Chap. 101.—4An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Galax, situated
in part in the county of Carroll and in part in the county of Grayson, and
to repeal all other acts inconsistent with this act. [S B 228]

Approved February 25, 1922.

Whereas, the general assembly of Virginia by an act approved
March seventh, nineteen hundred and six, incorporated the town of
Galax, in Carroll and Grayson counties, and whereas it is desirable
to provide a new charter for the said town of Galax, in order to
conform the same to the general laws of the State concerning towns
ot less than five thousand inhabitants and for other purposes; there-
ore,

-1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the town of Galax in the counties of Carroll and Grayson be and
hereby is made a town corporate by the name of Galax, and as such
shall have and exercise all the powers conferred upon towns of less
than five thousand inhabitants by the general laws of this State con-
cerning towns now in force or that hereafter may be enacted for the
government of towns so far as the same are not inconsistent with
this act.

2. The boundaries of said town shall be as follows: Beginning
at a point on the bank of Chestnut creek at the mouth of a branch
heading in S. F. Welch orchard and at a point where the Grayson
and Carroll county line crosses Chestnut creek, thence south fifty-five,
west one hundred and forty-five poles passing north of the residence
of Dr. B. S. Dobyns (now owned by M. K. Busic) to a point thirty-
hve feet north of the barn of the said B. S. Dobyns (now belonging
to M. K. Busic) where a rock is planted as a corner, then south
seventeen, east one hundred and ninety-six poles to a point in the
Independence and Hillsville turnpike road to a small apple tree and
wild cherry bush on the north bank of said road, where a rock 1s
buried as a corner, then south sixty-nine, east one hundred and forty-
two poles to the southwest corner of the Anderson addition to the
town of Galax where a rock is buried for a corner, then north eighty-
five, east fifty-eight poles with a street of the Anderson addition to
the intersection of Main street where a rock is planted for a corner,
to the line of the old corporate limits of the town of Galax, then
with the same south sixty-five, east seventy-five poles to the forks
of the road leading from Old Town and Pipers Gap road to Mrs.
Givins, at a point where a rock is buried for a corner, thence leaving
old corporate limits. south twenty-six, east ninety-eight poles crossing
Chestnut creek to a large rock on a high round knoll about one hun-
dred yards southeast of Mrs. Givins residence, then north twenty-
eight, east one hundred seventy-six poles to the rock spring on the
south side of the Poplar Knob road at the ford of a branch opposite
the Henry Donithan house, thence north nine and one-half, west
seventy-four poles to the northeast corner of the new colored church,
thence north forty-eight and one-half, west one hundred and twenty-
five poles passing north of George Brown’s and Mart Coleman houses
to the bend of the Independence and Hillsville pike at the gate north
of the late J. B. Caldwell residence, thence down the south bank of
said road south forty-one, west twenty-six poles, thence crossing and
leaving said road and passing north of the late J. J. Andrews resi-
dence south sixty, west seventy-two poles, south eighty-three, west
forty-six poles passing north of R. P. Caldwell residence to Chestnut
creek, thence down the creek and binding thereon sixty-eight poles
to the beginning, being the same boundary fixed by the circuit court
of Carroll county in proceedings duly had for the purpose and of
record in said county clerk’s office.
3. The council of the said town shall be composed of the mayor
and six councilmen, and the persons elected for mayor and council-
men at the election held in said town on the second Tuesday in June,
nineteen hundred and twenty, namely, D. A. Robertson, mayor, and
B. D. Beamer, George B. Early, H. M. Todd, Charles P. Waugh,
Gordon C. Felts and G. A. Holder, councilmen, shall serve as such
for the remainder of the two years for which they were elected.

4. The administration and government of the said town shall be
vested in one principal officer, to be denominated the mayor, and six
councilmen, who shall constitute the town council, all of whom shall
be electors of said town.

5. The mayor and councilmen shall each be elected for a term of
two years and each shall serve until his successor shall have qualified.
They shall be elected on the second Tuesday in June immediately pre-
ceding the expiration of the terms of their predecessors, and shall
enter upon their duties upon the first day of September next succeed-
ing their election.

6. The electors of the said town shall be the actual residents
thereof who are qualified to vote at the preceding county or State
election next before the said town election.

