Chap. 28.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of the charter of
the former town, now city, of Hampton, entitled an act to incorporate
the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia. approved
May 28, 1887, in relation to taxation. (H. B. 52.)

Approved March 2, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seven of the charter of the former town, now city, of Hamp-
ton, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 7. The taxes levied by the council of said city for all pur-
poses shall not exceed, for the year nineteen hundred and fourteen
and for the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, the rate of eighty
cents on the one hundred dollars of valuation of all property tax-
able by said city; and for the year nineteen hundred and sixteen,
and thereafter, until otherwise changed by law, said tax on all
property taxable by said city shall not exceed the rate of seventy
cents on the one hundred dollars of valuation; and no corporate
debt for the current expenses of said city shall be contracted be-
yond what may be paid within one year from said levies.

By reason of the fact that the rate of levy will shortly be fixed
by the council of the said city of Hampton, it is hereby declared
that an emergency exists and this act shall be in force from its
passage.