Chap. 44.—An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Clarksville, in the
county of Mecklenburg, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate
the town of Clarksville, and to authorize the issue of bonds by said town”
approved February 11, 1898. [S B 34]

Approved March 1, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

Section 1. That part of the area of the county of Mecklenburg,
embraced within the boundaries hereinafter in this section described,
is hereby incorporated as a town under the name of the town of Clarks-
ville, and the inhabitants within said boundaries shall henceforth con-
stitute and be a body corporate and politic, with all the powers and
privileges conferred, and subject to all the duties and obligations 1m-
posed, upon towns by general law, together with such modifications
thereof and additions thereto and subject to the limitations, as herein-
after set forth, the boundaries of said town, as so incorporated, being
as follows:

Beginning at a point on the southern bank of the Dan river fifty
feet north of the center of the railroad track at its entrance into the
Southern railway company’s bridge; thence running parallel with and
fifty feet north of the track now used by the Atlantic and Danville
railroad to a point one hundred yards beyond the center of the country
road crossing near the Atlantic and Danville depot, and at which point
a culvert passes beneath the track and empties into a certain branch or
drain; thence in a southerly direction following said branch leading
into Blue creek near the Oxford, North Carolina, country road, and
following said Blue creek to the point at which it enters the Roanoke
river; thence along the bank in a northerly direction to the beginning.

Section 2. The said town, and council thereof, shall in addition
to the powers herein and heretofore granted to it, and tke duties
herein and heretofore granted to it, and the duties herein and heretofore
imposed upon it, have all the rights and powers granted to towns under
all provisions of the Code of Virginia, unless hereby expressly denied
to said town.

Section 3. The municipal authorities of said town shall consist
of a mayor and a council of six members, one of which councilmen
shall be vice-mayor as hereinafter set forth, unless and until this form
be changed in a manner prescribed by law. All persons who are qual-
ified voters of the town of Clarksville shall be eligible to any of said
offices. The terms of all of said offices shall begin and continue for
such length of time as is prescribed by law, unless otherwise hereinafter
set out. All the corporate powers of said town shall be exercised by the
said council, or under its authority except when otherwise provided.

Section 4. The form of government for said town shall be modified
commission plan as follows: All corporate powers, legislative, financial
and police authority vested in the town of Clarksville by law, shall be,
and is hereby vested in the mayor and council of six members, all to
be elected at large from the qualified voters of the town of Clarksville,
except as hereinafter provided, to serve until their successors are elected
and qualify.

Section 5. The present officers of the town shall continue in office
until their successors are elected the second Tuesday in June, «aineteen
hundred and forty, on which date the next town election will be held,
unless sooner removed as is provided by law. On the second Tuesday
in June, nineteen hundred and forty and biennially thereafter a mayor
and council shall be elected as herein provided.

Section 6. The council of said town shall appoint or cause to be
appointed a town treasurer and clerk (the treasurer and clerk to be
one and the same person if said council should so elect), and a town
policeman or policemen, which treasurer, clerk and policeman or police-
men shall hold office during the pleasure of the council and which ap-
pointees compensation shall be fixed by the said council prececing the
appointment and shall not be increased or diminished during the term
for which they shall have been appointed or elected. Any town treas-
urer, clerk or policeman may at anv time be removed from office by
a majority vote of the council. Upon the death, removal or resignation
of any of such town employees, the council shall appoint or cause to be
appointed a successor who shall likewise hold office during the pleasure
of the council. The council shall designate a chief of police officer for
said town whose powers and duties as such shall be defined by the
council.

Section 7. The mayor and councilmen shall each, on or before the
first day of the term for which they were elected, make and subscribe
an oath of affirmation that they will truly, faithfully and impartially
discharge the duties of their said office to the best of their abilities, so
long as they shall continue therein, taking said oath before a notary
public or some other officer authorized to administer oaths, a record of
such to be entered in the town records.

Section 8. At or before its first meeting in September after the
effective date of this amended charter, and biennially thereafter, the
council shall elect one of its members to be vice-mayor who shall preside
at such meetings in the absence of the mayor, and who, when the
mayor shall be absent or unable to perform any and all such duties so
entrusted to the mayor. The mayor or vice-mayor when acting as
mayor, shall have power at any time to call a meeting of said council.
If a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor or vice-mayor before the
end of his term, such vacancy shall be filled as is hereinafter provided
for.

