City of Sacramento v. Dillman

The Court.

On June 22, 1891, an ordinance “ regulating saloons, bar-rooms, etc., and providing the amounts of city licenses to be paid by keepers of saloons, bar-rooms, and other places where wines and liquors are sold,” was passed by the board of trustees of the city of Sacramento. The ordinance provided that every person within the limits of the city, who keeps a barroom, saloon, or other place where liquors are sold by the glass or bottle, to be drank on the premises, shall pay quarterly, in advance, “ a city license, for pursuing said business, of forty-five dollars for each and every *110quart…