The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-01-02

or spaces is less than one thousand, thu
license shall be $25.
i That no museum, menagerie, floating
opera, circus or other travelling show shall
be permitted to make exhibitions within
this parish unless they have first paid q
license based on the number of attaches
whether proprietofs, performers or other
employees, as follows:
| First class-When the number of said
persons is fifty or more, the license shall
Second class When the number of said
! persons is twenty-five or more and less
than fifty, the license shall be SIS.
Third elass-When the number of said
persons is less than twenty-five, the license
! shall be $50.
That for every business of flying horses
| or other legitimate amusement, exhibition,
/ etc, not otherwise provided for. tne license
shall be SO
PEDDLERs AND HAwKERs
Paragraph 9.-That each and every ped
der or haWker shall pay an annual license
| graded as follows
When travelling on foot, $50; when trav-
! cling on horseback, $50; when travelling
/ in one-horse vehicle, $T5; 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
! 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 paroehial or
/ executive officers are hereby empowered
/ and directed to cause all peddlers or
! haWkers to exhibit their licenses, and the
said peddler or haWker falling to exhibit
| the same, the said officers directed and
| empowered by this ordinance to seize said
| stock of merchandise and turn same over
/ to any court of competent Jurisdiction,
/ This act.
| Provided, further, that said executive
! officer shall be entitled to receive as fees
| the sum of ten dollars in each and every
! n pp hour yAr air
or clerks employed by the aid peddler OF
| howker, when peddling without a 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-
| der 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 fol-
! 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
| lions
| sUsTENANCE, REFREsHMENT AND LODGING
Paragraph 10.-Ihat for every business
of keeping a hotel or boarding house where
lodging and eating. are combined, the Ii
cense shall be based on the number of fur
nished lodging room for guests, as fol
First class-When said rooms are in
number thirty or more, the license shall
| be $50.
Second class-Nhen said rooms are in
number fifteen or more and less than
| thirty, the license shall be $40.
Third class-When said rooms are in
number twelve or more and less than
fifteen, the license shall be SIS
Fourth elass-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
| t50i 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 num-
Der OF said rooms is less than provided for
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.
RARR00AIS, BILLIARD TABLES, ETC
Paragraph 11.-That for every business
OF keeping barroom, cabaret, coffee house,
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 elass-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 $780,
Provided. no license shall be charged for
selling refreshments for charitable pur-
poses; provided further, that no establish
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
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
the Issuance to him of any license, shall
address q sworn petition to the police
Jury IN which be shalt state the loca-
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 firm or corporation, the |
style of he firm or the name of the corpora |
tIon 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 I
character, and that such persons, firm or |
corporation, or any member officer or
stn2kholder 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-
gaging in said business. This petition
must be accompanied by the affidavit of
two reputable citizens domiciIed in the
truth of all the allegations contained in |
applicants petition, as hereinaboye speei-
led Notice of the fling of this petition
setting forth the name of the applicant |
The place where he intends to locate his
establishment shall be published during ten
lays IN daily newspaper published in the
parish of Ascension, or if there be no
ially newspaper published in the parish of
A., ; Gen rs sion toni. in that case said notice
newspaper published in the parish of As
:ension; after said publication and upon
Tue proof thereof the police jury shall
proceed to pass upon said application. The
'TaInance OF the police jury granting APP
'hcants such permission shall be applicants
warrant for obtaining a license after paw |
ng Tor the license according to the CLASH
leatIon contained in this ordinance. f.
loWeyer, an opposition is fled to an APP |
'deant,s petition, the police jury shall
lear the parties eontradictoriIy and in a |
manner, and with as little DELAY |
IS possible and dispose of the matter ac-
ordingly.
Provided further That no privilege for the
pehlhg OF any bafroom, cabaret, coffeeI
ouse, cafe, beer saoon, liquor exchange
rInklng saloon, grog shop, beer house orA !
Ger garden within three hundred feet of | /
ny church. or of any school where children {
re taught shall be granted f
Nhan any Kind of business provided for t