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and seconded by j. Z. Leblanc
and carried, That the budget be
adopted.
The following ordinance was read:
ORDINANCE NO. Is 0FI91l.
To provide an annual revenue for the
Town of Melville, La, by levying
an annual tax upon all property
situated within the corporate limits
of the said town not exempt from
taxation under the laws and Con-
stitution of the State, and providing
the name of enforcing same.
Section 1. Be it ordained BIZ Ii g
Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the
town Of Melville, la, That for the year
1912 there is hereby levied a tax Of ten
mills I0) on the dollar OF the assessed
valuation of all property situated With
inthe corporate limits of the town, eX-
cept such as is exempt from taxation
under the constitution and existing
laws of the State.
Section 2. Be it further ordained,
etc, That the tax hereby levied shall
be due and payable at the office of the
City Tax Collector, as soon as the tax
roll of said city shall have been COM
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tax collector, and after this ordinance
shall become effective.
Section 8. Be it fl TT b e r ordained,
ETC., That no forced collection of taxes
due upon movable or immoVable prop
erty shall be made before the time or
date set apart for the forcible collec-
ton of State taxes.
Section 4. Be it t II r h e r ordained,
etc, That it shall be the duty of the
City Tax Collector to receive and col
5lect the taxes, interest, penaltiec, and
costs due thereon to the said city,
within such time and in such manne
as is provided by the existing State
laws for the collection Of taxes dae the
State of Louisiana, and is provided for
by the charter of this city.
Section 5. Be itfurther ordained ETC.,
That this ordinance shall take effect
from and afterits PRONUNCIATION.
Section g.. Be it further ordained,
etc, That ali ordinances or parts of or
dinances in conflict herewith, OF in
consistent to this ordinance, be and the
same are hereby repealed.
Thus done and passed in special ses-
sion convened on this ninth day of
December 1911, A. d.
LESTER J. WILLIAMS, Mayor.
Attest: e. y. LEBLANC, Clerk.
Moved by H. s. Joseph, seconded and
carried, That Ordinance No. Is now
pass. On call of the roll the following
vote vas taken:
Y cas-: H. s.. Joseph, G. w. Stone,
6. Mcneil, e. Ct. Richard and =. L. Lee
Blanc.
Nays: None.
The following ordinance was read:
ORDINANCE NO. 16.
To license the business of conducting d
barroom, carbaret, coffee house, cafe,
beer saloon, liquor exchange, drink
ing saloon, grog shop, beer house,
beer garden or other places where
alcoholic or spurious, vinous and
malt liquors or Intoxicating bever-
ages, bitters or medicinal prepare
lions of any kind sold directly or
indirectly, in quantities of less than
five gallons.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Board of Trustees of the town Of Mel
vile, La, III special session convened;
That every person, or persons, eorcor-
alton or corporations or otherwise who
shall engage in the b%usinesso Of conduct
ing a barroom, c~arbaret, coffee house
cafe, beer saloon, liquor exchange,
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beer garden or other place where spir-
itous, vinous or malt liquors, or intox-
icating beverages, bitters or medicinal
preparations of any kind, directly or
Indirectly, are Sold in less quantities
than five gallons the license for the
year eft 1911, and each subsequent year
hereafter, unless otherwise changed,
shall beOne Thousand Dollars ($l000.0O.l
Be it further ordained, etc., That all
applications for license for the above
described business shall be made in
strict eonallance with the statute OF
the State of Louisiana, under the Act
kn0wl as the Shattuck Law, and not
otherwise.
Be it further ordained, etc, That this
ordinance shall not apply to the sale by
druggist Of tinctures or drug CO M
pounds in Incorporation Of which
such liquors or Intoxicating beverages
reused and sold on the prescription
Of a physician or otherwise, and which
~t1nctares and compounds are not intox-
icating preparations in the evasion of
this ordinance.
Be itfurther ordained, etc, That no
half license shall be issued unde this
ordinance upoa the full paymentof the
full years license herein provided for
Be it further ordained, etc, That all
pGIsOuS4 Otherwise. VINO
shall obtain q license To conduct the
above described business, shall comply
strictly with all the provisions OF the
Shattuck Law noW inscribed upon the
Revised Statute of the state Of Iouisi-
ana not otherwise.
Be 1T further ordained, etc, That all
ordinances or parts OF ordinances IN
conflict herewith be aud the same are
hereby repealed, and that this ordi.
nance snail taka effect from and after
December, 31st, 1911.
LESTER j. WILLIAMS. Al. ID. Mayor.
Attest: Ed. LEBLANC. Clerk.
Moved by H.s Joseph, seconded by
q. w. Stone and carried, thai Ordinance
Iii now pass. On roll call the fol-
vote was taken: Yeos: H. s..
Joseph. e. W.sStune, G.. b.. Mcneil. E. e.
Richard and ill. Leblanc. Nays: none
The following ordinance was read:
ORDINANCE NO. II.
ordinance to levy an annual license
tax upon corporations doing bust
ness within Tie Town of Melville,
Louisiana.
Be it ordained by the asayor and
Board of Aldermen, That all Express
companies, Telegraph and Telephone
business IN the town Of Melville, La ],
shall pay an annual license tax for the
ear 19lZ, aud zach Subsequent year.
Be It further ordained, etc. That said
License snail be based Oh the gro an
iuai receipts as provided ~ the Laws
= Stale of Louisiana.
BE ttfarther ordained, etc, That the
Tax Collector of the Town of Melville