Chap. 220.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 21, 88 and 44 o!
an Act entitled an Act to amend the Charter of the City of Lynch-
burg, Approved March 6, 1872.

Approved April 20, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections twenty-one, thirty-eight and forty-four of an act ta
amend the charter of the city of Lynchburg, approved March
sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 21. Whenever it is necessary to introduce any law, reg.
ulation, resolution or ordinance of the city as evidence in any
of the courts of the commonwealth, the same shall be re.
garded as duly proved either by a copy certified by the clerk
of the council, or by being read from the printed volume o:
ordinances published by authority of the city.”

Ҥ 38. The council may impose a tax on merchants, man.
ufactures, traders, shop-keepers, lawyers, physicians, dentists
brokers, keepers of ordinaries, hotel-keepers, boarding-house
keepers, keepers of drinking or eating-houses, keepers 0!
livery stables, daguerreian artists of all kinds, agents of al
kinds, sellers of wine and other liquors, vendors of quack
medicines, and upon any other person or employment whick
it may deem proper, whether such person or employment be
herein specially enumerated or not. As to all such person:
or employments the council may lay a direct tax, or may re
quire them to take out a license.under such regulations as i'
may prescribe, and levy a tax thereon; but the taxes hereit
authorized shall be subject to the provisions of section thirty
seven of this act. The council may subject any person who
without having obtained a license therefor, shall do any ac
or follow any employment or business in the city, for whicl
by any ordinance of the city a license may be required, t
such fine or penalty as it is authorized to impose for the vio
lation of any ordinance of the city.”
_ $44, The council may, in the name and for the use of the
4 city, contract debts, and cause to be issued therefor notes or
bonds, but no debt of the city shall be payable more than
thirty-four years from the date thereof: provided, that the
council shall not have power to contract debts for the city,
or issue evidences thereof, whether notes or bonds, for a sum
which, when added to the debt of the city then existing, shall
cause the total amount of the indebtedness of the city to be
greater than eighteen per centum of the taxable real and
m personal property in the city: and provided further, that the
. council shall not contract debts or issue any evidences thereof
for the purpose of subscribing to the stock of any internal
improvement company, nor shall it cause the bonds of any
> such company to be endorsed by the city, without first being
e- authorized so todo by three-fourths of the legal voters of
the ony

st 2. This act shall be in force from its passage.