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<br />dollars ($30), for each company represented. The definition of
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<br />an industrial and prudential insurance company in this section
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<br />shall be a company that writes small policies on lives, the pre-
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<br />miums on which are payable weekly. Any old line insurance
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<br />company doing an industrial or prudential business shall pay the
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<br />foregoing license tax in addition to the license tax imposed upon
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<br />it by § 60 of this ordinance.
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<br />60. Insurance -Life.
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<br />On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or solic-
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<br />itor for any life insurance company, not having its principal
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<br />office in this city, there shall be a specific license tax for doing
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<br />business in this city of thirty dollars ($30) for each company
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<br />represented.
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<br />When there are two or more agents, not acting as co-partners
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<br />and representing the same company, each of such agents shall
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<br />be required to procure a license. Every agent or solicitor pay-
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<br />ing the aforesaid license is allowed to employ canvassers.
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<br />61. Insurance -Live Stock.
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<br />On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or so-
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<br />licitor of a live stock insurance company, not having its prin-
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<br />cipal office in this city, there shall be a specific license tax for
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<br />doing business in this city of twenty-five dollars ($25) per an-
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<br />num for each company represented.
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<br />62. Itinerant Musicians.
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<br />Every itinerant musician performing on the streets of this
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<br />city, such as organ -grinders, bag -pipe blowers, etc., shall pay a
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<br />specific tax of two dollars ($2) per week or fraction thereof.
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<br />63. Job Printing Office.
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<br />On every license to a person, firm or corporation to conduct
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<br />a job printing office the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25).
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<br />64. Junk Dealers.
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<br />On every license to a junk dealer the tax shall be fifty dollars
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<br />($50) and on every person who shall engage in the business of
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<br />buying junk or other matter for a junk dealer or for sale to a
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<br />junk dealer, the tax shall be thirty dollars ($30).
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<br />65. Laundries.
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<br />Every person who operates a laundry shall pay for the priv-
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<br />ilege of conducting such business, if it be a laundry operated
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<br />other than by hand, in this city, the sum of twenty-five dollars
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<br />($25).
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<br />On every person operating a hand laundry the license tax
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<br />shall be $10. But nothing in this section shall be construed to
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<br />impose a license tax upon person who wash bed clothing, wear-
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<br />ing apparel, and so forth, without laundry machinery, and who
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<br />do not keep shops or other regular places of business for laun-
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<br />dry purposes.
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<br />66. Lightning Rod Agents.
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<br />Every person canvassing for, selling or erecting lightning
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<br />rods in this city, other than a regular licensed merchant, shall
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<br />pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) for a
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<br />year or fractional part thereof. Not transferable.
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<br />67. Liquor Dealers.
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<br />For the privilege of selling or offering to sell by sample or
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<br />by representation or otherwise, wine, ardent spirits, malt liq-
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<br />uors, or any mixture thereof, alcoholic bitters, bitters contain-
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<br />ing alcohol or fruit preserved in ardent spirits by wholesale,
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<br />the sum of four hundred dollars ($400).
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<br />For the privilege of selling or offering to sell by sample or by
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<br />representation or otherwise, wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors
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<br />or any mixture thereof, alcoholic bitters, bitters containing
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<br />alcohol, or fruit preserved in ardent spirits, either by retail or
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<br />to be drunk at the place where sold, or in any other way, the
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<br />sum of four hundred dollars ($400).
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<br />The said license to include only the privilege of selling in
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<br />quantities not exceeding five gallons at any one time to any in-
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<br />dividual, which shall include both the privilege of selling to be
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<br />delivered to the purchaser in bottles, jugs, demijohns, or other
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<br />vessels and of selling to be drunk at the place where sold.
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<br />For the privilege of manufacturing, bottling or selling ex-
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<br />clusively, malt liquors, except as is excepted by the statute law
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<br />of Virginia, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150).
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<br />For the privilege of acting as agent for the sale of malt
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<br />liquors, exclusively, except such as are excepted by the statute
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<br />law of Virginia, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150).
