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$0.01 to $0.14 .......... No vax 5.25 ~o 5.74 .......... 11¢ ta~~ .i5 vo .65 .......... 1~ ~ax 5.75 ~o 6.24 .......... 12¢ tax .66 To 1.24 .......... 2¢ vax 6.25 vo 6.74 .......... 13¢ tax 1.25 vo 1.74 .......... 3~ vax 6.75 to 7.24 .......... 14¢ tax 1.75 vo 2.24 .......... 4e vax 7.25 to 7.74 .......... i5~ tax 2.25 to 2.74 .......... 5~ vax 7.75 to 8.24 .......... 16¢ tax 2.75 To 3.24 .......... 6~ vax 8.25 to 8.74 .......... 17¢ tax 3.25 to 3.74 .......... 7¢ tax 8.75 to 9.~4 .......... 18¢ tax 3.75 to 4.24 .......... 8~ tax 9.25 to 9.74 .......... 19¢ tax 4.25 to 4.74 .......... 9~ vax 9.75 to 9.99 .......... 20~ tax 4.75 to 5.24 ......... 10¢ tax On purchases of Ten Dollars ($10.00) and more, up to and includirg ptu~cnases of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), t~ tax will be computed at a straight two per centum (2~), one-half cent (1/25) or more being treated as one cent (l~). On purchases of more than T~o Hundred Dollars ($200.00), t~ tax shall be Four Dollars ($~.00).- No bracket system may be used except that set out above. RULE 84: Transient or Itinerant Sellers Section 17 of the Ordinance requiring a certificate of registration before any person may lawfully sell tangible personal property at retail in this City applies vo all forms of retail selling, whether through stores, from private residences, from trucks and wagons, by house-to-house canvass or in any other manner ~r~tsoever. Because of the transient character of persons vfno sell at retail from other than stores regularly established and ca~rying a stock of goods on hand at all times in Port~mouth, Virginia, frcm which sales may be made at retail, such persons may be required, as a condition of their obtaining a registration certificate, to post vrlth the Commissioner a suitable bond payable to the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, conditioned upon their full compliance with the provisions of the Ordinance and their accouuting to the Cmumissioner for all monies due thereunder. This regulation will nov apply to non-resident dealers q~alifying for the collection of Sales or Use Tax under the Ordinance. RULE 85: Cmumon Carriers Ccmmon carriers shall pay the Use Tax according to the requirements of the Ordinance, upon all tar4Mible personal pr~erty upon which it has nov paid the Sales Tax, except ro]]img stock or aircraft or floating equip- ment of a common carrier .which enters the Cit~y in actual use in interstate commerce at the time of entering and is continuously used in interstate cc~nerce thereafter. It is intended that this exception shall not apply to such eqtuipment which is localized in its use ~rltb-tn the City.