No exemption or commutation herein provided for shall be allowed any corporation, association, or partnership, except as to partnerships the prescribed exemption or commutation shall be allowed a partnership when each partner thereof would be individually entitled to an exemption hereunder; provided, that an individual entitled to such exemption shall not be denied it by reason of being a member of a partnership in those cases when license is required of the individual members of a partnership and not of the partnership as such.