Chap. 24.—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, as
amended by an act approved March 20, 1916, and as amended by an act
approved March 14, 1918. , {fH B 56]

Approved February 17, 1922.

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

7. 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 the Code of Virginia, nineteen
hundred and nineteen, 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 and fifty cents 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 assessment in said city on all subjects
taxable by this State, the taxation of which by cities and towns is not
forbidden by general law, such sums of money as they shall deem
necessary 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 and fifty cents upon the one hundred dollars assessed
value thereof, as provided in section nine of this act.