The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-12-27

boats draying, trucking. keep
IS cabs, carriages hacks or hnrs
, for hire, nndertakers. owner,
lessees of toll bridges and ferrie
master builders, stevedorcs, bill post,
or lacking contractors and mechani
! who employ assistants, the license. shall
graded as fellows:
Glass I. When the gross annual receip
J are $1,000 more the license shall be Sc.
Glass z. When the gross receipts a,
$3.50 or more and less than 900 the licens
shall he SIS.
Glass ). When the gross annual receip,
are less than $3.50 the license shall be S..
| PROFESSIONAL.
! Section -. Be it enacted, that everv IN
dividual or individuals carrying on the bust
ness or profession of physician, attorney at
law. editor, dentist, ocuIist, photographer
jeweler and all business not herein provided
| for shall be graded the same as set forth ir
section II of this act, but graded at one-hal1
rates, and provided that no license shall I've
issued hereunder for less than S.
Section "a. 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 SI25 and when the gross re-
ceipts are above $1,000 the license shall he
$3.50.
Section IS. Re it further enacted. that
for carrying on the business pursuits known
as cotton factorage, grain and produce COM
mission houses. any other factoraee or
commission business, brokerage in stocks,
bonds, real estate. produce, sugar, cotton O,
other brokerage business, whether buying or
selling for actual spot future delivery
where the intention of the parties is to make
an honest bonafnde delivery, the license
shall he based on the gross annual commits |
'ions and brokerage on sales and purchases
Is follows:
Class I. When the annual gross COM
Missions exceed $1,000 and are not more than
30, 600 the license shall be $50.
Class 2. When the annual gross COM
MISSIONS are $4,000 or less the license shall
re SIS.
Section 70. BE it enacted that for everv
lumber yard, whose gross sales are $4,000 or
ess the license shall be $40, and when the
20.
Section II. Be- it enacted, that for every
wing machine agent Or agency, fruit stand |
oda stand, horse and mule trader, cigar and
'bacco stand, the license shall be $.
PISTOLS.
Section IS. he it ordained ETC. That
very wholesale dealer in pistols and rifles in
lis parish shall pay license tax of $40 and
'ery wholesale dealer in pistol cartridges s
this parish shall pay license tax of S. {
Section 10. Be it further ordained That ;
'ery retail dealer Of pistols and rifles in 3
is parish shall pay license tax of 500 !
I'd every retail dealer in pistol cartridges in l.
is parish shall pay license tax of $50 :
Section 20. Be it further ordained That v
hosoever shall sell at wholesale or retail |,
stols or rifles, or pistol and rifle cartridges v
thout having frs: obtained the license n
rein provided for shall be guilty of a mis- f.
meanor and upon conviction shall be fixed a
It less than $50 imprisoned not more Il
an thirty days or both at the discretion Of a
E court. Provide that no cartridge of e Il
libre less shall be considered a rifle or d
'tol cartridge within the purpor, and in s
1T of this law.
Section FL. Be it enacted that when any -
o Or more kinds of business are combined ''
cept as herein expressly provided for there VI
all be separate license required for each !"
I'd OF business Where any company or r.
ociation shall lease, operate, manage or 81
,trol the business franchise, property of -
Ter corporations, associations Or firms, VIZ
y shall pay separate license for each
siness. ye
section 22. Be it enacted, ETC., that an Pl
II receipts, capital sales, and premium in
ut, referred to basis of license are :"
Sc for the year for which the license is ''
nted; the STANDARD for their estimation WI
II be prima facie of the preceding year of so
business that has been conducted pre- 'e'
nsly by the same party or Pc rites to whom WI
v claim to he. succes.ors If III. f, tic
'pany be new, gross sales for the first
months shall be considered as the basis, pc
six times that amount shall be estimated Su
the annual receipts of such business. on
vided that any person commencing bust De
) after the first day of July shall pay one
of the above rates. "
ection %. Be it enacted, ETC., that the W.
ness of the previous year, also the u.
al condition and results of the business =,
ne current, for the new firms, associations
orporat;ons for the purposes Of calcula-
licenses shall be ascertained by the tax
ector in the sworn statement Of the per- .
or persons in interest. his or their tlulv Wv