Chap. 78.—JOINT RESOLUTIONS proposing an amendment to the
first section, Article 3 of the Cunstitution concerning the elective
franchise.

Approved February 9, 1882.

Whereas certain joint resolutions proposing an amendment
to the first section, article three of the constitution of Vir-
ginia, in relation to the elective franchise, and providing for
the publication of the said amendment, and for the commu-
nication of a copy thereof, and of the said resolution to this
general assembly, were adopted by the senate and house of
delegates of the last general assembly (a majority of the
members elected to each of the two houses having agreed
thereto); and whereas, in accordance with said resolutions,
a certified copy of said amendment and of said resolutions,
together with a certificate of publication by the publisher of
the newspaper in which said proposed amendment has been
published, that the same has been published for three months
previous to the time of choosing the senators and members
of the house of delegates of this general assembly; therefore,

Resolved by the senate and house of delegates of the gen-
eral assembly (a majority of the members elected to each of
the two houses agreeing thereto), That the following amend-
ment to the constitution of Virginia be, and the same is
hereby agreed to; which said amendment shall be submitted
to the people, in a manner hereafter to be prescribed, for
their approval and ratification, in conformity with the pro-
visions of the twelfth article of said constitution, namely:
Strike from the constitution of Virginia the first section of
the third article, in reference to the elective franchise and
qualifications for office, which is in these words—

ARTICLE THIRD.
Elective franchise and qualifications for office.

§ 1. Every male citizen of the United States, twenty-one
years old, who shall have been a resident of the state twelve
months, and of the county, city or town in which he shall offer
to vote, three months next preceding any election, and shall
have paid to the state, before the day of election, the capita-
tion tax required by law for the preceding year, shall be enti-
tled to vote for members of the general assembly and all offi-
cers elected by the people: provided that no officer, soldier,
seaman, or marine of the United States army or navy shall
be considered a resident of this state by reason of being sta-
tioned therein: and provided, also, that the following persons
shall be excluded from voting:

First. Idiots and lunatics.

Second. Persons convicted of bribery in any election, em-
bezzlement of public funds, treason, felony, or petit larceny.
Third. No person who, while a citizen of this state, has,
since the adoption of this constitution, fought a duel with a
deadly weapon, sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel
with a deadly weapon, either within or beyond the bounda-
ries of this state, or knowingly conveyed a challenge, or aided
or assisted in any manner in fighting a duel, shall be allowed
to vote or hold any office of honor, profit or trust under this
constitution—

And in lieu thereof, insert the following:

§ 1. Every male citizen of the United States, twenty-one
years old, who shall have been a resident of this state twelve
months, and of the county, city or town in which he shall
offer to vote three months next preceding any election, shall
be entitled to vote for members of the general assembly and
all officers elected by the people: provided that no officer,
soldier, seaman or marine of the United States army or navy
shall be considered a resident of this state by reason of being
stationed therein: and provided also, that the following per-
sons shall be excluded from voting:

First. Idiots and lunatics.

Second. Persons convicted of bribery in any election, em-
bezzlement of public funds, treason, felony, or petit larceny.

Third. No person who, while a citizen of this state, has,
since the adoption of this constitution, fought a duel with
deadly weapon, sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel
with deadly weapon, either within or beyond the boundaries
of this state, or knowingly conveyed a challenge, or aided or
assisted in any manner in fighting a duel, shall be allowed to
vote, or hold any office of honor, profit or trust under this
constitution.

Chap. 78.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, and 11 of
chapter 218 of the act entitled an act to provide for a charter for the
town of Salem, in the county of Roanoke, approved March 28, 1871.

Approved April 21, 1882.

_ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections two, six, and eleven of chapter two hundred and
eighteen of the act entitled an act to provide a charter for
the town of Salem, in the county of Roanoke, approved
March twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, to-wit:

§ 2. There shall be an election held annually on the fourth
Thursday in May, at the courthouse in the said town, by
three of the qualified voters of the town, selected by the
county judge of the said county, and conducted in the man-
ner prescribed by the election laws of this state, at which
said election there shall be elected by and out of the qualified
voters of the said county residing within the corporate limits
of said town, seven trustees and a sergeant for the said town.
The trustees so elected shall constitute the council of the
said town. At their first meeting after their qualification,
the trustee so elected shall choose one of their number as
mayor, who shall exercise the powers and perform the duties

iven and required by the said act and the general laws; and
in addition thereto the said council shall have power to pur-
chase a tract of land outside of the corporate limits, not
exceeding one hundred acres in extent, and to erect thereon
buildings and improvements suitable for a poor-house and
hospital and to enact ordinances and by-laws needful for the
control and management of such institutions, subject to the
laws of this commonwealth; and shall also have power to
improve, in such manner as the council may seem fit, one or
more of the roads leading from the said town to the Salem
depot, on the Norfolk and Western railroad; and such por-
tions of said road or roads as may be so improved, and as
may be outside of the corporate limits, shall be subject to
the same jurisdiction and laws as the streets of the said
town are at the passage of this act. In order to enable the
said council to purchase said land and erect said buildings and
improvements thereon, the said council shall have power to
borrow money, not exceeding five thousand dollars, and to
execute and issue, for the payment thereof, bonds of the said
town, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum
per annum, payable annually, which-bonds shall be payable
on or before the expiration of twenty years from their date:
and to provide for the payment of the interest annually, and
of the principal when due, an annual tax shall be assessed
and levied, and a sinking fund created: provided that no
purchase of land made under this act shal] be of any effect
whatever until the same shall have been approved by a
majority of the said qualified voters at a regular election of
trustees held as aforesaid, and an, issue submitted to them by
the said council of purchase of land or no purchase of land.
§ 6. The said trustees shall have power to select from their
own number a treasurer and secretary, and from the qualified
voters, when in their opinion it is necessary, a police force
sufficient to preserve order in the said town. The treasurer
shall execute his bond before he enters upon the duties of his
office, in a penalty double the amount of the revenue of the
said town the preceding year, conditioned for the faithful
en of his duties; the sergeant elected as aforesaid.
efore he enters upon the duties of his office, shall execute
his bond, with security to be approved by the council, in a
sum double the revenue of the said town the preceding year,
and conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of
his office. During his continuation in office as sergeant of
the said town, he shall not hold or be interested in the emol-
uments of any other office, as principal, or deputy, either
state or federal; he shall have, within the limits of the cor-
poration, and one mile around said limits, the same powers
and perform the same duties, receive the same fees, and be
liable to the same penalties as a constable, except that it
shall not be lawful for the said sergeant to serve or execute
any civil process for the enforced collection of money other
than the town taxes and fines of said town, for which he
may distrain and sell in like manner as a treasurer may dis-
train and sell for state taxes, and shall have in other respects
like power to enforce the collection thereof. Should the
office of sergeant become vacant by his removal without the
limits of the town, resignation, receiving emoluments of any
other office, either as principal or deputy, or otherwise, the
said council shall have power to appoint a sergeant to serve
as such until his successor is elected at the next annual elec-
tion, and has qualified. The council shall have power to
remove any of the officers enumerated in this act for mal-
feasance or misfeasance in office.

§11. Be it further enacted, That in order to better deter-
mine who shall be liable to taxation in the said town, it is
hereby declared that all persons liable to taxation as in this
act hereinbefore prescribed, and all persons residing in, and
all persons not residing in, but doing a regular business
located in the said town, on the first day of February of each
year, shall be subject to taxation the current year: provided,

owever, that whenever satisfactory evidence shall be pre-
sented to the town council of the said town that any person
or persons, or corporation has invested within the corporate
limits of the said town the sum of five thousand dollars or
more, for the purposes of employing the said capital strictly
in the business of manufacturing within the said corporate
limits any article or articles, the said council shall (if the
manufactory be in actual operation) issue to the said person
or persons, or corporation, (who, for the purposes of this sec-
tion, shall be deemed a manufacturer), a license as such man-
ufacturer, and no corporation or town tax shall be assessed
on or be required to be paid on said license or on the said
capital whilst so invested and so employed within the said
corporate limits during the period of fifteen years from the
passage of this amended section.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 78.—JOINT RESOLUTIONS proposing an amendment to the
first section, Article 3 of the Cunstitution concerning the elective
franchise.

