The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-07-23
ORDINANCE NUMBER Z.

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enforce payment of an annual IL
cense tax upon all persons, ana
associations, and corporations,
pursuing any trade, profession or
vocation, calling or business,
within the limits of the town OF
Bastrop, State of Louisiana, e1-
cept those who are expressly eS-
empt from such tax by article
2O6 and POI of the Constitution
of the State of Louisiana.
Sec. /. Be it enacted by the
Mayor and the Council OF the town
of Bastrop, That there is hereby
levied an annual license tax for the
fiscal year ending June 1st, A. ID.
1881, and for each subsequent fls-
cal year thereafter upon each per-
son, association of persons, and
corporations, pursuing any trade,
profession, vocation, calling, or
business in the corporation of Bas-
trop, except those expressly exempt
from such tax by articles 206 and
2O7 of the Constitution Of the State.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted,
that Immediately after the promul-
cation of this act for the fiscal year
ending June 1st, A. D. 1881, and
on the I'd day of June Of each stub
sequent year, the tax collector shall
begin to collect and shall collect as
fast as possible from each OF the
persons, associations of persons,
and corporations, pursuing within
the corporation of Bastrop any
trade, profession, vocation, calling
or business, license tax as herein
after graduated.
| Sec. 8. Be it further enacted,
| etc., That the annual license for
the kinds of business hereinafter
named, except as afterwards pro-
vided, shall be graduated in eleven
| classes, viz
The first class, for which shall be
| paid Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars
/ The second class, for which shal
be paid (s2OOO) Two thousand.
| The third class, Tor which shal
be paid fifteen hundred dollar;
| (S1500).
The fourth class, for which shal
be paid one thousand dollars
(S1000).
The fifth class, for which shall
be paid five hundred dollars $500.
The sixth class, for which shall
be paid three hundred and seventy
five dollars (s375.)
The seventh class, for which shal
be paid two hundred and fifty dol
lars (s250.)
The eighth class, for which shall
. be paid one hundred and fifty dol
t lars (sl50.)
The nintn class, for which sha
be paid seventy-fve dollars (s75.
The tenth class, for which sha
be paid twenty-five dollars $50.
The eleventh class, for whic
, shall be paid ten dollars (sI0.)
COMMERCIAL BUSINESS.
Sec. 4. That for every wholesa]
business whether as principal {
t agent on commission, by auctionee
! (including real estate) or otherwis
of selling, the license shall be base
on the gross annual amount {
q sales as follows, towit
!. First class, when gross sales al
u over ten millions of dollars ($1O
t 900, ,OOO.)
4 Second-class, when gross salt
are over eight millions dollars ($S
Ia 900, ,O00.)
n Third-class, when gross sales a
~ over six millions dollars (S6, 900
. 0oo.)
l. Fourth class, when gross sal
are over four millions dollars (S4
0oO,OO0.)
n Fifth class, when gross sales a
over two million dollars (S2,O0C
. 000.)
J. Sixth class, when gross sales a
# over one million five hundred thu
sand dollars (S1, ,50O,0 ,000.)
o Seventh class, when gross sal
ii are over one million dollars (S1
k O0O,O00.)
Eighth class, when gross sal
y are over six hundred thousand de
Id lars (s600,O00
a. Ninth class, when gross sales g
! ! over three hundred thousand d'
"a lars (s3oo, ,ooo).
80 Tenth class, when gross sal
). are over one hundred thousand d.
III lars (S100, ,000.)
H. Eleventh class, when gross sa
are one hundred thousand dollt
(S100, ,000) or less.
h Provided, that no dealer shall
deemed a wholesale dealer unlt
he or they sell to dealers for reta