Chap. 533.—A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 171
of the Constitution of Virginia. [H J R 2]

Signed March 19, 1928

Whereas the proposed amendment to the Constitution of Virginia,
hereinafter fully set forth, was agreed to by a majority of the members
elected to the two houses of the general assembly at the session of
nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and referred to this, the next general
assembly, and published for three months, as required by the Con-
stitution of Virginia, and as shown by report of such publication by
the clerk of the house of delegates; now, therefore be it

Resolved by the house of delegates, the senate concurring (a majority
of the members elected to each house agreeing thereto), That the
following amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same
is hereby, proposed in conformity with the provisions of section one
hundred and ninety-six of article fifteen of the said Constitution,
namely :

Strike out from the Constitution of Virginia section one hundred
and seventy-one, which is in the following words:

Section 171. The general assembly shall provide for a reassessment
of real estate, in the year nineteen hundred and five, and every fiith
year thereafter except that of railway and canal corporations which,
after January the first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, may be assessed
as the general assembly may provide.

And insert in lieu thereof the following:

Section 171. No State property tax for State purposes shall be
levied on real estate or tangible personal property, except the rolling
stock of public service corporations. Real estate and tangible per-
sonal property, except the rolling stock of public service corporations,
are hereby segregated for, and made subject to, local taxation only,
and shall be assessed or re-assessed for local taxation in such manner
and at such times as the general assembly has heretofore prescribed, or
may hereafter prescribe, by general laws.

I, John W. Williams, clerk of the house of delegates of Virginia, do
hereby certify that the session of the general assembly of Virginia. at
which the acts of assembly herein printed were enacted, adjourned sine
die on March nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

JNO. W. WILLIAMS.
Clerk of the House of Delegates of Virginia.