CHAP. 227.--An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Wachapreague, in the county of Accomac, approved April 2, 1902.

Approved March 23, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia; That section thirteen of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Wachapreague, in the county of Accomac, approved April second, nineteen hundred and two, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Section 13. To meet any expenditures that may be necessary and chargeable to said town for any purpose, the town council may, at such times as it may seem proper, levy a town levy of so much as, in its opinion, may be necessary upon all persons and property in said town not exempt from taxation by the laws of this State; provided, that a capitation tax greater than one dollar per head on all inhabitants of said town over the age of twenty-one years shall not be levied in any one year; and provided, further, that the tax levies on all property shall not exceed one dollar of every one hundred dollars of the assessed value of the property in the town in any one year; provided, however, that said council by a two-thirds vote of the entire council, may exempt any real or personal estate used for taxes for a period not exceeding five years at a time, if it shall deem it expedient to do so in order to encourage the establishment of any enterprise in said town.

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

CHAP. 227.--An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Wachapreague, in the county of Accomac, approved April 2, 1902.
Acts and Joint Resolutions (Amending the Constitution) of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Session Which Commenced at the State Capitol on Wednesday, January 11, 1926
Richmond, Virginia
March 23, 1926
2 pages, pp. 410-411