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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 ex- clusively, malt liquors, except as is excepted by the statute law of Virginia, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150). For the privilege of acting as agent for the sale of malt liquors, Cxclusively, except such as are excepted by the statute law of Virginia, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150). PENALTY. 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 thereof, alcoholic hitters, 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 conducting 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 clay or fractional part of a clay, during which such business is conducted without such license, and, in the discretion of such Police Justice, such persons may be con- fined in jail not exceeding three months. 56. Live Stock Brokers, Dealers, etc. On every person trading in horses, mules, cattle, hogs, and sheep, fifteen dollars (815). General auctioneers shall not sell such animals either privately or at auction, without paving this special tax. Butchers burying for their own trade shall not be subject to this tax. 57. 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. 58. Manufacturers of Vehicles. On every person or firm conducting the business of maim- facturing wagons, drays and carts, carriages, baggies and like vehicles, the license tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25). 59. Medicines, Salves, etc. -Bale of on Street. On every such license to carry or sell medicines, salves or liniments, on the streets, alleys, or elsewhere in this city, the tax shall be ten dollars ($10) per day. but no such license shall be issued except by authority of the Mayor. 60. Merchants. The license tax on every person or firm for the privilege of conducting a mercantile business in the city of Charlottesville shall be as follows: If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $1,000, the tax shall be $10. If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $2,000, the tax shall be $18. If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $3,000, the tax shall be $25. And on all purchases over $3,000 and less than $10,000, the tax shall be seventy cents (70 c.) on the $100 in excess of $3.000. On all purchases over $10,000 and less than $20,000, the tax shall be sixty cents (60 c.) on the $100 in excess of $10,000. )n all purchases over $20,000 and less than $30,000, the tax shall be fifty cents (SO c.) on the $100 in excess of $20,000. On all purchases over $30,000 and less than $40,000, the tax shall be forty cents (40 c.) on the $100 in excess of $30,000. On all purchases over $40,000 and less than $50,000, the tax shall be thirty cents (30 c.) on the $100 in excess of $40,000. On all purchases in excess of $50,000, the tax shall be ten cents (10 c.) on the $100. 61. Mercbants-Oommission. Every person, fine or corporation burying or selling for an- other any kind of merchandise on commission shall be deemed a commission merchant. The tax on commission merchants shall be fifty dollars ($SO) ; but when his commission shall exceed one thousand dollars the tax shall be sixty dollars ($60) ; and ten dollars ($10) for each thousand dollars in excess of two thousand dollars. 62. Merchants -Tobacco. See § 77. 63. Mercbandise Broker. Every person, firm or corporation doing business in this city who receives or distributes provisions and merchandise includ. ing flour, hay or grain shipped into this city for distribution on account of the shipper, and who participates in the profits en- wing from or accruing out of the sales of such provisions and merchandise, including flour, hay or grain, and who invoices such sales and collects the money therefor, shall be deemed to be a broker and shall pay a license tax of one hundred dol- lars ($100). 64. Monuments and Tombstones. Rach person or corporation or agent conducting the busi- ness of making or selling tombstones, monuments, etc., shall pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25). 65. Moving Picture Machines, Phonographs, Grapho- phones, etc. For the exhibition of any automatic moving picture machine, Phonograph, graphophone, or similar musical machine, except for benevolent, charitable or educational purposes, where the price of admission to such exhibition does not exceed the sum (-)f 5 cents, there shall be paid a license fee of three dollars for each week, or less time than a week, or one hundred dollars per artium for the exhibition thereof, and where the admission to such exhibition exceeds 5 cents but does not exceed 10 cents, there shall be braid an additional license fee of three dollars per week, or less time than a week, or an additional fifty dollars per annum : the license for one year to be paid quarterly, and a license for a period exceeding one week to be based upon the per annum license fee: provided, however, that when such ex- hibition is given for benevolent, charitable or e(hicational pur- poses and is given for a period of more than one week in any one year and the exhibitor thereof receives a part of the re- ceipts from such exhibition as his compensation, then such exhibition, after the first wcck, shall not be exrmpt from the payment of the license fee herein prescribed. 66. Patent Medicines. On every license to a person to sell patent medicines or other Stich articles, whether manufactured in this or any other state or territory, shall pay a license tax of one hundred dollars ($100) ; provided this tax ;ball not apply to any druggist or apothecary doing; business in this, city, carrying a regular stock of drugs and medicines. 67. Pawnbrokers. On every license to a pawnbroker, the specific license tart shall be fifty dollars ($50) for one year or f ractionsl part thereof. Not transferable. 68. Peddlers. Any person acting; as peddler, as defined by the State Lain of Virginia, Nhall pay a license tax of $150. Not transferabk. No pro rata. 69. Penny Arcade. On each person, firm or corixtruti,)n conducting; the business commonly known as penny arcade, wherein is shown or ez- hibited slot machines for the purlx)se of fnrnishing; musts or exhibiting; pictures, the license tax shall be fifty dollars ($50) 70. Planing Mill and Sash, Blind and Door Factory. On every license to a person or firm conducting a planing mill, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50). On every person or firm carrying on a sash, blind and door factory, the tax shall be thirty-five dollars ($35). blind But if the person or firm conduct a sash, door and factory in combination with a planing mill, the tax shall be seventy-five dollars ($75). 71. Plumbers, On every license to a plumber the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25). This section shall apply to all persons, firm or corporations who do plumbing, gas -fitting;, team and hot water heating. 72. Pop -Manufacture and Sale. On every license to any person or firm to conduct the busi- ness of manufacturing or bottling pop, ginger ale, or other aerated waters, the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25).