Chap. 281.—An ACT to Amend Sections 4 and 5 of an Act of the Gen-
eral Assembly approved March 6th, 1871, entitled an Act to Incorporate
the Town of Dublin, in the County of Pulaski,

Approved March 29, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections four and five of an act of the general assembly, ap-
proved March sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, enti-
tled an act to incorporate the town of Dublin, in the county of
Pulaski, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 4. Be it further enacted, that the said council shall have
power and authority to improve the streets, walks and alleys of
said town; and for this purpose, they may issue bonds of the
corporation for a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
The said council shall further have power to prevent and pun-
ish by reasonable fines, the firing of guns or running or riding
horses at an unusual gait in said town ; to license and regulate
shows and ‘other public exhibitions, and tax the same as they
may deem‘expedient; to appoint all such officers as may be ne-
cessary for conducting the affairs of said town not otherwise
provided for in this act, and allow them such compensation as
they may deem reasonable; and finally to make all such by-
laws, rules and regulations as they may deem necessary and
proper for the good government of said town, provided they
be not contrary to the laws of this state or of the United States,
and the same to amend, repeal or enforce by reasonable fines
and penalties, not exceeding for any one offence the sum of
twenty dollars, to be recovered with costs in the name of the
mayor of said town.

§ 5. Be it further enacted, that the said council shall have
power to assess and collect an annual tax within said town for
the purposes before mentioned on all such property, real and
personal, as is now subject to taxation by the revenue laws of
this commonwealth: provided, such tax on said real and per-
sonal property shall not exceed in one year fifty cents on every
hundred dollars value thereof; also a license tax on all ordina-
ries, hotels, boarding houses, liquor dealers, attorneys at law,
physicians, dentists, surgeons, and such other professional men
ag are now assessed with a license tax by the laws of this state,
not to exceed in any case the sum with which such business or
calling is assessed as a license tax by the state; a tax not ex-
ceeding fifty cents in any one year on all male inhabitants over
twenty-one years of age within said town. And moreover, it
shall be competent for said council to conduct and distribute
water into and through said town upon arequest of a majority
of the qualified voters of said town; such request to be made
in the manner said council may deem best calculated to obtain
a full expression of opinion upon the subject.

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