The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1889-10-11
LAKE CHARLES CACASEU PARISH LOUISIANA FRIDAY OCTOBER
gust II, 1881
REVRNUE BILL.

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REVENUE AsAAIH4.
Re it ordained by the Town Council of the
i town Of Lake Charles, La, That for the puF-
| pose Of defraYing the expenses of the town
Of Lake Charles, La., for the current year, an
annual nd gdiOrin tax of eight milIss on the
dollar on all the property, real and personal,
! situated In the corporate limits OF the town,
! subject to taxation, shall be levied, assessed
and collected IN United States currency.
| Moved and carried, that the following
| License Act be adopted for the year 1880,
| tO-wit;
Be it enacted by the Town Council of the town
| Of Lake Charles That there Is hereby levied an
| annual license tax for the year 1890, upon each
person, association Of persons or business firms
and corporations, pursuing any trade profession,
vocation calling or business except those eE.
presslY exempt from suGh license tax by Articles
| 206 and 207 Of the Constitution.
BE it further enacted, That on the 2nd day of
January Of each year the town Tax Collector
shall begin TO collect and shall collect as fast as
possible, from each of the persons or business
tirms associations OF persons and corporations
pursuing within the corporate limits, any trade,
profession vocation, calling or business, license
| tax as hereinafter graduated.
! All license shall be due and eOlleCtable during
the first twOt2mOnths of each year and all unpaid
| license shall become delinquent ON the first day
Of March of each year, and all firms who com
menCe business after that date shall become de-
linquent unless the license is paid within ten days.
| lie II further enacted, That for each business
| Of carrying on banking company, association,
| corporation agency, the license shall be based
| on the declared or nominal capital and surplus,
| when the said capital and surplus is owned or in
use or on deposit in the corporation of Lake
| Charles, ist, When the animal gross commissions
exceed $40 900 and no more than $50 600 the license
| shall he 5000, 2nd, When the annual gross com.
missions exceed $50 900 and no more than $40 OBO,
| the license shall be B225. 3rd When the annual
| gross commissions exceed $25 900 aud no more
| than $50 600 the license shall be $isi.50. 18th,
| When the annual gross commissions exceed go.
900 and ~ more than S25,0U0 the license shall be
| $3.50, 5th, When the annual gross commissions
| exceed $l5 600 and no more than $20 the II
cense shall be $ll2.5O 9th, When the annual
! gross commissions exceed $4,000 and no more
than 6lS 900, the license shall be SIS. 1th, When
! the annual gross commissions exceed IS, 600 and
no more than $40 600 the license shall he $50.
That for every retail merchant whose annual
! gross receipts 8jN, 900 more and under $Ijf
! O0O tho license shall be $50. end When tho
gross sales $40 900 or more and under $50 600,
! the license shall be $40, 8rd, When the gross
sales $50 900 or more and under $40 900 the Ii
Cense shall be $50 4th, When gross sales are
$2J 600 more and under so 600 the license shall
| be S25, 5th When the gross sales are $40 900
and less than *25 600, the license shall be so.
! 9th When sales are 900 or more and less than
| $50 900, the license shall be SIS. Tth When sales
are less than $5OOO the license shall be $40, Pro.
yided that If any distilled, vinOusr malt Or other
kind Of liquor he sold in connection with the bu-
| siness Of retail merchant grocery OF restaurant,
oyster house, COnfUCtiOner or druggist in less
than five gallons, the license for snCh additional
business shall be $50,
INSURANCE.
| That for each and every insurance COmpany,as-
s0UiatiOn corporation, organization or firm or in.
diYtdual doing and conducting an insurance bust
ness of any kind-llie fire marine river, accident
Or other, In the town Of Lake Charles whether
such company society, association or corporation
| or other organization pr hrm or Individual Is 10.
| Gated or d0mCiled here or operating here through
a branch department, resident bOardr Ebcal office,
| firm, company, corporation or agency Of any
| kind whatever shall pay a separate and distinct
| license said business for each company repre-
| seutGd, and said license shall be based on the
gross annual amount of premiums on all risks To-
Gated within the corporation of Lake Charles,
upon which no license has been paid threinr rs
| follows to wit:
and upW ards, ten dollars for each company repre-
sented When said premiums are less than Ave
Thousand dollars five dollars for each company
| represented
BE- 1t further enacted That for every business
of transporting money merchandise or other arti.
cles by express or transfer, and the gross annual
receipts are less than twenty-five thousand dol.
| lars the license shall be twenty-five dollars.
