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51 - - INSURANCE - - LIFE. On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or solicitor for any Life Insurance Company, not having its principal office in this city there shall be a specific license tax for doing business in this city of thirty dollars ($430.) for each company represented. When there are two or more agents not acting as co-partners and representing the same company, each of such agents shall be required to procure a license. Every agent or solicitor paying the foresaid license is allowed to employ canvassers. 52—INSURANCE -- LIVE STOCK. On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or solicitor of a Live Stock Insurance Company, not having its principal office in this city, there shall be a specific license tax for doing business in this city of twenty five dollars ($25.) per annum for each company represented. 53 --- ITTINERANT MUSICIANS. Every itinerant musician performing on the streets of this city, as organ- grinders, bag-pipe blowers, etc., shall pay a specific tax of two dollars per week or fraction thereof. 54 –JOB PRINTING OFFICE. On every license to a person, firm or corporation to conduct a Job printing Office the tax shall be twenty five dollars ($25.) . 55---JUNK DEALERS. On every license to a junk dealer the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50.) and on every person who shall engage in the business of buying junk or other matter for a Junk Dealer or for sale to a Junk sealer, the tax shall be thirty dollars ($30.) . 56 --- LAUNDRIES. Every person who operates a Laundry shall pay for the privilege of conducting such business, if it be a laundry operated other than by hand, in this city, the sum of twenty five dollars (25. ). On every person operating a Hand Lundry the license tax shall be ten dollars ($10.), But nothing in this section shall be construed to impose a license tax upon persons who wash bed clothes, wearing apparel, and so forth, without laundry machinery, and who do not keep shops or other regular places of business for laundry purposes. 57—LIGHTNING ROD AGENTS. Every person canvassing for, selling or erecting Lightning Rods in this city other than regular licensed merchants, shall pay a specific license tax of twenty five dollars ($25.) for a year or fractional part thereof. Not transferable. 58 –LIQUOR DEALERS. For the privilege of selling; or offering to sell by sample or by representation or otherwise, wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or mixture thereof, alcoholic bitters, bitters containing alcohol or fruit preserved in ardent spirits by WHOLESALE the sum of four hundred dollars ($400.). For the privilege of selling or offering to sell by sample or by representation or otherwise wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors or any mixture thereof alcoholic bitters bitters containing alcohol, or fruit preserved in ardent spirits, either by retail or to be drunk at the place where sold, origin in any other way, the suns of four hundred dollars ($400.). The said license to include only the privilege of selling in quantities not exceeding five gallons at any one time to any individual, which shall include both the privilege of selling to be delivered to the purchaser in bottles, jugs, demijohns, or other vessels and of selling to be drunk at the place where sold. For the privilege of manufacturing, bottling, or selling exclusively, malt liquors except as is statute law of Virginia, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.) . It shall be unlawful for any person, association of persons, or corporations to sell, in the City of Charlottesville, or within one mile of the corporate limits of said city, wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture of them, alcoholic bitters, bitters, containing alcohol, or fruits preserved in ardent spirits, without first obtaining; the license for the benefit of the city, as above specified and provided, and all persons conducing such business without such license shall upon conviction, before the Police Justice of said city, be fined not less than $25. nor more than $100. for every day or fractional part of a day, during which such business is conducted without such license, and, in the discretion of such Police, Justice such persons may be confined in jail not exceeding three months. 59 ----LIVE STOCK BROKERS, DEALERS, ETC. On every person trading in horses, mules, cattle, hogs, and sheep, fifteen dollars ($15.). General Auctioneers shall not sell such animals either privately or at Auction, without paying special tax. Butchers buying, for their own trade shall not be subject to this tax. 60 - - LIVERY STABLES. On every license to keep a Livery Stable the tax shall be thirty five dollars ($35.) and an additional tax of fifty cents on each stall therein, and two dollars for each saddle horse. 61—MANFACTURERS OF VEHICLES. On every person or firm conducting the business of manufacturing Wagons, Drays, and Carts, Carriages, Buggies, and like vehicles, the license tax shall be twenty five dollars ($25.). 62—MEDICINES, SLAVES, ETC. On ever, license to cry or sell Medicines, Slaves, or Liniments, on the streets alleys or elsewhere in t' is city, the tax shall be two dollars per day, but, no such license shall be issued except by authority of the Mayor.