Section 9. The mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the
town. He shall take care that the by-laws, ordinances, acts and resolu-
tions of the council are faithfully executed. He shall be ex-officio, a
conservator of the peace within the town and within one mile of the
corporate limits thereof, and shall exercise all the powers, civil and
criminal, vested in justices of the peace for the county.

Section 10. The vice-mayor shall be entitled to a vote on all ques-
tions just as any other member, but in no case shall he be entitled to a
second vote on any question though it be necessary to break a tie.
The mayor is entitled to a vote only when it is necessary to break a tie.

Section 11. The presence of at least four councilmen shall be nec-
essary to make a quorum for the transaction of business.

Section 12. It shall be the mayor’s duty especially to see that peace
and good order are preserved and that persons and property are pro-
tected in the town. He shall have the power to issue executions for
all fines and costs imposed by him for violations of town ordinances,
and he may require the immediate payment thereof, and in detault of
such payment, he may commit the party in default to jail of Mecklen-
burg county until the fine or fines and the cost or costs shall be paid ;
but the term of imprisonment in such case shall not exceed twelve
months. He shall from time to time recommend to the council such
measures as may be deemed needful for the welfare of the town. He
may receive a salary to be prescribed by the council to be paid by the
treasurer. Such salary shall be fixed by the council preceding the
election of officers of the town, which shall be neither increased not
diminished for the term for which he shall have been chosen.

Section 13. The Treasurer, Clerk and policeman and such other
officers and employees as may be required by the council so to do, shall
before entering upon the duties of their offices or at such other time
as the council may require, execute before the council of the said town
or other officers of said town, proper bond with security and co.aditioned
as the council may direct. The bonds of the Clerk, Treasurer or other
officers from whom bonds may be required shall be conditioned for the
faithful performance of their respective duties as such and for the
proper collection and accounting for all money and securities which shall
come into their hands, respectively, or which shall be their respective
duty to collect at such time as the council may order and to pay over all
moneys and securities under proper order of the council to those en-
titled to the same, and such other conditions as the council may direct.

Section 14. If any one who shall have been duly appointed or
elected by the council Clerk, Treasurer, policeman or for any other
position shall refuse or neglect to take the oath of affirmation, or to
give the bond required within the time prescribed, the council for the
time being shall declare his said office vacant and shall forthwith fill
such vacancy for the unexpired term, by majority vote of the entire
council.

Section 15. Whenever from any cause a vacancy shall occur in the
office of Mayor, the council shall forthwith, by the vote of the :majority
present fill it by choosing a mayor either from among the members of
the council or the citizens of the town eligible to the office under this act.

Section 16. The council shall be presided over at its meetings by
the mayor or in his absence by the vice-mayor or in the absence of
both mayor and vice-mayor by one of the councilmen selected by the
majority of the council present.

Section 17. If the said treasurer shall fail to account for and pay
over all of any moneys that shall come into his hands when thereto
required by the council, it shall be lawful for the council, in the cor-
porate name of the town, by motion before any court of record held
in Mecklenburg county, to recover from the said treasurer and _ his
sureties or their personal representatives, any sums that may be due
from the said treasurer to said town on ten days notice. But this action
shall not be construed to prevent the bringing of any action by the town
which it might have brought had this section not have been passed.

Section 18. If a policeman, treasurer, officer or employee shall fail
to collect, account for, and pay over all taxes, fines and other revenues
of the town coming into their hands for collection or safekeeping,
according to the conditions of their respective bonds, it shall be lawful
for the council to recover the same by motion in the corporate name
of the town before any court of record in the said county of Mecklen-
burg, against the policeman, treasurer, officer or employee and sureties
of either on his bond, or any or either of them, his or their executors,
or administrators, on giving ten days’ notice of the same. But thi:
action shall not be construed to prevent the bringing of any action by
the town which it might have brought had this section not have beet
passed.

Section 19. The council shall cause to be kept in a journal ot
minute book an accurate record of all its proceedings, by-laws, acts
and orders, which shall be fully indexed and open to the inspection
of anyone who is entitled to vote for members of the council.

