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97. Restaurants. Any person who shall cook, or otherwise furnish for compensation, diet or refreshments of any kind, for casual visitors at his house, for consumption therein, and who does not furnish lodging to such person, and who is not the keep- er of a hotel, shall be deemed to keep a restaurant. Any person who shall sell soft drinks from a soda fountain shall also be deemed to keep a restaurant. Every person who shall keep a restaurant within the meaning of this section shall pay for the privilege an annual license tax of $20.00, plus an additional tax in each case at the rate of 60c for $100.00 on all purchases made by him during the next preceding year, in excess of $1,000.00. The license tax on every restaurant keeper beginning business shall be $20.00 plus additional tax in each case at the rate of 60c per $100.00 on all purchases in excess of $1,000.00 which it is estimated he will make from the time he commences business to the following May 1st. The word "purchases", as used in this Section, shall be construed to mean all goods, wares, merchandise, products and material bought for the purpose of sale, whether in the form in which the same are bought, or in a changed form, or for the purpose of preparing food or beverages for sale, in such restaurant and/or soft drink business. The word "pur- chases", as used in this Section, shall not be construed to in- clude equipment or capital outlays. Every restaurant keeper shall keep accurate records of all purchases and from whom made, which record shall at all times be open to inspection by the Commissioner of Revenue of this City. 98. Shoemakers. On every person or firm conducting a shop for the repair or manufacturing of shoes, boots, etc., the license tax shall be $2.50 for each bench without machine; with machine $10 for each bench and operator. 99. Shooting Gallery. On every license to keep a shooting gallery, the tax shall be $10.00 a month. 100. Shows, Circuses, etc. On a circus, menagerie, tent show, or other such like ex- hibition 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 one hundred and fifty dol- lars ($150.00) for the first performance or exhibition, and fifty dollars ($50.00) for each additional performance or exhibition. On a side show attached to or exhibiting with any circus, menagerie, tent show or other such like exhibition or per- formance 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. If a show or other performance is conducted in connection with and as an inducement for the sale of merchandise there shall be charged a license tax of $25.00 per day whether an admission is charged or not. 101. Silks Manufacture. Each person, firm or corporation manufacturing Silks shall pay a specific license of $75.00 per annum. 102. Skating Rinks. On every license to the proprietor or occupier of a room fitted up or used for roller skating purposes the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50). No pro rata. Not transferable. 103. Slot Machines. Any person, firm or corporation having on a street, alley or other public place or in shops, stores, hotels, boarding houses, depots, public or private rooms, or any other place anywhere in the City a slot machine of any description into which are dropped coins to dispose of any article or mer- chandise or for the purpose of operating musical or other devices that operate on the coin -in -the -slot principle, used for gain, except as a pay telephone, shall pay for every such slot machine or musical or other device as the case may be, a license tax of $5.00 per year on machines where the cus- tomers pays one cent and a license tax of $10,00 per year on machines where the customer pays more than le to oper- ate, except automatic baggage or parcel machines or recep- tacles which are used for the storage of baggage, parcels of any character on which shall be levied a tax of twenty-five cents per year for each receptacle that is operated or. the coin -in -the -slot principles; provided however, that no such person, firm or corporation may keep, maintain, exhibit or operate any slot machine or any device in which the element of chance enters or which gives out any slugs or checks or device which may be used to again operate the machine or gives out any prize or any other article other than the article of merchandise or music in payment for which the coin was originally deposited; provided further, that this section shall not apply to slot machines that are used for the purpose of selling individual sanitary drinking cups, or U. S. Postage Stamps. Not transferable. No pro rata. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each day and confiscation of the machine. Each license issued shall show the manufacturer's num- ber. If the machine has no number the license must be pasted in a conspicuous place on the machine. F;7 duced, or are to be produced, whether the applicant is the owner thereof, or renter, and in the latter case, the name of the landlord or owner and the time from which and to which the lease is to run. 3. Upon receipt of such certificate and such other evi- dence under oath as may be sufficient to establish the fact that the applicant is entitled to the certificate, the Com- missioner of Revenue shall furnish to such peddler a tag suitable to be displayed on his vehicle, on which tag shall be printed "City of Charlottesville Producer No.. ..............." to- gether with the year for which issued, which tag such pro- ducer or grower shall display conspicuously on his vehicle in a position that can be easily read at all times while such producer or grower is engaged in peddling within this city. The Commissioner of the Revenue may administer the oaths required by this subsection. 4. Any officer charged with the enforcement of the li- cense ordinances of this city may at any time question any peddler claiming exemption from city license taxation and may require of such peddler an affidavit in support of any claim made by such peddler that the produce then in or on his vehicle was grown or produced by him. 5. The word "peddler" or "peddlers", as used in this sub -section shall be construed as including their bona fide employees. 