/. The municipal officers of said town shall in addition to said
mayor and councilmen, consist of a treasurer, sergeant, clerk of the
council, town manager, commissioner of the revenue and such other
officers as may be provided for by the town council and the council
may appoint such committees of the council and create such boards
and departments of town government and administration with such
powers and duties and subject to such regulations as it may seem fit,
consistent with the provisions of this act and the general laws of this
State and any number or all of the officers provided for by this section
may be held by one man.

8. A treasurer, clerk of the council, sergeant, city manager and
commissioner of the revenue, or such of them as the said council of
said town shall deem expedient and proper for the best interests of
said town shall be appointed by the council at its first regular meeting
in October after each town election, or as soon thereafter as is possible
and convenient and shall assume the duties of their office on the first
day of January next succeeding. Their term of office shall be for
two years from the time fixed for their assuming the duties of their
office and they shall serve until their successors shall have qualified.

9. The duties and compensation of all municipal officers except
as herein or hereafter by the general laws of the State defined or
provided for, shall be defined and prescribed by the town council.

10. All officers and employees appointed as provided in the
preceding section may be removed by the town council at its discretion.

11. In case of a vacancy in any position so authorized to be filed,
a qualified person may be appointed to fill such position or office for
the unexpired term by the town council. .

12. The mayor, councilmen and all other municipal officers of
said town shall, before entering upon the duties of their respective
office, be sworn and take the oath of office as required by the laws of
this State by any one authorized to administer oaths under the law
of this State.

13. When the mayor, councilmen, treasurer, sergeant and com-
missioner of the revenue take the oaths required of them, triplicate
certificates of the court, or person administering the same, stating
the fact of their having been taken shall be obtained by the person
taking the same and be by him delivered for record as follows, one
to the circuit court of Grayson county clerk’s office, one to the circuit
court of Carroll county clerk’s office and one to the clerk of the town
council. When any other municipal officer takes the oath required
of him a certificate as aforesaid, shall be secured by him and de-
livered to the clerk of the town council only.

14. If any person elected or appointed to any office in said town
shall neglect to take such oath on or before the day on which he Is to
enter upon the discharge of the duties of his office, or shall for
twenty days after the beginning of his term of office, fail to file such
bond with such security as may be required of him by the said council
of said town, he shall be considered as having declined said office,
and the same shall be deemed vacant and such vacancy shall be filled
by the council of said town.

15. If any person having been an officer of said town shall not
within ten days after he shall have vacated or been removed from
office, and upon notification or request of the clerk of the town
council, or within such time thereafter as the council may allow
deliver over to his successor in office all property, books, and papers
belonging to the town or appertaining to such office, in his possession
or under his control, he shall forfeit and pay to the town a sum not
exceeding five hundred dollars to be sued for and recovered with
costs; and all books, records and documents used in any office by
virtue of any provisions of this act or of any ordiances or order of
the town council, or any superior officer of said town shall be deemed
the property of said town and appertaining to said office, and the
chief officer thereof shall be held responsible therefor.

16. The mayor.—The mayor shall be the chief executive officer
of the town and it shall be his duty to see that the by-laws and
ordinances thereof are fully executed and he shall preside over the
meetings of the town council, voting only in case of a tie.

17. Every ordinance or resolution having the effect of an ordi-
nance, shall before it becomes operative, be presented to the mayor.
If he approves, he shall sign it, but if not he may return it to the
clerk of the council, and the council shall enter at length the objections
on its journal and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsidera-
tion, two-thirds of all the members elected to the council shall agree
to pass the ordinance or resolution, it shall become operative, notwith-
standing the objection of the mayor. If any ordinance or resolution
shall not be returned by the mayor within five days (Sundays and
legal holidays excepted), after it shall have been presented to him,
it shall become operative in like manner as if he had signed it, unless
his term of office or that of the council shall expire within said five
days.

The mayor shall have the power to veto any particular item of an
appropniation, ordinance or resolution; but such veto shall not affect
any item or items to which he does not object. The items or item
objected to shall not take effect except in the manner provided in
this section as to ordinances or resolutions not approved by the
mayor.

18. The mayor shall see that the duties of the various town
officers, members of the police and fire departments, whether elected
or appointed, are faithfully performed. He shall have the power to
investigate their acts, have access to all books and documents in
their office, and may examine them or their subordinates on oath,
but the evidence given by persons so examined shall not be used
against them in any criminal proceeding.

19. The mayor shall communicate to the town annually at the
beginning of each fiscal year, January first or oftener, if he be re-
quired by the council, a general statement of the condition of the
town in relation to its government, finances and improvements, with
such recommendations as he may deem proper, and may from time
to time communicate to the council such suggestions and recom-
mendations as he shall deem proper.

