Chap. 130.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an
act to incorporate the town of Courtland in the county of Southampton,
approved January 27, 1888. [H B 160}

Approved March 7, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Courtland,
in the county of Southampton, approved January twenty-seventh,
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follews:

Section 4. The said council shall have power to pass all by-laws
and ordinances for the proper government of said town, not in con-
flict with the Constitution and laws of the State and the Constitu-
tion and laws of the United States. They shall have power to im-
pose a license tax upon all business on which the State imposes
license, or which is provided by law, except such business upon which
the imposition of a license tax by cities and towns is forbidden by
general law, and its officers shall have such power to collect the same
as a State officer would have in like case; and to impose a specific
tax for the sale of any merchandise that may be offered for sale by
any person not living in said town; and to levy annually such taxes
as it may deem necessary for the purposes of the corporation, not
in conflict with the general law, which shall not exceed one dollar
on the one hundred dollars valuation of property as per State assess-
ment.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.