CHAP. 79.—An ACT to amend and re-enact paragraph sixty of an act en-
titled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorpo-
rate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county, approved March 4, 1912,
increasing the rate of taxation authorized by said paragraph sixty
of said act approved March 4, 1912, from one dollar and twenty-five
cents. to two dollars, upon each one hundred dollars of assessed value
of real and personal] property in the town of Dayton. {H B 80]

Approved September 9, 1919.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
paragraph sixty of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rock-
ingham county, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and
twelve, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Paragraph 60. All property, real and personal, within the
said town, shall be subject to taxation by said town, except in
cases where they are exempt by the Constitution and laws of
this Commonwealth, but the rate of taxation for all purposes
in said town, together with any levies heretofore authorized by
any act of the legislature for the purpose of paying the interest
upon any debt already created, shall not exceed the rate of two
dollars upon each one hundred dollars of assessed value of real
and personal property in said town.

2. In view of the fact that at the present rate of taxation
the revenue required by the town of Dayton, is inadequate, an
emergency is hereby declared to exist for making this act imme-
diately operative, and this act shall be in force from its passage.

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hereby repealed.