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101. Planing Mill and Sash, Blind and Door Factory. On every license to a person or firm conducting a planing ,.pill. the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50) . On every person or firm carrying on a sash, blind or door factory. the tax shall be thirty-five dollars ($35). But if a person or firm conduct a sash, door and blind factory in combination with a planing mill, the tax shall be seventy-five dollars ($75). 327 102. 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 fitting. The license required by this section shall not be con- strued to include plumbing contracting, and every person doing plumbing work on a contracting basis shall also be required to secure a contractors' license as heretofore pro- vided. 103. Printing Office -Job. (a) On each and every printing establishment or busi- ness using two or more machines of any make or descrip- tion for the purpose of setting type............................$100.00 Where less than two machines are used ..................... . 50.00 Where typesetting is performed exclusively by hand 50.00 (b) Where book -binding except quarter -bound work is done in addition to printing $25.00 in addition to the li- cense tax charged for job printing. 104. Publishers. On every non-resident person, firm or corporation pub- lishing a city directory, book, pamphlet, fire alarm or tele- phone directory, theatrical program, display card, desk blot- ter, hotel register, or any other medium or device, other than regular newspapers or periodicals entered at the Charlottes- ville post office as second class matter, used or employed for advertising matter of any kind other than that of the per- son, firm or corporation issuing the same, shall pay a special license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25). 105. 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 keeper of a hotel. shall be deemed to keep a restaurant. Any per- son 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 an- nual license tax of $20.00. plus an additional tax in each case at the rate of 40c for $100.00 on all sales made by him dur- ing the next preceding calendar 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 40c Der $100.00 on all sales in excess of $1,000.00 which it is estimated he will make from the time he com- mences business to the following May 1st. Every restaurant keeper shall keep accurate daily rec- ords of all sales, which records shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Commissioner of Revenue of this City or license inspector. 106. Shoemakerss. 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 $15.00 for each bench and operator. 107. Shooting Gallery. On every license to keep a shooting gallery, the tax shall be $10.00 a month. 108. Shows, Circuses, etc. On a circus, menagerie, tent show, or other such like exhibition or performance, within the corporate limits of the city, whether combined or separate, the license tax shall be one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) for the first per- formance 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, 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 connec- tion 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. 109. Silks -Manufacture. Each person, firm or corporation manufacturing Silks shall pay a specific license of $75.00 per annum. 110. 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 ($50.00). Not transferable. 111. 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, provisions of this subsection, and failure to furnish such evi- dence shall be sufficient ground for charging the person op- erating the vehicle with the violation of this subsection; and in any prosecution for a violation of this subsection, the claim aforesaid must be corroborated by satisfactory evi- dence. The exemption hereby accorded a distributor and/or vendor of motor vehicle fuels and petroleum products and a dealer in forest products or tobacco, is restricted to such peddling of motor vehicle fuels and petroleum products and forest products, and tobacco; and in the case of a farmer, a producer, or a manufacturer taxable on capital by this state, the exemption is restricted to such peddling of goods, wares and merchandise actually manufactured, produced or grown by the seller. A peddler, within the meaning of this subsection, is any person, firm, or corporation, with or which, at other than a definite place of business operated by the seller, shall sell, or offer to sell, goods, wares, or merchandise to licensed dealers or retailers, and at the same time of such sale or exposure for sale, shall deliver, or offer to deliver, the goods, wares, or merchandise to the buyer, and any delivery made on the day of sale shall be construed as equivalent to delivery at the time of sale. Every person, firm or corporation claiming exemption from the provision of this subsection on the ground that he or it is delivering goods, wares, or merchandise previously sold to the customer, shall, upon request of any police, tax or revenue officer, furnish evidence of his or its claim other than his or its mere statement, which evidence may be an invoice or signed order describing the goods, wares, or mer- chandise involved, and the amount and price thereof, and failure to furnish such evidence shall be sufficient ground for charging the person operating the vehicle with a viola- tion of this subsection; and in any prosecution for a viola- tion of this subsection, the claim aforesaid must be corrob- orated by satisfactory evidence. Every person, firm or corporation violating any pro- vision of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense; and each day's violation of any provision of this subsection shall be deemed a separate offense. 