Any carnival company or other such traveling show, exhibiting under canvas or outdoors for gain, other than a circus, shall, before exhibiting in any county of this State, obtain a license from the clerk of the court of such county and shall pay to the clerk for such license twenty-five dollars for each day such carnival company or other show shall be exhibited. The clerk shall pay over to the county treasurer of such county all the moneys by him received on account of any such license, to be applied to the use of the county. Provided, that the license fee in counties having a population in excess of two hundred ten thousand inhabitants according to the latest official United States census shall be fifty dollars for each day the carnival company or other show shall be exhibited.