Chap. 201.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32, chapter 1, of an act enti-
tled an aet to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property and in-
comes, and oon Heenses to transact business, and in paying taxes thereon for the
supportoft the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on
the pubhie debt. and: preseribing the mode of obtaining Heenses to sell wine,
ardent: spirits or malt Liquors, or any mixture thereof, ino cases where a court
certificate is required, approved) Mareh 6, E800, relating to sale by peddlers.

Approved February 2, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-two, chapter one, of an act entitled an act to provide for the
assessment of taxes on persons, property and incomes, and on licenses
to transact business, and inmiposing taxes thereon for the support of the
gsovermment and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the pub-
lie debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaming Heenses to sell) wine,
ardent spirits, malt hquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a
court certificate is required, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred
and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. But provided, further, that persons who do keep a regular place of
business, open at all times in regular business hours, and at the same
place, and who shall personally or through their agents offer for sale or
sell, and at the time of such offering or sale deliver goods, wares and mer-
chandise out of the county or corporation in which such office or place of
business is kept, except upon orders before given, shall also be deemed
peddlers as above.

SALE BY PEDDLERS.

$52. Any person who shall carry from place to place any goods,
wares or merchandise, and offer to sell or barter the same, or actually
sell or barter the same, in transitu or otherwise, shall be deemed to be
a peddler, and any person dicensed asx a peddler may sell any personal
property a merchant may sell, or he may exchange the same for other
articles; and whenever a Heense is granted to a peddler to sell such
eoods, wares or merchandise his Heense shall be vahd for one vear from
date of its issue. Said license shall not be transferable, and) any per-
sonoso licensed shall endorse his name on the said license, and shall
confer authority to sell at any house or place within the county or cor-
poration in which the license was granted. Any peddler who shall
peddle for sale, or sell or barter, without a license, shall pay a fine of
not Jess than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars
for each offence, one-half of which shall go to the informer; and any
person selling or offering to sell as peddler shall exhibit his license on
demand of any citizen of the county or corporation in which he sells or
offers to sell or barter; and upon his failure or refusal to do so he shall
he subject to the penalties of peddling without a license. This seetion
shall be construed to include persons engaged in peddling lightning rods:
provided, that all persons who do not keep a regular place of business
(whether it be ina house, on a vacant Jot, or elsewhere), open at all
times in regular business hours, and at the same place, who shall offer
for sale goods, wares and merchandise, shall be deemed peddlers under
this act.
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.