20. In case of the absence or inability of the mayor, the president
pro tempore of the council, to be chosen by a majority of the council
present at a legal meeting, or in his absence or inability some other
member of the council chosen in the same manner, shall possess the
same power and discharge the municipal duties of the mayor during
such absence or inability.

21. In.case a vacancy shall occur in the office of mayor the
vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the town council of any
one eligible to such office.

22. Of the town council generally —The town council shall by
ordinance fix the time of their stated meetings, and no business shall
be transacted at a special meeting unless two-thirds of all members
of the council be present, but that for which it shall be called.

23. The town council may be convened at any time upon the call
in writing of the mayor or any three members thereof, the object of
the meeting being stated, but if all the members of the council shall
be present the resolutions and ordinances passed at such meeting shall
be valid though there should have been no call in writing for said
meeting or such call if made should be irregular, or not served upon
the members of the council. Service of the notice of a call meeting
to be made on the members of the council and mayor in the wav
notices are served under the general law of the State.

24. The mavor and three councilmen or in the absence of the
mavor four councilmen shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of business. But no vote shall be reconsidered or rescinded at any
meeting, unless at such meeting there be present as large a number
of the council as were present when such vote was taken.
25. No tax shall be levied or corporate debt contracted unless
by a vote of two-thirds of the council, which vote shall be by yeas
and nays and recorded in the journal; nor shall any ordinance be
passed or resolution adopted having for its object the appropriation
ot money exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars except by the
recorded affirmative vote of a majority of all members elected to
the council.

26. A journal shall be kept by the town clerk of the proceedings
of the town council, and at the request of any member present the
yeas and nays shall be recorded on any question. At the next meet-
ing the proceedings shall be read‘and signed by the person who was
presiding when the previous meeting adjourned, or if he be not then
present, by the person presiding when they were read. It shall be
the duty of the town clerk to index all of said ordinances passed.

27. The town council shall have the power and authority to
prevent hogs, dogs and other animals from running at large in said
town, and may subject the said animals to such regulations and taxes
as they may deem proper and to prohibit and punish the abuse or
cruel treatment of horses or other animals in said town.

28. The town council shall have the power and authority to
prevent the coming into town of persons having no visible means of
support and of persons who may be dangerous to the peace and
safety of the town. ©

29. The town council shall have the power and authority when
any crime has been committed or attempted to be committed in the
town to offer such reward as they think right, not to exceed fifty
dollars, for the arrest and conviction of such criminals, said reward
to be paid out of the general funds of the town when duly approved
and ordered to be paid.

30. The town council shall have the power and authority to
establish a market or markets in and for said town and appoint proper
officers therefor, to provide suitable buildings and grounds therefor,
to prescribe the time for holding markets and to regulate the same
and to make and enforce such regulations as may be necessary in
connection therewith.

31. Police force—The town council shall have the power and
authority to appoint additional police officers when in their opinion
they are needed to work with and under the supervision of the town
sergeant, who shall be the chief of police.

32. And the city council shall have power to make such regula-
tions and orders as will protect its citizens against dangers from
unsafe houses or walls and to that end shall have power to cause to
be condemned and taken down any such building or wall, but no such
condemnation shall be made or such house or wall taken down until
the owner thereof, or in case of an infant or insane person. his
guardian or committee, be duly summoned before the mayor of the
town, who shall be charged by the ordinance with such duty and
allowed reasonable opportunity to show cause against such action,
and a right of appeal to the circuit court of the county in which said
wall or outbuilding stands, will be allowed as a matter or right to
the parties interested.

The town council shall have the right and power to provide for
the regular and safe construction or repair of all buildings and
houses in the said town and the material out of which the same are
to be built.

33. If the council deem it expedient they may provide by resolu-
tion passed by two-thirds of the entire council that no corporation tax
shall be levied upon the machinery, implements, money and capital of
any new manufacturing establishment actually in use for manufactur-
ing purposes, within the said city. for a term of five years or less,
provided that the applicants for such exemption of corporation tax
shall enter into satisfactory written agreement with the town council
to operate their respective manufacturing plants during the term of
exemption. The provision of this section are not intended to apply
to any manufacturing plant that has been erected but is intended to
be used only to encourage the building of new manufacturing plants
in the town.

