Chap. 122.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitlec
an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Houston
formerly Banister, in the county of Halifax, approved February 22
1890. (H. B. 132

Approved March 18, 1915. .

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sectio:
eleven of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incor
porate the town of Houston, formerly Banister, in the county of Halifas
approved February twenty-two, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amende
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 11. To meet the expenses that may be lawfully chargeabl
to the said town the council may annually levy a town levy of so muc
as in its opinion may be necessary upon all taxable persons and propert
resident or situate within the said town not exempt from taxation by th
laws of the State; provided, that a capitation tax not greater than fifty
cents per head on the male inhabitants of the said town over the age
of twenty-one years may be levied each year; and provided, further, that
the tax so to be levied on the real and personal property within the said
town do not exceed one dollar on the one hundred dollars of the assessed.
value thereof for any one year.