Chap. 192.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 9 and 48 of an act
entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter of the city of
Williamsburg, approved March 17, 1884, as amended by an act approved
March 5, 1900, and as amended March 20, 1916. [H B 308]

Approved March 14, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions seven, nine, and forty-eight of an act entitled an act to define
the corporate limits and charter of the city of Williamsburg, ap-
proved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as
amended by an act approved March fifth, nineteen hundred, and as
amended March twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be amend-
ed and re-enacted to read as follows: :

_ %. The municipal officers of said city shall consist of a mayor,

six (6) councilmen, a city sergeant, a treasurer and a commissioner
of the revenue, to be elected by the qualified voters of said city, and
such additional policemen as may be required to properly police and
protect the said city, to be appointed by the city council for such time
as to said council may seem proper, and upon such salary as said
council may prescribe.
_ 9. The power and authority of said mayor and councilmen shall,
in addition to those mentioned and authorized by this act, be such
as are mentioned and prescribed by section ten hundred and thirty-
eight, chapter forty-four, Code of Virginia, eighteen hundred and
aighty-seven, as amended, except that the said council shall not levy
in addition to capitation, a greater tax for all purposes than at the
rate of two dollars upon the one hundred dollars value of real and
personal property within the corporate limits.

48. For the execution of its powers and duties, the city council
may raise taxes, annually, by assessemnt in said city on all subjects
taxable by this State, such sums of money as they shall deem neces-
sary to defray the expenses of the same, and in such manner as they
shall deem expedient (in accordance with the laws of this State and
the United States); provided, that no tax upon real and personal
property in said city shall exceed in addition to the capitation, two
dollars upon the one hundred dollars assessed value thereof, as pro-
vided in section nine of this act; and provided also, that, if the
council deems it expedient, they may provide, by resolution passed
by three-fourths of the entire council, that no corporation tax shall
be levied upon machinery, implements, money and capital of any
manufacturing establishment actually in use for manufacturing pur-
poses within the said town for ten years from date of commence-
ment of such manufacturing establishment.