Chap. 408.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of an act entitled an act
to provide a new charter for the town of Abingdon, Virginia, and to repeal
all other acts with reference thereto, in effect January 22, 1900, as heretofore
amended; and to further amend the said act by adding thereto eight new
sections to be numbered 24, 25, 26. 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31. [H B 528]

Approved March 24, 1926.

i. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventeen of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the
town of Abingdon, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts with reference
thereto, in effect January twenty-second, nineteen hundred, as here-
tofore amended, be amended and re-enacted; and that the said act
be amended by adding thereto eight new sections, to be numbered
twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight,
‘wenty-nine, thirty and thirty-one, which amended section and new
sections shall read as follows:

Section 17. Where, by the provisions of the charter of the town of
Abingdon, Virginia, the council has authority to pass ordinances upon
any subject, it may prescribe any penalty, not exceeding three hundred
dollars fine, and may provide, that on failure to pay fine and costs,
the offender may be imprisoned and worked on the streets and alleys
of the town until such fine and costs are paid, reserving to the person
convicted the right of appeal to the circuit court of Washington
county, in all cases wherein the fine exceeds the sum of ten dollars.
In the trial of all persons accused of violation of town ordinances or
of any other misdemeanor committed within the town of Abingdon,
or within one mile of the corporate limits thereof, the mayor of the
town of Abingdon shall have exclusive original jurisdiction.

Section 24. School and school taxes, et cetera.—The territory
embraced Within the corporate limits of the town of Abingdon, as
described and set out in detail in the acts of the general assembly,
approved January twenty-second, nineteen hundred, and as further
amended by order of the circuit court of Washington county, Virginia,
entered February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen,
shall constitute a separate district and unit for school purposes and
government.

Section 25. Said school district so created within the bounds of
said corporate limits shall be called Central school district, of Wash-
ington county, Virginia, and shall be a separate and distinct unit
within itself, in so far as the Constitution of the State of Virginia will
permit.

Section 26. Said school district, as aforesaid, shall be under the
supervision of the superintendent of schools of ‘Washington county,
Virginia.

Section 27. Said school district shall have a board of three
trustees, to be appointed by the town council of said town from the
citizens, male or female, of said town.

Section 28. The district school tax for said school district shall
be levied and collected by the town council and its officers as other
taxes are levied and collected and the said school district shall not be
levied with district taxes by the board of supervisors and other con-
stituted authorities of Washington county. The county school levy
of Washington county to be levied and collected from persons and
property situate within said school district shall be turned over and
paid to the school authorities of said district for school purposes within
said district.

Section 29. In addition to the district school levy the town
council of the town of Abingdon is hereby empowered to levy a capita-
tion tax on all male and female citizens of said town over the age of
twenty-one years for school purposes; provided, however, the maxi-
mum capitation tax for such purposes shall not exceed the amount
provided by the Constitution and general laws of the State of Virginia.

Section 30. All rights and remedies for the collection of taxes
given under the charter of said town of Abingdon, and the laws of the
State of Virginia, are hereby extended for the collection of school
taxes as given herein.

Section 31. All ordinances of the town of Abingdon in conflict
with this act are hereby repealed.

2. An emergency existing, affecting the finances of the town of
Abingdon, this act shall, be in force from its passage.