98. (c) Peddlers -Producers' Certificate. 1. No city license shall be required of peddlers of ice, wood, meat, milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game, vegetables, fruits, or other family supplies of a perishable nature grown or produced by them and not purchased by them for sale. 2. But every such peddler of family supplies of a perish- able nature grown or produced by him and not purchased by him for sale shall on or before January first of each year file with the Commissioner of Revenue of this city a certifi- cate in duplicate under oath in which shall be given the name and post office address of the applicant, the location of the land on which the family supplies of a perishable na- ture are produced, or are to be produced, whether the appli- cant 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 Commis- sioner of Revenue shall endorse on one copy of such certifi- cate the fact and date of its filing, and shall deliver such copy to the applicant, and such applicant shall thereafter at all times while he is engaged in peddling within this city, have such copy in his possession and upon request by any officer of the City charged with enforcing of the license ordi- nance, exhibit such certificate. The Commissioner of Rev- enue may administer the oaths required by this subsection. 4. Any officer charged with the enforcement of the li- cense ordinance 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 subsection shall be construed as including their bona fide employees. 6. Any peddler failing to exhibit such certificate in vio- lation of this subsection, or making any false statement in the certificate or affidavit aforesaid, or by permitting the certificate obtained by him to be used in the sale of any family supplies of a perishable nature not grown or prb- duced by him, shall upon conviction, be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty 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. 99. Pen and Pencil Manufacture. Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing pens or pencils shall pay a specific license tax of seventy-five dol- lars ($75) per annum. 100. Physicians. See § 14. 101. Planing Mill and Sash, Blind and Door Factory. On every license to a person or firm conducting a planing ,.pill. the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50) . On every person or firm carrying on a sash, blind or door factory. the tax shall be thirty-five dollars ($35). But if a person or firm conduct a sash, door and blind factory in combination with a planing mill, the tax shall be seventy-five dollars ($75). 327 102. 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 fitting. The license required by this section shall not be con- strued to include plumbing contracting, and every person doing plumbing work on a contracting basis shall also be required to secure a contractors' license as heretofore pro- vided. 103. Printing Office -Job. (a) On each and every printing establishment or busi- ness using two or more machines of any make or descrip- tion for the purpose of setting type............................$100.00 Where less than two machines are used ..................... . 50.00 Where typesetting is performed exclusively by hand 50.00 (b) Where book -binding except quarter -bound work is done in addition to printing $25.00 in addition to the li- cense tax charged for job printing. 104. Publishers. On every non-resident person, firm or corporation pub- lishing a city directory, book, pamphlet, fire alarm or tele- phone directory, theatrical program, display card, desk blot- ter, hotel register, or any other medium or device, other than regular newspapers or periodicals entered at the Charlottes- ville post office as second class matter, used or employed for advertising matter of any kind other than that of the per- son, firm or corporation issuing the same, shall pay a special license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25). 105. 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 keeper of a hotel. shall be deemed to keep a restaurant. Any per- son 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 an- nual license tax of $20.00. plus an additional tax in each case at the rate of 40c for $100.00 on all sales made by him dur- ing the next preceding calendar 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 40c Der $100.00 on all sales in excess of $1,000.00 which it is estimated he will make from the time he com- mences business to the following May 1st. Every restaurant keeper shall keep accurate daily rec- ords of all sales, which records shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Commissioner of Revenue of this City or license inspector. 106. Shoemakerss. 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 $15.00 for each bench and operator. 107. Shooting Gallery. On every license to keep a shooting gallery, the tax shall be $10.00 a month. 108. Shows, Circuses, etc. On a circus, menagerie, tent show, or other such like exhibition or performance, within the corporate limits of the city, whether combined or separate, the license tax shall be one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) for the first per- formance 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, 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 connec- tion 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. 109. Silks -Manufacture. Each person, firm or corporation manufacturing Silks shall pay a specific license of $75.00 per annum. 110. 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 ($50.00). Not transferable. 111. 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,