Chap. 116.—An ACT toamend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled
an act incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in Essex county, and
appointing trustees for the same, and for other purposes, passed March
16, 1841.

Approved March 5, 1877.

1, Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section four of the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred
and forty-one, entitled an act incorporating the town of Tap-
pahannock, in Essex county, and appointing trustees for the
same, and for other purposes, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows: |

§4. The trustees of the town of Tappahannock, or a ma-
jority of them, shall have power to make such by-laws and
oi dinances for establishing a police and regulating the same
for preserving and improving and taking care of all public
and private property in said town; for removing or abating
nuisances therein, and for such, other purposes as they may
deem necessary or proper for the internal and general good,
safety, and convenience of the said town, and the inhabitants
thereof; to establish a market and regulate the same; and
the better to enforce the same, may impose reasonable fines
and penalties on sach persons as shall offend against the by-
laws and ordinances made as aforesaid: provided that no
fine for the violation of any by-law or ordinance at any one
time, shall be assessed and collected for more than five dol-
lars; but the said trustees may from time to time, and as
often as any person shall violate any by-law or ordinance, fine
him or her for the same. And to enable the said trustees to
carry into effect the said powers, they are hereby authorized
annually, at such time as they may choose, to levy a tax on
all the real and personal property within the limits of said
town: provided that the tax on real and personal property
in said town shall not exceed fifty cents on the cne hundred
dollars’ value thereof; on male citizens above twenty-one
years of age, not over fifty cents each; on exhibitions or
shows now or hereafter taxed by the laws of the state, a
sum not exceeding the tax levied by the state; and on law-
yers, physicians, and dentists practicing their professions in
caid town, a tax not exceeding one dollar annually. In case
ot vacancy in the board of trustees, the remaining trustees
shall have power to fill the vacancy.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.