Chap. 267.—An ACT to provide for the payment of a license tax for the ex-
hibition of an automatic moving picture machine, phonograph, graphophone
or similar musical machine, when the price of. admission to such exhibition
does not exceed the sum of ten cents.

Approved March 13, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That for the
exhibition of any automatic moving picture machine, phonograph,
graphophone, or similar musical machine, except for benevolent, chari-
table or educational purposes, where the price of admission to such ex-
hibition does not exceed the sum of ten cents, there shall be paid a
license fee of three dollars for each week, or less time than a week, or
sixty dollars for the exhibition thereof for a period of one year ; the license
for one year to be paid quarterly, and a license for a period exceeding
one week to be based upon the per annum license fee; provided, however,
that when such exhibition is given for benevolent, charitable or edu-
cational purposes, and is given for a period of more than one week,
in any one year, and the exhibitor thereof receives a part of the receipts
from such exhibition as his compensation, then such exhibition after
the first week shall not be exempt from the payment of the license fee
herein prescribed.