Chap. 313.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 51 of an act entitled an act
to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools,
and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pen-

sions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved February
16, 1903.

Approved May 20, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section fifty-
one of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the gov-
ernment and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public
debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section
one hundred and eighty-nine of the Constitution, approved April six-
teenth, nineteen hundred and three,-be amended and re-enacted, so as to
read as follows:

§ 51. For the privilege of peddling or bartering in any county, city, o1
town, there shall be paid two hundred and fifty dollars for each person
so engaged or employed, when he travels on foot, and when he peddles
otherwise than on foot, the tax paid shall be five hundred dollars, except
that the tax on peddlers of milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game
fruit, and farm products not grown or produced by them, shall be fifty
dollars for each vehicle used in such peddling, and except that the tax o!
peddlers of lightning rods shall be two hundred dollars, and that ped.
dlers in coal and wood in cities of over forty thousand inhabitants, whe
peddle the same from vehicles, shall pay a tax of fifty dollars for cack
vehicle used: provided, that no State license tax shall be imposed on ped-
dlers of meat, where sold in the country, or of eggs, poultry, fish, or oys-
ters wherever sold. Every vehicle used in peddling as aforesaid shall have
conspicuously displayed thereon the name of the peddler using the same,
together with the street and number of his residence, if he reside in any
city or town. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of the revenue to
issue a peddiler’s license to a person desiring to obtain the same, upon pre-
sentation to him of the certificate of the county or city treasurer that the
license tax has ben paid to him. Nothing under this or the preceding
section shall be construed to require of any farmer a peddler’s license for
the privilege of selling or peddling farm products, wood, or charcoal
grown or produced by him.
2. This act shall bée in force from its passage.