Chap. 65.—An ACT to amend Article V of an act entitled “An act to incor-
porate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county”, approved January
22, 1900, by adding to said Article V a new section numbered Section 3,
in relation to levying school taxes. [H B 283]
Approved March 4, 1938
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
article five of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus,
in Elizabeth City county, approved January twenty-second,. nineteen
hundred, be amended by adding to said article five a new section num-
bered section three, which new section shall read as follows: 7
Section 3. The town council may annually levy, assess. and gale
lect, in addition to the taxes for general purposes, a tax not in excess
of one dollar and fifty cents on the one. hundred: dollars of. assessed
value of all the property in said town subject to taxation by the
town, for the support and maintenance of the public schools in the
town.
2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.