40 (n) Sell, offer, or expose for sale, or solicit, or receive orders 41 for manufactured tobacco, snuff, cigars, cigarettes or other prep42 aration of tobacco or cigarette paper or wrappers, at retail. 43 (0) Carry on business of junk dealer, or act as agent solici44 tor, canvasser, or salesman for any junk dealer. 45 (p) Sell pistols, revolvers, dirks, slung-shots, billies, bowie 46 knives, metallic or other false knuckles, or weapons of like kind. 47 (q) Maintain or occupy any house-boat, or like structure or 48 vessel, upon or along the bed, banks or shores of any navigable 49 stream. 6 50 (r) Maintain any slot machine, or other automatic device, 51 which, for the same profit or reward, in each case, and without any 52 violation of law, furnishes music, or exhibits pictures, or pro53 vides facilities for weighing, or supplies any merchandise or other 54 thing, or renders any service, except that no license in any case [II. B. No. 405 55 be required to maintain any machine actually delivering 56 merchandise therefrom, automatically, where such machine is kept 57 within the merchant's place of business; but no slot machine or 58 other automatic device with respect to which, or its operation, 59 service, or supplies, there is any element of chance (being a 60 gaming table within the meaning of section one, of chapter one 61 hundred and fifty-one of the code), shall be licensed or protected 62 by any license. 63 (s) Being a corporation, heretofore or hereafter chartered 64 under the laws of this state, whether its principal place of business 65 or chief works be within or without the state, do, or attempt to do, 66 any business by virtue of its charter or certificate of incorpora67 tion. 68 (t) Being a corporation chartered or organized under the 69 laws of any other state or country, hold property or transact 70 business in this state; or being a corporation, hold more than ten 71 thousand acres of land in this state. 72 (u) Solicit, carry on or practice the business of a collection 73 agency, or association, whether it be a person, firm or corporation. 74 (v) Keep, or maintain, a public park, admission to which is 75 obtained for money or reward. 76 (w) Practice the business of telling or pretending to tell for77 tunes. 78 (x) Carry on business of a labor agency. 79 (y) Any one manufacturing selling or distributing, either at 80 retail or wholesale, any and all preparations of every kind, char81 acter or nature, such as are prepared, mixed and sold at a soda 82 fountain, and all such preparations as bevo, pablo, milo, moxie, 83 ginger ale, near beer, coca cola, pop, and all other preparations of 84 like nature and character, commonly called and known as soft 85 drinks. 86 (z) Shall offer or expose for sale, revolvers, pistols, dirks, 87 bowie knives, slung-shots, razors, billies, metallic or other false 88 knuckles, and other dangerous and deadly weapons of like kind 89 and character. 90 All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby re91 pealed. House Bill No. 476 (BY MR. HUGUS.) [Introduced January 26, 1921; referred to the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation.] House Bill No. 476 A BILL to provide for the registration of automobiles and motor vehicles stored in public garages and for the rendering daily reports to the state road commission of all transient motor vehicles. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: All owners of garages or other places where automobiles and 2 motor vehicles are left for storage for hire, shall render a daily 3 report to the state road commission of all automobiles and motor 4 vehicles which have been stored in their garages. 5 This report shall be sent by mail on or before ten o'clock each 6 morning and shall cover the twenty-four hour period ending at 7 midnight the night before. This report shall show (1) kind of 8 vehicle; (2) make; (3) size; (4) engine number; (5) color; 9 (6) license number. This report as far as is possible will list 10 motor vehicles in numercial order, as far as their license numbers 11 are concerned. 12 Failure to render this report as called for will subject the 13 owner, proprietor or operator of a garage to a fine of five dollars 14 for the first offense, and a like amount for each failure thereafter. House Bill No. 422 (BY MR. HUNTER) [Introduced Jauuary 25, 1921; referred to the Committee on Taxation and Finance.] House Bill No. 422 A BILL to empower the county court of the county or Raleigh to allow the members thereof compensation for their expenses while serving in court, and while serving as a committee or representative of the court, and to provide payment of such compensation. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: Section 1. The county court of the county of Raleigh is hereby 2 empowered and authorized to allow the members thereof compen3 sation not to exceed six dollars per day for their expenses while 4 serving in court, in addition to their salary of two dollars per day; 5 and while serving officially as a committee or representative of 6 such court. Such compensation shall be paid out of the general 7 fund of the county in the same manner in which the salaries of the 8 members are paid. ENGROSSED House Bill No. 374 (BY MR. MCCLINTIC, of Kanawha) A BILL to amend and re-enact section seven of chapter one hundred and forty-eight of the code of West Virginia, relating to deadly weapons and state license to carry weapons. