Chap. 450.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 12 of an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1894,
as amended by an act approved March 15, 1906, incorporating the town
of Tappahannock, in the county of Essex, approved March 27, 1914

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Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions three and twelve of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
an act approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
as amended by an act approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred
and six, incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in the county of
Essex, approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four-
teen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3. The boundaries of the said town shall be as follows:
To commence at the mouth of the creek which lies between the said
town and the dwelling house or farm called Greenfield, on the Rappa-
hannock river, the property of the Brockenbroughs, following the
meanderings of the said creek to the first slash, which is on the road
leading from Tappahannock to Lloyds, in the said county; thence
along the said road until it reaches a point in line with the dividing
line or fence between the Tanyard farm and what was formerly the
land of James Roy Micou, now J. W. Faulconer’s; thence to and along
said line and continuing until it reaches a point in the field called
Wakefield, formerly the property of M. B. Wright, deceased, fifty
yards from the said Faulconer’s land, thence from said point to a point
on Water Lane street thirty feet south of Saint Margaret’s gymnasium,
thence along said Water Lane street and including Water Lane street
to Hoskins creek, thence along Hoskins creek shore to Rappahannock
river, thence along Rappahannock river shore to the beginning.

Section 12. To meet any expenditures that may be lawfully
chargeable to the said town and for general purposes, the council may,
at such times as it deems best, levy a town tax of so much as, in its
opinion, may seem necessary and proper, not in conflict with the
general laws of this State, upon all taxable persons and property in
the said town not exempt from taxation by the laws of the State; pro-
vided, that the taxes levied for general purposes on real and personal
property of the town shall not exceed one dollar and fifty cents on the
one hundred dollars of its assessed value.

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