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10 CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE 34. Flour and Meal Manufacture. On every license to a manufacturer of flour or meal, the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each license., But when such manufacturer deals in flour, meal or other grain products other than his own manufacture he shall be required to produce a merchants' license graduated by th'e amount of such purchases. . 35. Fortune Tellers. Every person practicing the art of divination, fortune tell- ing, palmistry, astrology, or phrenology who shall practice the same in this city, shall pay a tax of $7,500.00 per year. NOT PRORATED. 36. Furniture Upholster or Repairer. On every person, firm or corporation engaged in the busi- ness of upholstering or repairing furniture the license tax shall be .... $25.00 and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 30c on each $100.00 in addition thereto. If the licensee operates as a retail merchant the gross re- ceipts under this section may be reported in the merchants license. 37. Garage Storage. Every person, firm or corporation who shall keep a garage for storage of automobiles shall include the receipts for same and report as a retail merchant. Shops for repairing shall be required to pay a license tax as provided in section 69. 38. Gasoline and Other Petroleum Products Outside City. Any person, firm or corporation whose storage tanks are located outside of the corporate limits of the city who trans- ports gasoline or other petroleum products of like nature on or through the streets of this city for sale or delivery to whole- sale or retail merchants for resale in this city shall pay a li- cense tax for the privilege of doing such business in this city, the same to be graduated by the amount of sales or delivered price made by him or it of such commodities sold or delivered in this City during the next preceding year, or, in the case of starting business during the year, the estimated amount of TAXES ON LICENSES 11 sales which will be so made during the balance of the license year, the amount to be paid to be the same as that required of a retail merchant. This section shall not apply to a person, firm, or corporation who or which has paid or is assessable a business license under some other section of this ordinance. 39. Hobby Horses, Merry -Go -Rounds, Ferris Wheels, etc. On every license to keep a hobby horse, merry-go-round, ferris wheel or other like amusement, except as herein pro- vided, the tax shall be $50.00 per week, and no license shall.be issued under this section for a shorter period than one week. But if any such amusement is conducted solely, for amusement purposes without charge, an annual tax of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) shall be imposed in lieu of such weekly tax, provided such ' hobby horse, merry-go-round, ferris wheel or like amusement shall not be accompanied with music or other audible sound which can be heard a greater distance than three hundred (300) feet from the location of such hobby horse, merry-go-round, ferris wheel, or other like amusement. 40. Hotels and Motels. Any person who keeps a public inn or motel, or lodging house of more than ten bedrooms where transient guests are lodged for pay, shall be deemed for the purpose of this section to be engaged in the business of keeping a hotel. For the pur- pose of this section a transient guest is one who puts up for less than one week at such hotel, but such a house is no less a hotel because some of its guests put up for longer periods than one week. For the privilege of operating such business the li- cense tax shall be ....................$25.00, and where the gross re- ceipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 30c on each $100.00 in addition thereto. The payment of the license tax provided by this section shall not exempt the person paying such tax from the payment of a restaurant or merchants license tax as provided in this ordinance if a restaurant, dining room or cigar stand is operat- ed in connection with said hotel. 41. Ice Cream or Sherbet—Manufacture for Retail Sale. Every person, firm or corporation engaging in the manu- facture of ice cream or sherbet for resale in his own establish-