Chap. 221.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 9 of
the charter of the city of Lynchburg.

Approved February 24, 1888.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section five of chapter nine of the charter of the city of
Lynchburg be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
ows: :

_§5. Tho council may impose a tax on merchants, commis-
sion merchants, auctioneers, manufacturers, traders, express
companies, telegraph companies and other companies (except
railroad companies), lawyers, physicians, dentists, brokers,
keepers of ordinaries, hotel keepers, boarding-house keepers,
keepers of drinking or eating houses, keepers of livery sta-
bles, daguerrean artists of all kinds, agents of all kinds
(including the agents of insurance companies, whose princi-
Pal office is not located in the city), sellers of wine and other
liquors, vendors of quack medicines, public, theatrical, or
other performances or shows, keepers of billiard saloons or
tables, ten-pin alleys, pistol galleries, hawkers, pedlars, sam-
ple merchants, and upon any other employment, trade,
profession, business, avocation, exhibition or public amuse-
ment, whether of like kind with any of the foregoing or not,
which the council may deem proper, and whether any tax
be imposed thereon by the state or not. In respect to all
such subjects, the council may lay a direct tax, or may
require a license theretor under such regulations as it may
prescribe, and levy a tax thereon; but the taxes herein
authorized shall be subject to the provisions and conditions
set forth in the third section of this chapter of this charter.
2. This act shall take effect from its passage.