Chap. 71.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act ap-
proved February 25, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Greenville, Augusta county.

Approved November 22, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the tenth section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the
town of Greenville, Augusta county, approved February
twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows: :

§ 10. H. C. Palmer, John B. Smith, C. W. Fitch, J. B.
Burwell, A. G. Duncan, Doctor T. Van L. Davis, and James
N. Mitchell, are hereby declared and appointed councilmen,
Robert H. Palmer as clerk, William Masincap as sergeant, C.
W. Fitch as treasurer, and William F. Smith as mayor of: said
town, and may qualify before any magistrate or notary public
in the county, and thereupon they shall constitute, until the
first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, the
council of said town of Greenville, and as such they shall
perform all the duties of said council. The council of the
town of Greenville shall have the power to levy a tax of
fifty cents on every one hundred dollars worth of property,
both real and personal, within the corporate limits of ‘said
town, impose a license tax on all business for which the state
imposes a license tax, or which is provided for by law, con-
ducted and carried on in the corporate limits of said town,
and the officer of said town shall have such power to collect
the same as a state officer would have in like cases, and said
council shall have the further power to impose a tax of not
more than one dollar per head for the privilege of keeping a
dog or dogs within the corporate limits of saidtown. The
taxes for each year shall be assessed on the first day of Feb-
ruary of each year as state taxes are assessed.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.