Chap. 584.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to
incorporate the town of Washington, inthe county of Rappahannock, approved
February 12, 1894, with license to sell liquor in said town.

Approved February 28, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eleven of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Washington,
in the county of Rappahannock, approved February twelfth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 11. The counci] may Impose a tax on real and personal estate in
said town, which shall not exceed thirty cents on the one hundred dol-
lars of the assessed value thereof. The council may also impose a license
tax for the privilege of doing any business within the corporate limits of
said town, to be half as much as may be imposed by the existing laws
of the state on such business, for state purposes, and may also impose a
full tax not to exceed fifty cents per capita on every male inhabitant of
said town over the age of twenty-one vears. In case a liquor license
should be granted the license tax to sell ‘by retail as now provided by law
shall not be less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, to
be determined by a majority vote of the council: provided, however,
that no license to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixtures
thereof, alcoholic bitters, or fruit preserved in alcohol by wholesale or
retail, or in any other way, in the corporate limits of said town or with-
In one mile thereof shall be granted by the county court of the county
of Rappahannock nor by any other authority to any person or persons,
clubs, firms, or corporations, unless and until the applicant for such
business shall file before the court the consent in writing of a majority
of the electors of said town qualified to vote for members of the town
council to the granting of such license. The certificate of the assessor of
said town as to the number of such electors shall be accepted as prima
facie correct.

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