Chap. 15.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled
“an act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield and to grant
a new charter to the said town, which took effect February 17, 1900,”
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February in’ B 1915.

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Approved September 4, 1919.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fifteen, of an act entitled “an act to repeal the charter of
the town of Smithfield and to grant a new charter to the said
town, which took effect February seventeenth, nineteen hun-
dred,” as amendeq snd re-enacted by an act approved February
fifteenth, nineteen’ fundred and fifteen, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:
Sec. 15. To meet any expenditures that may be lawfully
chargeable to the said town for general purposes and for schools,
the council may, at such time as it deems best, levy a town tax
of so much as, in its opinion, may seem necessary and proper
upon all taxable persons and property in the said town not
exempt from local taxation by the laws of the State; provided,
that a capitation tax greater than one dollar per head on the
male inhabitants of the said town over the age of twenty-one
years shall not be levied in any one year; provided further, that
the taxes levied. for general purposes on the rea] and personal
property of the town shall not exceed one dollar on the one hun-
dred dollars of its assessed value, and the tax so levied on the
said property for school purposes shall not exceed fifty cents on
the hundred dollars of the assessed value for any one year.

_ 2. An emergency existing therefor, this act shall be in force
from its passage. . :

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