The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-12-11
Police jury Liquor Ordinance.

| persons. or business llrmS or cOfpO-
rations, pursuing any trade, pro-
feSSion, vocation, calling or business
in the parish of West Feliciana,
Louisiana, except those that are eX-
pressly excepted from such license
tax by Article 229 of the Constitu-
ton of the State of Louisiana.
Be it ordained by the Police Jury
of the Parish of West Feliciana, State
of Louisiana, in regular session con-
\ vened on this "wednesday the LIST day
of December, 1909:
Section |. That there is hereby levi
ed an annual license tax for the year
| (l9l0) nineteen hundred and ten, upon
each person, association of persons,
or business firms, and corporations
pursuing any trade, profession, call
ing or business, or vocation, conduct
ed, pursued, carried on or operated
within the limits of the Parish of West
Feliciana, La, which may be subject
to such license tax under Article 229
of the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana.
Section 2. That on the 2nd day OF
January, 1910, the Tax Collector shall
begin ID collect, and shall collect as
fast as possible from each of the per-
sons or business firms, associations OF
persons, and corporations pursuing
within the limits of said parish, any
trade, profession, calling, vocation or
, business, a license tax as herein pro-
vided. All licenses shall be due and
colleCtible during the first two months
of the year 1910; and all unpaid licen-
seS shall become delinquent on the first
day of March of said year, and all
firms who commence business after that
date shall become delinquent unless
the license is paid within ten days.
Section 3. That the annual paro-
chial license hereby levied is declared
to be the same as, and to be graduated
| in accordance with the Constitution
and laws of the State of Louisiana
now in force, and is hereby declared
to be the same as to graduation and
in amount as the license laws of the
State of Louisiana now in force pro-
vided for State purposes; and are to
be determined in accordance Herewith,
to-wit: Act Number III of the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana of
the year 1893, and the subsequent acts
of the General Assembly of the State
? of Louisiana amendatory thereof. 1t
is hereby declared to be the intention
of this body to herein levy the same
license tax for parochial purposes,
both as to graduation and amount as
is now imposed by the General AS
Sembly for State purposes, to which
laws special reference is hereby made
as being part hereof for the purpose
aforesaid; PROVIDED, that this re-
strictiOn shall not apply to dealers in
distilled, alcoholic and malt liquors,
the license for the carrying on of which
business shall be as hereinafter pro-
vided in this ordinance.
Section 1. That the procedure in
the collection of parochial licenses
herein levied, and that to ascertain
the amount due for the same, by the
TaX-cOlleCtOr, shall be same as is now
I provided by the law for State pur,
? poses, and particularly in Act No
S III of the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana of the session o.
1898, as amended by the subsequent
= acts of the General Assembly at sub
oOpuChV o0oSlOho, anu JIC peIdllleS
imposed upon, and the interest an(
S costs to be collected from, delinquentS
are declared to be the same, and col
: lected in the same manner as provided
d by said Act of the General Assembly
d las amended by subsequent acts fol
e State purposes.
). Section 5. That upon a business O
operating barroom, cabaret, cafe
B. coffee-house, beer saloon, liquor ex
~ change, drinking saloon, grog.shop
beer-houSe, beer garden, or othej
o places where Spirituous, vinous o.
i malt liquors are sold, directly or in
directly, the license shall be based OF
the annual gross receipts of said bust
- ness as follows, tO-wit:
n First Glass: When said gross an
. nual receipts are Fifty Thousand Dol
>. lar 1850, 0OO.0O) or more, the licens
= shall be Two thousand dollar
(2OOO.OO).
Second Glass: When said gross an
!. nual receipts are Forty Thousan,
- Dollars (4O,OOO.OO) or more, and les
l. than Fifty Thousand $3.50, 100000 tn
l. license shall be eighteen hundred dol
lo,, 1910 nOn my