Chap. 137.—An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Pocahontas so
as to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act approved March 13, 1918,
entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas
in the county of Tazewell, to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in
conflict therewith. [S B 73]

Approved March 29, 1923.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty of the charter of the town of Pocahontas, as
contained in an act approved March thirteenth, nineteen hundred
and eighteen, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the
town of Pocahontas, in the county of Tazewell, and to repeal
all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, be amended
_ and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 20. The council shall have power to lay and levy a tax
for the general purposes of said town on all real and tangible
personal property in said town at such rates as may be pre-
scribed by said council, not to exceed, however, one dollar on
the one hundred dollars value of all property and not in. conflict
with the general laws of this State, provided that the maximum
rate of one dollar shall not be construed as increased by general
statute; and the council may likewise lay and levy a tax on in-
tangible personal property according to the authority given,
and at a rate or rates not in excess of that authorized by the
general law of this State, for the taxing of such property by
towns; and in addition thereto a tax not exceeding twenty cents
on the one hundred dollars valuation of real and tangible per-
sonal property in said town for the benefit of the public schools
thereof and a poll tax of one dollar and fifty cents’ on each
resident thereof over twenty-one years of age, and the said
town in addition to the special power herein given shall have
like powers of distress, levy and sale for the collection of such
taxes as are now given to State officers for collection of State
taxes.