The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1901-01-12

or clerks employed by said Peddfer or haw-
ker. when peddling without license in vio-
lation of this act. The said amount of S.
to- be recovered before any court of com
petent jurisdiction out of the goods seized.
HOTELS, ETC.
Section o. 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, fol
| lows:
| Class 1. When the said forty
| five or more and less than seventy five the
license shall be $50.
| Class 2. When the said rooms are thirty
| or more and less than forty five the license
1 shall be $40.
| Class 3. When the said rooms fifteen
| or more and less than thirty the license shall |
| he $50.
Class q. When the number of said rooms
! is twelve more and less than fifteen the |
license shall be $50
| Class 5. When the number of said rooms |
! is nine more and less than twelve the !
| license shall be $40.
| Class e. When the number of said rooms |
| is six or more and less than nine, the license |
shall he S..
+ Provided tina, 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 the
same basis as for hotels but graduated at
| one-ha!f rates; provided that boarding
houses shall pay sixty per cent of the rates
of hotels.
BARROOMS, ETC.
Section 10. Be it enacted, that for every
business of barroom, cabaret, coffee house,
cafe, beer saloon, liquor exchange, drinking |
! saloon, grogshop, beer house, beer garden or
other place, where anything to be drunk or
eaten on the premises is sold directly Or in |
directly the license shall be based the |
gross annual receipts of said business fol- |
| lows:
Class 1. When the said gross annual re-
! ceipts are $4,000 Or more and less than
SIS, 900, the license shall be $500.
Class 2. When the said gross receipts are |
$500 or more and less than $4,000, the
license shall be 5000.
Class 3. When the said gross receipts
$4,000 or less, the license shall be $500.
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 as provided in this section, but the
price for the licenses shall be equal to the
price of the license required for each bust
ness separately.
Section II. Be it enacted, ETC., that for
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 S. for each such
table alley shall be required and paid in
addition to any other license due by the
establishment, in which SAID tables or alleys
may be situated Provided that all persons,
association of persons or business firms, and
corporations engaged in the sale of soda
water, meads, confection. cakes, etc.
clusively. shall be rated as follow:
Class I. When the gross annual sales are
three thousand dollars and more than $4,000,
the license shall be SO.
Class 2. When the gross sales are less
than $4,000, the license shall be $.
Provided, that this provision shall not
apply to places where alcoholic vinous or
malt liquors sold, and provided that,
druggists selling soda .water, mead, ETC..
shall be required to take out license under
this
Section 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
builders, stevedores, bill posting lacking,
CONT actors and mechanics who employ assis-
| tants, the license shall be graded as follows:
Class l.. When the gross annual receipts
are $1,000, Or more the license shall be $40.
Class 2. When the gross receipts are
$3.50, or more and less than $1,000, the Ii
cense shall be SIS.
Class ;. When the gross annual receipts
are less than $3.50, the license shall be $.
PROFESSIONAL.
Section Is. Be it enacted, that every IN
divdual or individuals carrying on the bust
ness profession OF physician, attorney at
law, editor. dentist, oculist, photographer,
ieweler and all other business not herein
provided for shall be graded the
set forth in the 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 peddlers not.
For every trading stamp company issuing
| stamps to merchants, and all other dealers
| of every kind whatsoever, where the gross
! annual receipts are less than $1,000 the Ii !
cense shall be $I25 and when the gross re- |
| ceipts above 5000 the license shall be |
| $3.50. l
| Section IS. Be it further, enacted that |
for CARRYING the business pursuits known |
as cotton factorage, grain and produce COM |
mission houses, or any other tactorage or |
commission business, brokerage in stocks, |
bonds, real estate, produce, sugar, cotton. or
other brokerage business, whether buying or
| selling for actual, spot future delivery
where the intention of the parties is to make
an honest, bonatide delivery. the license
| shall be based the gross annual corumis-
sions and brokerage on sales and purchases
as follows:
| Class l. When. the annual gross com