The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-07

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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 peddler or haWker, clerk
or clerks employed by the aid peddler or
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
be issued to any peddler or hawker for
less than the full rate for the current
year.
Provided further, that the words ped
dler or hawker'' under the provisions of
this ordinance shall be held to include and
apply to all transient merchants and
itinerant vendors selling to consumers by
sample or by taking orders, whether for
immediate or future delivery. The pro-
visions governing peddlers shall not De
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-
tons.
SuSTENANCE,s REFREsH1dENT AND LODGING.
Paragraph 10.-That for every business
OF keeping hotel or boarding house where
lodging and eating are combined the IL
eense shall be based on the number of fur
nished lodging room for guests as fol-
lows:
First cIass-When said rooms are in
number thirty or more, the license shall
be $50.
Second class-When said rooms are in
number fifteen or more and less than
thirty, the license shall be $2o.
Third class-When said rooms are in
number twelve or more and less than
fifteen, the license shall be $50.
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 So
Provided, that boarding houses pay fifty
(5O) 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 employees thereof, shall pay any
license as boarding house keeper, and that
no license shall be required when the mum
Der of said rooms is less than provided fol
in class five.
For every business of lodging alone. the
license shall be estimated on the same basis
as for hotels and boarding houses, but
graduated at one-half the above rates.
RARROoAIS, BILLIARD TABLES, ETC.
Paragraph 11.-That for every. business
cafe, beer saloon, grog shop. beer house;
beer garden, liquor exchange, drinking
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 class-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 $500, the
license shall be $3.50.
Third class-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 OF
malt liquors in less quantities than five
gallons, shall pay less than $500.
Provided further, that any person or firm
desiring to conduct barroom, cabaret,
coffee house, cafe, beer saloon, liquor ex-
change, drinking saloon, grog. shop, beer
house or beer garden, and desiring license
to conduct such business in any locality
within the town of DonaldsonviIle, prior to
the issuance to him of any license, shall
address a sworn petition to the town
council in which he shall state the loca-
ton of the place or places, the street and
the number in which 1t 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 q 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
poration, 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, laW-abiding and of good moral
character, and that such persons, firm or
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stakeholder thereof, is not disqualified ur-
der the provisions of the license law of tb e
state of Louisiana, regulating and affecting
the sale of intoxicating liquors, from en-
must be accompanied by the affidavit of
two reputable citizens, domiciled in the
town of D0naldsonville, yOuching for the
truth of all the allegations contained in
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, shall be published during ten
days in daily newspaper published in the
town of Donaldsonvflle, or if there be no
daily newspaper published in the town of
Donaldsonyine, in that case said notice
shall be published three times in a weekly
newspaper published in the town of Donald
sonville; 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 applicant s
warrant for obtaining a license after pay
ing for the license according to the classi-
hcatton contained in this ordinance. If,
however, an opposition Is filed to an ap-
nlicant's petition, the town council shall
hear the parties contradictory ard in a
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 open
ing OF any barroom, carbaret, coffee house,
cafe, beer saloon, liquor exchange, drinking
saloon, grog shop, beer house or beer
garden, except upon the written consent of
majority of the bona fde property
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
authority to refuse to grant any such
even when accompanied by the
written consent of the property owners or
their agents aforesaid, 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
with ae No privilege for the
house, cafe. beer saoon, liquor exchange,
drinking saloon, grog shop, beer house or
beer garden within three hundred feet of
any church, 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-
scribed in this paragraph but the price of
the licenses shall be to the license requisite
for each business separately.
That for the business of keeping billiard
table, pigeon hole Jenny Lind, pool or
bagatelle or ten-pin alleys, a license of
500 for each table or alley shall be paid,
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 spirituous, vinous or malt
liquors by the wholesale or original pack
ages in quantities of not less than five |
gallons, the license shall be based on the i
annual gross receipts of said business, ast
follows
First class-When gross annual receipts
are $4,000 or more, $500.
Second .class-When gross annual re-
seipts are less than $50 900 $3.50
Provided further, when any business has
already retail liquor license of $500, thew
hall not be REQUIRED to take this additional
wholesale license
SODA WATER, CONNECTIONS, ETC.
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