Chap. 137.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 104 of an act entitled
‘‘an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick,
and to provide a charter therefor,” approved January 16, 1896.

Approved January 24, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one hundred and four of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city
of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter
therefor, approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,
be amended to read as follows:

S104. For the execution of its powers and duties the council may
raise taxes annually by assessments in said city on all subjects taxable
by the state, such sums of money as it shall deem necessary to defray
the expenses of the same, and in such manner as it shall deem expedient
(in accordance with the laws of this state, and of the United States):
provided, that no municipal levy upon real and personal property in said
city shall exceed eighty cents upon the one hundred dollars assessed
value thereof, but by a three-fourths vote of the entire council such
rate of levy may be fixed and made at an amount not exceeding one
dollar and twenty-five cents: and provided further, that all levies upon
real estate shall be upon the assessed value thereof for the purposes of
taxation.

2. That all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act shall be, and
are hereby, repealed.

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