Chap. 58.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section 16 of the charter of the city of Suffolk, as heretofore
amended, approved March 4, 1912. (S. B. 84)

Approved February 15, 1915.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section sixteen of the charter of the
city of Suffolk as heretofore amended, approved March fourth, nineteen
hundred and twelve, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

16. The council of said city shall annually make or cause to be made
and entered upon the record of its proceedings an estimate and statement
of all sums of money which may lawfully be or may lawfully become
chargeable to said city, and which ought to be paid in one year from the
first day of July, for any and all purposes, including for poor and public
schools, together with a statement of the purposes or objects for which
said sums of money may be, or may become, so chargeable to said city,
and shall raise by levy so much money as in its discretion shall be suffi-
cient to meet all just demands against the corporation or city on any
account, including the poor and public school. The said levy shall be
made annually for one year beginning on the first day of July, and may
be made upon dogs and upon all such real and personal property as is
not, by the general laws of the Commonwealth, exempt from taxation by
said city; provided, however, that the said levy for the benefit of the poor
may be such as may be necessary to enable the council to provide for them,
and for the benefit of the public schools, it shall not exceed the levy or
tax allowed by the general laws of the State for such purposes, and for
all other purposes of said city it shall not exceed one and three-fourths per
centum of the assessed value of the taxable property in said city at the
time the said levy may be made; provided, further, that the total rate for
all purposes shall not exceed one and eighty-seven one-hundredths per
centum per annum ; and provided further, that no city tax nor levy shall
be imposed upon the bonds of said city; and provided further, that the
said city taxes may be assessed or levied on all property in the said city
which is not, by the general laws of the Commonwealth, exempt from
taxation by said city, and may be collected in the same manner in which
the State taxes upon the same property are collected.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.