Chap. 277.—An ACT to authorize the town council of Blackstone, in the county
of Nottoway, to levy a special tax to equip and maintain a fire net ae

Approved March 19, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
town council of Blackstone, in addition to the present authorized levy
shall be empowered to levy in the year nineteen hundred and twenty
and each year thereafter upon all property not segregated to the State
for the purposes of taxation, a levy not to exceed one-fourth of one
per centum on each one hundred dollars’ assessed value of property,
for the maintenance and equipment of a fire department in the town.
The money collected from this levy shall be kept separate and dis-
tinct from all other funds of the town, and shall be applied only to the
purpose for which hereby authorized, and any council, mayor, or
treasurer of the town applying such money or any part thereof to
any other purpose shall be personally liable therefor.

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