Section 20. It shall be the duty of the clerk to keep a journal or
minute book of the proceedings of the council and have charge of and
preserve the records of the town. All books kept by the clerk, shall
be open at any time to the inspection of the council or any member
thereof. He shall becex-officio the assessor of the corporation with
like powers and duties as a commissioner of the revenue in the assess-
ments of the property for State and county taxation, and shall make
and preserve a book in which the real estate of the town is assessed
and one in which the personal property of the town is assessed for
taxation, and shall return the same to the council at such time as it
may prescribe for its inspection and approval. The assessment of real
estate and personal property for the purpose of taxation, shall be the
same as the assessment thereof, for the purpose of State and county
taxes, if assessed for taxation by the State or county of Mecklenburg.

Section 21. At each regular meeting of the council the proceedings
of the last regular meeting and all special meetings since same, shall
be read to the council and shall thereupon be corrected if erroneous,
and signed by the person presiding for the time being. Upon the call
of any member, the ayes and nays on any question shall be called and
recorded in the journal or minute book; but by unanimous vote of the
members of the council present the reading of the minutes may be
dispensed with. It shall be the duty of the clerk to assess all properties,
the assessment of which may have been omitted by the county or State.

Section 22, The treasurer, clerk, or policeman may by a three-
fourths majority of the council be removed from office for good and
sufficient cause and the unexpired term shall be filled by a majority
vote of the entire council, but no such removal shall be made without
reasonable notice to the officer complained of, and an opportunity
afforded him to be heard in his defense.

Section 23. The council shall cause to be annually made up and
entered upon its journal or minute book an account and estimate or
oudget of all sums which are, or may become lawfully chargeable to
he said town, which ought to be paid within one year; and it shall
order a town levy of so much as in its opinion is the amount which
should be raised from taxes, license and other sources for said purposes.

Section 24. It shall be the duty of the treasurer, or any person
specifically ordered by the council to collect the taxes and/or the
ncome and revenue of the town, to account for and pay the same to
uch person or persons and at such times as the council may order;
ind at such times as the council may prescribe to render an account to
he council showing his receipts and disbursements of the money which
ye has or should have collected, and to account for all taxes and other
-evenues which have been placed in his hands for collection and to
-eturn therewith a list of such as he shall have been unable with due
liligence to collect, to which list the officer so rendering it shall make
sath that he has used due diligence to collect the same, but has been
anable to do so. The council shall, if it be satisfied that he could not
have collected the said claim by use of due diligence, allow them, but
{ the council should be of the opinion that by the use of due diligence
on the part of said treasurer, or his deputy, or any officer authorized
by the council, he could have collected said taxes or other claims, then
he shall be chargeable with such as he might have collectec.

Section 25. All moneys belonging to said town shall be paid over
to the treasurer, and disbursed as directed by a majority vote of the
council. He shall keep regular accounts with the town, crediting it by
all moneys received, and, which by due diligence he might have received,
and charging it with all moneys so disbursed, which books, as well
as others relating to the business of the town, shall be open at any time
to the inspection of the council or any member or agent thereof. He
shall annually on the thirty-first day of August, or as soon thereafter
as practicable, settle his accounts with the council or a committee thereof
and at the same time he shall furnish a statement of all moneys received
by him during the preceding year, and of all disbursements made. He
shall receive a compensation for his services to be fixed by the council
preceding the election of officers of the town, which shall not be in-
creased or diminished during the term for which he shall have been
elected.

Section 26. The treasurer shall collect all the town taxes, licenses
and other revenues, except as may be specifically otherwise ordered
by the council, and shall have the power one month after he shall have
received the books, of the assessor of the said town, to distrain and
sell therefor in like manner as a county treasurer may sell and distrain
for State taxes. and shall have in all other respects the same powers as
a county treasurer to enforce the payments and collections thereof ; and
he and his securities shall be liable to all fines, penalties and forfeitures
that a county treasurer is legally liable to for any failure or dereliction
in his said office, to be recovered in the same manner and before the
said courts that said fines, penalties and forfeitures are now recover-
able against the county treasurer. Said treasurer may appoint one ot
more deputy treasurers to assist him in the discharge of the duties
of his office, and when such appointment is confirmed by the council,
such deputy shall have all the powers for the collections of sich taxes:
licenses and other revenues as is given to the treasurer by this section,
and shall be subject to the same penalties, remedies and liabilities; but
this shall not release the treasurer from liability for the faithful col.
lections and disbursement of the revenues of the town or from re-
sponsibility for the acts of his deputy.
Section 27, Whenever a vacancy shall occur from any cause ir
the office of the treasurer, clerk or police, the vacancy for the unexpirec
term shall at once be filled by a majority vote of the entire council of
the said town.

