Chap. 96.—An ACT to amend and re-enact. section 13 of an act of the general
assembly of Virginia, approved January 31, L884, entitled an act to incorpo-
rate the town of Pocahontas.

Approved January 20, 184,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirteen of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved
January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled an
act to incorporate the town of Pocahontas, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

§ 13. The council may annually levy a tax for roads, streets, side-

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the mayor, which on no property shall exceed fifty cents on the hun-
dred dollars’ valuation, except that on a petition of freeholders rep-
resenting two-thirds of the valuation within the corporation, the
council may levy a corporation tax not to exceed the amount named
in the petition. The poll tax shall not exceed fifty cents on each
male person in any one year.

The persons and property within the corporate limits of said town
shall be exempt from the payment of county levies for road pur-
poses, maintaining the poor and supporting the free schools, so long
as the said town shall keep up its own streets, maintain its own poor
and levy a special tax for the support of the free schools.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this section are
hereby repealed.

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