Chap. 38.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act
to incorporate the town of Wakefield, approved April 2, 1902. {H B 38]

Approved February 10, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twelve of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of
Wakefield,” approved April second, nineteen hundred and two, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 12. The council shall have power to levy a specific tax not
exceeding one dollar upon each male citizen who is over the age of
twenty-one years, and to levy a tax not exceeding eighty cents on
the hundred dollars worth of property for all purposes; provided,
however, that said council may impose a further tax not exceeding
one dollar on the hundred dollars when authorized by a two-thirds
vote of all the legally qualified voters of said town. ;

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

passage.