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agent for such company, there shall be a specific tax of thirty dollars ($30), for each company represented. The definition of an industrial and prudential insurance company in this section shall be a company that writes small policies on lives, the pre- miums on which are payable weekly. Any old line insurance company doing an industrial or prudential business shall pay the foregoing license tax in addition to the license tax imposed upon it by § 60 of this ordinance. 67. Insurance -Life. On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or solic- itor for any life insurance company, not having its principal office in this city, there shall be a specific license tax for doing busines in this city of thirty dollars ($30) for each company represented. Where there are two or more agents, not acting as co-partners and representing the same company, each of such agents shall be required to procure a license. Every agent or solicitor pay- ing the aforesaid license is allowed to employ canvassers. 68. Insurance -Live Stock. On every license to a person or firm to act as agent or so- licitor of a live stock insurance company, not having its prin- cipal office in this city, there shall be a specific license tax for doing business in this city of twenty-five dollars ($25) per an- num for each company represented. 69. Itinerant Musicians. Every itinerant musician performing on the streets of this city, such as organ -grinders, bag -pipe blowers, etc., shall pay a ipecific tax of two dollars ($2) per week or fraction thereof. 70. Job Printing Office. On every license to a person, firm or corporation to conduct a job printing office the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25). 71. Junk Dealers. On every license to a junk dealer the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50) and on every person who shall engage in the business of baying junk or other matter for a junk dealer or for sale to a junk dealer, the tax shall be thirty dollars ($30). 79. Laundries. Every person who operates a laundry and every agent of a non-resident laundry shall pay for the privilege of conducting such business, if it be a laundry operated other than by hand, in this city, the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25). 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, wearing ap- parel, and so forth, without laundry machinery, and who do not keep shops or other regular places of business for laundry pur- poses. 73. Lightning Rod Agents. Every person canvassing for, selling or erecting lightning rods in this city, other than a regular licensed merchant, shall pay a *pecific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) for a year or fractional part thereof. Not trats f erable. 74. Liquor Dealers. For the privilege of selling or offering to sell by sample or by representation or otherwise, wine, ardent spirits, malt licf- hiors, or any mixture thereof, alcoholic bitters, bitters containing 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 privileges of selling in quantities not exceeding five gallons at any one time to any in- dividual, which shall include both the privileges 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 liq- uors, 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 ail), person, association of persons, or corporations, 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 obtaining the license, for the benefit of the city, as above specified and provided, and all persons conducting such business without 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 such Police Justice, such persons may be con. fined in jail not exceeding three months. 75. Live Stock Brokers, Dealers, etc. On every person dealing or trading ill horses, mules, cattle, hogs, and sheep, twenty-five dollars ($25 ). butchers buying for their own trade shall not be subject to this tax. 76. 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. 77. Machine Shops. See § 14. 78. 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). 79. 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 ill this city, the tax shall be ten dollars ($10) per day, but no such license shall be issued except by authority of the Mayor. 8 0. Merchants. The 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 to shall be $10. If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $2,000, the tax hall 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 $40,000, 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 he thirty cents (30c.) on the $100 in excess of $40,000. On all purchases in excess of $50,000, the tax shall be ten rents ( l0c.) on the $100. 81. Merchants-Oommission. Every person, firm or corporation buying or selling for another nny kind of merchandise 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 one thousand dollars the tax shall be sixty dollars ($60) ; and ten dollars ($10) for each thousand dollars in excess of two thousand dollars. 8 2. Merchants -Tobacco. See § 105. 8 3. Merchandise Broker. Every person, firm or corporation doing lousiness 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 and suing from or accruing out of the sales of such provisions merchandise, including flour, hay or grain, and who invoices sales and collects the money therefor, shall be broker and shall pay a license tax of one hundred dollars ($100). 84. Merchandise Shipped in, Sold and Delivered. Every person firm or corporation, including manufacturers or