Chap. 421.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act
to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville, and to repeal its
present charter, approved February 26, 1920, as heretofore amended.

[H B 381]
Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eleven of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town
of Wytheville, and to repeal its present charter, approved February
twenty-six, nineteen hundred and ten, as heretofore amended, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 11. Taxes.—For the execution of its powers and duties
the said council shall annually order a levy upon each male and female
citizen above the age of twenty-one years, and upon all the real and
personal property and other subjects in said town subject to local
town taxation under the general laws of Virginia, in addition to what
may be received from licenses and other sources, for the purpose of
supporting its government, meeting its indebtedness, and defraying
its expenses; provided, however, that said taxes on real and personal
property shall not exceed one dollar and twenty cents upon the one
hundred dollars assessed value thereof, for the maintenance of streets,
walks, and for general purposes exclusive of schools, as the council
may, from time to time, direct; and that the levy for schools shall not
exceed the sum of one dollar on the one hundred dollars’ assessed
value of such property.

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