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<br />delivered to the purchaser in bottles, jugs, demijohns, or other
<br />vessels and of selling to be drunk at the place where sold.
<br />For the privilege of manufacturing, bottling or selling ex-
<br />clusively, malt liquors, except as is excepted by the statute law
<br />of Virginia, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150).
<br />For the privilege of acting as agent for the sale of malt liquors,
<br />Cxclusively, except such as are excepted by the statute law of
<br />Virginia, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150).
<br />PENALTY. It shall be unlawful for any person, association of
<br />persons, or corporations, to sell, in the City of Charlottesville, or
<br />within one mile of the corporate limits of said city, wine, ardent
<br />spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, alcoholic hitters,
<br />bitters containing; alcohol, or fruits preserved in ardent spirits,
<br />without first obtaining the license, for the benefit of the city, as
<br />above specified and provided, and all persons conducting such
<br />business without such license shall, upon conviction before the
<br />Police Justice of said city, be fined not less than $25 nor more
<br />than $100 for every clay or fractional part of a clay, during
<br />which such business is conducted without such license, and, in
<br />the discretion of such Police Justice, such persons may be con-
<br />fined in jail not exceeding three months.
<br />56. Live Stock Brokers, Dealers, etc.
<br />On every person trading in horses, mules, cattle, hogs, and
<br />sheep, fifteen dollars (815). General auctioneers shall not sell
<br />such animals either privately or at auction, without paving this
<br />special tax. Butchers burying for their own trade shall not be
<br />subject to this tax.
<br />57. Livery Stables.
<br />On every license to keep a livery stable the tax shall be thirty-
<br />five dollars ($35) and an additional tax of fifty cents on each
<br />stall therein, and two dollars for each saddle horse.
<br />58. Manufacturers of Vehicles.
<br />On every person or firm conducting the business of maim-
<br />facturing wagons, drays and carts, carriages, baggies and like
<br />vehicles, the license tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25).
<br />59. Medicines, Salves, etc. -Bale of on Street.
<br />On every such license to carry or sell medicines, salves or
<br />liniments, on the streets, alleys, or elsewhere in this city, the
<br />tax shall be ten dollars ($10) per day. but no such license shall
<br />be issued except by authority of the Mayor.
<br />60. Merchants.
<br />The license tax on every person or firm for the privilege of
<br />conducting a mercantile business in the city of Charlottesville
<br />shall be as follows:
<br />If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $1,000, the tax
<br />shall be $10.
<br />1 f the amount of purchases shall not exceed $2,000, the tax
<br />shall be $18.
<br />If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $3,000, the tax
<br />shall be $25.
<br />And on all purchases over $3,000 and less than $10,000, the
<br />tax shall be seventy cents (70 c.) on the $100 in excess of
<br />$3.000.
<br />On all purchases over $10,000 and less than $20,000, the tax
<br />shall be sixty cents (60 c.) on the $100 in excess of $10,000.
<br />)n all purchases over $20,000 and less than $30,000, the tax
<br />shall be fifty cents (SO c.) on the $100 in excess of $20,000.
<br />On all purchases over $30,000 and less than $40,000, the tax
<br />shall be forty cents (40 c.) on the $100 in excess of $30,000.
<br />On all purchases over $40,000 and less than $50,000, the tax
<br />shall be thirty cents (30 c.) on the $100 in excess of $40,000.
<br />On all purchases in excess of $50,000, the tax shall be ten
<br />cents (10 c.) on the $100.
<br />61. Mercbants-Oommission.
<br />Every person, fine or corporation burying or selling for an-
<br />other any kind of merchandise on commission shall be deemed
<br />a commission merchant.
<br />The tax on commission merchants shall be fifty dollars ($SO) ;
<br />but when his commission shall exceed one thousand dollars the
<br />tax shall be sixty dollars ($60) ; and ten dollars ($10) for each
<br />thousand dollars in excess of two thousand dollars.
