Chap. 70.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 48 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, approved April
16, 1903, as heretofore amended. [H B 60]

Approved February 25, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion forty-eight 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 pen-
sions, as authorized by section one hundred and eighty-nine of the
Constitution, approved April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three,
as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so to as read as
follows:

Sec. 48. Commission merchants and brokers.—Every person, firm
or corporation, doing business in this State who receives or distributes
provisions and merchandise, including flour, hay or grain, shipped
to such persons, firm or corporation for distribution.on account of the
shipper, or who participates in the profits, ensuing from or accruing
out of the sales of such provisions or merchandise, including flour, hay
or grain, or who invoices such sales or collects: the money therefor.
shall be deemed to be a broker who receives or distributes provisions
and merchandise, including flour, hay or grain.

Every person, firm or corporation, buying or selling for another
any kind of merchandise, on commission, except associations or or-
ganizations of farmers, including produce exchanges, organized and
maintained by farmers for mutual help in the marketing of their
produce and not for profit, shall be a commission merchant. Any
person, firm or corporation licensed as a commission merchant may
sell any personal property which may be left with, or consigned to
him for sale, except wine, ardent spirits and malt liquor, gold or silver
coin, bonds, certificates of public or private debts or other securities,
provided, however, that any such merchant may sell wine, arden
spirits, and malt liquor, gold or silver coin, certificates of public o1
private debts or other securities, by taking out the license therefor
prescribed in the case of liquor merchants or stock brokers. Any
person, firm or corporation, buying or selling contrary to the pro-
visions of this act, or who shall in any manner violate the same, shal]
‘pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand
dollars, for every offense.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.