Chap. 662.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an
act to prescribe the mode of applying for and obtaining a license (other than
a license for which the certificate of a court is required by law before it is
granted) the tax on which, but for this act would be fifty dollars or more
were it issued for the period of one year, approved February twenty-two,
eighteen hundred and ninety. .

Approved March 8, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion one of an act entitled an act to prescribe the mode of applying
for and obtaining a license (for which the certificate of a court is re-
quired by law before it is granted) the tax on which but for this act
would be fifty dollars or more were it issued for the period of one
ear, approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety,
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. That a license (other than a license for which the certificate
of a court is required by law before it can be granted) the tax on
which, but for this act would be fifty dollars or more were it issued
for the period of one year, shall be issued for the period of three
months or less, and shall expire on the thirty-first day of July, the
thirty-first day of October, or thirty-first day of January, or the
thirtieth day of April, whichever shall happen first after it is is-
sued, and the tax for such license shall be one-fourth of the sum
that, but for this act, would be the tax were such license issued for
one year: provided that where the license is for less than three
months the amount of the tax thereon shall be abated proportion-
ately with the amount chargeable for three months, unless the license
is of such character that no abatement thereon is allowable. For is-
suing a license under the provisions of this section the commissioner
of the revenue shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.