Chap. 33.—An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Floyd county to
levy a tax for building school houses.

Approved January 20, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the operation of so much of the act approved March seven-
teenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, in relation to pab-
lic free schools, as limits the tax to be levied by any county
for public free school purposes to ten cents in the hundred
dollars upon the assessed value of taxable property be, and
the same is suspended, in the county of Floyd, until the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and the board of super-
visors of said county are hereby authorized and empowered
to make a levy for the years of eighteen hundred and seven-
ty-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-cight to defray
the expense incurred in building public school houses in said
county, under the contract entered into in the year of cigh-
teen hundred and seventy-six.

. This act shall be in force from its passage.