section 28. The council so constituted shall have powers withir
said town to lay off, open, curb and pave streets, alleys, walks anc
gutters for the public use, and to alter, improve and light the same and
have them kept in good order and free from obstruction on, over,
under and through them; to regulate the width of sidewalks, and to
order the sidewalks, footways and gutters to be kept free and clean and
also may require the owners or occupants of property facing on such
sidewalks to keep them free and clean; to lay off public grounds, and
to provide contract for and take care of all public buildings proper
for the needs of the town; to establish and regulate markets; to pre-
scribe the time for holding the same and what articles shall be sold
only in such markets; to prevent injury or annoyance to the public
or individuals from anything dangerous, offensive or unwholesome;
to protect the places of divine worship and about the premises where
held: to abate or cause to be abated anything which, in the opinion
of a majority of the whole council, shall be a nuisance; to regulate the
keeping of gunpowder and other combustibles or explosives; to provide
in or near the town places for the burial of the dead, and to regulate
interments therein the town; to provide for and regulate building of
houses or other structures and for making of division fences and for
the drainage of lots; to make regulations and provisions for guarding
against danger or damages from fire; to establish and regulate fire
zones in said town; to provide for the poor of the town; to provide a
revenue for the town and appropriate the same to its expenses and to
provide the annual assessment of taxable property in the town; to adopt
its own rules for the transaction of business and for the government and
regulation of its own body; to promote the general welfare of the town,
and to protect the property of persons therein; to keep a town guard ;
to appoint and order out a patrol for the town in like manner and for
like purposes within the same as the patrol may be ordered out by the
circuit court or justice within the county; to require and take from
the policemen, treasurer and clerk bonds and sureties, in such penalty
as the council may see fit, conditioned for the true and faithful dis-
charge of their duties (all bonds taken by the council shall be made
payable to the town by its corporate name) ; to permit or prohibit the
establishment of new places for the interment of the dead in or near
the town, and to regulate the same; to erect or authorize or prohibit
the erection of gas works or water works or gasoline tanks in or near
the town and to regulate the transportation and sale of gas or gasoline
or other explosives in or through the town; to prevent injuries or pol-
lution, or danger to the water and healthfulness of the town; to receive
giits of real or personal property either by will or otherwise; (for
all which purposes named in this clause, except that of taxation, the
council shall have jurisdiction for one mile beyond the town): to
‘egulate and provide for the weighing and measuring of hay, coal and
sther articles sold or for sale in said town, and to regulate the trans-
portation thereof through the streets.

Section 29. The council may appoint an officer known as the town
manager, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the council, whose
Juties shall be prescribed by the council. He shall receive such com-
pensation as shall be fixed by the council. The council shall also be
vested with all powers granted city and town councils under the Code
of Virginia. ,

Section 30. To carry into effect those enumerated powers, and
all other powers conferred upon cities and towns, or its council ;
expressly or by implication, in this or any other Acts of the General
Assembly of Virginia, the council shall have power to make: and pass
all needful orders, by-laws and ordinances not contrary to the Con-
stitution of the United States, and to prescribe, impose and enact
reasonable fines not exceeding one thousand dollars, and penalties, or
imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding twelve rnonths, or
both such fine and imprisonment (except that in case of contempt the
imprisonment in jail should not be for more than ten days or a fine
of more than twenty dollars), or to enforce the collection of a fine
which fines, penalties and imprisonment shall be recovered under the
judgment of the mayor of said town, or by the person lawfully exer-
cising his functions. And the authorities of said town may, with the
consent of the circuit court of said county, entered of record, have
the right to use the jail of said county of Mecklenburg for arty purpose
for which the use of a jail may be needed by them, under the acts of
the council or of the State.

