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Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1899/1900 |
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Law Number | 351 |
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Law Body
Chap. 351.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 6 of an act to in-
corporate the town of Coeburn, in Wise county, approved February 23, 1894.
Approved February 14, 1900.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
three and six of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Coeburn, in Wise county, Virginia, approved February twenty-third,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:
§ 3. The officers of the said town shall consist of a mayor and five
councilmen, a recorder and sergeant, and assistants of the said recorder
and sergeant, if deemed necessary by the town council, and such other
officers as may be deemed necessary by the town council, whose compen-
cation shall be fixed bv the said council.
$6. The said councilmen shall have power to impose a specific license
tax on all shows, performances, and exhibitions which may be given in
the said town, and on all persons, firms, and corporations who may
engace in the sale of wines, ardent spirits, malt liquors, alcoholic bitters,
and mixtures thereof, either by wholesale, retail, or to be drunk at
the place where sold. The said councilmen shall have power to impose
a license tax on all business on which the state imposes license or which
is provided by law, and its officers shall have such power to collect said
taxes as the state officers would have in like case; and the said council-
men shall have power to impose a specific tax for sale of any merchan-
dise that may be offered for sale by any person not living in said town
and to levy annually such taxes as may be deemed necessary for the
purpose of the corporation: provided, that such levy shall not exceed
one dollar and fifty cents on the one hundred dollars’ valuation of prop-
erty, as per state assessment. And the jurisdiction of the corporate
authorities of the said town in criminal matters shall extend one mile
bevond the corporate limits of said town.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.