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18 the amount of sale on the first day of August, November, February and May of each year for three months __ and pay the amount due on the dates mentioned, and failure to do so shall be considered as doing business without a license, and shall be fined not less than $2.50 nor more than $5.00 for each day in default. 9 - - AGENTS RENTING HOUSES. On every license to any person renting houses, farms, or other real estate, for compensation or profit, the tax shall be twenty five dollars ($25.). 10 - - AGENTS – SEWING MECHINES On every license to a person or firm, other than a regular licensed merchant or Sewing Machine Agent, as provided in sec. 135 of the Tax Laws of Va., to sell or offer to sell or rent Sewing Machines and accessories, the tax shall be twenty five dollars. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Revenue to require of any person or __ selling or offering to sell Sewing Machine and accessories that the agents certification granted by the Auditor Pf the State/as provided for in sec.135 of the Tax Laws of Tax Laws of Va., shall be produced for his inspection. 11 – ATTORNEYS, PHYSICIANS, DENTISTS, CIVIL ENGINEERS, SUPERVISORS, OPTICIANS, OCCULISTS, VETERINARY, SURGEONS, AND CONVEYANCERS. The specific license tax on every resident or non-resident Attorney-at-law, Physician, Dentist, Architect, Civil Engineer, Surveyor, Optician, Oculist, and Veterinary surgeon having an office or carrying on business in this city shall be twenty five dollars ($25.) provided his gross receipts for the year preceding the first day, of May,1907, shall not exceed one thousand dollars, and an additional tax of one dollar and fifty cents on every hundred dollars of gross receipts in excess of one thousand dollars. All persons who for compensation shall furnish plans and specifications for the erection or improvement of buildings shall be deemed Architects, and all persons who examine or measure the eyes for the purpose of fitting optical glasses to them shall be deemed Opticians, within the meaning of this section. No such license shall be issued for less than twenty five dollars ($25,), NO PRO ROTA. The specific license tax on every resident or non-resident Conveyancer having an office or carrying on business in this city shall be twenty-five dollars ($25. ). All persons other than duly licensed Attorneys-at-law, who, for compensation, or reward, shall prepare deeds, contracts, wills, or other writings, shall be deemed __ No license shall be issued to Conveyancers for less than twenty five dollars NO PRO RATA. 12 - -AUCTIONEERS – GENERAL On every General Engineer, forty dollars, whether he receives any compensation for his service or not. Under this license a person may sell any goods, wares, merchandise, or other things, except real estate, horses and cattle, for the sale of which, by an auctioneer, a further license is elsewhere required. 13 - - AUCTIONEERS – REAL ESTATE On every Real Estate Auctioneer the tax shall be forty dollars ($40.00) whether he receives compensation or not. This license covers only the right to sell real Estate at auction, and applies to all sales of real estate except those made under a decree of Court. 14 – ATICTION SALES. Every person or firm who shall bring into this city from any place beyond its limits a stock of goods of any kind and remain here temporarily selling the same, at wholesale or retail and either at public auction or privately, shall pay therefore for a specific license tax of five hundred dollars ($500.00). Not transferable. No pro rata. 15 -- BABY RACKS AND OTHER GAMES. Every person conducting a Baby Rack, Knife Rack, or like game of chance __ bited by law, shall pay on each game a specific license tax of ten dollars __ or thirty dollars per annum. Not Transferable. 16—BAGTELLE. On every license permitting s Bagatelle Table to be kept in this city, ___ a charge is made for playing or not, where the public is invited, the tax shall be twenty five dollars ($25. 00) on each table. 17 -- BARBER'S LICENSE. For each chair in excess of one the sure of two dollars ($2.). 18 -- BIll -POSTERS. Every Bill -poster shall pay a license tax of twenty dollars ($20.) __ All persons who shall post notices, bills and labels for compensation, shall be __ as bill-posters. No pro rata. 19 -- BILLIARD OR POOL. On every license to keep a Billiard or Pool saloon the tax shall be sixty four dollars ($64.00) for one table, and an additional tax of thirty two dollars ($32.00) for the second table, and sixteen dollars ($16.00) additional for each table in __ of two. 20 - - BLACKSMITH AND WHEELWRIGHT SHOPS. On every person or firm conducting a Blacksmith shop the license tax ___ five dollars for the anvil and two dollars and fifty cents for each __ On every person or firm conducting a Wheelwright shop the tax shall 21 –BOWLING SALOON, TEN-PIN ALLEY OF BOX-BALL. On every license permitting a Bowling Saloon, Ten-pin Ailey or Box -ball to in this city, whether a charge is made for playing or not, where the public __ the tax shall be twenty dollars for each alley. No pro rata. 22 --BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS. Every building & Loan Association having, its head office in the city __ a specific license tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00). 23 -- BULLS. The specific license tax for letting to cows, other than his own, any __ Be five dollars ($5.).