Section 31. All policemen shall have the power to exercise within
the corporate limits of said town and in the county of Mecklenburg
within one mile of the corporate limits of said town all the duties that
a constable can legally exercise in regard to the collection of claims
executing and levying processes, and he and his sureties shall be lable
to all fines, penalties and forfeitures that a constable is legally liable
to, for a failure or dereliction in his said office, to be recovered in
the same manner and before the same court that said fines, penalties
and forfeitures are now recoverable against a constable. The clerk
or clerk-treasurer and policemen shall for their services receive such
compensation as the council may fix which compensation shall not be
increased or diminished during the term for which they shall have been
appointed or elected.

Section 32. The council may regulate any theatrical performance.
entertainment, show, public dance hall, pool room or any other enter-
tainment or exhibition, or if they deem any one of them injurious tc
the morals or good order of the town they may prohibit the same.

Section 33. The said council shall have the power to make suck
ordinances, by-laws, orders and regulations as they may deem necessary)
to prevent hogs, dogs, or other animals from running at large or doing
injury or annoying persons or property in the limits of the corporation,
and may subject the same to such fines, regulations and taxes as they
may deem proper and which fines and taxes shall constitute liens on
same, and said animals may be sold or killed after ten days’ notice,
to enforce payment of said fines and taxes.

Section 34. The council shall not take or use any private property
for streets or other public purposes, without making to the owner or
owners thereof just compensation for the same; but in all cases where
the said corporation cannot by an agreement, obtain title to or an ease-
ment in the ground necessary for the purposes, it shall be lawful for
said corporation to apply to the circuit court of Mecklenburg county
for authority to condemn the same, either within or beyond the corporate
limits of said town of Clarksville, which shall be applied for and pro-
ceeded with according to law.

Section 35. Whenever any business, profession, trade, occupation,
amusement, or solicitation of any business, services or trade, by out of
town residents, or those residing within the corporate limits, of what-
ever kind or nature, legal under the Constitution of the United States
or Acts of Congress thereunder, and the Constitution and laws of the
State of Virginia, be performed, transacted, rendered or done within
the said town, the council may, unless prohibited by general law, require
a license for doing the same, and may impose a tax thereupon for the
use of the town, whether or not the laws of the State of Virginia
require such license; and the council may require from the said person
so licensed, a bond with sureties in such penalty, and with such condi-
tions as it may think proper. Said council may also grant or refuse
license to owners or keepers of wagons, drays, carts or motor vehicles,
in the town, and may require taxes to be paid thereon, and subject
to the same to such regulations as they may deem proper.

Section 36. The council shall not have the power to contract or
authorize the contracting of any debt or liability or make any appropria-
tion of money without concurrence of at least four members of the
council, entered on the journal or minute book.

Section 37. The town council, its officers or its agents shall not
have the power or authority to sell, rent, lease or otherwise dispose of
any municipal public utility being the property of the town of Clarks-
ville, without first submitting such sale, rental or lease to a vote of the
qualified voters of the said town at a special election to be held in
accordance with the law providing for special election for towns in
Virginia, and such sale shall only be consummated upon a vote of a
majority of the qualified voters of the said town, voting in such an
election.

Section 38. All corporate powers of said corporation shall be
exercised by the said council, or under their authority except when
otherwise provided.

Section 39. The levy so ordered may be upon all the real estate
within the said town which is not exempt from taxation, and on all such
other property and subjects, subject to local taxation, not prohibited
by law; provided, that the tax does not exceed two dollars and fifty
cents on every hundred dollars of the value assessed on real and
personal property, including the levies to meet the interest on the
funded debt of said town, and to provide for the final payment of the
principal thereof; and provided further, that before any bonded debt
shall be created by the said council for which money is to be borrowed.
the council, if it shall deem it to be to the interest of the corporation to
create such debt, evidenced by a recorded vote of a majority of its
members, or if one hundred of the qualified voters of such town
shall present to the council a petition requesting the same, shall submit
to a vote of the qualified voters of the said town, at such time as it
may prescribe not exceeding sixty days after such recorded vote, or
after the said petition shall have been presented as aforesaid, the ques-
tion as to whether said sum of money shall be borrowed. Said elec-
tion shall be held in the manner provided for such elections by the
general laws of the Commonwealth, and if a majority of the qualified
voters voting at such election shall be in favor of borrowing money,
the said council shall issue and sell the bonds of the said corporation,
and said bonds shall be issued in such denominations and bear such
interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, as may be determined
by the council, said interest to be payable quarterly, semi-annually or
annually, as the council may prescribe. The council may select a
depository for the money arising from the same or negotiations of the
said bonds, and they may require such security therefor as may be
approved by the recorded voters of at least two-thirds, of all the
members of the council, but if they shall choose a national bank or
banks as depository or depositories no security shall be required unless
specifically ordered.

