CHAP. 277.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109% of an act en-
titled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government, and
to pay the 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 approved March 19, 1915

(H. B. 346.)
Approved March 17, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one hundred and nine and a half of an act entitled an act
to raise revenue for the support of the government, 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 March nineteen hun-
dred and fifteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

10914. Every traveling circus, carnival or show giving per-
formances in the open air or tents in any county or city in this
State, wherein there is held an agricultural fair, for one week
previous to, or during the week of, or one week after the time
of holding such regular annual fair, shall pay a State license
tax of one thousand ($1,000) dollars for each performance in
addition to the license tax now required by law of a circus, car-
nival or like show, the State license tax provided for in this sec-
tion and the State license tax now required by law, to be as-
sessed by the commissioner of the revenue and these license
taxes to be paid to the county or city treasurer before any per-
formance is permitted to be held.

It shall be unlawful for any such circus, carnival or show
to publish or post in any way in such county or city at any time
within thirty days prior to the holding of such regular annua
fair, advertising of the exhibition of any such circus, carniva
or show. Any person, firm, company, or corporation violating
any provision of this section shall be fined two thousand ($2,
000) dollars for each offense by the justice of the peace or cour
trying the case. The provisions of this section shall not apply
to circuses, carnivals or shows inside the grounds of any agri
cultural fair held in any county or city.