Chap. 645.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section eighty-seven 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 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 obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits,
malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is re-
quired, approved March 6, 1890.

Approved March 2, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eighty-seven 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 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
obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, 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:
§ 87. On every person who shall exhibit or operate such hobby-horse
machine, merry-go-round, or other like machine on which persons are
charged for riding, for each county in which such machine is operated
the sum of ten dollars shall be paid for the privilege of operating the
same. Any person operating any such machine, without first having
paid the specific amount therefor, shall pay a fine of not less than
twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offence: provided,
that in the county of Accomac such person shall pay the sum of fifty dollars
for such privilege as a license tax, and ta the said county at all fairs or in-
dustrial expositions such person shall pay an additional license tax of five
dollars a day or twenty dollars per week.

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