34. The town sergeant or chief of police of said town and the
officers and privates of the police force of the town shall be invested
with all the power and authority which State officers such as sheriffs
and constables have under the State laws in taking cognizance of
and enforcing the criminal law of the State and the ordinances and
regulations of the town respectively.

35. Fire department and prevention of fire—The town council
shall have power and authority to establish.and maintain a fire de-
partment for the town and all powers necessary for the government,
management, maintenance, equipment and direction of such fire de-
partment and the premises, property and equipment thereof. The
council may make ordinances as it may deem proper for the prevention
and extinguishment of fires, for the regulation of the conduct of
persons in attendance at fires, in relation to the powers and duties of
officers and men of the fire department, to require citizens to render
assistance to the fire department in case of need.

36. The town council shall have the power and authority to
regulate the keeping or storage of gunpower or other combustibles
within the town and direct the location of all buildings used for the
storage of same, to regulate the sale and use of gunpowder and other
combustible material, to regulate the exhibition of fireworks and the
discharge of fire arms and explosives of all kinds and descriptions and
to restrict the making of bonfires in streets, alleys and yards.

37. Water and sewer and other public utilities —-The town council
shall have power and authority to acquire or otherwise obtain control
of or establish, maintain, operate, extend and enlarge waterworks,
and sewer service within or without the limits of the town, and to
acquire within or without the limits of the town by purchase, con-
demnation or otherwise whatever land may be necessary for acquir-
ing, establishing, maintaining, operating, extending and enlarging
said waterworks, sewer service or other public utilities.
38. The town council shall have the power and authority to pro-
tect from injury the waterworks and sewer lines and other public
utilities within or without said town by ordinances prescribing ade-
quate penalties for the injury thereof.

39. The town council shall have power and authority to require
owners or occupiers of the real estate within the corporate limits of
the town which may front or abut on the line of any sewer or water
pipe line or conduit to make connection therewith, and to use sewer
pipes and conduits and water furnished by the town, under such
ordinances and regulations as the council may deem necessary to
secure the proper sewerage and to improve and secure good sanitary
conditions, and shall have the power to enforce the observance of all
ordinances and regulations by the imposition and collection of fines
and penalties to be collected as other fines and penalties are collected,
and shall have power and authority to fix and impose the charges and
dues to be paid by the owners or occupiers of the properties of persons
served thereby for tapping or using such sewer or conduit and for
the use of water supplied by the town, said charges and dues to be
collected as taxes are collected.

40. Streets, et cetera—The town council shall have the power
and authority to impose taxes and assessments upon the abutting land-
owners for making and improving the walkways upon then existing
streets and improving then existing alleys and streets, but said taxes
or assessments shall not exceed one-half of the total cost of said
walkways, alley or street immediately and directly along, by or
adjoining said property owner. All such taxes and assessments upon
abutting landowners for such improvements shall be made in ac-
cordance with the general laws of this State.

41. The town council shall have the power and it shall be their
duty to make and enforce ordinances to secure the safe and expedi-
tious use of the streets and alleys and walkways of the town, to reg-
ulate traffic thereon, and for the protection of persons and property
thereon or near thereto.

42. All disbursements of town moneys shall be by check or order
of the town, signed by the treasurer and countersigned by the clerk of
the council, unless the treasurer and clerk of the council be the same
person, in which event the said checks and orders shall be counter-
signed by the mayor.

43. On or before the first day of January of each year the treas-
urer shall make his final settlement with the town council, at which
time he shall make up a statement of all moneys collected by him on
account of town levies, license taxes, penalties and all other sources
since his last final settlement with the town council, and also lists of
insolvents and delinquents as herein prescribed. All statements by
the treasurer shall be verified by affidavit and if he fail to make any
such statement within the prescriost time he shall forfeit his com-
missions as such.

44. At the end of each fiscal year when the treasurer makes his
final settlement with the council and oftener if required he shall
make up a full and detailed statement of the financial condition of
the town and of all receipts and disbursements and expenditures for
the preceding fiscal year which said statement shall be published in
some newspaper published in the town.

