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244 22. Barbers. On every license to a barber the tax shall be $5.00 for each chair. 23. Bill Posters. Each bill poster shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) for one year. All persons who post notices, bills and labels for compensation, shall be construed as bill posters. No Pro rata. Any person taking out this license may have the privilege of distributing advertisements as defined in section 2. 2 4. Billiard or Pool. On every license to keep a billiard or pool saloon the tax shall be sixty-four dollars ($64) for one table, and an additional tax of thirty-two dollars ($32) for the second table, and sixteen dollars ($16) additional for each table in excess of two. 26. Blacksmith and Wheelwright Shops. On every person or firm conducting a blacksmith shop the license tax shall be five dollars ($5) for the first anvil and two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) for each additional anvil. On every person or firm conducting a wheelwright shop the tax shall be five dollars ($5). 2 6. Bootblacks. For each chair or stand accommodating not more than one person the license shall be $2 and when a bench is used the li- cense shall be $2 for each pair of foot rests, for year or any part of year. 27. Bottling Works. See § 90. 28. Bowling Saloon, Tenpin Alley, Boxball or Indoor Baseball. On every license permitting a bowling saloon, tenpin alley, boxball, or indoor baseball, to be kept in this city, whether a charge is made for playing or not, where the ,public is invited, the tax shall be twenty dollars ($20) for each alley or game. No pro rata. 29. Brokers in Stocks, Bonds, Bills or Futures. On every license to a person or firm to conduct the business of stock, bond, note or bill broker, the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25), but brokers in futures shall pay a license tax of three hundred dollars ($300). 30. Building and Loan Associations. Every building and loan association having its head office in this city shall pay a specific license tax of one hundred dollars ($100). 31. Carnival. On every carnival exhibiting within tents $350 per week. This license does not cover baby racks, knife racks or like games c,f chance not prohibited by law, or anything specifically taxed by any other section of this ordinance. 32. Chiropodists, etc. Every chiropodist, manicurist or hair dresser shall pay a spe- cific license tax of $10 per annum. Not transferable. No Pro rata. 3 3. Cider. No cider of any sort shall be sold by any person or firm within the limits of the City of Charlottesville unless the person or firm selling or offering for sale the same shall have paid a specific license tax of fifteen hundred dollars ($1500). No pro rata. Persons or firms selling cider at wholesale to merchants shall be required to pay the usual merchant's license tax only. Any violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars ($5), nor more than fifty dollars ($50), or confinement in jail not exceeding three months, or both fine and imprisonment, as in the discretion of the Police Justice or the Court may seem proper. This ordinance shall not apply to the sale of sweet cider sold by the person growing the fruit from which the cider was made. 34. Civil Engineers. See § 14. 35. Cleaning and Pressing. Each person or ifirm conducting a cleaning and pressing estab- lishment shall pay a specific license tax of $10 per annum. Not transferable. No pro rata. 36. Cold Storage Plants. Every person, firm or corporation operating a cold storage plant shall pay for the storage privilege only, a license tax of fifty dollars ($50) per annum. 37. Common Criers. On every license to a common crier the tax shall be twenty- five dollars ($25) and he shall not as such crier, give any evi- dence of sale or title to the purchaser. This license may be pro rated for a period of not less than six months. 3 8. Contractors. Any person, firm or corporation accepting orders or con- tracts for doing any work on or in any building or structure re- quiring the use of paint, stone, brick, mortar, cement, wood, structural iron or steel, sheet -iron, galvanized iron, metallic piping, tin, lead, electric wiring or other metals or any other building or decorating material; or who shall accept contracts tr, do any paving, or curbing on sidewalks or streets, public or private property, using asphalt, brick, stone, cement, wood or any composition, or who shall accept an order for or contract to excavate earth, rock or other material for foundation or any other purpose, or who shall accept an order or contract to con- struct any sewer of stone, brick, terra cotta, or other material, shall be deemed a contractor. The specific license tax on every person, firm or corporation for the privilege of conducting the business of contractor or builder in this city, as described above, shall 'be ten dollars ($10) on the first thousand dollars or less of material purchased or used, and an additional tax of ten cents on every hundred dollars of the amount of materials pur- chased or used -in excess of one thousand dollars; said addi- tional tax shall be paid quarterly, and every person, firm or corporation is hereby required to report under oath to the Com- missioner of Revenue the amount of purchase on the first day of August, November, February and May of each year and pay the amount due on the date mentioned, and failure to do so shall be considered as doing business without a license, and shall be a misdemeanor and he shall be fined not less than $2.50 nor more than $5 for each day in default. 39. Conveyancers. See § 14. 40. Corn Doctors, etc. ];very cord, cancer, eye, or other itinerant doctor or optician shall pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per annum. Not transferable. No pro rata. 41. Creamery. Each person, firm or corporation conducting a creamery shall pay a specific license tax of $25 per annum. Not transferable. No Pro rata. 42. Dance Halls. On every license to a person or firm to conduct a dance hall in which dancing is to be allowed, where an admission fee is charged or a charge is made for participating in such dancing, the tax shall be $50, and no such license shall be granted until such person or persons shall have secured the consent of the Mayor, who shall satisfy himself that the person or persons ap- plying are proper persons to conduct such hall, and that the lo- cation is suitable for such purpose, and it is further provided that any such dance hall shall be subject to such rules and reg- ulations as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by the Coun- cil. Not transferable. No pro rata. 43. Daguerrean and Photographic Artists and Oasvaa- sere for Copying Pictures. The specific license tax on any person engaged in businsss as a daguerrean or photographic artist, shall be thirty dollars ($30). All persons canvassing this city for copying pictureS of any description shall -pay a specific license tax of fifty dollars ($50). Any itinerant daguerrean or photographic artist, or any person taking orders in this city on the ticket or other plan for photographs to be delivered or furnished by photographers of this city, shall pay a specific license tax of fifty dollars ($50)• Any license granted under this section shall not be transfer" ble or pro rated. 44. Dealers in Pistols, Dirks and Bowie Knives. No person, firm or corporation shall sell pistols, dirks or bowie knives without having first procured a license therefor. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of selling pistols, dirks or bowie knives, or who mayhereafter en• gage in said business, shall pay for the privilege of transacting said business a specific license tax of fifty dollars ($S0)' an no such license shall be issued for any less period than one Year vor shall there be any abatement in any instance of the taxer - upon such license by reason of the fact that the person or p sons so licensed shall have exercised such licensed calling for a period of less than one year.