The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-11-09


Fifth class-when said rooms are in number
six or more and less than nine, the license
/ shall be s..
Provided, that boarding hoases pay fifty $50
per cent of the rates of hotels; and
| Provided that no person who keeps board
| ing house in connection with schools or col
leges for the accommodation of students and
employees thereof, shall pay any license Is
| boarding house keeper, and that no license
| shall be required when the number of said
rooms is less than provided for in class five.
| For every business of lodging alone, the
license shall be estimated on the same basis as
| for hotels and boarding houses, bat graduated
at one-half tine above rates.
| SODA WATER. CORRECTIONS, ETC.
| Paragraph 11.-That all persons, association
| of persons or BUSINESS firms and corporations
engaged in the sale of soda water, mead. con-
fections, cakes, etc, exclusively, shall be rated
rs follows:
| First class-When the gross sales are
| So 600 or more the license shall be SIS.
Second class-when the gross sales are
5000 and more than g zoo, the license shall be
$40.
Third class-when the gross sales are less
| than s., 0O0 the license shall be s..
Druggists etc. selling soda water. mead,
etc, shall be required to take out license
under this paragraph.
| PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL OCCUPATION.
Paragraph 12-For every individual or COM
pany carrying on the professional or business
agency for steamboats,, draying, trucking,
keeping cabs, carriages. hacks os horses TO
hire undertakers, carriers or lessees of toll
bridges and ferries. master builders, steve
dores, bill posters and Hackers contractors and
shall be graduated into three classes, fol-
lows:
First class-when the gross annual receipts
are slI 600 or more, the license shall be $40
Second class-when said receipts are 5000
or more and less than $1,000 the license shall
be s2O
Third class-when said receipts are less than
81 900, the license shall be $40.
That every individual or individuals carry
ing on the business or profession of attorney
at law, physician, editor, dentist, oculist.
photographer, jeweler, and all other business
not herein provided for, shall be graded the
same as above set forth, but the licenses shall
be one-half of those established by this Sec
ton; provided, no license shall be issued here
, under for less than $3.50.
That all travelling vendors OF stoves, light
ming rods and clocks, shall pay license an
nually of 500.
That for every individual or company own
, ing any cart, dray or wagon, vehicle used
for public hire for hauling freight merchan-
, disc or other articles, the license shall be 50
dollars. The mayor is authorized and re-
quired to purchase sufficient, number of
, license plates with the date of the current
year stamped thereon and numbered from one
upwards, one of which he shall issue for each
: such licensed vehicle. Any person driving any
such vehicle without having first paid the re-
quiredlicense, and to whose car, dray, wagon or
other vehicle is not attached license plate
issued to him for the current year, shall be
fined not less than five nor more than ten dol
; lars, or be imprisoned for a period of six &c
twelve hours, one or both, at the discretion of
the mayor.
That each and every pawnbroker or keeper
of pawn Office shall be required to day an
. nual license of $50.
. That all travelling vendors of stoves, light
, ningrods and clocks, or other merchandise
shall pay license annually of 500.
PISTOLS, RIFLES AND CARTRIDGES.
Section S-Be il ordained, etc. That every
retail dealer in pistols pistol cartridges, rife
, or rifle cartridges, blank pistols blank pistol
cartridges, in this town shall pay an annual
: license tax on said business graduated as fol-
a lows:
First class-when gross sales are 5000 or
= more, the license shall tie $500.
Second class-when gross sales are less than
S. 900 and more than s. 800. the license shall be
$3.50.
Third class-when gross sales are less than
s., 800, the license shall be 500.
Said licenses shall be collected by the tax
collector of the town of WINFIELD in the same
manner and at the same time are collected
other license taxes.
Be il further ordained, etc. That whatsoever
shall sell at wholesale retail, pistols, pistol
a cartridges, rifles rifle cartridges without first
Obtaining the license herein provided for, or
: without first obtaining the license which may
be imposed by this ordinance for the sale o.
pistols, pistol cartridges, rifles rite cartridges,
blank pistols and blank pistol cartridges, shall
be guilty of misdemeanor, and upon convic-
, tion shall be fined not less than fifty dollars,
or imprisoned for not more than sixty days,
or both, at the discretion of the mayor
MIscRLAsLEoUs PROVISIONS
Section 4.-Be it further ordained, etc.,
! That when any two or more kinds OF business
: are combined, except as herein expressly pro-
q vided for, there shall be separate license re-
quired for each kind o. business.
!, Section 5.-That the annual receipts, capital,
:, sales and premiums in this ordinance referred
y to as basis OF license, are those for the year
for which the license is granted; the standard
for their estimation shall be prima facie those
of the preceding year, if the business has been
conducted previously BY the same parties OF
y by parties to whom they claim TO be success
a sors.
If the firm or company be new, the amount
% of gross sales for the first two months shall be
;, considered the basis, and six times that
a amount shall De estimated as the annual re-
ceipts of such business; provided, that any
- person commencing business after the first
- of July, peddlers and retail liquor dealers ex-
: copied, shall pay one-half of the obove rates.
= Section That the business of the previous
:. wear. as also the active condition and results
. of business of the current year for new firms
a associations or corporations, for the purpose
;, of calculating licences shall be ascertained on
-. of he DersOu persons