Chap. 119.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
a new charter for the town of Graham, in the county of Tazewell, ap-
proved February 29, 1892

Approved March 10, 1910.

1. Be it enacted bv the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Graham, in the
county of Tazewell, approved February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. That the general laws of the State of Virginia, passed under
and pursuant to the Constitution, for the government of cities and towns
of this Commonwealth, so far as the same apply to towns, and as now in
force, and as they may hereafter be amended by the general assemnblv,
be, and the same are hereby, incorporated into and made a part of the
charter of the said town of Graham as fully in every respect as if such
general laws and every provision thereof were fully set forth herein; it
being the intention of this provision to make the general laws, as now in
force, or as may hereafter be amended, the law governing the town of
Graham from the day this act shall go into effect, so far as the same
relates to towns.

§2. That the general laws of the State of Virginia, now in force, and
as they may hereafter be amended by the general assembly of Virginia,
relative to the collection of taxes and assessments, levied by towns of
this Commonwalth, contained in chapter twenty-eight of the Code, eo
far as the same are applicable to towns, shall, from the date this act goes
into effect, be the laws of the town of Graham governing the collection
of taxes and assessments due the said town.

§3. The officers of the said town shall consist of a mayor, eight
councilmen, a sergeant, recorder, treasurer, and a commissioner of the
revenue, and such other officers as are allowed and provided by the gen-
eral law of this State, and as may be found necessary for the convenient
government of the said town; the mayor, councilmen and treasurer to be
elected by the qualified voters of the said town, under the provisions of
the Constitution and general laws of this State; and their terms of office
shall begin and continue as therein provided; the other officers herein
mentioned or hereafter provided, to be appointed by the council of the
said town, and are to hold office during the time the council appointing
the same shall continue in office, and until their successors are appointed
and qualified, and during good behavior, it being the intention of this
provision to reserve the right to each council to appoint its own officers
as herein provided.
S4. The recorder may be one of the councilmen, but such councilman
shall be entitled to only one vote on any question before the council.

$5. The council of the said town, in addition to the powers herein-
before conferred, is hereby authorized and empowered to levy a capita-
tion tax of one dollar per annum on each male resident of the said town,
who is twenty-one years old or over, to be levied and collected as other
taxes of the said town are levied and ‘collected ; but the same shall be used
exclusively in aid of the public schools of the said town. This tax is to
be levied on all males over twenty-one years of age, white or black, who
may be residing in the said town at the date the said levy is made.

'§6. The council of the said town are hereby authorized to fix the
salaries and compensations of all the officers of the said town which are
provided for under this charter, whether the said officers are elected
officers or appointed officers.

87. The council of the said town, in addition to the authority con-
ferred upon it by the general laws of the State, is hereby authorized to
pass ordinances regulating the rate of speed of railway trains, street cars,
automobiles, or other conveyances of any kind through the corporate
limits of the said town, and shall provide penalties for the violations of
the same, and the said town is also hereby authorized to designate the
location of any railway or other public service corporation using the
streets of the said town under a franchise on and over the streets of the
said town ; and shall make ordinances regulating the construction thereof,
and shall make ordinances requiring the owners thereof to maintain and
keep in good repair that portion of the street or streets so occupied by it;
and to require the said owner or owners or operator or operators of any
street railway, operating over the streets of the said town, to construct
and maintain proper crossings, landings and shelters at convenient and
designated points, designated by the said council for the taking on and
the discharge of its passengers. For the enforcement of these provisions
the said council, in passing the said ordinances, may provide penalties for
the violations thereof, in accordance with the laws of this State.

§8. The council of the said town is hereby further authorized to pass
ordinances and provide penalties to prevent the deflection and pollution
of any of the streams running through the said town, and the emptying
therein of sewerage or other filth, as well as to prevent any of said
streams from being obstructed by the placing therein of trash or other
refuse matter of any kind.

89. The general laws of the State, as now in force, and as they may
be amended from time to time, providing for the holding of elections in
towns for the purpose of deciding upon the question of bond issue, shail
be the laws controlling the said town as to any bonds it may desire ta
issue and sell for any purpose.

§10. Section one of chapter five of the act approved February
twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, relative to providing a
new charter for the town of Graham, in the county of Tazewell, is hereby
repealed.

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