Chap. 175.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act approved March
20, 1920, entitled an act in relation to local school taxes; and repealing sec-
tions 740 and 2721 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved
March 20, 1923. fH B 71]

Approved March 14, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty,
entitled an act in relation to local school taxes; and repealing sections
seven hundred and forty and twenty-seven hundred and twenty-one of
the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March twentieth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-three, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 1. Each county, city, town, if the same be a separate
school district, and school district, is authorized and required to raise
sums by a tax on property of not less than fifty cents nor more than one
dollar in the aggregate on the hundred dollars of the assessed value of
property in any one year, to be apportioned and expended by the local
school authorities of said counties, cities, towns and districts in estab-
lishing and maintaining such schools as in their judgment the public
welfare may require; provided, however, that in the county of Wise such
tax shall not be less than fifty cents nor more than one dollar and seventy-
five cents in the aggregate on the hundred dollars of the assessed value
of the property.

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