CHAP. 576.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of the act
incorporating the town of Rocky Mount, passed February
1, . :

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That an act toamend and re-enact section fifteen of an act
entitled an act to amend the following acts: an act to
incorporate the town of Rocky Mount, approved February
seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three; an act
to amend the act of February seventeenth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-three, approved April twenty-eighth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-four; and an act amending
and re-enacting section two of the act approved April
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, ap-
proved March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,
be amended and re-enacted so as to make it read as fol-
lows:

§15. The council of the town shall have authority to
prescribe those pursuits which may not be followed within
the corporate limits without a license as a prerequisite,
and shall fix the terms on which the licenses shall issue.
In all cases in which the laws of the state require a license
to be taken out by any person engaged in any business,
trade, occupation, or calling, or for any other purpose, or
in which the state may require a license to be taken out,
whether it has done so or not, the said council shall have
the power to impose and require a license to be taken out
in all such cases, and to determine the amount to be paid
therefor for the benefit of the said town before such person
shal] be permitted to pursue such business, trade, occupsa-
tion, or calling within the corporate limits of the said
town. Should the decision on any appeal taken pursuant
to section twelve of the act amending former acts of incor-
poration of the town of Rocky Mount, passed February
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be in favor
of the said town, thén the court may require the defen-
dant to be held in the county jail, at the expense of the
said town, until the fine and costs, or fine or costs, be
paid to the recorder of the town, or until the said defen-
dant execute to the said recorder for the benefit of the
said town a bond payable at not more than three months,
with good security, for the amount for which he is liable.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are as
to the same hereby repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.