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tinder this section for a shorter period than one week. And
<br />Such license shall be a personal privilege and only be granted by
<br />.order of the \Mayor, except where conducted in connection with
<br />County Fairs, in which case no tax shall be imposed.
<br />59. Hotels.
<br />Any person who keeps a public inn or lodging house of more
<br />than thirty bedrooms where transient guests are fed or lodged
<br />for pay shall be deemed for the purpose of this act to be engaged
<br />in the business of keeping a hotel.
<br />A transient guest is one who puts tip for less than one week
<br />at such hotel, but such a house is no less a hotel because some
<br />Of its guests put up for longer periods than one week.
<br />Any person conducting the business of keeping a hotel as de-
<br />fined in this section shall pay an annual license tax of one dol-
<br />lar for each bedroom and fifty cents for each bath room, in said
<br />hotel.
<br />691/2. Hucksters.
<br />Those who purchase marketing in the country to sell from
<br />house to house in the city shall pay the huckster's license of
<br />twenty-five dollars per annum for each wagon, or $6.25 per quar-
<br />ter. This license covers only the right to buy and to sell market-
<br />ing raised in this section. But persons bringing marketing of
<br />their own produce from the country, and selling the same from
<br />their wagons, from door to door, shall not be considered to be
<br />hucksters under this section.
<br />60. Ice Dealer or Distributor.
<br />A specific tax is hereby imposed on each person, other than
<br />an ice manufacturer, who sells or distributes ice in the city, of
<br />fifty dollars ($50.00).
<br />61. Ice Cream -Manufacture.
<br />Each person or tirm manufacturing ice cream shall pay a
<br />specific license of $10 per year. Not transferable. No pro rata.
<br />62. Ioe-Manufacture.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing ice for
<br />sale, or dealing in ice imported into this city, shall pay a license
<br />tax of $50.
<br />63. Itinerant Musicians.
<br />Every itinerant musician performing in the streets of this
<br />city, such as organ -grinders, bag -pipe blowers, etc., shall pay a
<br />specific tax of five dollars ($5.00) per day.
<br />64. Job Printing Office.
<br />On every license to a person, firm or corporation to conduct
<br />a job printing office the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25).
<br />66. Junk Dealers.
<br />On every license to a junk dealer the tax shall be fifty dol-
<br />lars ($50) and on every person who shall engage in the busi-
<br />ness of baying junk or other matter for a junk dealer or for
<br />sale to a junk dealer, the tax shall be thirty dollars ($30).
<br />Where such a dealer engages in the buying and selling of
<br />wool, hides or furs, he shall pay a merchant's tax in addition.
<br />66. Laundries.
<br />Every person who operates a laundry and every agent of a
<br />non-resident laundry shall hay for the privilege of conducting
<br />such business, if it be a laundry operated other than by hand, in
<br />this city, the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00).
<br />On every person operating a hand laundry the license tax
<br />shall be $20. But nothing in this section shall be construed to
<br />impose a license tax upon persons who wash bed clothing, wear-
<br />ing apparel, and so forth, without laundry machinery, and who
<br />do not keep shops or other regular places of business for laun-
<br />dry purposes. No pro rata.
<br />67. Lightning Rod Agents.
<br />Every person canvassing for, selling or erecting lightning rods
<br />in this city, other than a regular licensed merchant, shall pay a
<br />specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) for a year or
<br />fractional part thereof. Not transferable.
<br />68. Live Stock Brokers, Dealers in Poultry and Eggs, etc.
<br />Every dealer who shall buy for the purpose of selling, or who
<br />shall sell any of the live stock, poultry, eggs or butter purchased
<br />by him shall pay a license tax of $25. Butchers and farmers
<br />buying for their own use, or selling, shall not be subject to this
<br />tax. This section shall not apply to dealers who pay a merchant's
<br />license tax.
<br />69. Machine Shops.
<br />See § 53).
<br />70. Manufacturers of Vehicles.
<br />On every person or firm conducting the business of manu-
<br />facturing wagons, drays and carts, carriages, buggies and like
<br />vehicles, the license tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25).
<br />71. Medicines, Salves, etc. -Sale of on Street.
<br />On every such license to carry or sell medicines, salves or
<br />liniments, on the streets, alleys, or elsewhere in this city, the
<br />tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) per day, but no such license
<br />shall be issued except by authority of the Mayor. Provided that
<br />this tax shall not apply to any person paying merchants license
<br />tax.
<br />72. Merchants.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation conducting a mercantile
<br />business shall for each separate place of business conducted in
<br />the City of Charlottesville, pay a license tax as follows:
<br />If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $1,000, the tax
<br />shall be $10.
<br />If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $2,000, the tax
<br />shall be $18.
<br />If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $3,000, the tax
<br />shall be $25.
<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.
<br />On all purchases over $10,000 and less than $20,000, the
<br />tax shall be sixty cents (60c.) on the $100 in excess of $10,000.
<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.
<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.
<br />On all purchases over $40,000 and less than $50,000, the
<br />tax shall be thirty cents (30c.) on the $100 in excess of
<br />$40,000.
<br />On all purchases in excess of $50,000, the tax shall be ten
<br />cents (10c.) on the $100.
<br />73. Merchants -Out of Town.
<br />On every person, firm or corporation not having a definite
<br />place of business within the City of Charlottesville (other than
<br />a distributor and/or vendor of motor vehicles, fuel or petro-
<br />leum products, a farmer, a dealer in forest products, a producer
<br />or manufacturer) who or which shall sell and deliver at the same
<br />time in the City, goods, wares or merchandise to any licensed
<br />dealers or retailers, or direct to consumers, a license tax of
<br />$400.00 per annum is hereby imposed, which license tax shall not
<br />be pro rated or transferred.
<br />The burden shall be upon any person, firm or corporation
<br />claiming to be a grower, producer or manufacturer to prove the
<br />same.
<br />Any person, firm or corporation claiming to be a grower, pro-
<br />ducer or manufacturer shall, upon request of the Commissioner
<br />of Revenue of the City of Charlottesville, furnish proof of the
<br />same, and upon failure to furnish proof shall be forbidden to sell
<br />in the City.
<br />Provided that this section shall not apply to retail merchants
<br />who have their place of business in Albemarle County and coun-
<br />ties adjoining Albemarle County.
<br />Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this
<br />section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not
<br />less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense,
<br />and each sale shall constitute a separate offense hereunder.
<br />74. Merchants -Commission -Merchandise Brokers.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation buying or selling for an-
<br />other any hind of merchandise except cider on commission shall
<br />be deemed a commission merchant.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation doing business in this city
<br />who orders or solicits orders for, receives or distributes provi-
<br />sions or merchandise including flour, hay or grain shipped into
<br />this city from points within this state for distribution on ac-
<br />count of the shipper, or shipped direct to the buyer, and partici-
<br />pates in the profits ensuing from or accruing out of the sales
<br />of such provisions or merchandise, including hay or grain, or
<br />receives compensation in any form for his services whether he
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