The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-01-04

and numbered from enc upwards, one Of
which he shall issue for each such licensed
vehicle. Any person driving any sucn Ye hls
cles without having first paid the required
license, and to whose cart, dfay, wagon
or other vehicle is not attached license
plate issued to him fur Inc current year,
than ten dollars, CT be imprisoned for
period OF six TO rEseiye hours. one or botn,
at the discretion Il Inc mayor
That each ana every pawnbroker or
keeper OF pawn Office snail be required 10
pay an annual license Of $50.
That all travelling vendors OF stoves,
lightning RODS and clocks, or otner mef-
chandise, shall pay license annually OF
$l00.
PISTOLS, RIFLES AND CARTRIDGES.
Paragraph 14.-TAat every wholesale
dealer in pistols or pistol cartridges, flnes
or rife cartridges, blank pistols and blank
pistol cartridges ia this town shall pay an
annual license tax on said business gradu-
ated as follows
First class-When gross sales are S10,-
600 or more the license shall be $50.
Second ciass-When gross sales are less
than $4,000, the license shall be $35.
Third cIass-Nhen gross sales are un-
der $4,000, the license shall be SO.
Provided, no dealer shall be deemed
wholesale dealer, unless he or they sell to
dealers for resale.
Section BE it ,ordained, etc, That
every retail dealer in pistols or pistol
cartridges, rifles or rifle cartridges, blank
pistols or blank pistol cartridges, in this
town, shall pay aa annual license tax on
said business graduated as follows
First class-When gross safes are $4,000
or more, the license shall be $500.
Second class-When gross sales are less
than $4,000 and more than $500, the
license shall be $50.
Third ciass-When gross sales are less
l1an $500, the license shall be 800.
Said licenses shall be collected by the
tax collector of the town Of Donaldsonyille
ia the same manner ana at the same time
oS arc iipGySa
Be 1t further ordained, etc, That whose
ever shall sell at wholesale or retail, pis-
tots pistol cartridges, rifles or rifle car
tridges without first obtaining the license
herein provided fer or without first OBJ
tanning the license which may be imposed
by this ordinance for the sale of pistols,
pistol cartridges, rifles, rifle cartridges,
blank pistols and blank pistol cartridges,
snail be guilty OF q misdemeanor, and
upon conviction, shall be fined not less
tnan fifty dollars, or imprisoned for not
more than sixty days. or both, at the dis
erection OF the court.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Section Be it further ordained, etc,
That when any two or more kinds of bust
pressly provided for, there shall be a sepa-
rate license required FOR each kind of bust
ness.
Section 4-That the annual receipts.
capital, sales and premiums in this ordi-
nance referred to as basis Of license, are
those for the year for which the license is
granted tine 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
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 amount shall be estimated as
the annual receipts of such business; pro
ytded, that any person commencing busi-
ness after the first day of July, peddIers
and ataiI Flaalo py-an cd Shal
pay one-haf of the above rates.
Section 5.-That the business of the pre-
yious year, as also the active condition and
results of business of the current year for
for the purpose of calculating licenses,
shall be aseertained on the sworn state
ment of the person or persons III interest,
his or their duly authorized agents or
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 sumHlariiy, whether an an
sWer be thereto fled or not On the trial
of said rule the books and written entries
and memoranda of said person or persons,
firms companies, corporations, OF 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 ne may employ or the
court may appoint provided, that this in
spectfon 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 rectiication
shall be made as ordered by the court
Section 6.-Be it further ordained, etc,
That if any business shall be conducted
without a license in cases herein provided,
the officer whose duty it is to issue Ii
chs III g. J.
town council on motion in the proper
court as provided in the constitution, take
a rule on the party parties doing such
business, to show cause, on the fifth day,
thereof, which may be tried out of term
time and in chambers, and shall always be
tried by preference, why said party or par
ties should not pay the amount of the
license" claimed and penalties, or be or
dered to cease from further pursuit of said
business until after having obtained
license and in case such rule is made abb
solute, the order thereon granted shall be
considered a Judgment in favor of the
town for the amount deereed to be due by
the defendant for license and penalty and
costs heretofore and hereinafter provided
for. and shall be executed in the same
manner as other judgments and every yio-
tatlon of the order of the court shall be
considered as a contempt thereof, and be
punished according to law.
1t is hereby expressly provided that each
person, association of persons business
!.
firm or corporation, required to take out
license under this ordinance shall be re-
Qulred to post the same in a conspicuous
place in his or their place of business, I'M
der penalty Of not less than ten nor
more than one hundred dollars, recover
able by the town collector before any court
OF competent jurisdictions and it shall be
the duty of the town collector to visit in
person or by deputies the several places of
business herein mentioned and ascertain
that the provisions OF this section are
strictly carried out.
Section BE it further ordained etc,
Ihat the only legal evidence that license
has been paid shall be the appropriate form
OF license issued by the town treasurer,
ana no receipt issued by a town collector
IN place of the license itself shall be valid
and this CLAUSE shall be construed to pre-
vent the town collector from issuing re-
ceipt in lieu of the appropriate form to
any person, association of persons, bust
ness firm or corporation.
Section S.-Be it further ordained etc.
That the tax collector shall prepare and
Keep a book in which he shall record or
ME these statements made under oath of
ali persons, association Of persons, bust
ness llfms or corporations, who may apply
Tor license to pursue any trade, profess
SION, vocation, calling or business under
this ordinance
=, Section Be it further ordained etc,
Ihat tae town collector is hereby required
TO keep 4 license. register, in which he shall
enter the names OF all persons, associa-
t!on OF persons, business firms or corpora
lions with the trade profession vocation
GAZING or business pursued, the class and
graduation OF the same, the amount of
license thereon, ana the date OF the col
lection or payment thereof Prior to the
annual meeting of the town council said
coileeEof shall make out and forward to
the town treasurer a full and COMPLETE
transcript of the said license register, a
certified copy Of which transcript the
treasurer shall lay before the town council,