45. Finances, assessment, et cetera, bonds.—The council for the
town of Galax whenever in the opinion of two-thirds of its members
it 1s to the interests of the town so to do may borrow money for the
uses and purposes of the town and to that end said council by a
recorded vote showing that two-thirds of the members of the council
are of the opinion that it is to the interest of the town so to do, may
from time to time issue and sell bonds of said town which bonds
may be either registered or coupon, and shall be issued in such
denominations and bear such rate of interest not exceeding six per
centum per annum as may be determined by the council. Such bonds
shall be made payable in gold or currency not exceeding thirty years
from their date, and may at the option of the council be made re-
deemable after such time as the council may prescribe, the interest
shall be payable annually or semi-annually as the council may deter-
mine; and the council may exempt any or all of such bonds from
town taxes; in which case a clause to that effect shall be inserted in
each bond. No bond so issued shall be sold by the town at less than
par. And after said bonds are so issued and paid for and delivered
to the purchaser and the said purchaser nor any subsequent holder
be required to see to the proper application of the money by the town.

All bonds so issued shall be signed by the mayor and counter-
signed by the clerk of the council and shall have the seal of the
town affixed thereto and said bonds shall be issued and sold and the
proceeds used under the orders and direction of the council. Every
bond issued shall state on its face for what purpose the proceeds are
to be used and the proceeds of such bonds shall be used exclusively
for the purposes as thereon stated, and the bonded debt of the town
shall not at any time exceed eighteen per centum of the assessed value
of the real estate in the town except as otherwise provided by law,
and provided always that no bonds shall be issued or sold for the pur-
pose of subscribing to the stock of any company incorporated or
otherwise and nothing contained in the charter shall be held to au-
thorize the council to endorse or guarantee the bonds of any person
or corporation whatever.

46. The town council shall have the power and authority to
provide by a special tax and levy for the payment of the interest on
all bonds at maturity or sooner.

47. ior the execution of the powers and duties the town council
shall have the power and authority to raise annually by levies, taxes
and assessments, in said town such sums of money as they shall deem
necessary therefor and in such manner as they may deem expedient in
accordance with the provisions of this act and the laws of this State
and of the United States.

The town council shall at its first regular meeting in February
of each year or as soon thereafter as may be, cause to be made up
and entered on their journal an account of all sums lawfully charge-
able on the town which ought to be paid within: one year and shall
order and make a town levy of so much as in their opinion is necessary
to be raised by levy on real estate and personal property and persons
in addition to what may be received from license or other sources.
The levy so ordered may be upon any or all of the following subjects
of taxation:

(a) Male and female persons in the town above the age of twenty-
one years.

(b) Any property, real and personal, in the town not especially
exempt from State taxation.

(c) Such other subjects of taxation as may at the time be as-
sessed with the State taxes or county levies against persons residing
therein and not specifically exempted from municipal taxation, and,

(d) Such other subjects of taxation as at the time said levy is
eee may be subject to municipal taxation by the laws of this

tate.

48. The rate of such levies upon real and personal property shall
not exceed the maximum allowed by the State law on one hundred
dollars of assessed valuation.

49. Such municipal capitation tax or levy so ordered shall not
exceed three dollars per poll.

50. All municipal taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of
subjects within the town and shall be levied and collected under gen-
eral laws and ordinances.

51. The town council in addition to the State taxes on licenses,
may when anything for which a license is so required is to be done
within the town, impose a tax for the privilege of doing the same
and require a license to be obtained-therefor, and within the limitations
of the Constitution of this State and the United States may levy a
license tax on any other business or thing done or carried on in the
town, whether a license tax is required therefor or not by the State;
provided, however, that nothing contained in this act shall be con-
strued to permit the imposition of a tax or the requirement of a license
in any case where such imposition or requirement by cities and towns
is forbidden by general law..

52. The town council shall have the power to levy a tax on dogs
kept within the town.

53. All taxes assessed whether on property or head tax, license
tax, dog tax, or other tax shall be a lien on any property, real or
personal, the person has that has been so assessed with the same and
the treasurer or sergeant of the said town has the right to levy the
same and enforce the collection thereof as is provided for the collec-
tion of taxes under the State laws.

Any person failing to pay any town taxes to the treasurer or
other such officer by the first day of December of the year in which
assessed shall incur a penalty thereon of five per centum, which shall
be added to the amount of the levies or taxes due from such tax-
payer, which when collected by the treasurer or other such officer
shall be accounted for in his statements.
It shall be the duty of the treasurer or other officer after the first
day of December to call upon each person, resident within the town
chargeable with taxes, who has not paid the same or upon the agent,
if any, of such person resident within the town for payment thereof,
and upon the failure or refusal of such person or agent to pay the
same he shall forthwith proceed to collect the same by levy, distress
or otherwise. Should it come to the knowledge of the treasurer or
other such officer that any person or persons owing such levies is
moving or contemplating moving from the town prior to the first
day of december, he shall have the power to collect the same by levy,
distress or otherwise at any time after such levy bills have come into
his hands. :

When the treasurer or other such officer has to levy or distrain
and sell or levy or distrain without selling, he shall receive a fee of
one dollar to be collected with the town levies or taxes levied or
distrained for.