Approved February 9, 1882.

Whereas certain joint resolutions proposing an amendment
to the first section, article three of the constitution of Vir-
ginia, in relation to the elective franchise, and providing for
the publication of the said amendment, and for the commu-
nication of a copy thereof, and of the said resolution to this
general assembly, were adopted by the senate and house of
delegates of the last general assembly (a majority of the
members elected to each of the two houses having agreed
thereto); and whereas, in accordance with said resolutions,
a certified copy of said amendment and of said resolutions,
together with a certificate of publication by the publisher of
the newspaper in which said proposed amendment has been
published, that the same has been published for three months
previous to the time of choosing the senators and members
of the house of delegates of this general assembly; therefore,

Resolved by the senate and house of delegates of the gen-
eral assembly (a majority of the members elected to each of
the two houses agreeing thereto), That the following amend-
ment to the constitution of Virginia be, and the same is
hereby agreed to; which said amendment shall be submitted
to the people, in a manner hereafter to be prescribed, for
their approval and ratification, in conformity with the pro-
visions of the twelfth article of said constitution, namely:
Strike from the constitution of Virginia the first section of
the third article, in reference to the elective franchise and
qualifications for office, which is in these words—

ARTICLE THIRD.
Elective franchise and qualifications for office.

§ 1. Every male citizen of the United States, twenty-one
years old, who shall have been a resident of the state twelve
months, and of the county, city or town in which he shall offer
to vote, three months next preceding any election, and shall
have paid to the state, before the day of election, the capita-
tion tax required by law for the preceding year, shall be enti-
tled to vote for members of the general assembly and all offi-
cers elected by the people: provided that no officer, soldier,
seaman, or marine of the United States army or navy shall
be considered a resident of this state by reason of being sta-
tioned therein: and provided, also, that the following persons
shall be excluded from voting:

First. Idiots and lunatics.

Second. Persons convicted of bribery in any election, em-
bezzlement of public funds, treason, felony, or petit larceny.
Third. No person who, while a citizen of this state, has,
since the adoption of this constitution, fought a duel with a
deadly weapon, sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel
with a deadly weapon, either within or beyond the bounda-
ries of this state, or knowingly conveyed a challenge, or aided
or assisted in any manner in fighting a duel, shall be allowed
to vote or hold any office of honor, profit or trust under this
constitution—

And in lieu thereof, insert the following:

§ 1. Every male citizen of the United States, twenty-one
years old, who shall have been a resident of this state twelve
months, and of the county, city or town in which he shall
offer to vote three months next preceding any election, shall
be entitled to vote for members of the general assembly and
all officers elected by the people: provided that no officer,
soldier, seaman or marine of the United States army or navy
shall be considered a resident of this state by reason of being
stationed therein: and provided also, that the following per-
sons shall be excluded from voting:

First. Idiots and lunatics.

Second. Persons convicted of bribery in any election, em-
bezzlement of public funds, treason, felony, or petit larceny.

Third. No person who, while a citizen of this state, has,
since the adoption of this constitution, fought a duel with
deadly weapon, sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel
with deadly weapon, either within or beyond the boundaries
of this state, or knowingly conveyed a challenge, or aided or
assisted in any manner in fighting a duel, shall be allowed to
vote, or hold any office of honor, profit or trust under this
constitution.

Chap. 78.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, and 11 of
chapter 218 of the act entitled an act to provide for a charter for the
town of Salem, in the county of Roanoke, approved March 28, 1871.

Approved April 21, 1882.

_ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections two, six, and eleven of chapter two hundred and
eighteen of the act entitled an act to provide a charter for
the town of Salem, in the county of Roanoke, approved
March twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, to-wit:

§ 2. There shall be an election held annually on the fourth
Thursday in May, at the courthouse in the said town, by
three of the qualified voters of the town, selected by the
county judge of the said county, and conducted in the man-
ner prescribed by the election laws of this state, at which
said election there shall be elected by and out of the qualified
voters of the said county residing within the corporate limits
of said town, seven trustees and a sergeant for the said town.
The trustees so elected shall constitute the council of the
said town. At their first meeting after their qualification,
the trustee so elected shall choose one of their number as
mayor, who shall exercise the powers and perform the duties

iven and required by the said act and the general laws; and
in addition thereto the said council shall have power to pur-
chase a tract of land outside of the corporate limits, not
exceeding one hundred acres in extent, and to erect thereon
buildings and improvements suitable for a poor-house and
hospital and to enact ordinances and by-laws needful for the
control and management of such institutions, subject to the
laws of this commonwealth; and shall also have power to
improve, in such manner as the council may seem fit, one or
more of the roads leading from the said town to the Salem
depot, on the Norfolk and Western railroad; and such por-
tions of said road or roads as may be so improved, and as
may be outside of the corporate limits, shall be subject to
the same jurisdiction and laws as the streets of the said
town are at the passage of this act. In order to enable the
said council to purchase said land and erect said buildings and
improvements thereon, the said council shall have power to
borrow money, not exceeding five thousand dollars, and to
execute and issue, for the payment thereof, bonds of the said
town, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum
per annum, payable annually, which-bonds shall be payable
on or before the expiration of twenty years from their date:
and to provide for the payment of the interest annually, and
of the principal when due, an annual tax shall be assessed
and levied, and a sinking fund created: provided that no
purchase of land made under this act shal] be of any effect
whatever until the same shall have been approved by a
majority of the said qualified voters at a regular election of
trustees held as aforesaid, and an, issue submitted to them by
the said council of purchase of land or no purchase of land.
§ 6. The said trustees shall have power to select from their
own number a treasurer and secretary, and from the qualified
voters, when in their opinion it is necessary, a police force
sufficient to preserve order in the said town. The treasurer
shall execute his bond before he enters upon the duties of his
office, in a penalty double the amount of the revenue of the
said town the preceding year, conditioned for the faithful
en of his duties; the sergeant elected as aforesaid.
efore he enters upon the duties of his office, shall execute
his bond, with security to be approved by the council, in a
sum double the revenue of the said town the preceding year,
and conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of
his office. During his continuation in office as sergeant of
the said town, he shall not hold or be interested in the emol-
uments of any other office, as principal, or deputy, either
state or federal; he shall have, within the limits of the cor-
poration, and one mile around said limits, the same powers
and perform the same duties, receive the same fees, and be
liable to the same penalties as a constable, except that it
shall not be lawful for the said sergeant to serve or execute
any civil process for the enforced collection of money other
than the town taxes and fines of said town, for which he
may distrain and sell in like manner as a treasurer may dis-
train and sell for state taxes, and shall have in other respects
like power to enforce the collection thereof. Should the
office of sergeant become vacant by his removal without the
limits of the town, resignation, receiving emoluments of any
other office, either as principal or deputy, or otherwise, the
said council shall have power to appoint a sergeant to serve
as such until his successor is elected at the next annual elec-
tion, and has qualified. The council shall have power to
remove any of the officers enumerated in this act for mal-
feasance or misfeasance in office.

§11. Be it further enacted, That in order to better deter-
mine who shall be liable to taxation in the said town, it is
hereby declared that all persons liable to taxation as in this
act hereinbefore prescribed, and all persons residing in, and
all persons not residing in, but doing a regular business
located in the said town, on the first day of February of each
year, shall be subject to taxation the current year: provided,

owever, that whenever satisfactory evidence shall be pre-
sented to the town council of the said town that any person
or persons, or corporation has invested within the corporate
limits of the said town the sum of five thousand dollars or
more, for the purposes of employing the said capital strictly
in the business of manufacturing within the said corporate
limits any article or articles, the said council shall (if the
manufactory be in actual operation) issue to the said person
or persons, or corporation, (who, for the purposes of this sec-
tion, shall be deemed a manufacturer), a license as such man-
ufacturer, and no corporation or town tax shall be assessed
on or be required to be paid on said license or on the said
capital whilst so invested and so employed within the said
corporate limits during the period of fifteen years from the
passage of this amended section.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.