Chap. 83.—An ACT to Revulate the Granting of Licenses for the Exer-
cise of any Privilege.

Approved February 7, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
every person or persons, firm, partnership or association,
express, telegraph, telephone, and every incorporated com-
pany, which now is or may be required to obtain a license in
order to do business in this state, desiring to obtain such
license, shall make application therefor in writing to the com-
missioner of the revenue of the county or corporation wherein
such business is proposed to be conducted, or to the auditor
of public accounts, in such cases as he is authorized by law to
issue a license; in which application it shall be stated the nature
of the business, the residence of the applicant, the place where
it is proposed to conduct such business, the amount of the as-
sessment prescribed by law as a condition precedent to the
issuing of any license, and that such amount accumpanies said
application j in gold or silver coin, United States treasury notes,
or national bank notes, which application shall be signed by
the applicant and filed with the commissioner of the revenue or
auditor, as the case may be; but no commissioner of the rev-
enue shall, nor shall the auditor, receive any application for
assessment from any person or persons, firm, partnership or
company, unless and until the foregoing requirements are
strictly complied with.

2. Upon the receipt by the commissioner of the reve-
nue, or auditor, as the case may be, of an application from a
person or persons, firm, partnership or company, who have
complied with the foregoing section, and actually filed there-
with the amount of the assessment in silver or gold coin,
United States treasury or national bank notes, he shall en-
dorse said application as follows: I find the within ap-
plication in due form, and accompanied with the sum of

dollars in gold or.silver coin, or United States
treasury or national bank notes, to which endorsement he
shall sign his name, and file said application in his office, fur-
nishing the app icant with a duplicate copy of the same.
If it appear that all the foregoing provisions of this act
shall have been complied with, then the court or person
having authority to grant or issue such livense, may hear the
application, and if in due form, may grant such license: pro-
vided, that in case such applic: ition is refused, each refusal
shall be endorsed upon said application, and the same returned
to said applicant, who, upon presenting said application, en-
dorsed with such refusal, to the treasurer with whom the
deposit has been made, described in the first section of this
act, said deposit shall be refunded to the applicant.

3. When an application shall have been made and approved,
and the amount assessed shall have been received by the proper
collecting officer according to the provisions of this act, and
his ree eipt therefor s specifying in what currency such pay-
ment was made, shall be given, then and not until then, shall
it be lawful for the court or person having authority under
the law, to grant such license. The orderof court, when the
license is obtained in court, and the license itself, when not
obtained in court, shall specify that the assessment was made
according to law, and that the amount assessed had been paid
in money or currency, according to the provisions of this act.

4. No application for a license to do any business, or to
follow any profession, trade or calling in this state, shall be
made, and it made, shall not be considered except in pursuance
of this act, and no such license shall be granted unless all the re-
quirements of this act shall have been first complied with; and
anv Hcense granted or obtained in violation of the provisions
of this act, shall be null and void, and the person or persons,
firm oor association, joint stock or incorporated company,
which may obtain ‘such license, and attempt to do business
therennder, shall he decmed to violate the law, and shall be
liable to all the forfeitures pains and penalties for such viola-
tion, and in the same manner as if no such license had been ob-
tained, and in addition thereto fined not less than Hity dollars,
nor more than five hundred dollars.

5. Any assessor, treasurer or other officer charged with
any duty pertaining to the granting of licenses, who shall
violate this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more
than five hundred dollars.

6. The auditor of public accounts shall forthwith have
prepared and furnished to commissioners of the revenue of
this state, blank forms of applications for licenses required to
be made in writing by this act.

7. ‘This act sball be in force from its passage.