The License Tax System in Louisiana (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...thousand dollars, but the lowest liquor license was increased from fifty dollars to one hundred dollars. The Act of 1881 increased the licenses for the exclusive storage of sugar and molasses so that they ran from seventy-five dollars to one thousand dollars, based upon gross receipts of three thousand dollars or less, or twenty thousand dollars or more, and these figures were continued in the Acts of 1896 and 1900. For the business of street railways, two new classes were added in the Act of 1890, where the receipts were fifteen thousand dollars or less, and between twenty-five thousand dollars and fifty thousand dollars, the respective licenses being seventyfive dollars and one hundred and twenty-five dollars. The business of barrooms and saloonkeepers was reduced from ten classes to nine; the lowest license was one hundred dollars, where the receipts were less than five thousand dollars, up to fifteen hundred dollars, where the receipts exceeded fifty thousand dollars, and a new class was added for confectioners, fixing a license of five dollars where the gross sales did not exceed two thousand dollars. A new business was discovered by this act for travelling vendors of stoves, lightning rods and clocks, who were required to pay two hundred dollars in each parish of tUe State, and the general provisions of previous laws regarding travelling agents, entirely eliminated, owing to the decisions of the Courts which will be hereafter referred to. The license Act of 1890 also increased the license for the beer garden variety show, respectively, to five thousand dollars and twenty-five hundred dollars, according to where they were located, in cities of population of more or less than twenty-five thousand, but it was provided that this license should not be enac...