The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1901-12-14
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! Section 10. BE it enacted, that for ever
business of barroom, cabaret, coffee house
cafe, beer saloon, liquor exchange, drinkIn,
| saloon, grogs hop, beer house, beer garden o
| other place, where az, thing to be drunk o
| eaten on the premises is sold directly or in
directly the license shall be based on thu
| gross annual receipts of said business as fol
| lows:
Class 1. When the gross annual receipts
! are $500 or more the license shall tie $1,000
Class 2. When the gross annual receipts
| are $4,000 or more and less than $500 the
| license shall be $4,000.
Glass 3. When the gross annual receipts
are less than $1,000 the license shall be $1,000.
Be 1t further ordained, that no person
shall engage in the business of retail liquor
dealer provided in this section w,thou,
having first paid the license hereinbefore
fixed and any person violating this provision
shall he guilty of 4 misdemeanor and upon
conviction shall he liable to a fine of not less
than 500 for each and every offense and in
default of payment, imprisonment in the
parish Jail for a period not exceeding ninety
days.
Provided, that no license shall be charged
for selling refreshments for charitable or
religious purposes, and provided further
that no establishment, selling or giving away
or otherwise disposing of any spirits, wines,
alcoholic or malt liquors in less quantities
than one pint, shall pay less than $500.
Provided further, that when any kind of
business provided for in this section shall be
combined with any other business provided
for in section 8, the same classification shall
be made provided in this section, but the
price for the license shall be equal to the
price of the license required for each bust
ness separately.
every business of keeping billiard tables,
pigeon hole, Jenny Lind, pool or bagatelle
tables, and ten pin alleys, from which reve
nue. is derived license of $ for each such
table or alley shall be required, and paid in
addition to- any other license due by the
tablishment, in which said tables or alleys
may be sltuated. Provided that all persons,
association of persons or business firms, and
corporations engaged in the sale of soda
water, meads, confecton, cakes, ETC.. ex-
shall be rated follows:
Class 1. When the gross annual sales are
s 5000 and more than $4,000, the license shall
be $40.
Class 2 When the gross sales are less
than $4,000 the license shall be IS.
Provided, tina: this provision shall not APP
ply to places where alcoholic, who's or malt
liquors are sold, and provided that, drug
pists selling soda water, mead, etc., shall be
required to take out a license under this act.
Section IL. Be it enacted, ETC., that for
every individual or company carrying on the
profession or business agency for steamboat,
draying, trucking keeping cabs, carriages,
hacks or horses for hire, undertakes, owners
or lessees of toll bridges and ferries, master
stevedores, bill posting or lacking,
and mechanics who employ as
the license shall be graded as fol-
lows:
Class I. When the gross annual receipts
are $1,000 mole the license shall be $50.
Class ?. When the gross receipts are
$3.50 more and less than $1,000 the license
shall be SIS.
Glass ). When the gross annual receipts
are less than $3.50 the license shall be s..
PROFESSIONAL.
Section I3. Be it enacted, that every in
dividual or individuals carrying on the bust
ness or profession of physician. attorneyat
law, editor, dentist, oculist, photographer,
ieweler and all business not herein provided
for shall he graded the same set forth in
section II of this act. but graded at one-half
rates, and provided that no license shall be
issued hereunder for less than S.
Section Ia. Be it further enacted, that
all travelling vendors of stoves, lightning
rods and clocks, shall pay license annually
of 500, whether travelling as peddlers Or
not For every trading stamp company is
suing stamps to merchants, and all other
dealers of every kind whatsoever, where the
gross annual receipts are less than 5000 the
license shall be SIPS and when the gross
ceipts are above 5000 the license shall be
$3.50.
for carrying the business pursuits known
as cotton factorage, grain and produce COM
mission houses, or any other factorage or
business, brokerage in stocks,
DCnuS, real estate, pEouuCc, Cottot, oT
other brokerage business, whether buying
selling for actual. spot or future delivery
where the intention of the parties is to make
an honest, bonafde delivery, the license
shall be based on the gross annual commits
sions and brokerage on sales and pure
as follows:
Class 1. When the annual gross COM
missions exceed $1,000 and are not more than
$4,000 the license shall be $50.
Class ?. When the annual gross commits
sions are $1,000 less the license shall be
SIS.
Section 10. Be it enacted that for every
lumber yard, whose gross sales are $4,000 Or
less the license shall be $40, and when the
gross sales exceed $4,000 the license shall be
$50.
sewing machine agent agency, fruit stand,
soda stand, horse and mule trader, cigar and
tobacco stand, the license shall be s..
Section IS. Be it enacted that when any
two or more kinds of business combined
except as herein expressly provided for there
shall be separate license required for each
kind of business. Where any company or
association shall LEASE, operate manage or
control the business franchise, property of
other corporations, associations firms,
they shall pay. a separate license for each
business.
Section 10. BE it enacted, etc., that an
nual receipts, capital sales. and premium in
this act referred to as basis of license are
those for the year for which the license is
granted; the standard for their estimation
the business that has been conducted pre-
viously by the same party or parties to whom
they claim to be successors If the firm or
company be new. gross sales for the first