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: That section seven of chapter one hundred and forty-eight of the code of West Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: Section 7. Clause a. It shall be unlawful for any person to 2 sell, offer or expose for sale any toy pistol using explosives, dirk, 3 bowie knife, slung shot, metallic or other false knuckles or any 4 other dangerous or deadly weapon of like kind and character. 5 Clause b. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly 6 sell any rifle, shot gun, pistol or other firearm of any kind or char, 7 acter, or any ammunition therefor, or any other dangerous or 8 deadly weapon of like kind or character to any unnaturalize o 9 foreign born person in this state. 10 Any person violating clause a and b shall be guilty of a mis[H. B. No. 374 2 11 demeanor, and upon conviction therefor shall be fined not less 12 than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every 13 offense. 14 Clause c. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry about .15 his person any dirk, bowie knife, slung shot, metallic or othe 16 false knuckles or any other dangerous or deadly weapon of like 17 kind and character. 18 Clause d. It shall be unlawful for any person, without a 19 state license therefor as hereinafter provided, to carry about his 20 person, or in any receptacle in his possession and under his con21 trol, any revolver, pistol, billy, or any other dangerous weapon 21-a of like kind and character. 22 Any person violating any of the provisions of this section, for 23 which punishment is not otherwise herein provided, shall be 24 guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction therefor shall be 25 confined in the county jail for a period of not less than six 26 nor more than twelve months for the first offense; and upon con27 viction of the same person for the second offense, he shall be 28 guilty of a felony, and shall be confined in the penitentiary of 29 this state, not less than one nor more than five years, and in 30 either case, may also be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more H. B. No. 375] 3 31 than two hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court. It 32 shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney to ascertain in each 33 case whether or not the charge made by the grand jury is the 34 first or second offense, and if it shall be the second offense it shall 35 be so stated in the indictment returned, and the prosecuting 36 attorney shall introduce the records evidence of said first offense, 37 and shall not be permitted to use his discretion in charging said 38 first offense; nor in introducing such evidence; provided, that 39 persons under the age of eighteen years may, at the discretion 40 of the court be sent to the reform school of this state. 41 It shall be the duty of every sheriff, deputy sheriff, or other 42 police officer to seize any dangerous or deadly weapons in the 43 possession of any person in violation of this act, and to deliver the 44 same to the circuit court of the county in which seized, which 45 weapon shall be confiscated and disposed of in such manner as 46 the court may order. 47 Any citizen of this state may obtain a state license to carry 48 any revolver, billy or mace, or other weapons of like 49 kind and character, by application therefor to the circuit court 50 of the county in which he resides, after first publishing notice 51 once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general [H. B. No. 374 52 circuiation in such county, of his name, residence and occupa53 the purpose or purposes for which, and the period during which 54 whereupon such court may grant such license in the following 55 manner, to-wit: 4 56 First. Such person shall file with the circuit court an applica57 tion in writing stating his name, residence and occupation, and 58 the purpose or purposes for which, and the period during which 59 he desires to carry such weapon, and the hearing thereof, on the 60 day stated in such notice, he shall prove such facts stated in his 61 application, and that he is over twenty-one years of age, of good 62 moral character, temperate habits and not addicted to the use 63 of intoxicating liquor or drugs and has not been convicted of 64 a felony nor any offense relating to the sale, possession of any 65 dangerous or deadly weapon. 66 Second. If the circuit court is satisfied with such proof that 67 there is good reason and cause for carrying such weapon, and that 68 such person has complied with all the other provisions of this 69 act, the circuit court may grant to such person a license to carry 70 such weapon, but the court in the the order granting 70-a such license shall state the reason for granting the 10-b same. But before before the said license shall be effective, such |