The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-04-03
TOWN COUNCIL.

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Mills and N C Young, aldermen.
The Mayor stated that he had called this
meeting of the Council expressly for the
purpose of enacting a License Law for the
Town of Abbeville.
The reading of the minutes of the pre-
vious meeting, was dispensed with.
On motion of Mr. Wise the following Or
dinance was adopted.
An Ordinance to levy collect and enforce
payment of an anoual license tax upon
all persons, association of persons and
corporations pursuing any trade, profess
sion, vocation, calling or business, x
cept those who are expressly exempt
from such license tax by articles 206 and
2O7 Of the Constitution of this S ate.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Town
Council of the Town of Abbeville. that
there is hereby levied an annual tax for
the calendar year 1886, and for each sue
ceeding year until olherw wise ordered Or
amended, upon each person or association
of persons and corporations pursuing any
trade, profession, vocation, calling or busi-
ness within the limits of The corporation
of Vaudeville except those expressly exempt
from such tax by articles 206 and 2O7 OF
the the State Constitution. That -imme-
diately after the PRONUNCIATION of this
OlulutuCC Uao CCC1ctuty 6ldIl 1oSuO Blu
the tax collector of the corporation shall
begin 10 collect and shall collect as fast as
possible from each Of the persons and COL
porations pursuing within the corporate
limits of the Town of Abbevill-, any trade,
profession, vocation, calling or business, .
license tax as hereinafter graduated and
otherwise established, not in conflict with
the graduated system of Act 2nd, Extra
Session of 1882 of the General Assembly,
approved April 10, 1882. All licenses shall
be due n collected during the first three
months of the year, and all unpaid licenses
shall become delinquent ON the first day
of April, and all firms who commenced
business after that date shall become de-
linqnent unless the license is paid withlL
ten days. TIL 1t for every business Of sell
ing At retail, whether as principal, agent
on eommi sion or otherwise, The license
shall be based on the gross annual amount
Of sales, as follows:
1-When gross sales are over SIS, 600 the
license shall be $75 2-When the gross
sales are over $50, 600 he license shall be $50;
3-wh-n the gross sales are over $751; OO
the license shall b. S25; 4-when gross
sales are over $4,000 the license shall be
$50; 5-when gross sales are over $4,000
the license shall be $40; 6-when gross
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$50; when gross sales ae $4,000
more or less, the license shall be $5.
Provided, II at if any spirituous, %vinous,
malt OF other 4 nd II mixed liquors be
sold in connections with the business OF re-
tail merchant, grocer, %fes'auran+, oyster
house, confectionery, or d-uggi,, unless it
be sold by prescription OF a licensed ply
stefan. in Quantities Of not less than Gns
pint, nof mote then five gallous, the IL
cense for such combined busin So shall be
double Ii foregoing provided, no license
shall issue TO sell liquor II les, quantities
THAI y pint, without paying a lrcense tot
less than $50 ~.
That for every business of bar-roon,,
cabaret. coff, e house, cafe, beer saloon,
liquor exchange, drinking saloon. grog
shop, beer house or other place where any
hing TO drink or TO be eaten on the prem
Uses is SOLD directly or indirectly the IL
cense shall be fifty dollars ($50.00.) Pro-
yided, no license shall b. charged for sell
ing refreshments for charitable or RELIGIOUS
purposes
TIE following license is hereby imposed
on keepers OF livery stables, or persons
keeping cabs, hacks. carriages and horses
for hire, graded in three classes viz
when The yearly receipts exceed
81, 900 the license shall be $50; 2-when
said receipts exceed $4,000 the license
shall be $40; 3-when said receipts ace
$4,000 or less, the license be SIS.
On hotels and boarding houses where
lodging and eating are combined, the H.
cense shall be based on the number of
furnished lodging rooDis for guests, etc, as
follows, viz:
1-wheu said rooms exceed in number
fifteen, the liceuse shall 10 SIS when
said rooms exceed in number IL, the Ii
cense shall be $40: 3-when said rooms
exceed in number nioe, the license shall
be SIS; 4-when said rooms exceed in
number SIX. the license shall be $40.
That no liceose shall be required when
the number of said rooms is less than pro-
vided for in class tou': when lodging alone
the license shall be estimated on the same
basis as for hOte.s aud boarding houses,
but graduated at one-half the rates.
In addition to the graduated system as
herein adopted, there shall also be a mis-
~cellaneous system, so as to apply to trafics
trades, professions, vacations calling or
business Of any kind, where the graduated
system is not applied and not being in con-
fict Herewith, as follows, to-wit
From each and every attorney at law,
physician, dentist and photographer S. ;
each fruit and ice cream dealer five dol
LAYS ; each oyster stand five dollars ; each
billiard table five dollars !; each auction
store, per month five dollars
On variety shows and theatrical per-
formances the license shall be based upou
the number Of actors and employees, as
follows:
When the number of actors and EN-.
ployees is five or less, for each perform
snce $3.50; when the number is more
than five and less than ten for each per-
Torrance $500; whom the number is ten
or more, each performance $1,000 ; provi-
ded that this shall only include shows OF a