Chap. 305.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 69 and 70 of chapter 148
of the acts of 1902-03-04, entitled “an act to raise revenue for the support
of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public
debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189
of the Constitution,” approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act ap-
proved December 18, 1903. ;

Approved March 17, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty-nine of chapter one hundred and forty-eight of the acts of nineteen
hundred and two, three, and four, 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 one hundred and eighty-nine of the Constitution,”
approved April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, as amended by an
act approved December eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and sec-
tion seventy of said chapter one hundred and forty-eight of the acts of
nineteen hundred and two, three, and four, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

869. No keeper of a shop, for the purpose herein mentioned, or master
of a vessel, or other person shall without a license authorized by law,
purchase, sell, barter, or exchange any kind of second hand articles, junk.
rags, bones, bottles, puer, scrap, metals, iron, paper, old lead pipe, old
hath-room fixtures, or other like commodities, except furniture, clothes,
shoes, and stoves intended to be resold for use as such. The hustings or
corporation court of any city, and the circuit court of any county, may
grant a license to any citizen of the United States, who shall produce to
it satisfactory evidence of his good character to carry on the business of a
junk dealer; which license shall designate the building in which said
person shall exercise or carry on said business; and no person shall ex-
ercise or carry on the business of a junk dealer without being dulv
licensed, nor in any other building than the one designated in said
license, except by the consent of the court which granted the license,
winder the penalty of fifty dollars for each day he shall exercise or carry
on said business without such license, or in any other building than the
one so designated, except by the consent of the court aforesaid. The
place at which such business may be conducted shall be kept open for
the purchase or sale of any of the articles mentioned aforesaid. Nor
shall any purchase be made by such person, or by any other person or
persons for him, except between the hours of sunrise and sunset; and
such place of business shall be open at all times to the inspection of any
revenue or police officer of the county or corporation wherein the license
issued. Every person receiving such license shall place over the principal
entrance of his place of business a sign designating that he is a licensed
junk dealer. No person shall canvass for the purpose of buying any
junk or other like commodity enumerated above in this section, for any
such junk dealer, or for sale to such junk dealer, or to any other person
unless such person be authorized so to do, in writing, by some junk
dealer licensed under this section. Every such junk dealer, desiring {to
appoint such canvassers, shal] take out a license for such number as he
shall wish to appoint. Such canvasser’s license shall be issued in the
name of the dealer applying therefor, and shall state the number and
names of the persons such dealer shall be entitled to appoint. And no
dealer shall at any time appoint a greater number of canvassers than is
named in his license; but he may at any time appoint additional can-
vassers upon first obtaining an additional license therefor. Canvassers
so appointed shall be permitted to canvass anywhere in this State. Any
person violating the provisions of this section shall pay a fine of not less
than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or operate to pre-
vent any person, firm, or corporation keeping or operating a foundry from
exchanging his new castings for old ones, or from buying any old metals
or old machines for use in his business, or to be renovated and sold; but
nothing herein contained shall authorize any foundryman to buy any old
metals or old machines, and sell them again in the same condition as
they were when purchased. Nothing in this section shall be construed
to prevent any regular licensed merchant in the country, or in towns hav-
ing a population of two thousand or less, from buying or trading for rags,
old iron, or other articles of junk, unless there be a regularly licensed
junk dealer within three miles of his place of business, such merchant to
be subject at all times to the same conditions of inspection as a regular
junk dealer. Every junk dealer and every merchant and foundryman
who deals in junk, old metals, etcetera, shall keep at his place of business
a book, in which shall be fairly written in English, at the time of each
transaction in the course of his business, an accurate account of such
transaction, as to the purchase of rags, bones, old iron, and paper, setting
forth a description of the goods, article, or any thing purchased, the time
of receiving the same, the name and residence of the person selling or de-
livering the same, the terms and conditions of purchase or receipt thereof.
and all other facts and circumstances respecting such purchase or receipt.
Which said book or books shall, at all times, be subject to the inspection
of the judges of the criminal courts, the chief of police, the captains and
sergeants of the police of the city, town, or county wherein such business
is being conducted, or any or either of them, sergeant and sheriff of such
city. town, or county, or other officer with police jurisdiction: provided.
however, that this section shall not apply to articles bought without the
State of Virginia. It shall be the duty of every junk dealer, every such
merchant and foundryman, to admit to his premises at any time any
officer mentioned above, to examine any book or other record on the
premises, as well as the articles purchased or received; and to search for
and take into possession any article known by him to be missing, or known
or believed by him to be stolen, without the formality of search warrant
or any other process, which search or seizure is hereby authorized. Every
junk dealer shall be liable to all the penalties herein provided for viola-
tion of any of the provisions of this section, whether such violation be
committed by himself or by his agent, clerk, or employee.

$70. Every junk dealer shall pay for the privilege of transacting bus-
ness the sum of fifty dollars, and for the privilege of appointing can-
‘assers, for the purpose of buying any junk or other matter or things for
ny such junk dealer, or for sale to a junk dealer, the sum of twenty-five
lollarz for each canvasser appointed and licensed.