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126 On every person operating a hand laundry the license tax shall be $10. But nothing in this section shall be construed to impose a license tax upon person who wash bed clothing, wear- ing apparel, and so forth, without laundry machinery, and who do not keep shops or other regular places of business for laun- dry purposes. 61. Lightning Rod Agents. Every person canvassing for, selling or erecting lightning rods in this city, other than a regular licensed merchant, shall pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) for a year or fractional part thereof. Not transferable. 62. Liquor Dealers. For the privilege of selling or offering to sell by sample or by representation or otherwise, wine, ardent spirits, malt liq- uors, or any mixture thereof, alcoholic bitters, bitters contain- ing alcohol or fruit preserved in ardent spirits by wholesale, the sum of four hundred dollars ($400). For the privilege of selling or offering to sell by sample or by representation or otherwise, wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors or any mixture thereof, alcoholic bitters, bitters containing alcohol, or fruit preserved in ardent spirits, either by retail or to be drunk at the place where sold, or in any other way, the sum of four hundred dollars ($400). The said license to include only the privilege of selling in quantities not exceeding five gallons at any one time to any in- dividual, which shall include both the privilege of selling to be 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, exclusively, except such as are excepted by the statute law of Virginia, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150). PENATLY. It shall be unlawful for any person, association of persons, or corporations, to sell, in the City of Charlottes- ville, or within one mile of the corporate limits of said city, wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, al- coholic bitters, bitters containing alcohol, or fruits preserved in ardent spirits, without first obtaining the license, for the ben- efit of the city, as above specified and provided, and all per- sons 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 clay, (luring which such business is conducted with- out such license, and, in the discretion of such Police justice, such persons may be confined in jail not exceeding three months. 63. Live stock Brokers, Dealers, etc. On every person trading in horses, mules, cattle, hogs, and sheep, twenty-five dollars ($25). General auctioneers and non- resident dealers shall not sell such animals either privately or at auction, without paying this special 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 fifty cents on each stall therein, and two dollars for each saddle horse. 65. Manufacturers of Vehicles. On every person or firm conducting the business of manu- facturing wagons, drays and carts, carriages, buggies and like vehicles, the license tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25). 66. Medicines, Salves, etc. -Sale 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. 67. Merchants. Tile 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 (70c.) 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 (60c.) 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 (50c.) on the $100 in excess of $20,000 On all purchases over $30,000 and less than $40,004, the tax shall be forty cents (40c.) 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 (30c.) on the $100 in excess of $40,000 On all purchases in excess of $50,000, the tax shall be ten cents (10c.) on the $100. 6 8. Merchants-Oommission. Every person, firm or corporation buying or selling for an. other any kind of merchandise except cider on commission shall be deemed a commission merchant. The tax on commission merchants shall be fifty dollars 1$50); 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. 6 9. Merchants -Tobacco. See § 86. 70. Merchandise 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- suing 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 dollars ($100). 71. Monuments and Tombstones. Each 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). 72. Moving Picture Machines, Phonographs, arapho- 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 of 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 annum for the exhibition thereof, and where the admission to such exhibition exceeds 5 cents but does not exceed 10 cents, there shall be paid 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 educational 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 ex - hibition, after the first week, shall not be exempt from the pay- ment of the license fee herein prescribed. 73. Oils. Any person, firm or corporation who shall. engage in the busi- ness of selling to wholesale or to both wholesale and retail mer- chants in this city kerosene oil or other illuminating oil shall pay a license tax of $75. Any person, firm or corporation who shall engage in the busi- ness of selling only to retail merchants ill this city kerosene oil or other illuminating oil shall pay a license tax of $50. 74. Patent Medicines. On every license to a person to sell patent medicines or other such articles, whether manufactured in this or any other state or territory, shall pay a license tax of one hundred dollars ($100) ; provided this tax shall not apply to any druggist of apothecary doing business in this city, carrying a regular stock of drugs and medicines. 75. Pawnbrokers. On every license to a pawnbroker, the specific license tax shall be one hundred dollars ($100) for one year or fractional part thereof. Not transferable. 75 1/2. Peanut and Popcorn Venders. On street venders of peanuts and popcorn the license to shall be ten dollars ($10). No pro rata.