Chap. 454.—HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to strike from the consti-
tution the second clause of article ten and providing for publishing and certify-
ing the same to the next general assembly of Virginia.

Approved February 23, 1898.

1. Resolved by the house of delegates and senate (a majority of the
members elected to each of the two houses agreeing thereto), That the
following amendment to the constitution of Virginia be, and is hereby,
proposed and referred to the general assembly to be chosen at the next
veneral election of senators and members of the house of delegates for
its concurrence, in conformity with the provisions of section one of
article twelve of said constitution, namely, Strike from the constitution
of Virginia section two of article ten, which is in the following words:

Article 10, section 2.—No tax shall be imposed on any of the citizens
of this state for the privilege of taking or catching oy sters from their
natural beds with tongs in the waters thereof; but the amount of sales
of oysters so taken by any citizen, in any one year, may be taxed at a
rate not exceeding the rate of taxation imposed upon any other species
of property.

Resolved, That the clerk of the house of delegates, or the clefk of
the senate, or, if a vacancy happen in both of said offices, the presiding
officer of either house of the general assembly, be authorized and re-
quired to cause this proposed amendment and these resolutions to be
published in one newspaper published in each of the cities of the com-
monwealth having more than ten thousand inhabitants once a week for
three consecutive months previous to the time of choosing the members
of the general assembly at the next general election of senators and mem-
bers of the house of delegates.

3. Resolved, That the clerk of the house of delegates and the clerk
of the senate be required to transmit to the general assembly, to be
chosen at the next general election of members of the house of delegates
and senate, a certified copy of said proposed amendment and of these
resolutions, together with certificates of publication by the publishers of
the newspapers in which said proposed amendment shall have been
published.