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92 20. Baby Racks and other Games. Every person conducting a baby rack, knife rack, or like game of chance not prohibited by law, shall pay on each game a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per day. 21. Bagatelle. On every license permitting a bagatelle table 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-five dol- lars ($25) on each table. No pro rata. 22. Bakers. Each person or firm conducting the business of baking shall pay a specific license tax of $25 per annum. No pro rata. 23. Barbers. On every license to a barber the tax shall be $7.50 for each chair. 24. Bill Posters. Each bill poster shall pay a license tax of forty dollars ($40). All persons who post notices, bills and labels for com- pensation, 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. 25. Billiard or Pool. On every license to keep a billiard or pool saloon the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50) for one table, and an additional tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) for the second table, and fifteen dollars ($15) additional for each table in excess of two. No license shall be issued without the written consent of the Mayor. Licenses may be issued quarterly. 26. Bootblacks. For each chair or stand accommodating not more than one person the license shall be $2 and when a bench is used the license shall be $2 for each pair of foot rests, for year or any part of year. 27. Bottling Works. 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). 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 in- vited, the tax shall be twenty dollars ($20.00) for the first alley or game, and fifteen dollars ($15) for each additional alley or game. No pro rata. 29. Brick Yard. Each person, firm or corporation conducting a Brick Yard shall pay a specific license of $25.00 per annum. 30. Brokers in Stocks, Bonds or Bills. On every license to a person or firm to conduct the busi- ness of stock, bond, note or bill broker the tax shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00). 31. Building and Loan Associations. Specific license tax upon purely mutual companies lending only to stockholders, and confining its business solely to the City and County in which organized and counties and cities immediately contiguous thereto, $50.00. Specific license tax upon paid-up stock, or partially paid- up stock, to value of $25,000.00 or less, $75.00; and a further sum of $3.00 upon each additional $1,000.00 or fractional part thereof, so paid up. Note: Commissioner must require statement under oath of capital paid in. 32. Carnival. On every carnival, two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) per day. A carnival shall mean an aggregation of shows, amusement concessions, eating places and riding devices, or any of them operating together on one lot or street, or on contiguous lots or streets, moving from place to place, wheth- er the same are owned and actually operated by separate persons, firms, corporations or not. On every carnival out- side the city limits but within one mile of the city limits there shall be a license of fifty dollars ($50.00) per day. The license is charged on carnivals outside the city because of the additional expense of affording police protection where they are located outside but within one mile of the city. 33. Chiropodists, etc. Every chiropodist, manicurist, hair dresser or beauty specialist shall pay a specific license tax of $10 per annum for each operator. Not transferable. No pro rata. 34. Cider. No cider of any sort shall be sold by any person or firm within the limits of the City of Charlottesville unless the per- son 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 Civil and Police Justice of 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. 35. City Directory. Any person, firm or corporation who shall engage in the business of publishing or distributing a directory commonly known as a city directory having an office or representative or making contract for work or soliciting for work in the City of Charlottesville shall pay a license tax of twenty-five ($25.00) 36. Civil Engineers. See § 14. 37. Cleaning and Pressing. Each person, firm or corporation conducting a cleaning and/or pressing establishment shall pay a specific license tax of twenty dollars ($20.00) per annum, except that where the machinery used is operated by any other power than by hand the tax shall be seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per an- num. No pro rata. 38. Cold Storage Plants. Every person, firm or corporation operating a cold stor- age plant shall pay for the storage privilege only, a license tax of fifty dollars ($50) per annum. 39. Common Criers. On every license to a common crier the tax shall be twen- ty-five dollars ($25) and he shall not as such crier, give any evidence of sale or title to the purchaser. No pro rata. Not transferable. 40. Contractors. Every contractor for the privilege of transacting business shall pay a license tax to be ascertained in the following manner: If the gross amounts of all orders or contracts for work done in this state aggregate one thousand dollars, or less, he shall pay the sum of ten dollars, and he shall pay one dollar additional on each one thousand dollars in excess of the first one thousand dollars and to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars, and he shall pay fifty cents additional on each one thousand dollars of all orders or contracts in excess of fifteen thousand dollars; said additional tax shall be paid quarter- ly, and every person, firm or corporation is hereby required to report, under oath, to the Commissioner of Revenue the amount of all orders or contracts, on the first day of August, November, February and May of each year and pay the amount due on the dates mentioned, and failure to do so, shall be considered as doing business without a license. 41. Conveyancers. See § 14. 42. Corn Doctors, etc. Every corn, cancer, eye, or other itinerant doctor or optic- ian shall pay a specific license tax of twenty dollars ($20) per month. Not transferable. No pro rata. 43. Creamery. Each person, firm or corporation manufacturing butter for sale shall pay a specific license tax of $25 per annum. Not transferable. No pro rata. 44. Credit Unions. A credit union which makes loans only to its stockholders or members shall pay an annual State license tax as follows: Five dollars ($5.00) where the actual paid in capital is not in excess of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00) ; ten dollars ($10.00) where the actual paid in capital is over fif- teen thousand dollars $(15,000.00) and not in excess of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) ; fifteen dollars ($15. 00) where the actual paid in capital is over twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) and not in excess of fifty thousand dol- lars ($50,000.00) ; twenty-five dollars ($25.00) where the actual paid in capital is over fifty thousand dollars ($50,- 000.00) and not in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) ; and an additional sum of two dollars ($2.00) per thousand for each one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) of actual paid in capital in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00). r 7 1 1