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22. BOOT BLACKS. For each chair or stand accommodating not more than one person the license shall be $2, and when a bench is used the license shall be $2. for each pair of foot rests, for year or any part of year. 23. BOWLING ALLEYS, TENPIN ALLEY OR BOXBALL. On every license permitting a bowling saloon tenpin alley or boxball to be kept in this city, whether a charge is made for playing or not, where the public is invited, the tax shall be twenty dollars ($20) for each alley. No pro rata. 24. BROKERS IN STOCKS, BONDS, BILLS OR FUTURES. . On every license to a person or firm to conduct the business of stock, bond, note or bill broker, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50), but brokers in futures shall pay a license tax of three hundred dollars ($300). 25.BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATIONS. Every building and loan association having its head office in this city shall pay a specific license tax of one hundred dollars ($100). 26. CHIROPODISTS,ETC . Every chiropodist, manicurist or hair dresser shall nay a specific license tax of $10, per annum. Nor transferable. No pro rata. 27. CIDER. No liquid desiganted as cider of any sort shall be sold by any person or firm within the limits of the City of Charlottesville,Va. ,unless the person or firm selling or offering for sale the same shall have first paid a license tax of $300, which shall be in addition to a merchant's license on purchases, and also obtained a permit authorizing such sale, which permit shall be signed by a majority of the Police Committee of the Council of said City and approved by the Mayor, and provided, further, that if in the judgement of t're said committee the place of business of the person or firm operating under such license and permit becomes disorderly, or the traffic under such license and permit leads to disorder in the city, such license and permit may be revoked by a majority of said committee, with the approval of the Mayor after twenty-four hours notice to the holder thereof. Any violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars ($5), nor more than fifty dollars ($60),or confinement in jail not exceeding three months, or both fine and imprisonment, as in the discretion of the Police Justice or the Court may seem proper. Tris ordinance shall not apply to the sale of sweet cider sold by the person growing, the fruit from which the cider was Made, 28. CLEANING AND PRESSING. Each person or firm conducting a cleaning and pressing establishment shall pay a specific license tax of $10. per annum. Not transferable. No pro rata. 29. COMMOM CRIERS. On every license to a common crier the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) and he shall not as such crier, give any evidence of sale or title to the purchaser.. This license may be pro rated for a period of not less than six months. 30. CONTRACTORS: Any person, firm or corporation accepting orders or contracts for doing any work on or in any building or structure requiring the use of paint, stone, brick, mortar, cemerit, wood, structural iron or steel, sheo-iron, galvanized iron, metallic pipin, tin/lead, electric wiring or otter metals or any other lbuilding or decorating material; or who shall accept contracts to do paving, or curbing on sidewalks or streets, public or private property, using asphalt, brick, stone, cement, wood or any composition, or who shall accept ab order for ur contract to excavate earth, rock or other material for foundations to any other purpose, or who shall accept an order or contract to construct any sewer of stone, brick, terra cotta, or other material, shall be deemed a contractor. The specific license tax on every person, firm or corporation for the privilege of conducting the business of contractor or builder in this city, as described arove, shall be ten dollars ($10) on the first thousand dollars or less of -material purchased or used, and an additional tax of ten cents on every hundred dollars of the amount of materials purchased or used in excess of one thousand dollars, said additional tax shall be paid quarterly, and every person, firm or coporation is hereby required to report under oath to the Commissioner of Revnue the amount of purchase on the first day of August, November, February and May of each year and pay the amount due on the dates menioned and failure to do shall be considered as doing business without a license, and shall be final d not less than $2.50 nor more than $5 for each day in default. 31. CORN DOCTORS, ETC. Every corn cancer, eye, or other itinerant doctor or optician shall pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per annum. Not tranafrable. No pro rata, 32. CREAMERY. Each person, firm or corporation conducting a creamery shall pay a specific license tax of twent-five dollars ($25). per annum. Not transferable. No pro rata. 33. DANCE FALLS. On every license to a person or firm to conduct a dance shall in which dancing is to be allowed, where an admission fee is charged or a charge is made for participating in such dancing, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50), and no such license shall be granted until such person or persons shall have secured the consent of the Mayor, who shall satisfy himself that the person or persons applying are proper persons to conduct such hall, and that the location is suitable for such purpose, and it is further provided that any such dance hall shall be subject to such rules and regulations as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by the Council. Not transferable. No pro rata.