Chap. 752.—An ACT to impose a special license on dealers in cast-off clothing
in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.

Approved March 7, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That nothing
contained in the revenue laws of Virginia, relative to merchants or
merchants’ license, shall be henceforth deemed or construed to au-
thorize any person or mercantile firm to engage in the business of a
second-hand or cast-off clothing dealer in either of the counties of
Accomac and Northampton without having first applied for and
obtained, in the same manner as prescribed by the laws of this state
for obtaining merchants’ license, a special license as hereinafter pro-
vided, to be designated as second-hand or cast-off clothing dealer’s
license.

2. No person, merchant or mercantile firm shall henceforth en-
gage in the business of bartering, selling, exchanging or otherwise
dealing in second-hand or cast-off clothing in either of the counties
of Accomac and Northampton without having first procured a special
license therefor, to be designated a second-hand or cast-off clothing
dealer’s license.

3. Every person, merchant or mercantile firm engaged in the busi-
ness of bartering, selling, exchanging or otherwise dealing in second-
hand or cast-off clothing, or who may hereafter engage in said
business in either of said counties, shall pay for the privilege of
transacting said business in either of said counties a license tax in
the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, to be assessed
and collected in the mode prescribed by law, and no such license
shall be issued for any period less than one year; nor shall there be
any abatement, in any instance, of the tax upon such license by
reason of the fact that the person or persons 80 licensed shall have
exercised such licensed calling for a period of less than one’year.

Any person bartering, selling, exchanging or otherwise dealing in
second-hand or cast-off clothing, in either of said counties contrary
to the provisions hereof, or who shall in any manner violate the
same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon convic-
tion thereof, shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than
five hundred dollars for each offence.

4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions hereof
are hereby repealed in so far as they apply to said counties.

5. This act shall be in force from and after the date of its final
passage.