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fifty dollars per annum, and where the admission to such exhi- bition exceeds 20 cents but does not exceed 50 cents there shall be paid an additional license fee of two dollars per week or less time than a week or an additional fifty dollars per annum; the license for one year to be paid quarterly, and a license for a pe- riod exceeding one week to be based upon the per annum li- cense fee; provided, however, that when such exhibition is Oven for benevolent, charitable or educational purposes and is Oven for a period of more than 'a week in any year and the ex- hibitor thereof receives a part of the receipts from such exhibi- tion as his compensation, then such exhibition, after the first week shall not be exempt from the payment of the license fee herein prescribed; and where the admission exceeds 50 cents the license tax as prescribed in Sec. 111 shall apply. 80. Oculists. See § 14. - 81. Oils -Gasoline, etc. 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 gasoline, kerosene oil or other oil shall pay a license tax of $200.00. 82. Opticians. Sec § 1-1. 83. 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 be paid a license tax of $1.5 per clay or $75.00 per week ; provided this tax shall not apply to any person pay- ing merchants license tax. 84. Pawnbrokers. On every license to a pawnbroker, the specific license tax shall be one hundred dollars ($100) for one year or fractional part thereof. Not transferable. 85. Peanut and Popcorn Venders. On street venders of peanuts and popcorn the license tax shall be ten dollars ($10). No pro rata. 8 6. 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. 87. Physicians. See § 14 88. 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 on a sash, blind and door 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 seventy- five dollars ($75). 89. 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. 90. Pop -Manufacture and Sale. On every license to any person or firm to conduct the busi- ness of manufacturing or bottling pop, ginger ale, or other aerated waters, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) . 91. Private Bankers. Every person, firm or corporation conducting the business of private banker as defined by the State Tax Laws, shall pay a license tax of $100 per year. 92. 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 f or less than one week, as defined by the State License Law gov- erning "houses of private entertainment." 93. 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 f or advertis- ing matter of any kind other than that of the person, firm or corporation issuing the same, shall pay a special license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) . 931/2. Rentals -Personal Property. Every person, firm, or corporation renting towels or other items of personal property shall pay a specific license tax of $25.00 per annum. This section shall not apply to those paying a license tax to the City as Merchants or as operators of Laun- dries. 94. Restaurants. See Eating Houses. 95. Retailers of Tobacco, Snuff, etc. No person not a producer shall . be allowed to sell by retail tobacco, snuff, cigars, or cigarettes, without 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 construed 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. 96. 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. 97. 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 $10 for each bench. 98. Shooting Gallery. On every license to keep a shooting gallery, the tax shall be $10 per month. Not transferable. No pro rata. 99. 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, me- nagerie, 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 be 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.