Chap. 87.—An ACT to amend section 103 of an act approved February 28, 1896,
erititled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.

Approved February 26, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
hundred and three of an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-six, entitled “an act to provide a new charter for
the city of Roanoke,” be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§103. 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 tax on real and personal property in said city shall
exceed one dollar and fifty cents upon the one hundred dollars assessed
value thereof.