Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-14
AROUND THE CITY.
The Supervisors Preparing
for County Licenses.
THE CITY ASSESSMENT ROLL
A Water Dispute Taken Into the
COuPts-0ther Local
Events.

The Board of Supervisors is at work
upon an ordinance providing for the pay
ment of licenses throughout the county.
For several years past no licenses have
been imposed in the county, but the
schedule in preparation is intended to go
into effect on September 1st. 1t passed
it's first reading before the Supervisors
yesterday. On June 4, 1888, an ordin-
ance fixing the rates of licenses in the
county was adopted, and this remained
in effect until September, 1884, when it
was repealed. Since that time no licenses
have been collected.
The ordinance requires that the terms
for which licenses shall be issued shall be
three, six and twelve months, and that
licenses for short terms shall be issued to
those who start business after term has
begun. 1t recites that it is unlaw full to
engage in any business without first hav-
ing obtained license, and it requires
that separate licenses must be obtained
for each branch establishment or separate
house of business. 1t provides that in
case of failure to pay, the county may
sue for the amount of the license, and
that SIS damages shall be added to the
judgment, or fine of 500 or 100 days
imprisonment may be inflicted by the
criminal courts.
The ordinance, as it now stands, fixes
the rates of the licenses as follows:
Auctioneers whose monthly sales
amount to 81 800, $25 per quarter; those
whose sales amount to less than 81 800,
$40.
Bankers and brokers whose business
amounts to over $250000 per quarter,
$50 per quarter; those whose business
amounts to over 100000 and less than
$3.50 1000 per quarter, $25 per quarter;
those whose business amounts to over
$50, 900 and less than 100000 per quar-
ter, Is per quarter.
Insurance companies whose gross pre-
miums amount to over IS, 900 per quar-.
ter, $40 per quarter; over SO 900 and less
than So 900 per quarter, So per quarter
less than 5000 per quarter, 81 per quar-
ter; agents and solicitors, So per quar-
ter.
Real estate agents whose commissions
amount to over $500 per month, $40 per
quarter; under 5000 per month, IS per
quarter.
Billiard or pool tables, $5 per quarter
for each table.
Shooting gallery, $5 per quarter.
Theaters. per year, $75; per quarter,
$40; per day, $5.
Shows and circuses, per day, 800; side
shows, $40 each per day; exhibitions OF
animals, ETC., So per day.
Pawnbrokers, $50 per quarter.
Intelligence offices, S. per quarter.
Laundries, $40 per quarter.
Retail dealers in spirituous or distilled
liquors, $50 per quarter; in malt liquors
or wine, SO per quarter.
General business amounting to over
500. 600 per month, $50 per quarter; over
SIC, 900 and less than 500 coo, $22 so per
quarter; over 900 and less than $lO,-
900, $l5; over $4,000 and less than
S5 900, So; over 1880 and less than
so 500, $4 so; over $500 and less than
81 250. SO; under $400, $1.75 per quarter.
Hawkers, peddlers and solicitors OF
vegetables, SO per quarter; of merchan-
disc, with horse and wagon, $50 per
quarter.
Fortune tellers and astrologers, $50 per
quarter.
Boxing and sparring matches, $25 per
day.
Lung testers, lifting machines. etc., So
per week.
Skating rink, $50 per quarter.
The original ordinance, as it was
written, contained provieions for requir-
ing licenses from steam railroads, tele.
graph companies, express companies,
horse railway companies, telephone COM
panies, water companies, electric light
companies and gas companies; but the
Supervisors, in the reading, carefully
marked them out, indicating a desire to
charge nothing to these corporations for
conducting business. The ordinance
will come up again shortly for second
reading, and it is expected that num-
Der of protests will be filed in the mean.