Chap. 541.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 36 of an act entitled an act
to provide for the assessment of taxes, etc., for the support of government, ap-
proved March 86, 1890, as to sale by agents, and add thereto.

Approved February 29, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-six of the acts of assembly of Virginia entitled an act to
provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes,
and on licenses to transact business, and imposing taxes thereon for
the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay
the interest on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtain-
ing licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors or any mixture
thereof, in cases wherea court certificate is required, approved March
sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

8 36. No person shall, without a license authorized by law, act as
agent for the sale of lands, or act as book agent, or as agent to sell
or to offer for sale fertilizers, whether manufactured in this state or
not, or take orders for such fertilizers on commission or otherwise;
provided, however, that any merchant engaged in the publishing and
printing business in this state who has paid the license tax imposed
by law, and who has been assessed upon the capital employed under
schedule C of this act, under said license tax and without additional
license, may sell their merchandise throughout the state.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.