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73. Private Entertainment. On every license to keep a house of private entertainment, the tax shall be ten dollars ($10), and on the excess of rental value over two hundred dollars ($200) there shall be paid an additional tax of five per centum. This section shall be construed to apply to all keepers of what is known as "boarding houses" accepting boarders or lodgers for less than one week, as defined by the State License Law governing houses of private entertainment. 74. Publishers. On every person, firm or corporation publishing a city di- rectory, book, pamphlet, fire alarm or telephone directory, the- atrical program, display card, desk blotter, hotel register or any other medium or device, other than regular newspaper or periodicals entered at the Charlottesville postoffiice as second- class matter, used or employed for advertising matter of any kind other than that of the person, firm or corporation issuing the same, a special license tax of fifty dollars ($50). 75. Railroad Tickets. Every person buying or selling railroad tickets, other than the duly authorized agent of some railroad company with a depot in this city, shall pay a license tax of twenty dollars ($20) per year or five dollars ($5) per month. 76. Restaurants. See Eating Houses. 77. Retailers of Tobacco, Snuff, etc. No person not a producer shall be allowed to sell by retail tobacco, snuff, cigars or cigarettes, without having obtained a specific license to do so. The sum to be paid by retailers of tobacco, snuff, cigars or cigarettes shall be for said privilege a specific tax of five dol- lars ($5), which shall be assessed and collected as other as- sessments upon license, but which shall not be in lieu of mer- chants' license on purchases. This section shall be construed to require of any person tak- ing out this special license tax to sell tobacco, snuff, cigars or cigarettes a merchants' license in addition thereto based on amount of purchases. 78. Sample Merchants or Agents. Any person selling to consumers by sample, card or repre- sentation, or selling or taking orders for any article other than from merchants or other persons dealing in the articles so sold, shall pay a license tax of five dollars ($5) for each day he barters or sells in this city. 79. Shooting Gallery. On every license to keep a shooting gallery, the tax shal be two dollars ($2) per day. 80. Shows, Circuses, etc. On a circus, menagerie, tent show,. or other such like exhibi- tion or performance, within the corporate limits of the city or within one mile of the same, whether combined, or separate, the license tax shall be seventy-five dollars ($75) for the first performance or exhibition, and thitty-five dollars ($35) for each additional performance or exhibition. Oil a side show attached to or exhibiting with any circus, menagerie, tent show or other such like exhibition or perform- ance within the corporate limits of the city or within one mile of the same, the license tax shall be twenty dollars ($20) for each performance or exhibition. 81. Skating Rink. On every license to the proprietor or occupier of a room fitted up or used for roller skating purposes, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50). 82. Slot Machines. On all slot machines not prohibited by law, there shall be a tax of $2.50 per annum ; and the regulations applicable thereto shall be the same as are applicable to, and provided for those licensed under the State law. (See § 139 of the Tax Laws of Virginia.) 83. Soda Fountains. The specific license tax on every soda fountain shall be ten dollars ($10) for one year or fractional part thereof. 84. Street Venders or Merchants. On every person, whether manufacturer or not, selling upon the street or other public places, inflated balloons, plaster fig- ures, toys, jewelery and other small articles, the license tax shall be from $1 to $10 per day in the discretion of the Commissioner of Revenue and the Mayor, jointly. The Mayor shall, if he deem it necessary, designate the place of sale. 85. Snack or Lunch Counters. On every person conducting a snack or lunch counter, the license tax shall be ten dollars ($10) per year. 86. Storing and Impounding. On every license to a person or firm to keep, for compensa- tion, any house, yard or lot for storage, or other impounding, the tax shall be ten dollars ($10) on each house, yard or lot. 87. Telegraph Companies. On every telegraph company, agent or officer thereof, the tax shall be one hundred dollars ($100), for the privilege of carrying on telegraph business between this and other points in the State of Virginia. But if there be. more than one com- pany doing business in the city, then the tax shall be sixty-five dollars ($65) each for such privilege. 88. Telephone Companies. On each telephone company the license tax shall be one per cent on the gross receipts of such company. The gross re- ceipts on which percentage is charged shall include all phone service known as mutual, all revenues derived from long dis- tance service, and all moneys derived from the use of the switch board by local lines. This license tax shall be assessable and payable in like man- ner as that of that state. 89. Theatres and Public Rooms. On every proprietor of a public or private building kept or used exclusively for any theatrical or similar performance, panorama or public exhibition, variety show or other entertain- ment (whether any charge is made for admission thereto or not), the license tax shall be one hundred dollars ($100) per year. 90. Theatrioals. On every theatrical performance or any performance similar thereto, panorama or any public performance or exhibition of any kind (except such as may be given in the Opera House) there shall be paid five dollars ($5) for the first and three dol- lars ($3) for each additional performance. 91. Typewriting Machines. Any person or firm, other than a regular licensed merchant, selling in this city, typewriting machines, shall pay a specific license tax of twenty dollars ($20) for one year. No pro rata. 92. Undertakers. An undertaker shall pay for the privilege of transacting such business a special license tax of fifty dollars ($50). 93. Vehicles. On every two -horse hack, phaeton, omnibus or drag used for hire, ten dollars ($10). On every one-horse buggy, phaeton, surrey, drag, used for hire, five dollars ($5). On every two -horse wagon or dray, with or without springs, used for hire, twelve dollars ($12). On every one-horse wagon, dray or cart, used for hire, six dollars ($6). On every automobile used for hire, twenty dollars ($20). Any person desiring to surrender a license for a one-horse vehicle and have issued therefor a license for a two -horse ve- hicle, shall be entitled to a credit for the unexpired part of the license surrendered. Any person, non-resident, hauling goods, or letting his ve- hicle or vehicles out for hire on the public streets of this city, shall be held liable under this ordinance. Every licensed carriage, hack, wagon or other vehicle, shall have its license number plainly marked on metal or other ma- terial and placed on the rear face of the rear axle thereof, or other conspicuous place. Such license number shall be supplied by the Commissioner of Revenue.