Chap. 227.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 18, 1908,
r entitled an act to provide for the payment of a license tax for the ex-
hibition of any 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, as amended and re-enacted by an
act approved March 17, 1910. (H. B. 119.)

Approved March 24, 1914.

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 exhibition of any automatic moving picture machine, phono-
graph, graphophone, or similar musical machine, when the price of

admission to such exhibition does not exceed the sum of ten cents,

_approved March thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, as amended
“and re-enacted by an act approved March seventeenth, nineteen hun-
“dred and ten,;be amended and’ re-enacted so as to read as follows:
~ That for the exhibition of any automatic moving picture ma-
“chine, phonograph, graphophone, or similar musical machine, ex-
-cept for benevolent, charitable or educational purposes, where the
“price of admission to such exhibition does not exceed the sum of ten
‘cents and where the seating capacity of any such place of amuse-
“ment does not exceed three hundred and fifty, 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;
‘and when the seating capacity of any such place of amusement,
“exceeds three hundred and fifty, there shall be paid an additional
‘tax of fifteen dollars for every one hundred seats, or fraction of one
‘hundred seats, in excess of three hundred and fifty; provided,
further, that in towns of less than twenty thousand inhabitants the

‘license tax for said additional seating capacity shall be seven dollars
sand fifty cents for every one hundred seats, or fraction of one hun-
dred seats, in excess of three hundred and fifty, 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, how-

;aver, that when such exhibition is given for benevolent, charitable
ar educational purposes, and is given for a period of more than one
inweek in any one year, and the exhibitor thereof receives a part of
jthe 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 accompany the exhibition
icensed under this secticn, an additional license therefor shall not
e required so long as the price of admission for the whole exhibi-
<jon does not exceed the sum of twenty cents; provided, further,
shat in towns of less than two thousand inhabitants there shall be
aid 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 performances.