The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-12-13


fore the Recorder Of the City of Monroe
to be dealt with according to law.
Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take
effect rom LIST January, 1879.
Approved. FIR. ENDOM, Mayor.
ORDINANCE NO. 379.
An ordinance to amend and re-enact
BE 1t enacted by the Mayor and City
Council of Monroe, That Section Is of
Ordinance lag be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows: That
on the first day of January of each
year, two per cent per month on the
amount of taxes due shall be added to
the taxes remaining unpaid as a penalty
for the non-payment thereof at the
time required by this ordinance; and
for each month as long as any of the
said taxes remain unpaid thereafter Il
penalty of two per cent per month on
the amount of taxes unpaid shall be
shall be collected In the same manner
as the original taxes to which they are
added. The same penalties shall be
added on the LIST January, 1879, and
every month thereafter be added to all
back taxes then unpaid.
This ordinance shall take effect from
1st January, 1879.
Approved. FIR. ENDoNl, Mayor.
ORDINANCE NO. $50.
An ordinance to amend and re-enact
Paragraph SO, Section l, Ordinance
1877.
Be 1t enacted by the Mayor and City
Council of Monroe, That Paragraph SO,
Section /, Ordinance 1877, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
From each keeper OF a private or public
| boarding house for the entertainment
of persons by the week, month or year,
$25; provided, that a house accommo-
dating less than ten persons shall not
Houses entertaining by the day shall
be classed as country inns or hotels.
This ordinance shall take effect from
LIST January, 1879.
| Approved. FIR. ENDOM, Mayor.
| ORDINANCE NO. 3s1.
An ordinance to amend Paragraph 81,
Sec. I, Ordinance 1877.
! Be it enacted by the Mayor and City
Council of Monroe, That paragraph 81,
Sec. 1, Ordinance 1877, be amended and
re-enacted to read as follows: From
every person keeping a hotel for the
entertainment of transient persons,
from every keeper of a country inn,
fifty dollars.
This ordinance shall take effect from
the LIST January, 1879.
Approved. FIR. ENDoAl, Mayor.
ORDINANCE NO. 1872.
An Ordinance in relation to duties of
City Collector of Licenses and Taxes.
Be 1t enacted by the Mayor and City
Council of Monroe, That the collector
of city taxes and licenses is prohibited
from granting indulgence to any per-
son or pursons in the payment of city
| licenses due and payable ON the LIST of
January OF each year. That said COL
lector aforesaid Is hereby required to
collect all licenses as required by Orli-
nance No. 1877, and be shall forthwith
commence proceedings against all per-
sons who persue any occupation for
which license is required, without
having procured a license as required
by law.
This ordinance shall take effect from
and after its passage.
Approved. FIR. ENDoM, Mayor.
ORDINANCE NO. 1888.
An Ordinance providing salary for
the Mayor of the City of Monroe.
Be 1t ordained by the Mayor and
City Council of the City of Monroe,
That the Mayor be and he is hereby
allowed a salary of four hundred dol
lars per annum, payable at the end of
each month and that said salary shall
commence from the fourth day of May
of the year 1878.
Approved. FIR. ENDoM, Mayor.
The Board then adjourned till next
regular meeting.
FIR. ENDoM, Mayor.
o. y. STILLAIAN, Secretary.
! DeDutv United States Marshal NVnrz