Chap. 226.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 121 of an act entitled an
act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools; ,
and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for
pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, and approved April
16, 1903, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1904.

Approved March 12, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section one hundred and twenty-
one of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the gov-
ernment and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public
debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section
one hundred and eighty-nine of the Constitution,” and approved April
sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, as amended by an act approved
February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and four, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§121. Any person who takes, or exposes, on plates, films or sensitized
material, or who develops, or prints images of objects according to the
invention of the daguerreotype or photograph process, or who does any
or all of these things, by whatever name it may be known or called, shall
be deemed a daguerreotype artist, and every person who shall canvass
for any daguerrean artist, or photographer, or shall act as the agent of
such artist, or photographer, in transmitting pictures, daguerreotypes,
or photographs, to other points for the purpose of having them copied
or enlarged, or colored, shall be deemed a daguerrean artist’s agent or
canvasser, and he shall be deemed a daguerrean or photograph can-
vasser, whether he acts for himself or for another, and every such ar-
tist or agent engaged in the business aforesaid, or as a canvasser there-
for, shall obtain a license, and it shall be unlawful so to engage without
a license.
For every violation of this section the person offending shall pay
a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.

Nothing in this act shall apply to amateur photographers who ex-
pose, develop and finish their own work, and who do not part with the
same for compensation, and who do not receive any compensation for
performing any of the processes herein set forth.