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bitters containing alcohol ,or fruit preserved in ardent spirits,either by retail or _ be drunk at the place where sold, or in any other way, the sum of four hundred dollars. The said license to include only the privilege of gelling 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 vessel and of belling to be drunk at the place where sold. For the privilege of manufacturing, bottling, or selling exclusively, malt liquor, except as is specified 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 mult liquors, exclusively, 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 corporporation 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 bitters, bitters containing alcohol, or fruits preserved in ardent spirits, without first _ 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 day or fractional part of a day, during which such business is conducted without such license, and, in the discretion of the Police Justice, such persons may be confined in jail not exceeding three months. 63. LIVE STOCK BROKERS, DEALERS, etc. On every peson trading in horses, mules, cattle, hogs and sheep, twenty-five dollars. General auctioneers and non-resident dealers shall not sell such animals either privately or at auction without paying this specific tax. Butchers buying for their own trade shall not be subject to this tax. 64. LIVERY STABLES. On every license to keep a livery stable the tax shall be thirty -five dollars ($35) and an additional tax of tifty cents on each stall therein, and two dollars for each saddle horse. 65. MANUFACTURES OF VEHICLES. On every person or firm conducting the business of manufacturing wagons, drays, and carts, carriages, buggies, and like vehicles, the tax shall be twenty-five dollars. 66. MEDICINES, SALVES, etc. --SALE OF ON STREET. On every such license to carry or sell medicines, sales or liniments, on the streets alleye, 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. 6 7. MERCHANT S. The license tax on every person or firm for the privilege of conducting a _ business in the City of Charlottesville shall be as follows; If the amount of purchases ehal not exceed $1,000, the tax stall be $10. If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $2 000 the tax shall be $18. If the amount of purchases ahll not exceed $3,000, the tax shall be $25. And on all purchases over $3,000 endless than $10,000,the tax shall be seventy cents 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 on the $100 in excess of $10,000. On all purchases over $20,000 and less than $30,000,the tax shall be fifty cents 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 on the $100 in excess of $30,000 On all purchases over $40,000 and lose than $50,000, the tax shall be trity cents on the $100 in excess of $40 000. On all purchases in excess of $50,000 the tax shall be ten cents on the $100. 68. MERCHANTS - COMISSION. Every person, firm or corporation buying or selling for another any kind of _ ise except cider, on commission shall be deemed a commission merchant. The tax on commission merchants shall be fifty dollars ($50); but when his commission shall exceed $1,000. the tax shall be sixty dollars ($60); and tend ($10) for each thousand dollars in excess of two thousand dollars. 69. MERCHANTS - TOBACCO. See §86. 70. MERCHANDISE BROKER. Every person, firm or corporation doing business in this city who receives _ Utes provisions and merchandise including flour, hay or grain shipped into this city for distribution on account of the shipper, and who participates in the profits ensuing from or accruing out of the sales of such provisions and and merchandise, including flour, hay or grain, and who invoices such sales and collects the money the therefor, shall be deemed to be a broker and ahall pay a license tax of one hundred dollars. 71. MONUMENTS AND TOMBSTONES. Each person or coproration or agent conducting the business of making or selling tombstones, monuments, etc., shall pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars. 72. MOVING PICTURE MACHINES, PHONOGRAPHS , GRAPHOPHONES, etc. For the exhibition of any automatic maving picture machine, phonograph,graprophone or similar musical machine, except for benevulent, charitable or educational where the price of admission to such exhibition does not exceed the sum of 5 cents there shall be paid a license fee of three dollars for each week, or less time than _ week, or one hundred dollars per year for the exhibition thereof, and where the addimssion to such exhibition exceeds 5 cents but does not exceed ten cents, there shall be paid an additional license fee of three dollars per week,or less time than a week, or _ 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 on the per annum license _ provided, however, that when such exhibition is given for benevolent, charitable _ tional purposes and is given for a period of more than one week in any one year and the exhibitor thereof receives a part of the receipts from such exhibition as his