Chap. 824.—An ACT to impose a special license on dealers in cast-off clothing
in Accomac and Northampton counties.

Approved March 4, 1896.

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 s
second-hand or cast-off clothing dealer in the counties of North-
ampton and Accomac without first having applied for and obtained,
in the same manner as prescribed by the laws of this state for ob-
taining merchants’ license, a special license as hereinafter provided,
to be designated as second-hand or cast-off clothing dealers’ 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 or Northampton without having first procured a special
license therefor to be designated a second-hand or cast-off clothing
dealers’ license.

3. Every person;merchant, or mercantile firm or company engaged
in the business of bartering, selling, exchanging, or otherwise deal-
ing in second-hand or cast-off clothing, or who may hereafter engage
in said business in said counties of Accomac and Northampton,
shall pay for the privilege of transacting such business in either of
said counties a license tax of twenty-five 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 license 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 provision hereof, or who shall in any manner violate the
same, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction
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are hereby repealed.

5. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of Sep-
tember, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.