Section 40. The council is empowered, however, by a majority vote
of the members present to borrow funds deemed necessary and proper
for interest payment, bond retirements, street, water and sewer improve-
ments and maintenance and any other expense in the operation of the
town affairs and to execute and deliver notes as evidence of any such
debt created by money so borrowed.

Section 41. The revenues from these and other sources shall be
collected, paid over and accounted for at such time and to such persons
as the council shall order, and the said council shall have the further
power and authority to designate the time of the year for which taxes
are assessed shall begin, except when otherwise provided by the State.

Section 42. There shall be a lien on the real estate within said town
for the town taxes assessed thereon, from the commencement of the
year for which they are assessed. When any of said taxes are returned
delinquent a list of the same shall be returned to the clerk of the circuit
court of the county of Mecklenburg, and be by him entered in a book
furnished by the said town, and kept in his said office, the form and
manner of entering the same to be similar to that provided by law for
the record of delinquent taxes on real estate due the State or county.
In said book there shall also be columns in which shall be entered the
names of purchasers, the amount and date of sale or real estate sold
for delinquent taxes as provided in this charter. When the taxes so
returned delinquent are entered into said record as herein provided, the
same shall be held to be constructive notice of the lien thereof, and
the said real estate shall be liable thereto as against creditors, and in
the hands of purchasers or other persons into whose hands the said
real estate may pass. And the said real estate may be sold for taxes
as provided in this charter, whether owned by the persons in whose
name it was assessed or not. After said real estate has been so sold
for taxes the same may be redeemed within such time and by such
persons and upon such terms as is provided by law for the redemption
of lands sold for State and county taxes, except that the money paid
for such redemption shall be paid to the treasurer of the town of
Clarksville. Upon such redemption of said real estate the Treasurer
shall issue to the persons so redeeming it a certificate to that effect,
which certificate shall be presented to the mayor of the town, who shall
countersign the same, and the same when so countersigned shall be
presented to the clerk of the circuit court of the county of Mecklenburg,
who shall thereupon mark in the said record the redemption of the
said real estate, the name of the party redeeming it, and the date thereof,
and shall preserve such certificate in his office. The clerk shall receive
for his services a fee of ten cents for each lot of land so entered in
such record, a fee of ten cents for the entry of such sale of' real estate
as is provided in this charter, and a fee of twenty-five cents for such
redemption so entered, to be paid by the town of Clarksville, and
which shall be charged against and be a lien upon said land along
with the taxes against the same. At the expiration of the time within
which said real estate may be redeemed, if the same has not been re-
deemed as herein provided, the clerk of the town of Clarksville shall
execute to the purchaser thereof a deed conveying the same in like
manner as is prescribed by law for the conveyance of real estate by
the clerk of the county which has been sold for delinquent taxes to
the State. and such deed shall convey title as would be conveyed had
the same been sold for State or county taxes.

Section +3. The circuit court of Mecklenburg county on application
of the council may order real estate, delinquent for the non-payment
of taxes, to be sold by the treasurer of said town at public auction
for such taxes at such times as it shall direct: said sale and the adver-
tisement thereof, to be made in conformity, as near as may be, to the
State law with reference to the sale of delinquent land. When such
sale has been made the same with the date thereof, the name of the
purchaser and the amount for which the said real estate sold shall be
entered by the clerk in the record of delinquent real estate provided
for in section forty-two.

Section 44. All the right, privileges and properties of the said town
heretofore acquired and possessed, dwned and enjoved by any act now
in force, not in conflict with this act, shall continue undiminished and
remain vested in the said town under this act, and all laws, ordinances,
acts and resolutions of the council now in force, not inconsistent with
this act, shall be and continue in full force and effect until regularly
repealed by a council elected as provided under this act.

2. Be it further enacted, that an act entitled “an act to incorporate
the town of Clarksville, and to authorize the issue of bonds by said
town’, approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
be, and the same is hereby repealed.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.