<br />62. Merchants -Tobacco.
<br />See § 77.
<br />63. Mercbandise Broker.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation doing business in this city
<br />who receives or distributes provisions and merchandise includ.
<br />ing flour, hay or grain shipped into this city for distribution on
<br />account of the shipper, and who participates in the profits en•
<br />wing from or accruing out of the sales of such provisions and
<br />merchandise, including flour, hay or grain, and who invoices
<br />such sales and collects the money therefor, shall be deemed to
<br />be a broker and shall pay a license tax of one hundred dol.
<br />lars ($100).
<br />64. Monuments and Tombstones.
<br />Rach person or corporation or agent conducting the busi.
<br />ness of making or selling tombstones, monuments, etc., shall pay
<br />a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25).
<br />65. Moving Picture Machines, Phonographs, Grapho•
<br />phones, etc.
<br />For the exhibition of any automatic moving picture machine,
<br />Phonograph, graphophone, or similar musical machine, except
<br />for benevolent, charitable or educational purposes, where the
<br />price of admission to such exhibition does not exceed the sum
<br />(-)f 5 cents, there shall be paid a license fee of three dollars for
<br />each week, or less time than a week, or one hundred dollars per
<br />artium for the exhibition thereof, and where the admission to
<br />such exhibition exceeds 5 cents but does not exceed 10 cents,
<br />there shall be braid an additional license fee of three dollars per
<br />week, or less time than a week, or an additional fifty dollars
<br />per annum : the license for one year to be paid quarterly, and a
<br />license for a period exceeding one week to be based upon the
<br />per annum license fee: provided, however, that when such ex-
<br />hibition is given for benevolent, charitable or e(hicational pur-
<br />poses and is given for a period of more than one week in anv
<br />one year and the exhibitor thereof receives a part of the re-
<br />ceipts from such exhibition as his compensation, then such
<br />exhibition, after the first wcck, shall not be exrmpt from the
<br />payment of the license fee herein prescribed.
<br />66. Patent Medicines.
<br />On every license to a person to sell patent medicines or other
<br />Stich articles, whether manufactured in this or any other state
<br />or territory, shall pay a license tax of one hundred dollars
<br />($100) ; provided this tax ;ball not apply to any druggist or
<br />apothecary doing; business in thi, city, carrying a regular stock
<br />c►f drugs and medicines.
<br />67. Pawnbrokers.
<br />On every license to a pawnbroker, the specific license tart
<br />shall be fifty dollars ($50) for one year or f ractionsl pWt
<br />thereof. Not transferable.
<br />68. Peddlers.
<br />Any person acting; as peddler, as defined by the State Lain
<br />of Virginia, Nhall pay a license tax of $150. Not transferabk.
<br />No pro alto.
<br />69. Penny Arcade.
<br />On each person, firm or corixtruti,)n conducting; the business
<br />commonly known as penny arcade, wherein is shown or ez•
<br />hibited slot machines for the purlx)se of fnrnishing; musts or
<br />,exhibiting; pictures, the license tax shall be fifty dollars ($S0)'
<br />70. Planing Mill and Sash, Blind and Door Factory.
<br />On every license to a person or firm conducting a planing
<br />mill, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50).
<br />On every person or firm carrying on a sash, blind and door
<br />factory, the tax shall be thirty-five dollars ($35). blind
<br />But if the person or firm conduct a sash, door and
<br />factory in combination with a planing mill, the tax shall be
<br />seventy-five dollars ($75).
<br />71. Plumbers,
<br />On every license to a plumber the tax shall be twentY'6ve
<br />dollars ($25). This section shall ;apply t,, .►Il persons, firm
<br />or corporations who do plumbing, gas -fitting;, team and hot
<br />water heating.
<br />72. Pop -Manufacture and Sale.
<br />On every license to any person or firm to conduct the busi.
<br />ness . of manufacturing or bottling pop, ginger ale, or other
<br />aerated waters, the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($")'
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