The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-12-30

First Glass-When the number OF salo
persons is fifty or more, the license snail
be $3.50.
Second Class-When the number OF
said persons is twenty-five or more ana
less than fifty, the license shall be Sl2o:
That no license for street fair carnival
company or any amusement company
shall be issued for longer time than
thirty days.
That for every business OF flying
horses or other legitimate amusement,
exhibition, ETC., not otherwise PROVIDED
for, the license shall be Slo.
Peddlers and Hawkers.
Peddleds and Hawkers.
Paragraph 9.-That each and every
peddler or hawker shall pay an a1muai
license graded as follows:
When travelling on foot, S25; When
travelling on horseback, $50; when traV-
cling in two-lorse vehicle, $50; when
travelling in, one-horse vehicle s35; when
travelling on any kind of water craft
$1O0; and
Provided, further, that no person shall
be allowed to sell goods as the clerk or
clerks Of peddler or hawker, but that
he or they must pay license IN his or
their own name, but that this provlso
shall not apply to water craft; and
Provided, further, that all munlclpal
or executive officers are hereby empoW-
cred and directed to cause all peddlers
or hawkers to exhibit their licenses, and
the said peddler or hawker failing to ex-
hibit the same, the said officers are dl-
rected and empowered by this ordinance
to seize said stock of merchandise ano
turn same over to any court OF compe-
tent Jurisdiction, with the information as
to the violation of this act.
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 said peddler
or hawker, when peddling without a IL
cense in violation of this law; the same
amount of ten dollars to be recovered be-
fore any court of competent jurisdiction
out of the goods SO seized.
Provided, further, that no license shall
be issued to any peddler or hawker Tor
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 Tor
immediate or future delivery. The pro-
visions governing peddlers shall not pc
construed to apply to persons selling and
distributing fresh meat eggs, fish, poul-
| try and vegetables, fruitn and ice, nor to
persons selling their own work or pfoduc-
| tions.
Sustenance, Refreshment and Lodging.
Paragraph 1o.-That for every bust
ness of keeping a, hotel or boarding house
| where lodging and eating are combined
the license shall bAbased on the number
/ Of furnished rooms for guests as
folio vs.
First Class When said rooms are In
number thirty or more, the license shall
be $50. 3
Second CIass-When said rooms are in
number fifteen or more and less than
thirty, the license shall be $50.
Third Class-When said rooms are in
| number twelve or more and less than
fifteen, the license shall be SIS.
Fourth Class-When said rooms are in
| number nine or more and less 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 SIS.
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
number of said rooms IS less than pro.
| vided 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.
Barrooms, Billiard Tables, Etc.
/ Paragraph 11.-That for every bust
ness of keeping a barroom, cabaret, cot
fee 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 annua
gross receipts of said business, as fol
lows:
First Class-When receipts are $3.50
or more, the license shall be 81 900.
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 $1,000, the license shall be $500
Provided, no license shall be charged
for selling refreshments for charitabl,
purposes; provided, further, that no es