CHAP. 259.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 240, of an
act approved March 12, 1908, to incorporate the town of Branchville,
Southampton county, Virginia.

Approved March 14, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section six of chapter two hundred and forty of an act to in-
corporate the town of Branchville, Southampton county, Vir-
ginia, approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and eight, be
amended to read as follows:

$6. Said council shall be vested with the power of making
all laws and passing all ordinances consistent with good govern-
ment of said town and not repugnant to the laws and constitution
of the State and the United States; and for the purpose of this
incorporation the said council may levy such taxes as it may
deem fit and proper on all property, both real and personal, with-
in the said town, not to exceed forty cents on the one hundred
dollars of the assessed value, the capitation tax not to exceed
fifty cents per year, and a license tax on every profession or
vocation or business for which a State license is required.

2. An emergency existing to provide for the present year’s
budget, creating an emergency, this act shall be in force from
its passage.