Chap. 292.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an
act to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate
the town of Wakefield, approved February 10, 1920, as heretotors amended.

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Approved March 20, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That see-
tion twelve of an act entitled an act to amend end re-enact section
twelve of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Wakefield,
approved February tenth, nineteen hundred and twenty, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 12. The council shall have power to levy a specific tax not
exceeding one dollar upon all citizens, both male and female, who
are over the age of twenty-one years, and to levy a tax not exceeding
eighty cents on the hundred dollars worth of property for all pur-
poses; provided, however, that said council may impose a further
tax not exceeding one dollar on the hundred dollars when authorized
by a two-thirds vote of all the legally qualified voters of said town,
provided, however, that such tax shall be subject to the limitations
prescribed by the general law on intangibles.

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