CHAP. 91.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 104 of an act to in-
corporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and
rovide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896, as amended

y an act approved January 24, 1900. (H. B. 160.)

Approved March 1, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one hundred and four of an act to incorporate the city
of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and provide a
charter therefor, approved January sixteenth, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-six, as amended by an act approved January
twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred, be amended and re-enacted to
read as follows:

sec. 104. For the execution of its powers and duties the
council may raise taxes annually by assessments in said city
on all subjects not withheld from city taxation by the State
and such subiects of taxation as have been segregated to the
city by the State, for the purpose of taxation, such sums of
money as may be necessary to defray the expenses of the same,
and in such manner as it shall deem expedient (in accordance
with the laws of this State, and of the United States), provided,
that no municipal levy upon real and personal property in said
city shall exceed eighty cents upon the one hundred dollars as-
sessed value thereof, but by a three-fourths vote of the entire
council such rate of levy may be fixed, and made at an amount
not exceeding one dollar and seventy-five cents; and provided
further, that all levies upon real estate shall be upon the as-
sessed value thereof for the purposes of taxation.