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<br />PENALTY. It shall be unlawful for any person, association
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<br />of persons, or corporations, to sell, in the City of Charlottes-
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<br />ville, or within one mile of the corporate limits of said city,
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<br />wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, al-
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<br />coholic bitters, bitters containing alcohol, or fruits preserved in
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<br />ardent spirits, without first obtaining the license, for the ben-
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<br />efit of the city, as above specified and provided, and all per-
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<br />sons conducting such business without such license shall, upon
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<br />conviction before the Police Justice of said city, be fined not
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<br />less than $25 nor more than $100 for every clay or fractional
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<br />part of a day, during which such business is conducted with.
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<br />out such license, and, in the discretion of such Police Justice
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<br />such persons may be confined in jail not exceeding three months.
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<br />68. Live Stock Brokers, Dealers, etc.
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<br />On every person dealing or trading in horses, mules, cattle,
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<br />hogs, and sheep, twenty-five dollars ($25). butchers buying for
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<br />their own trade shall not be subject to this tax.
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<br />69. Livery Stables.
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<br />On every license to keep a livery stable the tax shall be thirty.
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<br />five dollars ($35) and an additional tax of fifty cents on each
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<br />stall therein, and two dollars for each saddle horse.
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<br />70. Manufacturers of Vehicles.
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<br />On every person or firm conducting the business of manu-
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<br />facturing wagons, drays and carts, carriages, buggies and like
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<br />vehicles, the license tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25).
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<br />71. Medicines, Salves, etc. -Sale of on Street.
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<br />On every such license to carry or sell medicines, salves or
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<br />liniments, on the streets, alleys, or elsewhere in this city, the
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<br />tax shall be ten dollars ($10) per day, but no such license shall
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<br />be issued except by authority of the Mayor.
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<br />72. Merchants.
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<br />The license tax on every person or firm for the privilege of
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<br />conducting a mercantile business in the City of Charlottesville
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<br />shall be as follows:
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<br />If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $1,000, the tax
<br />shall be $10.
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<br />If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $2,000, the tax
<br />shall be $18.
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<br />If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $3,000, the tax
<br />shall be $25.
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<br />And on all purchases over $3,000 and less than $10,000, the
<br />tax shall be seventy cents (70c.) on the $100 in excess of
<br />$3,000.
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<br />On all purchases over $10,000 and less than $20,000, the tax
<br />shall be sixty cents (60c.) on the $100 in excess of $10,000.
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<br />On all Purchases over $20,000 and less than $30,000, the tax
<br />shall be fifty cents (50c.) on the $100 in excess of $20,000
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<br />On all purchases over $30,000 and less than $40,000, the tax
<br />shall be forty cents (40c.) on the $100 in excess of $30,000
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<br />On all purchases over $40,000 and less than $50,000, the tax
<br />shall be thirty cents (30c.) on the $100 in excess of $40,000
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<br />On all lnirebases in excess of $50,000, the tax shall be ten
<br />cents (10c.) on the $100.
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<br />73. Merchants-Commission.
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<br />Every person, firm or corporation buying or selling for another
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<br />any kind of merchandise except cider oil commission shall be
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<br />deemed a commission merchant.
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<br />The tax on commission merchants shall he fifty dollars ($50);
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<br />but when his commission shall exceed one thousand dollar' the
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<br />tax shall be sixty dollars ($60) ; and ten dollars ($10) for
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<br />thousand dollars in excess of two thousand dollars.
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<br />74. Merchants -Tobacco.
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<br />See § 93.
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<br />75. Merchandise Broker.
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<br />Every person, firm or corporation doing business in this city
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<br />who receives or distributes provisions and merchandise includ-
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<br />ing flour, hay or grain shipped into this city for distrubution on
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<br />account of the shipper, and who participates in the profits and
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<br />suing from or accruing out of the sales of such provisions
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<br />merchandise, including flour, hay or grain, and who invoice such
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<br />sales and collects the money therefor, shall be deemed to be
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<br />broker and shall pay a license tax of one hundred dollars ($100).
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<br />76. Merchandise Shipped in,. Sold and Delivered.
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<br />Every person, firm or corporation, including manufacturer, or
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