Chap. 408.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act
to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Ashland, approved Feb-
ruary 15, 1894.

Approved February 24, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twelve of an act “entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter
of the town of Ashland,” approved February fifteenth, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-

OWS:

§ 12. For the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of said
town, the said council shall have power to levy a poll tax or capita-
tion tax, and also such a tax on all the taxable property in said town
as they may deem proper, not exceeding one dollar on the hundred
dollars in any one year. In consideration whereof the citizens and
property of said town are hereby exempted from the payment of one-
half of the county levy and from the payment of the county poll tax ;
provided that the county levy of Hanover county shall be considered
to include, as it does now, the road taxes and poor rates; provided,
further, that the said town of Ashland shall at its own expense pro-
vide for its own poor and keep its streets and roads in order; pro-
vided, further, that the citizens of, and property in, said town of
Ashland shall be exempted from the payment of any special road tax
which may hereafter be levied by said county. The council shall
make such provision for the establishment and maintenance of pub-
lic schools in said town as is provided by the general school laws of
Virginia. The said council shall, upon the receipt from the com-
missioner of the revenue for Ashland district of a land and per-
sonal property book containing the land and personal property
assessed for taxation in the corporate limits of the town of Ashland,
also provide for the payment to the commissioner of the revenue for
Ashland district, in said county of Hanover, of one-half of the com-
missions allowed by law to said commissioner of the revenue upon
the property, real and personal, assessed for taxation within the
boundaries of said town of Ashland, now due or which may hereaf-
ter accrue, the remaining half of said commissions to be paid accord-
ing to law.

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