Chap. 292.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 139 of the act to raise
revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, ani to
pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide for pensions as author-
ized by section 189 of the Constitution, which was chapter 148 of the acts
of assembly 1902-1903-1904, as amended and re-enacted by the act which
is chapter 20 of the acts of assembly of 1904, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows.

Approved March 17, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
hundred and thirty-nine of the 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 for pensions as authorized by section one hundred
and eighty-nine of the Constitution, “which was chapter one hundred and +
forty-eight of the acts of assembly of nineteen hundred and two, nineteen
hundred and three, and nineteen hundred and four, as amended and re-
enacted by the act which is chapter twenty of the acts of assembly of
een hundred and four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
ollows :

$139. Any person, firm, or corporation, having on a street, alley, or
other place in the city, or on any public road in any county, or in shops,
stores, hotels, boarding-houses, depots, public or private rooms, or any
other place anywhere in the State of Virginia, a slot machine of any de-
scription, into which are dropped pennies or nickels or coins of othar de-
nominations to dispose of chewing gum, or other articles of merchandise,
or for the purpose of operating musical or other devices that operate on
the nickel-in-the-slot principle used for gain, except as a pay telephone,
shall pay for every such slot machine or musical or other devices, as the
case may be, a license tax of ten dollars per year for the use and henefit
of the State, except such vending machines as are used solely for the sale
of agricultural products or cigars, on which shall be levied a license tax
of three dollars per year for each machine, except also weighing ma-
chines, and machines solely for the purpose of selling shoe strings, on
which shall be levied a license tax of two dollars per year for each ma-
chine: provided, however, that nothing in this section contained shall be
construed, as permitting any such person, firm, or corporation to keep,
maintain, exhibit, or operate any slot machine or other device in the
operation of which cigarettes or intoxicating liquors are disposed of or
in which the element of chance enters, and it shall not be lawful for any
commissioner of the revenue or other officer to issue a license under. this
section to any such person, firm, or corporation for the keeping, main-
taining, exhibiting, or operating of any such slot machine or other device
in the operation of which cigarettes or intoxicating liquors are disposed
of or in which the element of chance enters, the intent of this section
being to license only those machines or devices in the operation of which
the element of chance does not enter, and which are not used to dispose
of cigarettes or intoxicating liquors.

Any person, firm, or corporation having any such machine, and failing
to procure a license therefor, shall be subject to a fine of not less than
twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense, and such
machine shall become forfeited to the Commonwealth.