The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1899-02-04

each Vehicle and Bicycle in the Parish OF st. |
Martin. graded as follows. to-wit:
Upon each Jumper and Sulky. twenty five cite. |
Upon each two-wheeled Buggy and Chase. |
thirty five cents.
Upon each four-wheeled Buggy, Phaeton, Ca
role or Carry-all. Dog cart and CabriOlet. fifty
cents.
Upon each Barouche. Hack. surry, Landau,
Omnibus or Bus, seventy-hve cents.
Upon each one horse Cart, twenty-five cents.
Upon each plantation Cart and Wagons. fifty
Upon each Dray and two horse Cart fifty cts.
eta.
Upon each Peddlng Cart one horse. seventy
FIVE cents.
Upon each Peddling Cart two horses, one dol
lar.
Upon each Bicycle, twenty-five cents.
Upon all other two wheeled vehicles not espe-
cially mentioned herein twenty five cents.
Upon all other four wheeled vehicles, not
especially mentioned herein. ffty-cents.
Sec. g. Be it further ordained, etc, That on
the second day of January 1892 and each subse-
quent year. the tax collector of the Parish OF st.
Martin shall begin to collect and shall collect as
fast as possible from each and every person,
association of persons, business hrms or corpo-
rations in the Parish of st. Martin. owing and
possessing any Of said vehicles and bicycles
graded in Sec Z of this ordinance, the said Ii
cense tax, which said license shall be due and
collectible during the first two months of each
year, and all unpaid licenses shall become deli
quent on the first day of March of each year,
and all persons who acquire any OF the above ve-
hicles, and bicycles named in said Sec. Z, utter
L LIZ ,laae thn
license is paid within ten days.
Sec. 9. BE it further ordained, etc. That any
person or persons, required to take ont Ii
cense under this ordinance upon the vehicles
and bicycles mentioned in Sec. of this ordi-
nance. who shall fail or neglect to take out said
license shall be liable to DO sued by the Police
Jury for the amount of said licenses in any
court of competent jurisdiction in the same man.
ner as in ordinary suits.
Sec. 10. Be it further ordained. etc. That the
only legal evidence that license has been paid
shall be the appropriate form of license issued
by the Police Jury, and no receipt issued by the
the tax collector in place of the license itself
shall be valid.
Sec. IL. Be il further ordained. ETC., That the
ex-ofticio tax collector of the Parish of st. Mar
tin, shall keep a book in which he thall record
or file the statement made under oath of all per-
sons who may apply for the license and upon
each vehicle and bicycle mentioned in Sec. of
this ordinance, and which said oath shall be as
to the number and kind of vehicles and bicycles
said persons may own and possess and said tax
collector is hereby empowered and required to
administer said oath to the persons applying for
said license under this ordinance.
Il IL
collector is hereby required to keep license re-
gister, in which ife shall register and enter the
names of every persons. association of persons,
business firms or corporations owning and pos
sessing the different kinds of vehicles and BIZ
cycles mentioned in this ordinance and liable to
said license tax, the name of each vehicle, the
number of vehicles and bicycles said person or
persons own and possess, the graduation of the
same. the amount of license thereon and the
date of the collection or payment thereof.
Sec. IS. Be it further ordained. etc.. That on
the first day of the month of March of each year
the tax collector shall deliver to the Police jury
n complete list of all the delinquent license
payers. together with their location and the
number and kind of vehicles and bicycles own
ed and possessed by them and the amount of IL
diately proceed to collect same by suit in accor-
dance with and AS provided in this ordinance.
Sec. II. Be it further ordained. etc.. That the
tax collector shall receive the same fees for the
collection of the per capita tax and the license
tax as now fixed by law for the collection of
State and Parish Taxes and Licenses.
Sec. Is. Be it further ordained, ETC.. THAI the
tax collector shall settle with the parish for said
per capita and License tax in the same manner
and form as for other parish Tax and Licenses,
and all laws governing Tax collectors in the
performances of their duties and not specially
provided herein shall be applicable to this ordi-
nances.
Sec. is. Be il further ordained, etc.. That the
tax collector shall issue to the person or persons
paying said license tax a license plate or plates
bearing the name of the Parish. the amount paid
on each vehicle or bicycle, and the year in
which said license was paid. which plate
shall be furnished by the Police Jury
and issued free of cost to the license
payer, and which said license plate shall
be issued in number and amount accord.
ing to the graduation herein fixed and
one for every vehicle or bicycle upon
which said license is paid.
Sec. II. Be it further ordained, ETC..
That the person or persons paying said
license tax shall display said pl ates in a
conspicuous manner by attaching said
license plate, to. their
vehicle or bicycle, on the left hand side.
and any person or persons who shall fail
or neglect to display said plates as here
in provided. shall be liable to pay fine
OF not less than five nor more than ten