Chap. 363.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of
Southampton to levy, for local school purposes, a county or district tax, in
addition to the maximum now authorized by general law, on all property in
said county or in any magisterial and school district thereof subject to taxa-
tion for local school purposes by said board of supervisors, and to authorize
the commissioners of the town of Franklin, to levy, for local school purposes,
a district school tax, in addition to the maximum now authorized by general
law, on all property in said town subject to taxation for school purposes.

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Approved March 2, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors of the county of Southampton be, and is hereby,
authorized, on motion of any member of the board of supervisors of
said county, annually to levy in said county, or in any magisterial
and school district in said county, in addition to the maximum school
levies now authorized by general law for local school purposes, a tax
of not exceeding fifty cents on every one hundred dollars of the
assessed value of all property in said county, or any magisterial and
school district thereof, subject to county and district taxation for
school purposes. The revenue derived from such additional levy
shall be expended for the benefit of the schools of the county, should
such additional levy be a county levy, and for the benefit of the
schools of the district in which such levy is made, should such addi-
tional levy be a district levy.

2. That the commissioners of the town of Franklin be, and are
hereby, authorized, on motion of any commissioner of said town,
said town being a separate school district and not subject to a district
school tax as made by the board of supervisors of the county of
Southampton, annually to levy in said town and school district, in
addition to the maximum levies for local school purposes now auth-
orized by general law, a tax of not exceeding fifty cents on every one
hundred dollars of the assessed value of all property within the cor-
porate limits of the town of Franklin, said corporate limits being a
separate school district, subject to taxation for local school purposes.
The revenue derived from such additional levy in said town and
school district shall be expended for the benefit of the schools in said
town and school district as the school board of the town of Franklin
may direct.

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