Chap. 110.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, of an act approved
April 29, 1874, entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of
Lawrenceville, in the county of Brunswick, in the State of Virginia.

(H. B. 116.)
Approved March 16, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section five, of the charter of the town of Lawrenceville, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 5. The council shall have power and authority to improve
the streets, walks and alleys of the said town; to build a jail or
prison house, and any other house necessary for the said town; to
purchase real estate for its purposes; to organize and maintain one
or more fire companies; to restrain and punish drunkards, vagrants,
and street beggars; to prevent vice and immorality, obscenity, and
profanity; to preserve peace and good order; to prevent and quell
riots, disturbances and disorderly assemblages; to suppress houses
of ill-fame and gambling houses; to prevent lewd, indecent and dis-
orderly conduct or exhibitions in said town, and to expel therefrom
persons guilty of such conduct; to prevent, forbid and punish the
selling of liquor and intoxicating drinks in any place not duly
licensed, and selling or giving any intoxicating liquor to any child
or minor; to provide for regulating the sale, within one mile of the
corporate limits thereof, of cider or other beverages containing al-
cohol, and to control the sale of the same through its police officers;
the firing of guns, pistols and other firearms in the said town, run-
ning of horses or other disorder; to license and regulate shows and
other public exhibitions and to tax the same as it may deem ex-
pedient; to appoint all such officers as it may deem necessary for
conducting the affairs of the town, not otherwise provided for and
to allow them such compensation as they may deem reasonable; and
finally, to make all such laws, by-laws, rules and regulations as they
may deem necessary and proper for the good government of the said
town of Lawrenceville, provided, they be not contrary to the laws of
the State of Virginia or the United States; and the same to amend,
repeal or enforce by reasonable fines and penalties, not exceeding for
any one offense the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered with
costs, and not to exceed ninety days in jail for any one offense.