Chap. 316.—An ACT to amend an act approved March 13, 1908, entitled an
act to provide for the payment of a license tax for the exhibition of any
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 17, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide for the payment of a license tax for the ex-
hibition of any automatic moving picture machine, phonograph, grapho-
phone or similar musical machine, when the price of admission to such
exhibition does not exceed the sum of ten cents, approved March thir-
teenth, nineteen hundred and eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

That for the exhibition of any automatic moving picture machine,
phonograph, graphophone or similar musical machine, except for benevo-
lent, charitable or educational purposes, where the price of admission to
such exhibition 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 educational
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 :
provided further, that when singing, dancing or any vaudeville act ac-
company the exhibition licensed under this section, an additional license
therefor shall not be required so long as the price of admission for the
whole exhibition does not exceed the sum of ten cents: provided, that
the seating capacity of any such place of amusement shall not be more
than three hundred and fifty: provided further, that in towns of less
than two thousand inhabitants there shall be paid only one dollar for
each performance of the exhibition licensed under this act, or two dollars
for each week, or ten dollars for each year of any such performance.