Council of the torn. of
DOndlds0nUttLe, That the yearly rate of
licenses, from and after the first day of
January, 1873, for professions, callings and
other business carried ON within the corpor-
ate limits of Donaldsonville, within said
town, are hereby assessed aud directed to
be collected, at the sums specially set forth
in the following sections:
|. From each wholesale or wholesale and
retail merchant, dealer or trader, Forty
Dollars. From each and every merchant,
Fifteen Dollars.
2. From each keeper of livery stable,
sale stable, or yard or livery and sale sta
Bile, with stalls and other accommodations
for horses and mules, Twenty Dollars
For all stables selling feed in sack or bales,
such as hay, corn, oats, bran, etc., Twenty
Five Dollars. For every public hack, Ten
Dollars.
8. For every keeper of warehouse, cot
ton or lumber yard or other place of public
storage for hire, Ten Dollars.
a. From every proprietor or keeper of
every billiard saloon, bowling alley, or pis-
toll gallery in which there is but one table.
alley, or target, Twenty-Five Dollars.
Where there are two or more tables, alleys
or targets, an additional charge on each
one. Five Dollars.
5. From every owner or proprietor of any
hall or theatre hired or let for concerts, as.
semblies, balls, exhibitions or public meet
ings, Twenty Five Dollars.
o. From each fortune teller, astr0loger.
clairvOyant veterinary surgeon or chiropod-
ist, every keeper of cock pit, photograph
gallery, book or job printing office or of an
engraving or photographic printing office,
every person, firm or company printing or
publishing newspaper in the town of Don
aldsenville, every itinerant player on hand
organ or other musical instrument, and
every proprietor of an electric machine ex-
hibited on the street, every peddler, hawker
or dealer in imitation jewelry, notions, cut
lery, eonfeetionaries drugs, medicines. pic
lures, segars, tobacco, exhibited for sale
upon the streets, Ten Dollars.
7. Every lottery agent, Twenty-Five Dol
lars
8. From every proprietor or keeper of a
restaurant, hotel, boarding house, lodging
house for the entertainment of transcient
persons sor travellers or dodgers, Twenty
Five Dollars.
9. From every person keeping stand for
the sale of coffee, tea chocolate, or cooked
food, eating stand fruit stand or booth on q
levee or street, Five Dollars.
10, Every keeper of stand or booth ut
race course, fair, picnic, balls, public exhi-
ton selling liquor, FIVE Dollars per day.