Chap. 42.—An ACT to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia.

Approved December 21, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the village
in the county of Grayson, on New river, at the mouth of Eagle Bottom
creek, known as Washington Mills, as the same has been, or may be, laid
off into lots, streets, and alleys, shall be, and the same is hereby, made a
town corporate, and shall be a body politic in fact and in name, under the
stvle and denomination of the town of Fries, and by that name shall
have and exercise all the powers conferred upon towns by chapter forty-
four of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and
all general laws now in force for the government of towns of less than
five thousand inhabitants, and are not in conflict with the powers herein
conferred. ,

2. The corporate limits of the said town of Fries shall extend one mile
in all directions from the mouth of Eagle Bottom creek.

3. The officers of the said town shall consist of one mayor and six
councilmen, who shall compose the council of said town; a treasurer,
police officers, and a sergeant, all of whom shall be elected by the said
council ; and the said council are hereby empowered to create such other
offices and elect such officers thereto as in their opinion may be necessary
for the proper and efficient government of the said corporation.

4. The mayor shall be the presiding officer of the council, but shall
have no vote except in case of a tie. The mayor shall, and may, exercise
all jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters now by law conferred upon
justices of the peace, shall preserve peace and good order in said town,
and to this end shall be a conservator of the peace, with all the powers
conferred upon conservators of the peace by law, and shall be entitled to
the same fees as justices of the peace.
5. The council shall have the power to prevent the running at large of
hogs, dogs, horses, and other animals; to prevent the encumbering of the
streets, sidewalks, and alleys in any manner whatever; to make sanitary
regulations in reference to contagious and other diseases, and to abate
nuisances at the expense of those who cause them; to properly care for
and protect the cleanliness and sanitary condition of the water supply;
to restrain and punish drunkards, vagrants, mendicants, and street beg-
gars; to appoint police and prescribe their dutics and regulations; and to
make, pass, and ordain such ordinances, rules, regulations, and by-laws
as they may deem necessary and proper for the internal and general good,
safety, help, and convenience of the said town and the inhabitants thereof ;
to regulate traffic on the streets in said town, and for enforcing the pro-
visions of this charter generally. They shall punish all violators of law
by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the officer or officers
trying the defendant: provided, however, the accused shall have the right
of appeal to the county court in all criminal cases. The said council shall
have the power and may provide a suitable calaboose for the confinement
and imprisonment of the offender or offenders as aforesaid. Whenever
judgment shall be rendered against any person for fines, and there shall
be no visible effects which the sergeant may distrain and sell therefor,
the person so in default may be compelled to work out such fine and cost
on publie streets or other public improvements, and to suffer in addition
thereto such term of imprisonment as may be prescribed by the ordi-
nances of said town. All fines for the violation of ordinances of the said
town as aforesaid shall be paid in the treasury of the said town.

6. The said council shall have the right to levy and collect an annual
tax for any and all purposes necessary for the proper improvement and
to defray the necessary expenses of the regulations and government of the
said town, and prescribe the methods for levving and collecting the same.
And the mavor of the said town shall have the right, by and with the
consent of any three of the said councilmen, to expend all money derived
from such taxation and fines as aforesaid, but not to in any one year
exceed the receipts of such taxation and fines.

7. For the purpose of maintaining the police regulations of said town
under the authority of this act, the jurisdiction of the corporate authori-
ties thereof shall be, and the same is hereby, made to extend one mile be-
yond the limits of said town.

8. The warrants and processes of said mayor may be executed any-
where in Grayson county by the town sergeant, policeman, or any other
officer upon whom the ordinances of said town mav confer such authority,
or any legal ofticer of the county to whom the same may be directed, for
any and all offenses, both civil and criminal, arising and committed
within the corporate limits of said town, and in all eriminal matters and
offenses committed within one mile of the corporate limits of said town.

9. The council of the said town may have the right to restrict abso-
lutely the sale of spirituous, malt, or intoxicating liquors, or any mixtures
thereof, within the town of Fries, and within one mile of the corporate
limits of said town.

10. Phe said mayer and councilmen composing the said council for the
said town of Fries as aforesaid shall have all the general powers vested 1
them by the laws of this State, and shall have the right to impose all rea
sonable penalties for the violation of any laws or ordinanees which the
may make or pass for the government or policing of the said town, prc
vided the same be not in conflict with the laws of this State or of th
United States; and due and legal faith and credit shall be given to al
the officers hereinbefore named, and such other offices and officers as ma
hereafter be created and appointed as hereinbefore provided, in all thet
oficial acts of whatsoever kind or nature.

11. R. M. Cardwell, R. R. Hooker, George B. Bourne, 5. A. Dorset!
5. S. Seott, and J. Ring are hereby appointed and declared councilmer
and W. F. Shaffner as mayor of ‘said town, who, upon qualifying b
taking the usual oath of office before any officer authorized to administe
oaths, shall constitute, until the May election in nineteen hundred an
three, and until their successors are elected and qualified as the law pro
vides, the council of the said town of Fries, and may organize and pet
form the duties of councilmen under this act of incorporation; and afte
qualification and organization as aforesaid, any three of the said council
men, together with the mayor, shall constitute a quorum for the transac
tion of business.

This act shall be in force from its passage.