The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-23

% professions and personal occupatiOns,
9 divided into six classes, the first
paying $50; the second $40; the third
80, the fourth go; the nth $40, aud
The sixth 45. a.:
"For every individual or company,
on the profession or business
Of attorney at law, physician, editor,
dentist, ocollst, broker In money, notes,
real estate, produce, cotton and sugar
OF other business, agency for steam-
boats, publications, freight, ticket,
claims, patent lights or other business;
drayipg, trucking, keeping cabs or CAR
riagss, horses for hire, owners OF lassees
OF toll bridges and ferries, and master
builder, stevedore and mechanic who
employs assistance, the license for said
profession or occupation shall be based
on the annual amount of gross receipts
therefrom,'' aud constitute six classes,
ranging In receipts from 41O, 900 down
to g, 600 or less, and the license cores
ponds In number to this classification.
The more general provisions Of the
Act7are as follows:o ~ .-sal,aca4 81
3nssAIl travelling SCENTS from other
States, Offering any species Of mercbap-
disc for sale or selling the same, shall
Pay q license OF 925 per month"; S..
Z "When two or more kinds Of bust.
ness arc combined, except as herein
expressly provided for. there shall be a
separate license for each kind Of busi-
nessl,e e-g9ll ghj =: i5pr...si.-. hf,a Ise .i.4
tsThe annual receipts, deposits, sales,
premiums, in this Act, referred to as
basis Of licenses are those Of the year
for which the license Is granted. The
for their estimation shall be
prin,a Js1cie those Of the preceding year,
II the business has been conducted pre-
yioasly by the same parties or by par
ties to whom they claim to be success
sors., If the firm or company be new,
the amount Of gross sales for the first
three months shall be considered the
basis, and four times that amount shall
be estimated as the annual receipts of
such business" iT7'ii ~ p-gss5 ol'. g
tsThis DrinaG Jacie estimation of the
basis Of licenses Is to be rectifled upon
the actual results. of the business H.
as developed semi-annually In
the course Of the year for which the
license Issues" |fi l'n ='.ts'i9'r. o !,
The estimates ascertatned, as above
stated, by the collector, must be upon
the swoks statement of the party or
parties from whom the license may be
but, If not satisfactory to
him, the collector may traverse the
same by rule taken ia the District
Court Of the place, which rule shall be
tried summarily, "whether an answer
thereto be filed or not" After these
proceedings shall have been had In
said court, according to this Act, the
Anal rectifcation of the estimates shalt
be made, as ordered by the Court.
If any business shall be conducted
without license, the collector or officer
whose duty 1t Ia to Issue license, sson
motion In the District Court, may take
rule on the party or parties so doing
business to show cause why said party
or parties shall not be ordered to cease
pursuit of said business, and In case
that said rule is made absolute, every
violation of the order of the Court
shall be punished as contempt"
The collector or ex-officio collecto,
and his sureties on his official bond
are made responsible 10 the State 70,
any damages arising from neglect or
his part to enforce the correction of the
estimates ON which the license Is based
and which may result In the reduction
or increase of the license demandable
+ How this system OF estimates and
subsequent semt.annual corrections
will operate, can be determined only
by experience. The outlook suggests
prospectively great confusion In public
accounts and rare opportunities for
collision and fraud. 'M s-
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.