Chap. 241.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled an act
to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg, approved April 1, 1873, as
amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an
act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of
Mecklenburg, Virginia, approved March 3, 1886, as amended by an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of the aforesaid act ap-
proved January 31, 1890, as further amended by an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase
City, in Mecklenburg county, approved February 19, 1894, as amended and
re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled
an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Mecklen-
burg, approved January 30, 1900, approved March 16, 1916. (H B 479]

Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-seven of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the
county of Mecklenburg, approved April first, eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg, Virginia, approved March
third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as amended by an act entitled
an act to amend and re-enact section five of the aforesaid act approved
January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety, as further amended
by an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate
the town of Chase City, in Mecklenburg county, approved February
nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as “amended and re-
enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled
an act to incorporate the town of Chase City, in the county of Meck-
lenburg, approved January thirtieth, nineteen hundred, approved
March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 37. The town council shall annually cause to be made up
and entered on its journal an account of all sums lawfully charge-
able on the town which ought to be paid within one year, and shall
order a town levy of so much as, in its opinion, is necessary to be
raised in that way for the several funds of the town, in addition
to what may be received for licenses and other purposes, but such
levy shall not exceed the sum of one dollar and fifty cents on the
one hundred dollars assessed value of the property taxed. The levy
so ordered may be upon the property therein and on such other
subjects as may at the time be assessed with State taxes, except
such subjects as towns are forbidden by general law to impose taxes
on, or require licenses of, and upon dogs. The council may add
penalties for failure of any persons to pay taxes at the time provided
for by ordinance of the council and there shall be a lien for all taxes
assessed which may be enforced as provided for by the general laws
of the State; provided, however, that the rate on intangible property
shall not be in conflict with the general law.

The council may also levy a capitation tax not exceeding one
dollar per annum on every resident of the said town not less than
twenty-one years of age, except those pensioned by this State for
military services.