CHAPTER 261

An Act to amend and reenact § 4, as amended, of an act entitled “An Act
to incorporate the town of Courtland in the county of Southampton”,
approved January 27, 1888, relating to powers of council. [H 303]

Approved March 8, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 4, as amended, of an act entitled ‘An Act to incorporate the
town of Courtland in the county of Southampton”, approved January 27,
1888, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 4. The said council shall have power to pass all by-laws and ordi-
nances for the proper government of said town, not in conflict with the
Constitution and laws of the State and the Constitution and laws of the
United States. They shall have power to impose a license tax upon all
business on which the State imposes license, or which is provided by law,
except such business upon which the imposition of a license tax by cities
and towns is forbidden by general law, and its officers shall have such
power to collect the same as a State officer would have in like case; and
to impose a specific tax for the sale of any merchandise that may be
offered for sale by any person not living in said town; and to levy annually
such taxes as it may deem necessary for the purposes of the corporation,
not in conflict with the general law, which shall not exceed * two dollars
on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation of property * subject to
local taxation; provided, that for the payment of the principal and interest
of all bonds issued by the town, a sufficient ad valorem tax shall be an-
nually levied upon all property in the town subject to local taxation, with-
out limitation of rate or amount.
2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.