Chap. 339.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5 of an act entitled ‘An act
to provide a new charter for the town of Pearisburg, Virginia, and to repeal all
acts in conflict,’”? approved March 21, 1914, as heretofore amended, said section
relating to the rates of tax levies and collection of taxes. [S B 257]

Approved March 29, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section five of an act entitled ‘‘An act to provide a new charter for
the town of Pearisburg, Virginia, and to repeal all acts in conflict,”’
approved March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as
heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 5. The council of said town shall have power to annually
lay and levy a tax not exceeding two dollars on the one hundred
dollars assessed value on all real estate and tangible personal property
in the said town, subject to local taxation only, and a poll tax not
exceeding fifty cents on each resident thereof, over the age of twenty-
one years and not exempt by law from payment of the State capita-
tion tax, to be expended as the council may direct, and the said town
shall have like powers of distress and other process for the collection
of its said taxes as are given for the collection of State taxes.