Dillman

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 *110 quarter,” and that all licenses collectible under the ordinance should become due and payable on the first days of January, April; July, and October of each year. It also provided that it should be in force from and after June 30, 1891, and all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with its provisions were repealed. The only action taken by the board in reference to the publication of the ordinance was an order made on the day of its passage, “ that the matter be referred to the mayor, for publication or not, as he saw fit.” It was, however, by direction of the mayor, published in the Daily…