54. The treasurer or other officer whose duty it is to collect town
taxes and levies after ascertaining which of the taxes and levies
assessed in town cannot be collected, shall not later than the fifteenth
day of June, in each year, make out lists of such as cannot be collected
upon forms similar to those prescribed for county treasurers, with the
name of the persons chargeable with such town taxes and levies placed
thereon alphabetically, and such lists shall be of four classes:

First. A list of property on the commissioners land book im-
properly placed thereon or not ascertainable with the amount of
municipal levies charged thereon. ,

Second. A list of other real estate which is delinquent for the
non-payment of the municipal leviés thereon.

Third. A list of such municipal levies assessed other than on real
estate, as he is unable to collect, including the capitation levies in-
cluded in list number four below.

Fourth. A list of such municipal capitation taxes or levies as he
is unable to collect.

At the foot of each list subscribe and take the following oath:
a , of the town of Galax, Virginia, who is
charged with the duty of collecting the taxes and levies of said town
do swear that the foregoing list is, I verily believe, correct and just,
that I have received no part of the town levies mentioned in the said
list, and that I have used due diligence to find property within my
town liable to distress for the said levies but have found none.”

55. Each of said lists shall be presented to and examined by the
town council, together with the tax or levy tickets corresponding
thereto; and if said council be satisfied of the correctness of the
lists, and that the taxes or levies are correctly extended, or having
corrected them if erroneous, it shall credit the treasurer or other
officer charged with the collection thereof with the amount thereof,
and thereafter the treasurer or other such officer shall be under no
liability for failure to collect the same and such delinquent tax or
levy tickets shall be delivered to the town sergeant for collection.
56. Schools and school taxes, et cetera—The territory embraced
within the corporate limits as described and set out in detail in this act
shall constitute a separate district and unit for school purposes and
government. The territory heretofore embraced in the east and west
Galax school districts not within the corporate limits aforesaid shall
be and hereby is made a part of the school district, they adjoin in
the respective counties of Carroll and Grayson and no longer a part
of the east and west Galax school districts of Carroll and Grayson
counties.

97. Said school district so created within the bounds of said cor-
porate limits shall be called Galax school district of Carroll and
Grayson counties and shall be a separate and distinct unit within
itself in so far as the Constitution of the State of Virginia will permit.

58. Said school district as aforesaid shall be under the super-
vision of the superintendent of schools of Grayson or Carroll county,
either or both, in the discretion of the State board of education.

59. Said school district shall have a board of not more than three
trustees, to be elected from the citizens thereof, male or female, by
the town council of said town and the town clerk is to keep a minute
upon the journals of the said town of such elections. The election of
said trustees to be on the same day provided by general law for the
election of trustees, or as soon thereafter as is convenient.

60. The district school tax for said school district shall be levied
and collected by the town council and its officers as other taxes are
collected and the said school district shall not be levied with district
taxes by the boards of supervisors and constituted authorities of
Carroll and Grayson counties. The county school levy of the county
to be levied and collected the parts of said school district situate
within each of said counties by the said county officers but all of
such funds so collected within said Galax school district, et cetera,
shall be turned over and paid to the school authorities of said dis-
trict for school purposes.

The limits of the said district school levy to be levied and col-
lected by the town council and its officers shall be as prescribed by
the Constitution.

61. In addition to said district school levy the town council of the
town of Galax are hereby empowered to levy a capitation tax on all
male and female citizens of said town for school purposes over the
age of twenty-one years not exceeding the maximum capitation tax
for such purposes provided by the Constitution and general laws
of the State.

62. All the rights and remedies for the collection of taxes given
under this charter and the laws of this State are hereby extended for
the collection of said school taxes as given herein.

63. All ordinances now in force in the town of Galax, Virginia,
not inconsistent with this act, shall be and remain in force until
altered, amended or repealed by the town council.

64. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed in so far as they affect the proivsions of this act.
65. Inasmuch as the necessities of the town require prompt action,
an emergency exists rendering it necessary that this act shall go into
operation at once, therefore this act shall be in force from its passage.