The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-30


To levy, collect and enforce pay mcn1
! OF an annual license tax upon all
/ persons and associations and corpo-
ratfons pursuing any trade, profess
! sion or vocation, calling or business,
/ within the corporate limits of the
City of Monroe, except those who
are expressly exempt from such tax
by articles FOG and POT of the constf-
| tuition.
| SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the
| City Council of the City Of Monroe,
That there Is hereby levied an annual
license tax, for the calendar year A.
D. 1880, and for each subsequent year,
upon each person, association of pei :
sons and corporations, pursuing any
trade, profession, vocation, calling or
business in the City of Monroe except
those expressly exempt from such tax
by articles 2O6 and 207 of the consti-
tuition. ,ua4 .-,t -.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
Immediately, after the PRONUNCIATION
! of this act, for the year A. d. 1880, and
on the second day of January in each
subsequent year, each 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 City
OF Monroe, any trade, profession, voca-
tion, calling or business, license tax
as hereinafter graduated. -, l,'
Sec. 8. That the annual license for.
the kinds of business hereinafter
named, except as afterwards provided,
shall be graduated in eleven classes,
viz: y :. 4.,tr-7e ffag ~ ssi-ss ..a :,
The first class, for which shall be
paid twenty-five hundred dollars {s25-
WI '+' '' ''a' ~. gag - ..- 80 , . fi-rTss'
The second class, for which shall
be paid two thousand dollars, ($2OO0).
The third class, for which shall be
paid fifteen hundred dollars (sl5OO).
The fourth class, for which shall be
paid one thousand dollars ($1OO0).
The fifth class for which shall be
paid five hundred dollars (]5OO).
Tho sixth class for which shall
be paid three hundred and seventy
five (s375).
The seventh class, for which shah be
paid two hundred and fifty dollars
($25O). ..-E. ~ nj
The eighth class, for which shall be
paid one hundred and fifty dollars
(*15O). ~ -, r,'4,l ~
/ Tho ninth class, for which shall be
paid seventy-five dollars ($75)..
4 The tenth class, for which shall be
paid twenty-five dollars ($25).
The eleventh class, for which shall
be paid ten dollars .($10). i. j.. ...;,
.'f MANUFACTURES.
SEC. 4. That for carrying on each
BUSINESS of gaslight, waterworks, tele-
graphing, slaughter-l1ouse, cotton seed
pickery, docking, distilling alcoholic
liquors, malt liquors, tobacco, cigars,
cigarettets, snuff; refining sugar or
motasses and all other manufacturing
and work done with fixed machinery
or steam power and not exempted by
the constitution, the license shall be
based on gross annual receipts of said
business, as follows: provided, this
section shalt not apply to planters and
farmers grinding or refining their own
sugar and molasses, or ginning their
own cotton, or to work by machinery
for plantation or farm purposes, and
that no license shall be imposed and
collected on cotton gins not ginning,
for hire, over three hundred (3OW bales
Of cotton per annum, viz:
First class, when the said receipts are
over ten millions Of dollars (SlO,0OO,-
OO0).
Second class, when the said re-
ceipts arc over eight millions of dol
lars ($s, 600 ,OOO). III,
Third class, when the said receipts
are over six millions of dollars CSC, 600
000). :. :"
Fourth class, when the said receipts
are over four millions of dollars "a ,OOO-
O00).
Fifth class, when the said receipts
are over two millions of dollars ($2,-
900, O,000). DO. ..rl.'
Sixth class, when the said receipts
are over one million of dollars {$l ,OOO,-
900.
Seventh class, when the said re-
ceipts are over seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars ($75O, ,OOO).
Eighth class, when the said receipts
are over five hundred thousand dol
lars ($5OO, ,O0O).
Ninth class, when the said receipts
are over two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars $3.50, ,OOO).
Tenth class, when the said receipts
are over one hundred thousand dol
lars (s10o, ,0OO).
Eleventh class, when the said
receipts are over ten thousand dollars
0,0OO) or less.
ProVided; That this license for dis
tilling and rectifyIng alcoholic and:maIt