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

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&. L. Pettnger, Clerk.
Petition of Prof. j. N. Anglin to
open street adjacent to his property
read.
Motion made, seconded and carried,
That it is the opinion of this Board,
that the lease on this street referred to
was accepted by all parties in good
faith, and the Board does not feel that
it would be proper to upset said lease.
That the ownership of lease of this
road was entirely with petitioner and
Mrs. L. w. Newsham.
After being read and adopted Sec
ton by section, the following ordi-
nance was adopted as a whole:
AN ORDINANCE.
An Ordinance to levy, collect and en-
force payment of an annual license
tax upon all persons, associations of
persons, or business firms or corpo-
rations, pursuing any trade, pro-
fession, vocation, calling or business
in the Town of st. FrancSville,
Louisiana, except those that are ex-
presSly exempted from such license
tax by Article 229 of the Constitu-
ton of the State of Louisiana.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the Town of
st. Francisville, State of Louisiana,
in regular session convened on this
Tuesday the It'll day of December,
1909:
Section |. That there is hereby levi
ed an annual license tax for the year
Q9lO) 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 Town of ST,
FranciSville, La, which may be subject
to such license tax under Article 229
of the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana.
Section ,. That on the 2nd day of
January, 1910, the Tax Collector shall
begin to 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 municipality,
any trade, profession, calling, voca-
ton or business, a license tax as here
in provided. All licenses shall be due
and collectible during the first two
months of the year 1910: and all unpaid
licenses 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 munich
pal 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-
yided 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 1898, and the subsequent acts
Of the General Assembly of the State
Of Louisiana amendatory thereof. It
IS hereby declared to be the intention
Of this body to herein levy the same
license tax for municipal purposes,
Doth as to graduation and amount as
S now imposed by the General AS
'embly for State purposes, to which
avs special reference is hereby made
rs being part hereof for the purpose
lforesaid; PROVIDED, that this re-
shall not apply to dealers in
distilled, alcoholic and malt liquors,
he license for the carrying on of which
business shall be as hereinafter pro.
'ided in this ordinance.
Section 4. That the procedure in
he collection of municipal licenses
erein levied, and that to ascertain