Chap. 42.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 3 of section 833 of the
code of Virginia, in relation to the powers and duties of the buard of super-
visors of each county at their annual meeting.

Approved January 8, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-sec-
tion three of section eight hundred and thirty-three of the code of Vir-
vinia, in relation to the powers and duties of the board of supervisors
of each county at their annual meeting, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

§ 833. Sub-section third—To levy school taxes.—To levy a tax upon

all nronerty in the eounty acerecead with etate tayee ineludine the reg)
ind personal property of telegraph and telephone companies and. rail-
oad companies and their telegraph lines, which pass through their
espective counties, except such as are exempt from county or other local
axes, based upon the assessment per mile made by the state for its pur-
voses and furnished by the auditor of public accounts to said board,
sufficient to raise the amount recommended by the county school board
n their estimates for county school purposes, or so much thereof as
hey may allow; and to levy a tax upon all the property in each school
istrict in their county, assessed with state taxes, including the real and
personal property of ‘teleeraph and telephone companies and railroad
conpames and their telegraph lines, which pass through the school dis-
ict for which such levy is made, except such as are exempt from such
laxation, based upon the assessment per mile made by the state, and
furnished by the auditor of public accounts to said hoard, sufficient to
raise the amount recommended by the county school board for district
school purposes, or so much thereof as they may allow; but the tax so
levied shall not exceed the maximum prescribed in the third subdivision
vf section fifteen hundred and six.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.