Chap. 173.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 3 of an Act Ap-
proved July 11, 1870, Concerning the Duties and Compensation of Officers
of Cities and Towns of over Five Thousand Inhabitants.

Approved March 22, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
three of an act approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and
seventy, prescribing the duties and fixing compensation of
officers of cities and towns of over five thousand inhabitants,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

Ҥ 3. The duties, compensation, and liabilities of city and
town treasurer shall be such as may be prescribed by the char-
ters of said cities and towns as to the collection and payment
of the revenue of such city or town. As to the collection and
payment of the state revenue in such city or town, their duties,
liabilities, and compensation shall be the same as are or may
be hereafter defined by law for county treasurers, except so
far as may be inconsistent with this act. They shall qualify
before the judge of the hustings court of their respective cities
or towns, and shall execute like bonds as are or may be here-
after required of county treasurers, so conditioned as to secure
the faithful discharge of their duties in relation to the state
revenue, except that the treasurer of the city of Richmond
shall, on Monday of each week, make up and render to the
auditor of public accounts, a statement of all moneys collected
by him on account of the state revenue, and, at the same time,
pay into the treasury the amount shown to be due by such
statement. He shall give bond in the penalty of two hundred
thousand dollars, conditioned as hereinbefore provided; and
if he shall fail to make such weekly statement and payment, at
any time, he may be removed from office by the judge of the
hustings court of said city. A city or town treasurer may, in
addition to the powers and duties hereinbefore conferred, go
out of his office to collect all license taxes assessed in his
city or town on state account, and may, in person or by deputy,
enforce payment thereof in the same manner and with the same
powers of distress or otherwise as were prescribed by former
aws of this commonwealth concerning the collection of taxes
by sheriffs or other collectors.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.