Chap. 104.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of the charter of the
town of Luray, Va., as amended by an act approved March 5, 1894, authoriz-
ing the town council to levy a tax for street and road purposes.

Approved January 28, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirteen of the charter of the town of Luray, Page county, Vir-
ginia, approved February fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as
amended by act approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 13. The council of said town may, in its discretion, annually
levy a tax not exceeding thirty-five cents on the one hundred dollars
of the assessed value of real and personal property within said town,
and also a poll-tax not exceeding fifty cents on each male inhabitant
over twenty-one years of age; all of which taxes, as well as the
license taxes and fines, shall be expended by said council as to it
shall seem beneficial to the town; also an additional tax of not ex-
ceeding twenty cents on the one hundred dollars of the assessed
value of real and personal property in said town, which shall be ex-
pended by said council in making and keeping in repair the streets,
alleys and roads in said town; provided, however, that a tax of more
than fifty-five cents on the one hundred dollars of the assessed
value of the real and personal property of the said town may be
levied by the said council if deemed desirable by it, and two-thirds
of the electors of said town shall declare in favor of the same, after
the matter shall have been submitted to a vote of the town upon a
resolution of the said council setting out the purpose of the addi-
tional tax and the amount thereof; the manner in which such vote
shall be taken to be determined by the said council.

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