AMusEMENTs
That for all opera houses or theatres, forty dol
| lars.
Ba it further enacted That no circus, menag,
erie, museum or other travelling show shall be
| lion Of Lake Charles unless they have FIRST paid
| license based on the number Of attaches, whether
PTr9prietors, peFiolmers q employees as follows
| the license shall be two hundred dollars When
the number Of said persons is 20 or more, and less
| than 100, the license shall be one hundred and
| fifty dollars When the number Of said persons
| is 50 rmOTe and less than 70, the license shall
| he one hundred dollars. When the number of
said persons Is 80 or more, and less than so, the
| license shall be seventy five dollars When the
number Of said persons s 20 or more, and less
| than 30, the license shall be fifty dollars When
| the number Of said persons is 10 or more aud less
| than 20 the license shall be forty dollars. When
| the number Of said persons is FIVE or more and
less than ten, the license shall be thirty dollars.
/ V,ra5 taI thF,,
the license shall be twenty dollars. Organ grind.
ers' license shall be two dollars and llty cents,
| BE 1t further enacted, That every gvddleE or
| hawker, when travelling on foot, five dollars when
| on horseback, ten dollars when in onehOrse yehi,
| Gle, fifteen dollars when in two-hOrse vehicle,
| twenty-five dollars, Provided, any peddler or
| hawker whose stock does not exceed in yalue ten
dollars, shall pay license Of two dollars and fifty
cents,
That for every business Of keeping hotel
where lodging and eating are combined, when
| said hotel has six or more, and less than nine,
| furnished rooms, the license shall be twenty dol
lars When the number y nine Or more the
| That for every business Of keeping bar room,
coffee house beer saloon gEog shop or other place
| the premises, directly or indirectly the license
| shall be based on the annual gross receipts as
| follows When receipts are 800 or more and
| less than sl0 600 license $50 when receipts are
| IS 900 pr more and less than ~ 500 license 800
| when receipts are $4,000 or more and less than
| s5 ,0gO license s!5 when receipts are less than
|
Be it further enacted, That all persons selling
soda water, mead, confeotious, cakes etc, exclu,
siyely, shall pay license az follows: When gross
receipts are $4,000 or more, and less than 81 600,
| the license shall be $40 when gross receipts arc
| $4,000 or more, and less than 8b 900 the license
more and less chan $4 O0g The license shah be $40
when gross receipts are less than 600 the license
shah be 80. Provided further, That druggists,
| etc, selling soda-water mead etc, shall be re.
| quired 70 take ont license under this ast.
| PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL OCCUPATIONS.
| That every individual Or indiylduals carrying
q re business q RE9tsssion ot ghy1iSan attor
| agency ior publications, freight, ticket claims,
| patent rights and all other business not herein
provided for, shall be graded as RboYe set forth,
but the licences shall be onehalf Of those eRtab
| lished by this section, and provided no license
shall lcissuea hereunder for less than five dollars,
WAGONS.
BE Il further ordained by the Board Of Alder.
men Of the Town Of Lake Charles, That It shall
1 be unlawful and subject to q ine Of ten dollars,
| for any person OF persons, for Tenpperation, to
| run any team within the corporate limits Of Lake
| Charles, or carrying on any of the following
trades etc, until be or they shall have hrst paid
tile following license for the ensuing year, tosHit:
/ Oneborse dfay, hack or wagon, fye dollars two,
4 wagon oreart ten dollars, WoadyendoTs' teams
| other than those residing 10 town, ten dollars
Vegetable peddlers residipg ~ on out Of town,
1 five dollars. All permanent or tTaneient hlck.
Of chance is az indacement 70 pufcbasei u or ont
| OF doors twenty Ave dollars. An peddlefs not
herein mentioned, five dollars.
1 BE il further ordained, That ali persons herein
mentioned rs using teans On the Streets here
4 by required to obtain from the TAX collector tin
plate WITH blue sfiacN WITH the npnbeT Of license
painted ID red aguIes aud hnye the same put lii
1 q eonepienous place Oh said vehicle,