The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-02-21
Approved February g, 1870.

license or tax to be paid into the gene
raj fund tax
1. From each male inhabitant, over
the age of tWenty-one years, not at
tached to the army or navy of the
United States, the sum of cne dollar,
ninety per cent of which shall be ap-
propriated, exclusively, to the support
of public schools in the parish in which
the sum is paid, and the balance placed
in the State treasury to the credit of
| the Charity Hospital fund.
2. From each wholesale or wholesale
and retail merchant, dealer, or trader,
from each importer or dealer in bar
stores, one hundred dollars; from each
and every retail merchant, fifteen dol
lars, including stores upon plantations,
whether owned by the owners thereof
or not; from each photographer, twen-
ty-five dollars; planters or others SELL
ing goods or supplies, at profit, to-
parties who are mot In their employ,
fifteen dollars.
3. From each proprietor of a saw mill
or planning mill, who sells over $500
of lumber annually, fifty dollars; from
place of public storage for hire, from
each keeper of q wharf, or wharfboat,
from each receiving and forwarding
merchant, fifty dollars.
4. From each keeper of livery sta
BILE, sales stable or yard, or livery and
sales stable, with stalls or other accom-
modations for horses or mules, twenty
five dollars; from the owner of each
and every public or private hack, used
for hire, fifteen dollars from the own
ers of each and every other public or
private vehicle, used for hire, drawn
by one horse or mule, five dollars; il
drawn by two or more horses or mules,
ten dollars.
a distillery, except distilleries used ex-
clusively in distilling from fruit or tur-
pentine, three hundred dollars; from
each keeper, or proprietor, or manufac-
turer of cordials, liquors or wines, one
hundred dollars from each keeper of a
distillery from fruit or turpentine ex-
clusively, and from the keeper or pro-
prietor of brewery, fifty dollars !;
21Tovitleel, that no license shall be re-
quired from any person who distills
from fruit for his own use and not for
sale.
6. From each proprietor, or keeper,
of every billiard saloon, bowling-alley,
or pistol gallery, in which there is but
dollars where there are but two tables,
alleys, or targets, forty dollars; where
there arc more than two tables, alleys,
or targets, two dollars additional on
each table, alley, or target.
7. From the managers or Iessess Of 1,
theatre, Opera-house, or museum, two
hundred and fifty dollars from the
owner Of any concert saloon, coffee
house, or beer saloon, where theatrical
plays, dancing or singing are performed,
whether with or without admission
fee, one thousand dollars from each
proprietor of a cockpit, five hundred
dollars from the owners Of every race
course, used for racing purposes, two
hundred and fifty dollars.
8. From each keeper of a cotton press,
two hundred and fifty dollars from
each owner or keeper of cotton picke-
ry, or ginnery, one hundred dollars
provided, that this license shall not be
applied to cotton gins ginning less than
five hundred bales of cotton for hire
from each banking company, or private
banker, or agency, two hundred and
fifty dollars; 21roUie1etl, the city of New
Orleans shall not have the right to i'm
pose higher license on said banking
companies, or private banks, than the
license imposed by the State; from
each pawnbroker, five hundred dollars
from each dealer in secondhand hard
ware, IOpc cuOS, IelUSo lTOA SHIPS,
pickeries or rags, commonly called junk
dealers, five hundred dollars.
8. From each fortune-teller, astrolo-
ger, or clairvoyant, one hundred dol
lars.
10. From tho proprietors of all coffee
| houses, bar-rooms, grog-shops, beer
saloons, or gardens, or cabarets, eighty
five dollars; from the proprietors of
| bars kept on steamboats, or other vessels
or water craft, fifty dollars all retail
dealers selling liquors, wines or bitters
| (not including bottled malt liquors) in
less quantity than an ordinary wine
bottle, shall be considered coffee
house keeper, whether the liquors be
drank on the premises or not, and shall
pay, in addition to the grocery license,
a coffee-house license; that retail deal
ers or grocers selling distilled liquors,
wines, bitters, ale or beer, in less guam
tity than one gallon, but in no less
quantity than an ordinary wine bottle,
shall be considered as retail liquor
dealers, and pay the additional license
Of fifteen dollars each provio,ec,, the
liquor 80 sold shall not be drank on the
premises-if drank on the premises he