Chap. 99.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 51 of an act approved May
20, 1903, 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 Con-
stitution, approved February 16, 1903.

Approved February 29, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-one 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 one hundred and eighty-nine of the Constitution,’ approved
April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:
§51. For the privilege of peddling or bartering in any county, city
or town, there shall be paid two hundred and fifty dollars for each
person so engaged or employed, when he travels on foot, and when he
peddles otherwise than on foot, the tax paid shall be five hundred dollars,
except that the tax on peddlers of milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish,
oysters, game, fruit and farm products not grown or produced by them,
shall be fifty dollars for each vehicle used in such peddling, and except
that the tax on peddlers of pianos and organs shall be ten dollars for
each person engaged in selling pianos or organs from a peddler’s wagon
said tax to be paid to the proper: officer of each county, city and town
wherein such wagon is so used, provided, however, that nothing in this
act shall be construed to prevent any city or town from requiring an
additional license tax on such peddlers of pianos and organs, where the
charter of such city or town authorizes it to impose license taxes, and ex-
cept that the tax of peddlers of lightning rods shall be two hundred dol-
lars, and that peddlers in coal and wood in cities of over forty thousand
inhabitants who peddle the same from vehicles, shall pay a tax of fifty
dollars for each vehicle used: provided, that no State license tax shall
be imposed on peddlers of meat, where sold in the country, or of milk,
butter, eggs, poultry, fish or oysters wherever sold. Every vehicle
used in peddling as aforesaid shall have conspicuously displayed thereon
the name of the peddler using the same, together with the street and
number of his residence, if he resides in any city or town. It shall be
the duty of the commissioner of revenue to issue a peddler’s license to a
person desiring to obtain the same, upon presentation to him of the
certificate of the county or city treasuer that the license tax has been
paid to him. Nothing under this or the preceding section shall be
construed to require of any farmer a peddler’s license for the privilege
of selling or peddling farm products, wood or charcoal grown or pro-
duced by him.

2. An emergency existing on account of the tax which has to be paid,
this act shall be in force from its passage.