The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-12-23

ton; provided, no license shall be issued
hereunder for less than $3.50.
That all travelling vendors of stoves,
lightning rods and clocks, shall pay Ii
cense annually of $500.
That for every individual OF company
owning any cart, dray or wagon, OF We
hicle used for public hire for hauling
freight, merchandise or other articles, the
license shall be five ($5) dollars The
mayor is authorized and required to pur-
chase a sufficient number of license
plates with the date of the current year
stamped thereon and numbered from one
| upward, one of which he shall issue, Tor
each such licensed vehicle. Any person
driving any such vehicle without having
| first paid the required license, and to
whose cart, dray, wagon or other vehicle
is not attached license plate issued to
him for the current year, shall be hned
not less than five nor more than ten
dollars, or be imprisoned for PERIOD OF
six or twelve hours, one or both, at the
discretion of the mayor
/ That each and every pawnbroker OF
keeper of pawn office be required to
pay an annual license Of $50.
That all travelling vendors of stoves,
lightning rods and clocks, or other mer-
chandise, shall pay license annually OF
$500.
Pistols, Rifles and Cartridges.
| Paragraph 14.-That every wholesale
dealer IN pistols or pistol cartridges,
rifles or rifle cartridges, blank pistols
and blank pistol cartridges shall pay an
annual license tax on said business grad
uated as follows:
First Class-When gross sales are
$4,000 or more, the license shall be Soo.
Second Class-When gross, sales are
less than $4,000, the license shall be S35.
Third Class-When gross sales are un.
der $4,000, the license shall be S25.
Provided, no dealer shall be deemed a
, wholesale dealer unless he or they sell
to dealers for resale.
Section 2. That every retail dealer II
r pistols or pistol cartridges, rifles or rifle
: cartridges, blank pistols, or blank PTS
: toll cartridges shall pay an annual Il
3 cense tax on said business, graduated al
follows:
4 First Class-When gross sales ar
r SIS, 600 or more, the license shall be S2oe
i, Second Class-When gross sales ar
i; less than $4,000 and more than $2,5oo
/ the license shall be $3.50.
o Third Class-When gross sales ar
= less than $500, the license shall be Sloe
e Be it further ordained, ETC., That VINO
= soeyer shall sell at wholesale or retal
n pistols, pistol cartridges, rifles or rlil
cartridges, without first obtaining IN
y license herein provided for, or wlthou
II first obtaining the license which may .
L imposed by this ordinance for the sal
II Of pistols, pistol cartridges, rifles, ri
t, cartridges, blank pistols and blank plstt
n cartridges, shall be guilty OF mlsd
,, meanor, and upon conviction shall
,e fined not less than fifty dollars, or IN
y prisoned for not more than sixty DAY
IL or both at the discretion of the court.
Miscellaneous Provisions.
d Section 8. Be it further ordained, ete
d That when any two or more kinds ls.
n, business are combined, except as here
IS expressly provided for, there shall pc
lie separate license required Tor eacn ~ ~
II of business.
a. Section 4. Be It further ordained, et'
That the annual receipts, capital, sal
il and premiums in this ordinance reterrs
81 to as basis Of license, are those I
Sc the wear for which the license is gran
be ed. the standard for their estimate
lie shall be prima facie those Of the prece
"a ing wear, if the business has been GO
Quoted previously by the same part
or or by parties to whom they claim to
lit successors.
X If the firm or company be new,
We amount Of gross sales for the hrst y
he months shall be considered the pas
s., and six times that amount shall be es
mated as the annual receipts OF 81
re- business, provided, that any person co
mencing business after the first day
re- July shall pay one-half Of the abe
rates. Peddlers, retail and wholes'
ess liquor dealers, museums, menagerl
OF floating theaters, clrcuses, OF otnef -
Ike cling shows. excepted.
Section S. Be it further ordained, e.
That the business of the previous ye
So as also the active condition and resu
md Of business of the current year Tor
,da firms, associations or corporations,
ex the purpose Of calculating licenses, 81
be ascertained on the sworn statem
are of the person or persons in interest,
Is. or their duly authorized agents or OH
les made before the tax collector OF
ian deputy; provided, if the tax collec
be not satisfied with said sworn st;
are ment, he shall traverse same by
IS. taken in the proper court, which
to shall be tried sunlmarily, whether
ned answer be thereto filed or not. On
ors trial of said rule the books and writ
entries aud memoranda OF said per
ter, or persons, firms, companies, corp
out tions or parties, shall be brought