Unidentified photographer / artist
1862
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Acts of the General assembly of the State of Virginia Passed at Called Session 1862 in the Eighty-Seventh Year of the Commonwealth
 
Daguerreian artists
64. On every license to exercise the daguerreian art, or such like profession or performance, by whatever name it may be known or called, if in a city or incorporated town of less than five thousand inhabitants, fifty dollars; if more than five thousand inhabitants, one hundred dollars; if elsewhere, twenty-five dollars. And if the yearly income derived from the practice of said art exceed five hundred dollars in any county, city or town, an additional tax of two and a half per centum on such excess for the year next preceding the time of obtaining such license; and such tax shall be imposed, whether an artist perform in a gallery or not. If more than one person be engaged in the joint exercise of such profession or performance in the same gallery, the tax shall not be imposed upon each artist, but upon the gallery.
 
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