Chap. 255.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35 of an act entitled an
act to raise revenue for support of the government and public free schools
and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax
for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved
April 16, 1903.

Approved March 16, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-five of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for support of the
government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public
debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section
one hundred and eighty-nine of the Constitution, approved April six-
teenth, nineteen hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows: |

835. On the real and personal property of telegraph and telephone
companies owning or operating telegraph or telephone lines in this State,
there shal] be a tax of twenty cents on every hundred dollars of the as-
sessed value of the real estate and tangible personal property, and a tax
of twenty-five cents on every one hundred dollars of the assessed value
of the intangible personal property of every such company, the proceeds
of which shall be applied to the support of the government, and a fur-
ther tax of ten cents on every hundred dollars of the assessed value
thereof, which shall be applied to the support of the public free schools
of this State; and a further special tax of five cents on every hundred
dollars of she assessed value of the real estate and tangible personal prop-
erty of every such company, which shall be applied to the payment of
pensions.

2. The collection of current revenue being affected, an emergency is
declared to exist, and this act shall be in force from its passage.