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,,,or shall there St' e arselll linstance the upon such lice b, reason of thefact tthattheperson or per - Solis so licensed shall have exercised such licensed calling for a period of less than one year. 45, Dentists. See § 14. 46. Dogs. on every license to a keeper, custodian, or owner of a dog, puppy four months old or bitch in this city the tax shall be one dollar ($1) on a dog or spayed bitch or two dollars ($2) on a bitch; and the Treasurer shall provide at the expense of the city, and furnish without charge to all residents of the city who shall apply therefor and pay said license, a metallic medal as provided for in the ordinances, such medal to be valid only for the current year. Any person violating this section by keeping an unlicensed dog, puppy, or bitch in the city shall pay a fine of five dollars ($5), and in addition the dog, puppy, or bitch may be impounded until redeemed by the payment of the license tax hereby imposed; and if not redeemed within five days after such impounding, such dog, puppy, or bitch shall be killed in accord- ance with the ordinances of this city. 47, Dyeing Establishments. Each person conducting a dyeing establishment shall pay a specific license tax of .ten dollars ($10) per annum. No pro rata. Not transferable. 48. Eating Houses. The specific license tax on any person to engage in keeping an eating house shall be twenty-five dollars ($25), and any per- son who shall cool: or otherwise furnish for compensation, diet er refreshments for casual visitors, at his house, and sold for consumption therein, shall be construed to be the keeper of an eating house. There shall not be sold under this license on Sun- day anything but sandwiches and meals prepared on the prem- ises and only where meals are regularly prepared and sold on other clays. Every violation of this ordinance shall be a mis- demeanor and punishable by a fine of not less than $10. 49, Exhibiting Electrical Machines, etc. Every person exhibiting for pay electrical machines for test- ing strength or weight, or other machines or implements on the streets or any location, for .profit, shall pay a specific license tax of five dollars ($5) -per annum or two dollars ($2) per week. Not transferable. 50. Electricity, Every person, firm or corporation generating or selling or offering for sale or delivering electricity for light or power or heat or any other commercial uses shall pay a license tax of $250. 51, Feed Stables or Wagon Yard. Each person keeping a feed stable or wagon yard shall pay a specific license tax of ten dollars ($10). No pro rata. 52. Flour and Meal Manufacturers. Un every license to a manufacturer of flour, or meal, or chop, the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) each, or sixty dollars ($60) for the three. But when such manufacturer deals in flour, meal, or other grain products other than -his own manu- facture he shall be required to procure a merchant's license graduated by the amount of such purchases. 53, Fortune Tellers. Every person practicing the art of divination, f ortune telling, palmistry, or phrenology who shall practice the sane in this city, shalla p y a tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per week. Xot transferable. No pro rata. 54. Foundry and Machine Shops. On every license to a foundry the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25). On every license to a machine shop the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25). But if a foundry be conducted in conjunction with a machine shop the combined -tax shall be forty dollars ($40). For the privilege of repairing automobiles and accessories a machine shop license shall be required. 55. Furniture Upholsterer or Repairer. On every license to a furniture upholster or repairer the tax shall be ten dollars ($10), 16. Garage. Every person who shall keep a garage as defined in Sec. 19 of the State Tax haws, for the hire or storage of automobiles 175 shall pay a tax of $25.00 and .$1 additional for each vehicle for the storage capacity of such garage in excess of five. Shops for repairing automobiles or tires, whether conducted in connection with a garage or separately, shall be required to pay the license tax provided for in Sec. 54. 57. Hobby Horses, etc. The license tax on hobby -horse machines, merry-go-rounds and other like machines, shall be one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) for the period of one year, or twenty-five dollars ($25) per week of six running days, for each machine operated, but no license shall be issued for a less period than one week. Not transferable. No pro rata. 58. Hotels. See §92. 58. Ice Cream -Manufacture. Each person or firm manufacturing ice cream shall pay a specific license of $10 per year. Not transferable. No pro rata. 60. Ice -Manufacture. Every person, firmor corporation manufacturing ice for sale, or dealing .in ice imported into this city, shall pay a license tax of $50. 61. Itinerant Musicians. Every itinerant musician performing on the streets of this City, such as organ -grinders, bag -pipe blowers, etc., shall pay a specific tax of two dollars ($2) per week or fraction thereof. 62. Job Printing Office. On every license to a person, firm or corporation to conduct a job printing off=ice the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25). 63. 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 buying junk or other matter for a junk dealer or for sale to a junk dealer, the tax shall be thirty dollars ($30). 6 4. 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 persons 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. 65. 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. 66. Live Stock Brokers, Dealers, etc. On every person dealing or trading in horses, mules, cattle, hogs, and sheep, ,twenty-five dollars ($25). Butchers buying for their own trade shall not be subject to this tax. 67, 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. 68. Machine Shops. See § 54. 69. 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). 70. 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. 71. 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 folows :