Day v. Roberts
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Isle of Wight county, pronounced April 23, 1901, in a suit in chancery, wherein appellants were the complainants, and the appellees were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
By section 20 of an act entitled “An act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield, and to grant a new charter, to said town,” approved February 1Y, 1900 (Acts 1899-1900, p. 41Y), it is provided: “That the said town and all taxable persons and property therein shall be free and exempt from the payment of any poor rates, any road, school or other tax to or by the county of Isle' of Wight, and from contributing to the county expenses for any year, provided the said town shall, at its own expense, provide for its poor and attend to its own streets.”
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