The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-12-11

in distilled, alcoholic and malt liquors,
the license for the carrying on of
which shall be as hereinafter provided
in this ordinance.
Sec. 4. That the procedure in the
collection of municipal licenses herein
levied, and to ascertain the amount
due for same by the Tax Collector
shall be the same as is now provided
by law for state licenses and purposes
and particularly as provided in Act
No. III of the General Assembly of the
State OF Louisiana, session of 1898,
and as amended by subsequent acts of
the General Assembly, and the penal
ties imposed upon, and the interest
and costs to be collected from, delin-
quents, are declared to be the same
and to be collected in the same manner
as provided in said acts for state
purposes.
Sec. s. That upon every business of
dealing in distilled, alcoholic, or malt
liquors, whether selling by wholesale
or retail, and upon the business of
operating barroom, cabaret, cafe,
coffee house, beer saloon, grog shop,
beer house, beer garden, or other
places where spirituous, vinous, or
malt liquors are sold, directly or in
directly, the municipal license is here
by levied, graduated and based on the
annual gross receipts of said business,
as follows, to-wit:
First Glass: When said gross annual
receipts are Fifty Thousand Dollars
($5O,OOO.00) or more, the license shall
be Two Thousand Dollars ($2,O00.00)
Second Glass: When the gross an
nual receipts are Forty Thousand Dol
lars ($40000.00) or more, and less
than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,OO0-
00), the license shall be Eighteen Hun
dred Dollars ($1800.00).
Third Class: When said gross annual
receipts are Thirty Thousand Dollars
$3.50, 100000 or more and less than
Forty Thousand Dollars ($4O, 100000,
the license shall be Sixteen Hundred
Dollars ($16O0O0).
Fourth Class: When said gross an
nual receipts are less than Thirty
Thousand Dollars ($30,OO0OO), the IL
cense shall be One Thousand Dollars
| ($1,00O.00).
Provided, That no license shall be
charged for selling refreshments for
charitable or religious purposes.
Provided further, That nothing in
this ordinance shall be construed so
as to exempt druggists who sell alco-
holic or vinous, or malt liquors, or
other intoxicating beverages, on the
| prescription of a physician or other
wise, from the payment of the license
herein imposed.
Provided further, That this ordi-
nance shall not apply to the sale by
druggists of tinctures of compounds in
the preparation of which such liquors
and intoxicating beverages are used
and sold on the prescription of a physi-
clan or otherwise, and which tinctures
or compounds are not intoxicating
| beverages prepared in the evasion of
this ordinance.
Sec. 6. That the license for the sale
of intoxicating liquors, and operating
barrooms, ETC., as provided in Section
of this ordinance, shall be the same
for any part of the year 1916 as for
the entire year.
Sec. 7. That an annual license tax
for municipal purposes on the sale of
pistols, pistol cartridges, and rifles or
rife cartridges, blank pistols and blank
pistol cartridges, is hereby levied, and
shall be the same as to graduation and
as to amount as now provided for state
purposes by Act No. IS of the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana of
the year 1904, and acts amendatory
thereof, which license shall be col
lected in the same manner and at the
same time as other licenses.
Sec. g. That any firm, corporation or
company, or person having more than
one place of business in said Town,
shall pay separate license for each
such place of business.
Sec. 9. That the municipal licenses
which are herein levied are declared
to be for municipal purposes under the
constitution and laws of the State of
Louisiana.
On motion meeting adjourned.
A. B. BRIANT, Mayor.
G. L. PLETTINGER, Clerk.
thereby certify that the foregoing is
a true and correct copy of the original