The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-01-20

| the license shall be S02. SO.
| Class 8. When the said gross receipts are
| over $685. aud notices. than 5000 the
| license shall be $50.
| Class o. When the said gross receipts are
! over SIS, 600 and less than $4,000 the Ii
/ censc shall he S,7 so.
Class 10. When the said gross receipts
are less than $1,000 the license shall he $40.
AMusEMENTs.
| Section 6. Be it enacted, ETC., that for
| every business of keeping theatre, opera
house, amphithcatre, academy of music.
| museum, mcnageric, circus or other travelling
show, the license shall be based upon the
] number of the attaches, whether propretors,
performers other employees, as follows:
Class 1. When the number of said per-
sons is one hundred more the license shall
be $500.
Class ?. When the number of said per
sons is seventy-fvc or more and less than
one hundred the license shall he $500.
Class 3. When the number OF SAID per
| sons is fifty or more and less than seventy hive
the license shall be $500.
Class 4. When the number of said per-
| sons is thirty more and less than fifty the
license shall be $3.50.
| Class &. When the number of said per-
! sons is twenty more and less than thirty
| the license shall be $500.
Class 6. When the number of said per-
sons is ten more and less than twenty the
| license shall be $50.
GLASS; 2. When the number of said per-
sons is five more and less than ten, the
license shall he 500.
Class 8. When the number of said per-
sons is four the license shall be SIS.
Class 9. When the number of said per
| sons is three the license shall be $50.
Class 10. When the number of said per
sons is two the license shall be $40.
Class II. When the number of said per-
sons is one the license shall be $50.
Provided that the license for every hall
| or place where public entertainments are
given not provided for in this section shall
be based upon the seating capacity as follows :
When the number OF seats or spaces num-
Der 500 more the licenses shall be SIS.
When the number Of seats or spaces num-
| Der less than 500 the license shall be $40.
Provided further that no license shall be
required for balls given by private persons or
| for charitable purposes
RAILROAD AGENTS, ETC.
Section 7. Be it further enacted that each
person carrying on the business or calling, of
selling or dealing in, railroad steamship
tickets whether said tickets are sold on the
streets, in the office of the company he rep
resents, that of any other company, shall
pay an annual license graded upon the num-
Der of companies he represents to-wit: One
company, S25; two companies. $40: three
companies, $50.
PEDDLERS AND HAWkERs.
Section s. BE it further enacted, etc.
that each and every peddler or hawker shall
pay an annual license graded as follows:
When travelling on foot, S.; when travel
ing on horseback. SO: when travelling IN
one-horse vehicle, $40; when travelling in
two-horse vehicle, $3.50; when travelling
any kind of water craft, 500.
Provided that, person shall be allowed
| to sell goods clerk or clerks, of any ped
| dler hawker, bur that he or they must pay
| a license, in his or their own name, but that
| this proviso shall not apply to watercraft.
1t is further provided that all Parochial eN
ecutivc officers hereby empowered and
directed, to cause all peddlers or hawkers, to
| exhibit their parish license, and that
the said peddlers or hawkers, failing to
| produce exhibit the same, the said officers
directed and empowered by this act to
| seize said stock of merchandise and turn the
same over to any court of competent jurisdic-
ton with due information as to the viola
| ton of this act. Provided further that the
said executive officers shall be entitled to re-
ceive fees. the of s. in each and
every from any peddler or hawker clerk
or clerks employed by said peddler or haw-
ker, when peddling without a license in vio-
Iation of this act. The said amount of S.
to be recovered before any court of compel
| ent jurisdiction out of the goods seized.
| Provided further that no license shall be
| issued to any peoldler or hawker for less than
full rate for the current year.
| HOTELS, ETC.
| Section @. Be it further enacted, etc,
that for every business of keeping hotel
| where lodging and eating combined the
| license shall be based upon the number OF
| furnished lodging rooms for guests, as fol-
| lows:
| Class 1. When the said rooms forty
| five more and less than seventy-fve the
| license shall be $500.
| Glass 2. When the said rooms are thirty
| or more and less than forty-five the license
| shall be $50
! Class ;. When the said fifteen
| or more and less than thirty the license shall
be 500.
| Class 4. When the number of said rooms
is twelve more and less than fifteen the
license shall he SIS.
Class 5. When the number of said rooms
is nine and less than twelve the
| license shall be $50.
Glass 8. When the number of said rooms
| six and less than nine, the license
shall be $40.
| Provided that no license shall be required
| when the number of SAID rooms is less than
six and that for every business of lodging
alone the license shall be estimated on the
same basis, as for hotels but graduated a,
one-half rates; provided that boarding
houses shall pay sixty per cent of the rates
| of hotels.
| BARROMS, ETC.
Section Be it enacted that for every
| business of borrom, cabaret, coffee-house
cafe, beer saloon, liquor exchange, drinking
saloon. grosshoP, beer house, beer garden or
other place, where anything to be drunk OIL
eaten, the premises is sold directly OIL
indirectly the license shall he based an the
gross annual receipts of said business as
follows:
Glass I. When the said gross annual
receipts $4,000 more and less thar
SIS, 900, the license shall he $500.