Chap. 185.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved February 2,
1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1900, 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 sup-
port 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, or ma.t liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a
court certificate is required, approved March 6, 1890, relating .o saie by ped-
diers.

Approved February 15, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act
approved February second, cighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March fifth, nineteen hun-
dred, entitled 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 license 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, or 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 ot
its issue. Said license shall not be transferable, and any person so
licensed shall endorse his name on the said license, 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 ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) for
cach 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 sub-
ject to the penalties of peddling without a license. This section shall be
construed to include persons engaged in peddling lightning rods: pro-
vided, 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 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
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 who sell or offer
for sale ice, fuel, meats, fowls, fish, game, vegetables, fruits or other
family supplies of a perishable nature, grown or produced by them.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.