Chap. 123.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, 17, 23, and
24 of the Act, approved March 28, 1871, providing a New Charter for
the Town of- Charlottesville.

Approved February 23, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections two, four, seventeen, twenty-three, and twenty-four
of an act entitled an uct to provide a new charter for the
town of Charlottesville, approved March twenty-eighth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and sections four, seven-
teen, twenty-three, and twenty-four of the act amending the
same, approved April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows: —

§ 2. The municipal authorities of said town shall consist
of a mayor and six aldermen, who shall be elected on the
fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and seventy-five,
and on the fourth Thursday in May in every second year
thereafter, by: the qualified electors of said town. All per-
sons qualified to vote in said election shall be eligible to
either of said offices.

§ 4. There shall be elected by the council of said town, a
town sergeant, a town collector, clerk, treasurer, assessor,
overseer Of poor, and street commissioner. Any one or
more of said officers may be held and exerrised by the same
person. The officers herein mentioned shall be appointed or
elected by the council within thirty days after the qualifica-
tion of a majority of the members thereof, and shall exer-
cise the duties of their respective offices for the term for
which the members of the council have been elected, unless
sooner vacated by death, resignation, removal or for other
cause.
§ 17. The levy so made may be laid on all male persons
who are residents of said town, over twenty-one years of
age; upon dogs, and upon all personal and real estate within
said town, except such persons, personal and real estate as
are exempt from taxation under the laws of this state, and
also upon all other such subjects within said town as may,
at the time, be assessed with state taxes: provided however,
that the tax on real estate and personal property, including
choses in action, shall not,exceed in any one year, one dollar
on every hundred dollars value thereof: and provided more-
over, that the tax on income shall not exceed tho rate of
taxation on the same, as fixed by the laws of this state at the
time of said levy. But nothing contained in this section, as
hereby amended, shall limit or restrict the power of the
town council to levy such additional taxation as they may
deem necessary for the use and benefit of the town: pro-
vided, such additional taxation shall be authorized and sanc-
tioned by a vote of the qualified voters of said town, in the
mode and manner prescribed in section twenty-three of the
new charter ot said town as hereinafter amended, for creat-
ing a loan or loans of money.

§ 23. The council of said town may negotiate any loan or
loans for the purpose of improving the streets, lighting the
same, buying necessary real estate, erecting public buildings,
supplying the town with water, and for other purposes, and
shall have authority to issue registered and coupon bonds
for the said loan or loans, payable not more than twenty
years after the date of said bonds, bearing interest at a rate
not greater than eight per centum, payable semi-annually:
provided, that two-thirds of the council of said town shall
approve and authorize said loan or loans: and provided
further, that said loan or loans shall be sanctioned by threce-
fifths of the qualified voters of said town voting upon the
question, which three-fifths shall include a majority of the
votes cast by those tax-payers of the town at such election
who pay a tax on real or personal property assessed at five
hundred dollars or upwards, and also a majority of the regis-
tered voters of said town, to be ascertained by a vote taken
and conducted in the manner authorized for any election
under the charter of the said town, after having given notice
thereof by publication-for four weeks successively in one or
more of the newspapers published in the said town. And at
any election beld under this section each ballot shall be en-
dorsed with the name of the voter, which shall be inspected
by the officer or officers conducting the election at their re-
spective voting places: and provided further, that the coun-
cil of said town shall annually invest in Virginia state or
United States bonds, as a sinking fund, such proportion of
the revenue of said town as shall be equal in cash value to
one-twentietb of said loan or loans, which sinking fund shall
be used exclusively for the payment of the bonds issued for
said loan or-loans. Any bond issued under the provisions of
this segtion shall be regularly numbered, signed by the
mayor, clerk, and treasurer, and recorded in a book to be
kept for that purpose.

24. The collector shall have power to collect the town
taxes, fines, and levies, and shall have power, one month
after he shall have received the books of the assessor of said
town, to distrain and sell therefor, in like manner as the
collector of taxes may sell and distrain for state taxes, and
shall have, in all other respects, the same powers as such
collector to enforce the payment and collection thereof.
And the said sergeant shall have power to exercise, within
the corporate limits of said town, and within one mile
thereof, all the duties that a constable can legally exercise
in regard to the collection of claims, executing and levying
process; and shall discharge and enforce such police regula-
tions and by-laws as may be imposed upon him from time to
time by the council: of said town; and he shall be entitled
to receive such fees or compensation therefor as may be al-
lowed him by the said council. And he and his securities
Shall be liable to all the fines, penalties, and forfeitures as a
constable is legally held to, for any failure or dereliction of
duty in his said office, to be recovered in the same manner,
and before the same courts, that said fines, penalties, and
forfeitures are now recovered against a constable.

2. Any act or part of any act inconsistent with this act
is herehy repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.