The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-07
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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 section; pro
vided, no license shall be issued hereunder
for less than $50.
That all travelling vendors of stoves.
lightning rods and clocks, shall pay a IL
cense annually of 500.
That for every individual or company
owning any cart, dray or wagon, or vehi-
Gle used for public hire for hauling freight,
merchandise or other articles the license
shall be five tsol dollars. The mayor is
authorized and required to purchase a suf-
icient 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 vehi-
cles without having first paid the required
license, and to whose cart draw wagon
or other vehicle is not attached a license
plate issued to him for the current year.
shall be fined not less than five nor more
than ten dollars, or be imprisoned for a
period of six to 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
pay an annual license of $50.
That all travelling vendors of stoves.
lightning rods and clocks, or other mer-
.handfse, shall pay license annually of
$10O.
PISTOLS, RIFLES AND CARTRIDGES.
Paragraph 14.-That every wholesale
ieaier in pistols pistol cartridges rifles
lr rife cartridges, blank pistols and blank
pistol cartridges in this town shall pay an
annual license tax on said business gradu-
ated as follows
First class-When gross sales are $10.-
000 or more, the license shall be $50.
Second class-When gross sales are less
han $4,000, the license shall be $35.
Third class-When gross sales are I'M
Ter $4,000, the license shall be $50.
Provided, no dealer shall be deemed
Wholesale dealer, unless he or they sell to
teaierS for resale.
Section BE it ordained, etc, That
very retail dealer in pistols or pistol
'istols or blank pistol cartridges, in this
own, shall pay an annual license tax on
aid business graduated as follows:
First class-When gross sales are $4,000
II more, the license shall be $780,
Second class-When gross sales are less
han $4,000 and more than $2500, the
license shall be $3.50.
Third class-When gross sales are less
han $4,000, the license shall be 500.
Said licenses shall be collected by the
ak collector of the town of DonaIdsonvile
the same manner and at the same time
IS are collected other license taxes.
Be it further ordained, ETC., That whose
,ver shall sell at wholesale or retail, pis-
OILS, pistol cartridges, rifles OF rifle car
ridges without first obtaining the license
ierein provided for, or without first OBJ
aiming the license which may be imposed
" this ordinance for the sale of pistols
pistol cartridges, rifles, rifle cartridges,
Ink pistols ana DianK pistol cartridges,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction, shall be fined not less than
fifty dollars, or imprisoned for not more
nan sixty days, or both, at the discretion
# the court
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Section 3.-Be it further ordained. etc,
That when any two or more kinds of bust
aess are combined, except as herein ex-
3reSsly provided for, there shall be sepa-
cate license required for each kind of BUSH
ness
Section 4.-That the annual receipts.
capital, sales and premiums in this orfi-
nance referred to as a 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 or by par
ties to whom they claim to be successors
IL 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 amount shall be estimated as
the annual receipts of such business pro-
Vlded, that any person commencing bust
ness after the first day OF July, peddlers
and retail liquor dealers excepted, shall
pay one-half of the above rates.
Section 5.-That the business of the pre-
Vlous year, as also the active condition and
results of business of the current year for
new firms, associations or corporations
for the purpose of calculating licenses
shall be ascertained on the sworn state
ment of the person or persons in interest,
officer, made before the town collector or
his deputy; provided, that If the town col
lector be not satisfied with said sworn
statement, he shall traverse same by a
rule taken in the proper court, which rule
shall be tried summarily, whether an an
swer be thereto filed or not. On the trial
Of said rule the books and written entries
ana memoranda of said person or persons
hrms, companies, corporations, or parties,
shall be brought into court and subjected
to the inspection and examination of the
court, the officer who took the rule and
such experts as he may employ or the
spection shall not be construed as emitting
the defendant to introduce in evidence said
books and documents any more than he
would have been without such inspection
provided. also, that the license shall issue
IN accordance with the sworn statement
Notwithstanding the prospect or tendency
of the rule, and the final rectifcation
shall be made as ordered by the court
Section 6.-Be it further ordained etc.
Enat II any business shall be conducted
without license in cases herein provided
the offleer whose duty. it is to issue IL
eenses shall, through the attorney for the
town council on motion in the proper
court as provided in the constitution take
a rule on the party or parties doing such
exclusive of holidays after the service
thereof, which may be tried out of term
time and IN chambers, and shall always be
trled 9y preference, why said party or par
license claimed and penalties, or be or
dered to cease from further pursuit of said
business until after having obtained a
Incense ana IN case such rule is made abb
considered judgment in favor of the
town for the amount decreed to be due by
the defendant for license and penalty and
costs heretofore and hereinafter provided
Tor, ana snail be executed in the same
manner as other judgments and every VIC
lation OF the order of the court shall be
CONSIDERED as contempt thereof, and be
punishable according to law
1t IS hereby expressly provided that each
person, association of persons, business
drm or corporation, required to take out
a license under this ordinance, shall be re-
quired to post the same in consnicuous
place in his or their place of business nm
der penalty of not less than ten nor
more than one hundred dollars recover
ape py the town collector before any court
9I competent Jurisdiction: and it shall he
me duty OF the town collector to visit in
person Or by deputies the several places of
business herein mentioned and ascertain
.naL the PROVISIONS of this section are
Section BE it further ordained. etc.
Ihat the only legal evidence that license
las pee oeen paid shall be the appropriate form
and no receipt issued by a town COLLECTOR
n place OF the license itself shall be valid ; |
md this clause shall be construed to pre-
. lent Inc i Town collector from issuing re-
,eip1 IN lIeu OF the appropriate form to |
my person, association of persons, bust |
less firm or corporation
- section S.-Be it further ordained, etc. |
mat ldn the tax collector SHAH prepare and |
5 Zee a Dook IN which he shall record or /
lie THESE statements made under oath of |
III persons, association of persons. bust J
Tess hrms or corporations. who may apply
or, or license TO pursue any trade profession,
:, Section 9.-Be 1t further ordained, etc.
ma. ! a the town collector is hereby required
Q keep license register, in which he shall
hter the names of all persons, assoefa-
ION OF persons, business firms or corpora
IONS with the trade. profession yocation |