CHaP. 245.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act approved
April 10, 1903, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Bowling
Green, in the county of Caroline.

Approved March 13, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seven of an act approved April tenth, nineteen hundred
and three, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Bowling
Green, in the county of Caroline, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§7. That the said trustee, thus constituted, shall have the
power to assess and collect an annual tax within the said town
for the purpose before mentioned, on all such property, vocation,
profession or business, as is now subject to taxation by the reve-
nue laws of this commonwealth; provided, that the tax on real
estate and all other property, subject to taxation as aforesaid,
shall not exceed in any one year fifty cents on every one hundred
dollars value thereof, and one dollar on all tithables in said town,
unless such excess shall have been authorized by a majority of
the qualified voters of said town, who are also freeholders there-
in. And, moreover, it shall be lawful for said trustees to conduct
and distribute water into and through said town and to provide
for lighting the streets and alleys of said town with electricity
or otherwise, upon submitting the same in proper form to the
qualified voters of said town, who are freeholders therein, at
any regular election of trustees of said town or at any special
election held for such specific purpose, but in case of any special
election, notice thereof shall be given by notices posted by the
sheriff of the county at the county court house and post office,
and four other public places in said town, said notices specifying
the time, place and purpose of said election, fifteen days before
the election. The said town shall not be subject to any county
levy. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.