Chap. 274.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section eighteen of the charter of the
town of Farmville.

Approved February 9, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eighteen of an act, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town
of Farmville, approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 18. In all cases in which the laws of the state require a license to be
taken out by any person engaged in the pursuit of any business, trade,
occupation or calling, or for any other purpose, the said council shall
have power to require a license to be taken out in all such cases for the
benefit of said town before such person shall be permitted to pursue
such business, trade, or occupation, or calling within the corporate
limits of said town or within one mile from said limits; said council
may also require a license of any agent of any fertilizer company, own-
ers or keepers of wagons, drays, carts, hacks and other wheeled car-
riages kept or employed in said town for hire or as carriers for the pub-
lic, and may subject the same to such regulations as they may deem
proper.

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