Chap. 168.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act
to amend the following acts: An act to incorporate the town of Rocky
Mount, approved February 17, 1873; an act to amend the act of February 17,
1873, approved April 28, 1874, and an act amending and re-enacting section 2
of the act approved April 28, 1874, approved March 4, 1884, approved Feb-
ruary 18, 1888.

Approved January 27, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifteen of the act entitled an act to amend the following acts: An
act to incorporate the town of Rocky Mount, approved February
seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, an act to amend
the act of February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
approved April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
and an act amending and re-enacting section two of the act approved
April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, approved
March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, approved February
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

$15. The council of the town shall have the authority to impose a
specific license tax upon all resident professional men, practicing
their profession in any way within the corporate limits; to prescribe
all pursuits which may not be followed within the corporate limits
without a license as a requisite, and to fix the terms upon which the
licenses shall issue.

2. All laws or parts of laws of the state of Virginia in conflict
with the foregoing are hereby, to that extent, repealed.

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