The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-12-26


or spaces Is less than one thousand, tht
| license shall be SIS.
That no museum, menagerie. floating
i opera, circus or other travelling show shall
| be permitted to make exhibitions within
tbs parish unless they have nrst 6
| license based on the number OF attaches
| whether preprietors, performers or othel
/ employees, as follows:
| First class-When the number Of said
persons is fifty or more, the license shall
/ be 500.
Second class-when the number of said
persons is twenty-five or more and less
| than fifty, the license shall be SIS.
Third class-When the number Of said
persons is less than twenty-five, the license
shall be $50.
That for every business of fying-hor
or other legitimate amusement, exhibition,
etc. not otherwise provided for the license
shall be $40.
PEDDLERs AND HAwKERs.
Paragraph 9.-That each and every ped
! dler. or hawker shall pay an annual license
/ graded as follows:
When travelling on foot, $50 when trav-
| cling on horseback, $50; when travelling
in two-horse vehicle. $100 when travelling
| in one-horse vehicle, $50; when travelling
on any kind of water craft, $500; and
Provided, further, that no person shall
be allowed to sell goods as the clerk or
| clerks of a 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; and
Provided, further, that, all parochial or
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and directed to cause all peddlers or
| hawkers to exhibit their licenses, and the
said peddler or hawker failing to exhibit
the same, the said officers are directed and
| empowered by this ordinance to seize said
stock of merchandise and turn same over
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
Ro from RI faTs how rIoR,
or clerks employed by the aid peddler OF
hoWker, when peddling without license
IN violation of this law: the same amount
of ten dollars to be recovered before any
court of competent jurisdiction out of the
goods so seized.
Provided further, that no license shall
De issued to any peddler or hawker for
less than the full rate for the current
year.
Provided further, that the words ped
der or hawker" under the provisions Of
this ordinance shall be held to include and
apply to all transient merchants and
ftinerant vendors selling to consumers by
sample or by taking orders, whether for
immediate or future delivery. The pro-
visions governing peddlers shall not be
construed to apply to persons selling and
distributing fresh meat, eggs, fish, poultry
and vegetables, fruits and ice, nor to per
sons selling their own work or produc
tfons.
SUsTENANCE, REFRESHafENT AND LODGING
Paragraph 10.-That for every business
Of keeping a hotel or boarding house where
lodging and eating are combined, the IL
cense shall be based on the number of fur
nished lodging room for guests, as fol-
lows:
First class-When said rooms are in
number thirty or more, the license shall
be $40.
Second class-When said rooms are in
number fifteen or more and less than
thirty, the license shall be $50.
Third class-When said rooms are in
number twelve or more and less than
fifteen, the license shall be SIS.
Fourth class-When said rooms are in
number nine or more and les than twelve
the license shall be $12
Fifth class-When said rooms are in
number nine or more and less than twelve
the license shall be SIS.
Provided, that boarding houses pay fifty
t50) per cent of the rates of hotels; and
Provided, that no person who keeps a
boarding house in connection with schools
or colleges for the accommodation of stu
dents and EMPLOYERS thereof, shall nav any
license as boarding house keeper,-and that
no license shall be required when the num-
Der Of said rooms is less than provided for
For every business of lodging alone, the
license shall be estimated on the same ssasis-
as for hotels and b6saffGding houses, but
graduated at one-half the above rates.
RARRooM3, BILLIARD TABLES, ETC.
PafagraDh 11.-That for every business
OF keaef1.ss barroom, cabaret, coffee house,
cafe beer saloon, grog shop, beer house.
saloon or other place where anything to be
drunk or eaten on the premises is sold,
directly or indirectly, the license shall be
based on the annual gross receipts of said
business, as follows:
First cIass-When receipts are $500 or
more, the license shall be $1,000.
Second class-When said receipts are
$4,000 or more, and less than $1,000, the
license shall be $3.50.
Third cIass-When said receipts are less
than $4,000, the license shall be $500.
Provided, no license shall be charged for
selling refreshments for charitable pur-
poses; provided further, that no establish
ment selling or giving away or otherwise
disposing of any spirits, wines, alcoholic or
malt liquors in less quantities than five
gallons, shall pay less than $500.
Provided further, that any person or firm
desiring. to conduct a barrOom, cabaret,
coffee house, cafe, beer saloon, liquor ex-
house or beer garden, and desiring license
70 conduct such business in any locality
within the parish. of .Ascf nsion, prior to
the issuance to him of any license, shall
address a sworn petition to the police
jury in which he shall state the 1oca-
ton of the place or places, the street and
the number in which it is intended that
such establishment shall be conducted the
name and place of residence of the person
or persons applying for the license, or if
the applicant is a firm or corporation, the
style Of he firm or the name of the corpora
ton and the names and places of residence
of the individual members of the firm or
the officers and stockholders of said cor
p0ration, as the case may be, and shall
contain allegations that said person or
persons or officers or stockholders in said
corporation are citizens of the state of
Louisiana, lawabiding and of good moral
character, and that such persons, firm or
corporation, or any member, officer or
stakeholder thereof, is not disqualified I'M
der the provisions of the license law of the
state of Louisiana, regulating and affecting
the sale of intoxicating liquors, from en-
inrT cot h115fT SIC
must be accompanied by the affidavit of
two reputable citizens, domieiled in the
parish of Ascension vouching for the
truth of all the allegations contained in
applicants petition, as hereinaboye speci-
fed. Notice of the filing of this petition, |
setting forth the name of the applicant, |
the place where he intends to locate his |
shall be published during ten |
days IN daily newspaper published in the |
parish of Ascension. or if there be no
daily newspaper published in the parish of
lb sfen n sion IN that case said notice
newspaper published in the parish of As
cension; after said publication and upon |
due proof thereof the, police jury shall |
ordinance Of the police jury granting APP |
plicants such permission shall be applicants i
warrant for obtaining a license after pay |
ing for the license according to the ciassi- /
dcation contained in this ordinance. If. |
however, an opposition is filed to an ap- /
plcant,s petition, the police jury shall /
hear the parties contradictorily and in a |
summary manner, and with as little delay /
as possible and dispose of the matter ae-
cordingiy.
Provided further, That no privilege for the
opening OF any barroom,. cabaret, coffee
house. cafe, beer saoon, liquor exchange,
drinking saloon, grog shop, beer house ORR
beer garden within three hundred feet of I
my church, or of any school where children
ire taught shall be granted
When any kind of business provided for
IN this paragraph shall be combined with /