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<br />99 Pen and Pencil Manufacture.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing pens or
<br />pencils shall pay a specific license tax of seventy-five dollars
<br />($75) per annum.
<br />100. Physicians.
<br />See § 15.
<br />101. Planing Mill and Sash, Blind and Door Factory.
<br />On every license to a person or firm conducting a planing
<br />mill, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50).
<br />On every person or firm carrying on a sash, blind and door
<br />factory, the tax shall be thirty-five dollars ($35).
<br />But if a person or firm conduct a sash, door and blind fac-
<br />tory in combination with a planing mill, the tax shall be
<br />seventy-five dollars ($75).
<br />102. Plumbers.
<br />On every license to a plumber the tax shall be twenty-five
<br />dollars ($25) . This section shall apply to all persons, firms
<br />or corporations who do plumbing, gas -fitting, steam and hot
<br />water heating.
<br />103. Printing Office -Job.
<br />(a) On each and every printing establishment or busi-
<br />ness using two or more machines of any make or description
<br />for the purpose of setting type...................................$100.00
<br />Where less than two machines are used. ... .... _ __ 50.00
<br />Where typesetting is performed exclusively by hand 50.00
<br />(b) Where book -binding except quarter -bound work is
<br />done in addition to printing $25.00 in addition to the license
<br />tax charged for job printing.
<br />104. Publishers.
<br />On every non-resident person, firm or corporation publish-
<br />ing a city directory, book, pamphlet, fire alarm or telephone
<br />directory, theatrical program, display card, desk blotter,
<br />hotel register or any other medium or device, other than reg-
<br />ular newspapers or periodicals entered at the Charlottesville
<br />post -office as second class matter, used or employed for ad-
<br />vertising matter of any kind other than that of the person,
<br />firm or corporation issuing the same, shall pay a special
<br />license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25).
<br />105. Restaurants.
<br />Any person who shall cook, or otherwise furnish for
<br />compensation, diet or refreshments of any kind, for casual
<br />visitors at his house, for consumption therein, and who does
<br />not furnish lodging to such person, and who is not the keep-
<br />er of a hotel, shall be deemed to keep a restaurant. Any
<br />person who shall sell soft drinks from a soda fountain shall
<br />also be deemed to keep a restaurant.
<br />Every person who shall keep a restaurant within the
<br />meaning of this section shall pay for the privilege an annual
<br />license tax of $20.00, plus an additional tax in each case at
<br />the rate of 40c for $100.00 on all sales made by him during
<br />the next preceding calendar year, in excess of $1,000.00.
<br />The license tax on every restaurant keeper beginning
<br />business shall be $20.00 plus additional tax in each case at
<br />the rate of 40c per $100.00 on all sales in excess of $1,000.00
<br />which it is estimated he will make from the time he com-
<br />mences business to the following May 1st.
<br />Every restaurant keeper shall keep accurate daily records
<br />of all sales, which records shall at all times be open to the
<br />inspection of the Commissioner of Revenue of this City.
<br />106. Shoemakers.
<br />On every person or firm conducting a shop for the repair
<br />or manufacturing of shoes, boots, etc., the license tax shall
<br />be $2.50 for each bench without machine; with machine $15.
<br />for each bench and operator.
<br />107. Shooting Gallery.
<br />On every license to keep a shooting gallery, the tax shall
<br />be $10.00 a month.
<br />108. Shows, Circuses, etc.
<br />On a circus, menagerie, tent show, or other such like ex-
<br />hibition or performance, within the corporate limits of the
<br />city, whether combined or separate, the license tax shall be
<br />one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) for the first per-
<br />formance or exhibition, and fifty dollars ($50.00) for each
<br />additional performance or exhibition.
<br />On a side show attached to or exhibiting with any circus,
<br />menagerie, tent show or other such like exhibition or per-
<br />formance within the corporate limits of the city, the license
<br />tax shall be twenty dollars ($20.00) for each performance
<br />or exhibition.
