Chap. 767.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 2,
1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 32, chapter 1, of an act
entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property,
and incomes, and on license to transact business, and in paying 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 obtain-
ing licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, or malt liquors, or any mixture
thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required, approved March 6,
1890, relating to sale by peddlers.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
act approved February second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, en-
titled an act to amend and re-enact 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 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, relating to sale by peddlers,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 32. 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 licensed as a peddler may sell any personal
property a merchant may sell, or he may exchange the same for other
articles; and whenever a license is granted to a peddler to sell such
goods, wares, or merchandise, his license shall be valid for one year
from the date of its issue. Said license shall not be transferable, and
any person s0 licensed shall endorse his name on the said Jicense, and
shall confer authority to sell at any house or place within the county or
corporation 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 less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars
for each offense, one-half of which shall go to the informer; and any
person selling or offering to sell as a 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 be subject to the penalties of peddling without a license. This
section shal be construed to include persons engaged in peddling light-
ning rods: provided, that all persons who do not keep a regular place of
business (whether it be in a house, on a vacant lot, 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: but provided further, that petsons 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 throuch their agents offer for
sale or sell, and at the time of such offering or sale, deliver goods, wares,
and merchandise, elsewhere than at such regular place of business,
except upon orders before given, shall also be deemed peddlers as above:
but provided further, that this act shall not apply to those
offer for sale ice, fuel, meats, fowls, fish, game, vegetable
other family supplies of a perishable nature.

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