Chap. 725.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 33, of chapter 244, im-
posing a tax on peddlers of coal and wood.

Approved March 3, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-three of chapter two hundred and forty-four of an act approved
March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, imposing a tax on peddlers
of coal and wood in the city of Richmond, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 33. On every person, for the privilege of pedaling or bartering in
any county or corporation, there shall be paid two hundred and fifty
dollars for each person or agent so engaged or employed when he travels
on foot, and when he peddles otherwise than on foot the tax paid shall
be fire hundred dollars; except that the tax on peddlers of lightning
rods shall be twenty dollars, and that dealers in coal and wood in the
city of Richmond who peddle the same from vehicles shall pay a tax of
fifty dollars for each vehicle used. Jt shall be the duty of the commis-
sioner of the revenue issuing a certificate to a person desiring to obtain
a peddler’s leense to transmit the same forthwith to the treasurer of
his county or corporation. It shall be the duty of such treasurer forth-
with to collect the amount required to be paid by such person, and on
the failure of such person to pay said amount, the treasurer shall arrest
him, and lodge him in the county jail to await his trial, unless he
shall give bond and security to appear before the county or corporation
court on the first dav of the next term. But nothing under this or the
preceding section shall be construed to require of any farmer or manu-
facturer a peddler’s license for selling “any commodity produced or
manufactured by him, or for the privilege of selling or peddling farm
products, wood, or coal.”