Chap. 104.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act amending the
charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county, entitled: An act to amend
the charter of the town of Norton, Wise county, approved March 29, 1902.

Approved February 29, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen of an act entitled “an act to amend the charter of the town
of Norton, in Wise county,” approved March twenty-ninth, nineteen
hundred and two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§14. No debt or liability (other than duly authorized bonded in-
debtedness), shall be incurred by said town, nor any claim or allowance
made to any officer of said town or any other person, in excess of the
taxation permitted to be imposed by this charter, without the written
consent of two-thirds of the property-owners of said town; but this
clause shall not be construed to prohibit the said town from issuing
bonds in accordance with the general law of this State. And power
and authority is hereby expressly given the said town to issue bonds of
the said town in accordance with the Constitution and general laws of
this Commonwealth, and subject to all the restrictions imposed by the
Constitution and laws of this State governing the issuing of bonds by the
towns of this State.

2. An emergency existing for the immediate operation of this act,
because of the fact that a special election has been duly ordered to be
held on February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, this act shall
be in force from its passage.