Chap. 519.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 16 and 21 of an act ap-
proved February 12, 1892, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act
passed March 21, 1836, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Salem, in
Botetourt county (now in Roanoke county), and all acts amendatory
thereto.”

Approved February 18, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions sixteen and twenty-one of the act approved February twelfth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act to amend and re-
enact an act passed March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and
thirty-six, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Salem, in the
county of Botetourt (now in the county of Roanoke), and all acts
amendatory thereto, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 16. Be it further enacted, That the said town and the taxable
persons and property therein shall be exempt and free from any
poor rates and road taxes and from contributing to any county ex-
penses except as hereinafter provided, and the said town shall, at
its own expense, provide for its own poor and keep its own streets
in order; provided, however, the said town of Salem shall continue
to make its annual payments of that proportion of nine thousand
dollars which the value of the real estate taken by reason of the ex-
tension of the corporate limits of said town bears to the value of the
whole of the real estate so taken in and that of Roanoke county
under the assessment of eighteen hundred and ninety-five; pro-
vided, further, that the said town shall make no charge for any
water furnished by said town to said county for courthouse, jail,
public hydrant, public water-closets on courthouse lot, or any office
occupied by the county officers, nor for any lights furnished by said
town to the courthouse and clerk’e office, provided said water and
lights do not exceed in amount that in use by said county on Janu-
ary first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, nor for sewerage, con-
necting said courthouse, jail, or public water-closets on courthouse
lot with the sewer system of said town, and shall pay annually to
the treasurer of said county the sum of three hundred dollars, pay-
able on or before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and
ninety-six, and on or before the first day of December each year
thereafter. Should there be any extension, repairs, or rebuilding
of the courthouse, clerk’s office, or jail of said county contemplated,
the same shall be ordered after agreement between the board of
supervisors of said county and the council of said town, and in the
event of their failure to agree what extension, repairs, and so forth,
should be made and how much of the costs thereof should be borne
by the said town, the same shall be referred to and determined by
the judge of the circuit court of said county, either in term or vaca-
tion, whose decision shall] be binding on all parties in interest with
right of appeal to either party, as in other cases.

§ 21. The council may by proper ordinances erect in or near said
town suitable houses of correction or reformation, and shall have the
right to use the jail of said Roanoke county as a station ,house for
the confinement of all persons charged with a violation of the ordi-
nances of said town until such time as said persons may be tried for
said violation, and for the confinement of all persons sentenced to
imprisonment by the mayor or any alderman of said town, the said
town to pay all charges incurred or incident to said imprisonment.

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