Chap. 20.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 75 to 147, inclusive, of an act
approved April 16, 1903, 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 pensions as authorized by section 189 of
the Constitution.”

Approved February 19, 1904.

In order to correct a mistake in printing chapter one hundred and
forty-eight of the acts of the extra session of the general assembly nine-
teen hundred and two and nineteen hundred amd three, whereby the
numbers of certain sections as printed do not correspond with the en-
rolled bill, and to correct errors which have occurred in amending cer-
tain sections by reference to the numbers in the printed acts,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
seventy-five to one hundred and forty-seven of chapter one hundred and
forty-eight of the acts of the extra session nineteen hundred and two-
nineteen hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:
§ 75. No person, firm, bank, or corporation shall, without license, act
as a stock-broker. Any person, firm, bank, or corporation that deals in
coin, foreign or domestic exchange, government stock, or other certifi-
cates of debt, or shares in any corporation or chartered company, bank
notes, or other notes used as a currency, or who sells the same or any of
them on commission or for other compensation, or who negotiates loans
upon real estate security, except a licensed attorney at law, shall be
deemed to be a stock-broker. A stock-broker shall have the right to buy
and sell for profit, or to sell on commission, the coin, exchange, stocks,
certificates of debt, shares in chartered companies, bank notes, and notes
used as a currency as aforesaid, and may sell either privatély or by auc-
tion, and also negotiable loans upon real estate security. Any person,
bank, or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall pay a
fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five thousand
dollars for each offence.

Bankers or brokers engaged in dealing in options or futures.

Any person, firm, or corporation engaged in buying and selling, or who
receives orders to buy or sell, cotton, grain, provisions, or other com-
modities, stocks, or bonds, shall be deemed to be a banker or broker deal-
ing in options and futures. Any person so dealing in options or futures
without a license to transact or engage in such business shall pay a fine
of not less than three hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dol-
lars, for each offence.

Incense to bankers or brokers dealing in options or futures.

Every banker or broker dealing in options or futures or in buying or
selling options or futures shall pay the sum of two hundred dollars for
the privilege of transacting such business.

Incense to stock-brokers.

§ 76. A stock-broker shall pay for the privilege of transacting business
the sum of one hundred dollars, but in towns or cities-of over five thou-
sand and not more than ten thousand inhabitants he shall pay one hun-
dred and fifty dollars, and in cities of more than ten thousand inhabi-
tants he shall pay two hundred and fifty dollars for each office or place
of business kept for that purpose.

Private bankers,

§ 77. No person or firm shall engage in the business of a private banker
without a license. Any person or firm engaged in the business of re-
duty of the judge of the circuit or corporation court for each county and
city of this State to bring to the attention of the grand juries of his county
or city the act approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred, en-
titled an act to prevent the sale of adulterated and misbranded food in the
State of Virginia, and upon the finding of an indictment against the
manufacturer or vender of such adulterated or misbranded food, bever-
ages, or condiments, or at any time prior thereto, the Commonwealth’s
attorney may, if he deem it proper, forward a sample of the same to the
commissioner of agriculture, to be analyzed or examined, microscopically
or otherwise, by the chemists or other experts of the department of agri-
culture, who shall render a report thereon to said Commonwealth’s at-
torney, which report may be used in evidence before said grand jury or
at the trial of said person or persons so indicted.

For each conviction under said act said Commonwealth’s attorney shall
be entitled to a fee of ten dollars, which shall be paid by the city or county
in which said conviction was had upon an order from the judge of said
court, and said fee shall be paid, notwithstanding the provisions of any
law to the contrary limiting the salary or fees of Commonwealth’s attor-
ney; and said fee shall be taxed as a part of the costs against the de-
fendant, and when collected shall be paid into the treasury of said county
or city.

2. All acts and parts of acts in-conflict herewith are to that extent
hereby repealed.