<br />No license shall be issued to any circus, menagerie, tent
<br />show, or other such like exhibition or performance unless
<br />and until the price of admissions and of seats shall have
<br />been previously generally published.
<br />If a show or other performance is conducted in connec-
<br />tion with and as an inducement for the sale of merchandise
<br />there shall be charged a license tax of $25.00 per day
<br />whether an admission is charged or not.
<br />On every circus, menagerie, tent show, or other like ex-
<br />hibition or performance outside of the City limits but with-
<br />in one mile of the City limits, there shall be a license of
<br />$50.00 per day, which license is charged for the purpose of
<br />affording police protection.
<br />109. Silks -Manufacture.
<br />Each person, firm or corporation manufacturing Silks
<br />shall pay a specific license of $75.00 per annum.
<br />110. Skating Rinks.
<br />On every license to the proprietor or occupier of a room
<br />fitted up or used for roller skating purposes the tax shall be
<br />fifty dollars ($50). Not transferable.
<br />111. Slot Machines.
<br />Any person, firm or corporation having on a street, alley
<br />or other public place or in shops, stores, hotels, boarding
<br />houses, depots, public or private rooms, or any other place
<br />anywhere in the City a slot machine of any description into
<br />which are dropped coins to dispose of any article or mer-
<br />chandise or for the purpose of operating musical or other
<br />devices that operate on the coin -in -the -slot principle, used
<br />for gain, except as a pay telephone, shall pay for every such
<br />slot machine or musical or other device as the case may be,
<br />a license tax of $5.00 per year on machines where the cus-
<br />tomer pays one cent and a license tax of $10.00 per year
<br />on machines where the customer pays more than 1c to oper-
<br />ate, except automatic baggage or parcel machines or recep-
<br />tacles which are used for the storage of baggage, parcels of
<br />any character on which shall be levied a tax of twenty-five
<br />cents per year for each receptacle that is operated on the
<br />coin -in -the -slot principles; provided however, that no such
<br />person, firm or corporation may keep, maintain, exhibit or
<br />operate any slot machine or any device in which the element
<br />of chance enters or which gives out any slugs or checks
<br />or device which may be used to again operate the machine
<br />or gives out any prize or any other article other than the
<br />article of merchandise or music in payment for which the
<br />coin was originally deposited; provided further, that this
<br />section shall not apply to slot machines that are used for the
<br />purpose of selling individual sanitary drinking cups, or U.
<br />S. Postage Stamps. Not transferable.
<br />Any person violating any provision of this section shall be
<br />fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each
<br />day and confiscation of the machine.
<br />Each license issued shall show the manufacturer's num-
<br />ber. If the machine has no number the license must be
<br />pasted in a conspicuous place on the machine.
<br />112. Street Venders or Merchants.
<br />On every person, whether manufacturer or not, selling
<br />upon the street or other public places, inflated balloons,
<br />plaster figures, toys, jewelry, and other small articles, the
<br />license tax shall be $10 per day. The Mayor shall, if he
<br />deem it necessary, designate the place of sale, or refuse the
<br />license. This section shall not apply to employees of a circus.
<br />113. Storing and Impounding.
<br />On every license to a person or firm to keep, for compensa-
<br />tion, any house, yard or lot for storage, or other impound-
<br />ing, the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) on each
<br />house, yard or lot.
<br />114. Surgeons.
<br />See § 15.
<br />115. Surveyors.
<br />See § 15.
<br />116. Tailors and Cutters.
<br />Each person or firm conducting the business of tailoring
<br />or selling suits or dresses by sample shall be deemed a mer-
<br />chant and subject to § 83 of this ordinance.
<br />117. Telegraph Companies.
<br />On telegraph companies or agents each for business done
<br />between this and other points within the State of Virginia,
<br />and not including any business done to or from points with-
<br />out the State, and not including business in which messages
<br />although to or from points within this state, pass through
<br />territory without this state, and not including any business
<br />done for the government of the United States, its officers, or
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