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where the admission to such exhibition exceeds 5 cents but does not exceed 20 cents there shall he paid an additional li- cense fee of three dollars per week, or less time than a week, or an additional fifty year to be paid quarterly, and a license for a period exceeding one week to he based upon the per annum license fee; provided, however, that when such exhibition, is given for benevolent, charitable or educational purposes and is given for a period of more than one week in any year and the exhibitor thereof re- ceives a part of the receipts from such exhibition as his com- pensation, then such exhibition,, after the first week, shall not be exempt from the payment of the license fee herein pre- scribed; and where the admission exceeds 20 cents the license tax as prescribed in sec. 111 shall apply. 79. Oculists. See § 14. 80. Oils. Any person, firm or corporation, whose place of business is without the corporate limits of the city, who shall engage in the business of selling to wholesale or to both wholesale and re- tail merchants in this city kerosene oil or other illuminating oil shall pay a license tax of $75. Any person, firm or corporation, whose place of business is without the corporate limits of the city, who shall engage in the business of selling only to retail merchants in this city ker- osene oil or other illuminating oil shall pay a license tax of 81. Opticians. See § 14. 82, 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 or apothecary doing business in this city, carrying a regular stork of drugs and medicines. 83. Pawnbrokers. On every license to a pawnbroker, the specific license tax shall be one hundred dollars ($100) for one year or frac- tional part thereof. Not transferable. 84. Peanut and Popcorn Venders. On street venders of peanuts aid impcorn the license tax shall be ten dollars ($10). No pre) rata. 85. Peddlers. Any person acting as peddler, as defined by the State Laws- of Virginia, shall pay a license tax of $150. Not transferable. No pro rata. 86. Physicians. See § 14. 87. Planing Mill and Sash, Blind and Door Factory. On every license to a person or firm conducting a planing Mill, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50) . On every person or firm carrying un a sash, blind and doer factory, the tax shall be thirty-five dollars ($35) . But if a person or firm conduct a sash, door and blind fac- tory in combination with a planing mill, the tax shall be seven- ty-five dollars ($75) . 88. Plumbers. On every license to a plumber the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25). This section shall apply to all persons, firms or corporations who do plumbing, gas -fitting, steam and hot water heating. 89. Pop -Manufacture and Sale. On every license to any person or firm to conduct the busi- ness of facturing or bottling pop, ginger ale, or other aerated waters, the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) . 90. Private Bankers. Every person, firm or corporation conducting the business of private banker as defined by the State Tax Laws, § 77, shall NY a license tax of $100 per year. 91. Private Entertainment. Private entertainment (thirty rooms or less), tax $5.00 and $1.00 additional for each room in excess of 10. This section shall be construed to apply to all keepers of what are known as "boarding houses" accepting boarders. or lodgers for less than one week, as defined by the State License Law gov- erning "houses of private entertainment." 92. Publishers. On every non-resident person, firm or corporation publish- ing a city directory, book, pamphlet, fire alarm or telephone directory, theatrical program, display card, desk blotter, hotel register or any other medium or device, other than regular newspapers or periodicals entered at the Charlottesville post - office as second-class matter, used or employed for advertis- ing matter of any kind other than that of the person, firm or corporation issuing the same, a special license tax of twenty- five dollars ($25) . 93. Restaurants. See Eating Houses. 94. Retailers of Tobacco, Snuff, etc. No person not a producer shall be allowed to sell by retail tobacco, snuff, cigars, or cigarettes, withotit having obtained a specific license to do so. The sum to be paid by retailers of tobacco, snuff, cigars or cigarettes shall be for said privilege a specific tax of five dol- lars ($5), which shall be assessed and collected as other assess- ments upon license, but which shall not be in lieu of merchants license on purchases. This section shall be constnied to require of any person tak- ing out this special license tax to sell tobacco, snuff, cigars or cigarettes a merchants' license in addition thereto based on amount of purchases. 95. Sample Merchants or Agents. Any person selling to consumers by sample, card or repre- sentation, or selling or taking orders for any article other than from merchants or other persons dealing in the articles so sold, shall pay a license tax of fifteen dollars ($15) for each day he barters or sells in this city. 96. Shoemakers. On every person or firm conducting a shop for the repair or manufacture of shoes, boots, etc., the license tax shall be $2.50 for each bench without machine; with machine $5 for each bench. 9 7. Shooting Gallery. On every license to keep a shooting gallery, the tax shall be $25 per annum, or $7 per month if for a less time than a year. 98. Shows, Circuses, etc. On a circus, menagerie, tent show, or other such like exhibi- tion or performance, within the corporate limits of the city or within one mile of the same, whether combined or separate, the license tax shall be seventy-five dollars ( $75) for the first per- formance or exhibition, and thirty-five dollars ($35) for each additional performance or exhibition. On a side show attached to or exhibiting with any circus, men- agerie, tent show or other such like exhibition or performance within the corporate limits of the city or within one mile of the same, the license tax shall he twenty dollars ($20) for each performance or exhibition. No license shall be issued to any circus, menagerie, tent show, or other such like exhibition or performance unless and until the price of admissions and of seats shall have been previously generally published. 99. Skating Rink. On every license to the proprietor or occupier of a room fitted tip or used for roller skating purposes, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50) . 100. Slot Machine. On all slot machines not prohibited by law, there shall be a tax of $2.50 per annum; and the regulations applicable there- to shall be the same as are applicable to, and provided for those licensed under the State law. ( See § 139 of the Tax Laws of Virginia.)