6. Any peddler failing to display such tag in violation of this sub -section, or making any false statement in the certificate or affidavit aforesaid, or by permitting the tag obtained by him to be used in the sale of any family supplies of a perishable nature not grown or produced by him, shall upon conviction, be fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense, and upon failure to pay the said fine shall be confined in the city jail for not less than ten days nor more than thirty days. 91. Physicians. See § 14. 92. 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). 93. 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. 94. Printing Office -Job. On every license to a person, firm or corporation to con- duct a job printing office the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25). 95. Private Banken. 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. 96. 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 reg- ular newspapers or periodicals entered at the Charlottesville post -office as second class matter, used or employed for ad- vertising matter of any kind other than that of the person, firm or corporation issuing the same, shall pay a special li- cense tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) . 97. Restaurants. Any person who shall cook, or otherwise furnish for compensation, diet or refreshments of any kind, for casual visitors at his house, for consumption therein, and who does not furnish lodging to such person, and who is not the keep- er of a hotel, shall be deemed to keep a restaurant. Any person who shall sell soft drinks from a soda fountain shall also be deemed to keep a restaurant. Every person who shall keep a restaurant within the meaning of this section shall pay for the privilege an annual license tax of $20.00, plus an additional tax in each case at the rate of 60c for $100.00 on all purchases made by him during the next preceding year, in excess of $1,000.00. The license tax on every restaurant keeper beginning business shall be $20.00 plus additional tax in each case at the rate of 60c per $100.00 on all purchases in excess of $1,000.00 which it is estimated he will make from the time he commences business to the following May 1st. The word "purchases", as used in this Section, shall be construed to mean all goods, wares, merchandise, products and material bought for the purpose of sale, whether in the form in which the same are bought, or in a changed form, or for the purpose of preparing food or beverages for sale, in such restaurant and/or soft drink business. The word "pur- chases", as used in this Section, shall not be construed to in- clude equipment or capital outlays. Every restaurant keeper shall keep accurate records of all purchases and from whom made, which record shall at all times be open to inspection by the Commissioner of Revenue of this City. 98. Shoemakers. On every person or firm conducting a shop for the repair or manufacturing of shoes, boots, etc., the license tax shall be $2.50 for each bench without machine; with machine $10 for each bench and operator. 99. Shooting Gallery. On every license to keep a shooting gallery, the tax shall be $10.00 a month. 100. Shows, Circuses, etc. On a circus, menagerie, tent show, or other such like ex- hibition 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 one hundred and fifty dol- lars ($150.00) for the first performance or exhibition, and fifty dollars ($50.00) for each additional performance or exhibition. On a side show attached to or exhibiting with any circus, menagerie, tent show or other such like exhibition or per- formance 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. If a show or other performance is conducted in connection with and as an inducement for the sale of merchandise there shall be charged a license tax of $25.00 per day whether an admission is charged or not. 101. Silks Manufacture. Each person, firm or corporation manufacturing Silks shall pay a specific license of $75.00 per annum. 102. Skating Rinks. On every license to the proprietor or occupier of a room fitted up or used for roller skating purposes the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50). No pro rata. Not transferable. 103. Slot Machines. Any person, firm or corporation having on a street, alley or other public place or in shops, stores, hotels, boarding houses, depots, public or private rooms, or any other place anywhere in the City a slot machine of any description into which are dropped coins to dispose of any article or mer- chandise or for the purpose of operating musical or other devices that operate on the coin -in -the -slot principle, used for gain, except as a pay telephone, shall pay for every such slot machine or musical or other device as the case may be, a license tax of $5.00 per year on machines where the cus- tomers pays one cent and a license tax of $10,00 per year on machines where the customer pays more than le to oper- ate, except automatic baggage or parcel machines or recep- tacles which are used for the storage of baggage, parcels of any character on which shall be levied a tax of twenty-five cents per year for each receptacle that is operated or. the coin -in -the -slot principles; provided however, that no such person, firm or corporation may keep, maintain, exhibit or operate any slot machine or any device in which the element of chance enters or which gives out any slugs or checks or device which may be used to again operate the machine or gives out any prize or any other article other than the article of merchandise or music in payment for which the coin was originally deposited; provided further, that this section shall not apply to slot machines that are used for the purpose of selling individual sanitary drinking cups, or U. S. Postage Stamps. Not transferable. No pro rata. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each day and confiscation of the machine. Each license issued shall show the manufacturer's num- ber. If the machine has no number the license must be pasted in a conspicuous place on the machine. F;7