Chap. 503.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved
January 22, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the
town of Marion, Va.

Approved February 27, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eleven of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter
of the town of Marion, Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 11. That the said council shall also have power and authority to
make all necessary provisions to prevent accidents by fire and to estab-
lish or enlarge water-works, gas-works or electric-light works within
or without the said town; tocontract and agree with the owners of any
land, water rights or easements, for the use and purchase thereof, or
to have the same condemned according to law, for the location, ex-
tension, enlargement, use or maintenance of said works, or any of
them, the pipes connected therewith, or any of the fixtures or appur-
tenances thereof; and shall have the power to protect from injury,
by ordinances prescribing adequate penalties, the said works, pipes,
wires, fixtures and land, or anything connected therewith, whether
within or without the limits of said town; and they shall have the
power to purchase hose, reels, fire-hooks, ladders, and other fixtures
aseful for preventing accidents by fire, and to organize fire compa-
nies. They shall also have power and authority to establish mar-
kets, and regulate the same, to graduate and pave, and in any other
manner improve the streets, sidewalks and alleys of said town; to
prevent and punish, by reasonable fines, the practice of firing guns
Or pistols, or in any manner setting fire to powder, of running, train-
ing or straining horses, and of all else detrimental to the peace and
quiet of said town; to license and regulate shows and other public
exhibitions, and the same to tax to such extent as they may deem
reasonable and expedient; to prescribe rules for the orderly and
regular building of houses and chimneys; to regulate blacksmith
shops and all other shops considered likely to occasion accidents by
fire, and the erection of stoves and stove-pipes; to regulate the
erection of privies, hog-pens, stables and cow-sheds, and prescribe
their location; to regulate butchers’ stalls and slaughter-houses; to
remove and abate nuisances within said town at the expense of those
who may occasion them; to prohibit hogs, horses and goats and
other animals from running at large within the limits of said town ;
to prevent the exhibition of studhorses or juckasses in said town;
and generally to pass all by-laws and ordinances not contrary to the
laws and constitution of this state or of the United States, which
the said council may think necessary and proper for carrying into
effect the foregoing powers, or that may hereafter be vested in them,
and for regulating the police, preserving the peace, health and good
order and government of said town, and to amend or repeal the same
at their pleasure, and to enforce the observance of such by-laws and
ordinances, under penalties not exceeding fifty dollars for each
otfence, to be recovered, with costs, in the name of said town, before
the mayor of said town, and applied in aid of the taxes imposed
upon said town.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.