Chap. 772.—An ACT to impose a special license on dealers in pistols and pistol-
cartridges in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.

Approved March 4, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That nothing
in the revenue laws of Virginia relative to merchants or merchants’
license shall be henceforth deemed or construed to authorize any
person or mercantile firm to engage in the business of selling pistol
or pistol-cartridges in the counties of Accomac or Northampton
without having first applied for and obtained, in the same manner
as prescribed by the laws of the state for obtaining merchants’ license,
a special license as hereinafter provided, to be designated as special
pistol and pistol-cartridge dealer’s license.

2. No merchant or mercantile firm shall henceforth engage in or
sell pistols or pistol-cartridges in the counties of Accomac and
Northampton without having first procured a special license there-
for, to be designated a special pistol and pistol-cartridge dealer’s
license. 3

3. Every person, merchant or mercantile firm engaged in the busi-
ness of selling pistols or pistol-cartridges, or who may hereafter en-
gage in said business in said counties, shall pay for the privilege of
transacting said business in said counties a special license tax in
the sum of ten 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 so licensed shall have exercised such licensed cal}-
ing for a period of less than one year. Any person selling pistols or
pistol-cartridges in the said counties of Accomac and Northampton
contrary to the provisions hereof, or who shall in any manner vio-
late the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more
than twenty-five dollars for each offence.

4. All acts and 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hereof are hereby repealed in so far as they apply to said counties.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 first day of August,
eighteen hundred and ninety-six.