Chap. 364.—An ACT to legalize and make valid a levy made by the town council
of Cape Charles, In the county of Northampton, in September, sur,

Approved February 17, 1898.

Whereas by the third section of an act amending the charter of the
town of Cape Charles, approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-five, it is provided that the tax on real estate and personal
property shall not exceed in any one year one dollar on every one hun-
dred dollars value thercof, and it appearing that a maximum rate of
assessment In pursuance of said provision would not raise revenue
enough to pay the current expenses of the town and to provide for the
principal and interest of its corporate bonds as the same become due
the council of said town in September, eighteen hundred and ninety-
seven, Imposed a tax or levy of one dollar and twenty-five cents on
every one hundred dollars in value on the real and personal property in
the corporate limits of said town, the rate required to micet said: ex-
penditures and liabilities: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the gener ral asse ‘mbly of Virginia, That the tax
or levy made and imposed on the real and personal property In the cor-
porate limits of the town of Cape Charles of one dollar and twenty-five
cents on every one hundred dollars value thereof by the town council o|

said town in September, eighteen hundred and nincty-seven, be legalized
and is made valid, and the said council shall have the same power ane
authority to enforce the collection of the same as if said levy had heer
mide within the rate prescribed by its charter.

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