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local telephone exchange 'service within the city, received by such person or company for the business 'done 'in the city for the preceding year ending April thi. rtiebh, prior 'to each license year. b. In determining the gross receipts of a telephone exchange, it shall be based on the business done exclusively in this city, generally termed the gross local subscriber station and associated equipment revenue, and shall not include business done to and from points without the state, and shall not include any businsss done for the government of the United States. Taxes collected for the city and imposed as a tax on utilities are not to be included in gross receipts. c. In addition to the tax prescribed by subsection (a) of this section, such person or teIephone company shall pay one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per each pole and one dollar CSt.00) for each one hundred ~100) feet of conduit which he or it may own on the streets and alleys of the city. Section 20-71. Telegraph companies. ~ a. Telegrap5 companies doing business in the city and engaged in transmitting or receiving messages to and from points in the state of Virginia, excepting, however, telegrsums sent to or received by the government of the United States or of the State of Virginia, or their officers or agents, shall be divided into two C2) classes, namely: 1. Such telegraph companies doing business in the city, having fifty (50) or more offices in the state of Virginia, shall be placed in the first class, and shall pay a tax of one hundred eighty dollars C$180.00} in addition to any other tax on the assessed values of their property. 2. Such telegraph companies doing business in the city, having less than fifty (50) offices in the state of Virginia, shall be placed in the second class and shall pay a tax of fifty dollars ($50.00) in addition to any other tax on the assessed values of their property. b. In addition to tax prescribed in subsection Ca) of this section, both classes of telegraph companies shall pay one dollars fifty cents f$1.50) for each telegraph pole they may o~rn or use on the streets and alleys of the city. Section 20-72. W~olesale Merchants. Every person conducting, operating or engaging in any of the following businesses, trades or occupations shall pay an annual license tax of fifty dollars ~50.00) for the first five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) and fifteen cents ($0.15) for each additional one hundred dollars ~$100.00) of this purchases in said business, trade or occupation, for the preceding calendar year: Automotive. Chemicals. Clothing, furnishings. Coal, coke. Commission merchants [who take title, brokers). others classified as