The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-07
AN ORDINANCE.
Continued from page a.

1 tIfall IIty, tHe ttGGI1SCS lldil DS kWo nun
dred and fifty ($25o) dollars.
Fifth class. When the number O
said persons is twenty or more and les'
| than thirty, the license shall be two hun
dred ($2oo) dollars.
Sixth class. When the number o.
| said persons is ten or more. and less thar
twenty. the license shall be fifty $3.50
dollars.
Seventh class. When the number Of
said persons is fire or more, and less
than ten, the license shall be forty ($4o)
dollars.
Eighth class When the number OF
said persons is four or less, the license
shall be twenty-five ($25l dollars.
That for every hall where balls or en-
tertainments, not above provided for,
are given, the classification for license
shall be as in the first art of this sec
ton; but their prices shall only be one
fourth of those provided for in section
10; provided this shall not apply to balls
by private parties or for charitable pur-
poses.
That for each person carrying on the
business Of calling. of selling or dealing
in railroad or steamship tickets. whether
said tickets are sold on the streets. in
the office of the company he represents,
or that of any other company, shall pay
an annual license graded upon the num-
Der of companies he represents. to-wit
One company twenty-five ($25) dollars;
two companies forty (S4o) dollars !;
three or more companies fifty {$Eo) dol
lars.
That each and every peddler or hawk
er shall pay an annual license graded
as follows:
When travelling on foot, ten ($Io) dol
lars.
When travelling on horseback, twenty
FIVE ($2S) dollars.
When travelling in one-horse wagon,
forty ($4ol dollars. :.
When travelling in a two-horse We
hicle. seventy-hve ($75) dollars.
When travelling Oh any kind of water
craft, two hundred ($2oo) dollars.
And provided further, that no person
shall be allowed to sell goods as the
clerk or clerks Of peddler or hawker,
but that he or they must pay license
in his or their own name, but that this
proviso shall not apply to water craft.
Provided further, that no license shall
be issued to any peddler or hawker for
less than the full rate for the current
year.
Sec. Is. Be it further enacted, etc.
That for every business of keeping a
hotel, where lodging and eating are
combined, the license shall be based on
The number of furnished lodging rooms
fol guests as follows. viz:
First class When said rooms are in
lumber three hundred or more, the Ii
cense shall be six hundred $4,000 dol
lars.
Second class. When said rooms are in
lumber two hundred and twenty-five
Or more and less than three hundred.
he license shall be five hundred ($5oc)
dollars.
Third class When said rooms are in
Number one hundred and fifty or more.
md less than two hundred and twenty
i've, the license shall be three hundred
ind seventy-five ($375) dollars.
Fourth class. When said rooms are
n number seventy-hve or more, and less
han ono hundred and fifty, the license
shall be one hundred and fifty ($rso)
dollars.
Fifth class. When said rooms are in
number forty-fve or more, and less than
seventy-fvc, the license shall be one
hundred ($Ioo) dollars.
Sixth class. When said rooms are in
number thirty or more, and less than
the licenses hall be seventy
i've t$75) dollars.
Seventh class. When said rooms are
IN number fifteen or more, and less than
thirty. the license shall be fifty ESQ.,
dollars.
Eighth class. When said rooms are
IN number twelve or more, and less than
fifteen. the license shall be twenty-five
($z5) dollars.
Ninth class. When said rooms are in
number nine or more, and less than
Twelve, the license shall be twenty (S2o)
dollars.
Tenth class. When said rooms are in
number six or more, and less than nine,
The license shall be fifteen tSI5) dollars.
Provided shat no person who keeps a
boarding house in connection with
schools or colleges for the accommoda-
ion OF students and employees thereof,
shall pay any licenses as boarding
houses.
I Provided further, that no license shall
DC required when the number of said
rooms is less than provided for in class
tet1; that for every business of LODGING
alone, the license shall be estimated on
he same basis as for hotels. but gradu-
ated at one-half rates; provided that
boarding houses pay sixtyper cent of the
rate Of hotels.
That for every business of barroom,
cabaret, coffee house cafe, beer saloon,
liquor exchange drinking saloon, grog
shop, beer house. beer garden or other
place where anything to be drunk or
eaten on the premises is sold directly or
indirectly. the license shall be graduated
is follows:
Class A. When said cross receints
IRE fifty thousand dollars tS5o,ooo) or
more. for which the license shall be if
.een hundred dollars ($15oo).
First Class. When said gross annual
receipts are tlirty-seven thousand dol
ars, the license shall be one thousand
dollars l$Iooo).
Second Class. When said gross an
1uai recciDts are twenty-five thousand