Chap. 342.—An ACT to amend section six of an act entitled an act to pro-
vide a charter incorporating the town of Eastville, in Northampton
county, approved February 6, 1896.

Approved March 17, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section six
of an act entitled an act to provide a charter incorporating the town of
Kastville, in Northampton county, approved February sixth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

§6. For the purposes of this incorporation the council of said town
may levy annually such taxes as they may deem proper on all property,
real and personal, within the said town, not exceeding fifty cents on the
one hundred dollars’ assessed value as per State assessment; to impose
a specific license on all shows, performances and exhibitions that may be
given, all persons, firms or corporations who may engage in the sale of
wines, ardent spirits, malt liquors, alcoholic bitters and mixtures thereof,
either by wholesale, retail, or to be drunk where sold. The said council
shall have the power to impose a license tax on all business on which the
State imposes license, or which is provided for by law, and its officers
shall have such power to collect said taxes as the State officers have in like
cases ; and the said council shall have the power to impose a specific tax
for the sale of merchandise or any article that may be offered for sale by
any person not living in said town, and also to levy a capitation tax not
exceeding fifty cents on each adult male person resident of said town.