The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-31

/ empowered by this ordinance to seize said
stock of merchandise and turn same oyer
to any court of competent Jurisdiction
with due information as to the violation Of
/ this act.
Provided, further. that said executive
officer shall be entitled to receive as fees
! the sum of ten dollars in each and every
/ case from any peddief or haWker, clerR
! or clerks employed by the aid peddler o.
/ howker, when peddling without licenst
! in violation of this law: the same amount
/ of ten dollars to be recovered before any
court OF competent jurisdiction out of the
i goods so seized.
Provided further, that no license shall
| be issued to any peddler or hawker fol
less than the full rate for the current
year.
Provided further, that the words "ped
i der or hawker' under the provisions OF
i this ordinance shall be held to include and
| apply to all transient merchants and
1 itinerant vendors selling to consumers BY
i sample or by taking orders, whether fol
/ Immediate or future delivery. The pro
4 visions governing peddlers shall not Bt
construed to apply to persons selling anc
/ distributing fresh meat, eggs, fish, poultry
1 and vegetables, fruits and ice, nor to per.
/ sons selling their own work or produe.
tionS.
/ susrENANcE, REFREsHMENr AND LODGING.
Paragraph 1G.-That for every business
1 of keeping a hotel or boarding house wher
/ lodging and eating are combined, the u
| cense shall be based on the number of fur
4
First class-When said rooms are il
number thirty or more, the license shall
Second class-When said rooms are. il
number fifteen or more and less thar
/ thirty. the license shall be S20.
Third elass-When said rooms are, Il
number twelve or more and less than
fifteen, the license shall be SIS.
/ Fourth elass-When said rooms are il
number nine or more and les than twelve
L fh4A1 ffaar hall EoG
Fifth cIass-When said rooms are i
number nine or more and less than twelve
/ the license shall be So.
Provided, that boarding houses pay fit
| 600 per cent of the rates of hotels; ant
Provided, that no person who keeps !
/ boarding house in connection with schools
| or colleges for the accommodation of SIT
dents and employees thereof, shall pay an
1 license as boarding house keeper, and tina
no license shall be required when the mum
| Der of said rooms is less than provided TO
/ In class five.
| For every business Of lodging alone, tn
| license shall be estimated On the same basi
| as for hotels and boarding houses, bu
| graduated at one-half the above rates
/ RARRooMs, BILLIARD TABLES ETC.
| Paragraph 1t-That for every bushes
/ of keeping a barroom, cabaret, coffee houst
] cafe, beer. saloon, grog shop, beer house
| beer garden, liquor exchange, drinkin.
saloon s or other place where anything TO !
| drunk or eaten on the premises is sold
directly or Indirectly, the license shall b
based on the annual gross receipts OF SAL
business, as follows
First class-When receipts are $500 0
| more, the license shall be $1,000.
Second cIass-When said receipts ar
| $4,000 or more, and less than $1,000, tn
| license shall be $3.50.
| Third claSs-When said receipts are les:
than $4,000, the license shall be $500.
Provided, no license shall be charged TO
selling refreshments for charitable pur
| poses provided further, that no establish
ment selling or giving away or otherwise
disposing of any spirits, wines. alcoholic
1 malt liquors in less quantities than fiYt
| gallons, shall pay less than $500.
Provided further, that any person or 6rn
| desiring to conduct barroom, cabaret
| coffee house. cafe, beer saloon, liquor ex
| change drinking saloon, grog shop. heel
| house or beer garden and desiring a icens
1 to conduct such business in any locality
1 within the town of Donaldsonville, prior tt
/ the issuance to him of any license, shal
| address a sworn petition to the towr
| council in which he shall state the 10ca
| ton of the place or places, the street anc
! the number in which 1t is intended that
such establishment shall be conducted; th
name and place of residence of the persol
Or persons applying for the license, or i
/ the applicant is a firm or corporation, tn
/ style of he firm or the name of the corpora.
! ton and the names and places of residence
1 Of the individual members of the firm o.
| the officers and stockholders of said cor
| poration, as the case may be, and shall
contain Allegations that said person o.
| persons or officers or stockholders in sale
J corporation are citizens of the state OF
Louisiana, law-abiding and of good mora
| character, and that such persons, firm OF
corporation, or any member, officer OF
stakeholder thereof, is not disqualified m
der the provisions of the license law eff Tia
state OF Louisiana, regulating and affecting
the sale of intoxicating liquors, from en-
gaging in said business. This petition
| must be accompanied by the affidavit oil
two reputable citizens domfeiIed in the
town of Donaldsonville, vouchfng for the
E1J1f nf oil fba J1oCro tot, =,
applicants petition, as hereinaboVe speci-
fed. Notice of the filing of this petition
setting forth the name of the applicant
the place where he intends TO locate his
establishment, snail be published during ten
days in a daily newspaper published in the
town of DonaldsonyiEle, or If there be no
daily newspaper published in the town of
Donaldsonyille, in that case said notice
shall be published three times In weekly
newspaper published in the town of Donald
sonyille; after said publication, and upon
due proof thereof the town council shall
proceed to pass upon said application. The
ordinance of the town council granting ap-
plicants such permission shall be applicants
warrant for obtaining license after pay
ing for the license according to the classi-
6cation contained in this ordinance If
however, an opposition is filed to an ap-
ndcants petition the town council shall
near the parties contradictorily and in
summary manner, and with as little delay
as possible and dispose of the matter ac-
cordingly.
Provided further, that the town council
shall not grant any privilege for the oDen-
ing OF any barroom, carbaret, coffee house
care, beer saloon, liquor exchange drinking
saloon, grog shop, beer house or beer
garden, except upon the written consent OF
majority of the bona fide DroDertv
owners, or their agents. within three hun
dred feet moving along the street front of
the proposed location of such barroom
cabaret, coffee house, cafe, beer saloon.
liquor exchange, drinking saloon, grog shop
beer house or beer garden: provided that
the town council shall have power and
authority to refuse to grant any such
written consent Of the property owners or
their agents aforesalu. whenever the council
shall deem such refusal advisable
The town council shall revoke any priyi-
lege on the petition of a like number of
persons, any prior privilege to the contrary
Notwithstanding. No privilege for the
opening OF any barroom, cabaret, coffee
house, cafe, beer saoon, liquor exchange
drinking saloon, grog shop, beer house or
peer garden within three hundred feet of
any chaEch, or OF any school where children
are taught shall be granted
When any kind OF business provided for
IN this paragraph shall be combined with
any other business provided herein, the
same classification shall be made as pre-
serlp PED n this paragraph; but the price of
FOR each business separately.
Ihat for the business of keeping billiard |
tanle, pigeon hole. Jenny Lind, pool or
ossss1teaie oE teA-pin Alleys, license of |
$3.50 for each table or alley shall be paid. I
IN addition to any other license due by /
the establishment in which said tables or |
alleys may be situated.
Thus for every business conducted for
the selling of spfrftuous, yinous or matt /
liquors by the wholesale or original pack
ages in quantities of not less than five
gallons, the license shall be based on the
annual gross receipts Of said business, asl
follows: .
First elass-When gross annual receipts
IRE $4,000 or more, $500.
Second class-When gross ANIMAL ra
,eipts are less than $4,000. $3.50.