Chap. 96.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to in-
corporate the town of Washington, in the county of Rappahannock,
approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved February
28, 1898, by adding thereto an additional section, to be known as sec-
tion 16. (S. B. 108)

Approved March 15, 1915.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Washington, in the county of
Rappahannock, approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety
four, as amended by an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted by adding thereto
an additional section, to be known as section sixteen, and to read as
follows:

Sec. 16. The treasurer of the county of Rappahannock and his
successors in office, by virtue of this act shall be treasurer of the town
of Washington, and as such shall provide a separate account, and proceed
to collect by such process as other taxes are now collected by law, all
property, license and caputation tax that are now due and as the same
shall hereafter become due said town, and the said treasurer and his
‘sureties, shall be accountable to said town for same as for other funds
mow committed to him by law as treasurer of Rappahannock county ; and
said treasurer shall disburse such funds in his possession, belonging to
said town according to orders from the town council, and he shall render
statements of his receipts and disbursements to said town council when
so requested by them, and said treasurer shall settle his accounts with
said town council annually. As treasurer of the town of Washington said
treasurer shall receive for his services such fees as are now allowed him
by law as county treasurer, to be paid out of the town fund.

All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

An emergency existing by reason of the fact that the town treasurer
has resigned and a considerable amount of the taxes are now unpaid,
thereby necessitating the immediate execution of the provisions of this
act, the same shall be in force from its passage.