Chap. 424.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 9 of an act entitled ‘‘An act to
- incorporate the town of Broadnax, in Brunswick and Mecklenburg Counties,
Virginia.”, approved February 1, 1915, relating to taxation. [S B 359]

Approved April 1, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
Section nine of an act entitled ‘“‘An act to incorporate the town of
Broadnax, in Brunswick and Mecklenburg counties, Virginia.”, ap-
proved February first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows: | |

Section 9. The said council shall also have power to impose a
specific license tax on all shows, performances and exhibitions which
may be given in said town (except school, religious and literary enter-
tainments). It shall also have power to impose a specific license tax
for the sale of merchandise that may be offered for sale in said town,
provided the same shall not exceed that now imposed by law, and
payable into the State treasury, and to levy annually such taxes as
may be deemed necessary on all real and personal property within
said town, subject to local taxation, for the purposes of said corpora-
tion, provided that said levy shall not exceed one dollar on the one
hundred dollars’ valuation of property as per State assessment, and,
provided further, that the jurisdiction of said town in criminal matters
shall extend one mile beyond the corporate limits of said town.