The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1896-01-18
CAPITAL 100000.
CROW oURARO, President.
J. q. PARNER6oN, Vice Preetd

c. C.. BROHN, n. i. MCSS,
licenses required for each business serar-
ately.
Section 10. Be it further ordained ETC.,
that for the business of keeping billiard
tables, pigeon holes, jenny lind, pool or
which revenue is derived. a license of $40.
for each such table or alley shall be |
paid in addition to any other license due by |
the establishment in which said table Or al |
leys may be situated.
Provided that all persons, associations OF |
persons business firms and corporations
engaged in the sale of soda water, mead, |
confectioneres, cakes, ETC., exclusively shall
be rated as follows:
First class-When the gross sales are
$1,000 or more, the license shall be SIS.
Second class-When the gross sales are
less than $1,000, and not more than $4,000,
| the license shall be $40.
Third class-When the gross sales are less
than $4,000, the license shall be s..
| Provid I'd that the provision shall not APP
ply to places doing. the business herein
| named where alcoholic or malt liquors arc
sold; provided further. that druggist, etc.
selling soda water, mead, etc., shall be re-
quired to take out a license under this ordi-
| nance.
| Section II. Be it further ordained ETC.,
that the annual license for the kinds of bust
ness hereinafter named, shall be graduated
| in four classes as follows viz:
That for every individual or company
|
draying, trucking keeping cabs, carriages,
| hacks or horses for hire. undertakes, master
builders and mechanics who employ assis-
lance, the license shall be for said Profes-
sion or business, as follows:
First class-Wnen said gross annual re-
ceipts are $4,000 or more, the license shall be
SIS: When n. said cros, an
nual receipts are $1,000 more, and less
than $1,000, the license shall be $40.
Third class-When the said gross annual
| receipts are $3.50 or more, and less than
$1,000, the license shall be SIS.
Fourth class-When the said gross annual
receipts are less than $3.50, the license shall
be 81.
That every individual or individuals carry
ing on the business profession of physi-
clan, attorney at law, dentist, oculist, Pho
tographer, by whom any articles are SOLD or
dealt in other than the simple photographs
of various kinds taken by himself, agency
for publication, freight, ticket, claims, pa
tent rights, and all other business not herein
specially provided for, shall be graded the
same as above set forth, but the license shall
be one-half of those esta blished by this sec.
ton and provided no license shall be issued
hereunder for less than IS.
Section IL. Be it further ordained etc,
: that all travelling vendors of stoves, light
! ming rods, and clocks, shall pay license an
= See,ion17 Be it further ordained ETC.,
, that when any more kinds of business
are combined except as herein expressly
r provided for, when any person, hrm or
=
ness there Shall be separate license required
for each separate business or kind OF busi-
ness.
Section H. Be it further ordained ETC.,
r that the annual receipts, capital, sales and
: premium in this ordinance, referred to as
basis of license, are those tor the year for
: which the license is granted; the Pr'ma f1cie
e standard for their estimation, is, and shall
! be as provided for in section 10 OF act NO
d $50 of 1890, and the basis for same to be
:, determined by the sworn statement OF the
= 49, ~ cola 10y
d be not sa tis6ed with the said sworn state
:, ment, he shall traverse the same by a rule
as provided, and in the manner and mode
d prescribed in the constitution and in sections
n IL & IS of said act of 1890, or other penal
| ties provided by law.
d Section1s Be it further ordained etc., tina
= the tax collector is hereby required to keeF
| a license register, in which he shall enter the
d names of every person, association OF per
l, sons, business firms or corporations with th'
| trade, profession, vocation, calling Or busl
d ness pursued, the class and graduation OF thu
lie same, the amount of license thereon and tn
date of the collection or payment thereon
id On the 3Ist day of Dec. OF each ana ever
'e year the said tax collector shall! make an.
deliver to the secretary of the City Counc
:, of said town full and complete transcrlp
III of said license register, which transcript tn
said secretary shall by special report lay be
s; fore said City Council its first regular ses
s; sion after said date, and shall file among tn
IN same archieves of the corporation tor tutur
e, reference use.
nc Section 10. BE oiefiiSN' ~.
r. that on the first day of March each year tn
nd ex-officio tax-collector shall! deliver to the a
&c, torney to be appointed as hereinafter pre-
O. vided, complete list of all delinquent
all cense payers, and the attorney to De al
i'd pointed as hereinafter provided, shall irn'n'
on diately proceed to collect Same in according
with this ordinance; and if not coiecte
e, within thirty days from date of delivery
ell, lists by the collector of taxes, 1t shall De tn
he duty Of said attorney to render written
of port giving the reason for non-collecuon
OIL the collector, whose duty it shall be to su
nit same to the city council.
arc Section II. Be it further ordained. etc
all that the mayor, Immediately after the pr
mitigation Of this ordinance. shall designa
inc an attorney at-law, whose duty it shall be
We, aid the collector; and upon all licenses al
penalties collected through the agency
or said attorney, the delinquent owing the
be ccnse shall pay commission to him OF
per centum, calculating same upon the
ess grcgate amount of license aud penalties
collected and paid over to the tax-c"iiect'
dg- The attorney appointed shall serve curi
on the pleasure of the mayor.
ted Section IS. Be it further ordained, ct
ing that all unpaid licenses shall bear interest
of the rate OF two per cent per month, from
first day of March each year, and the coll
tc., tor shall collect said license and interest
ret, the manner provided by existing laws.
ex- Section 70. Be it further ordained, ct
eer that nothing in this ordinance shall be c.
lcrc strued as lice nSing or permitting any p