CHAP. 16.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections three, seven,
eleven and fourteen of an act entitled an act to incorporate the
town of Franklin, Southampton county, Virginia, approved
March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and
amended as to section fourteen, by act approved February nine-
teenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and to add two additional
sections to the said act.

Approved December 19, 1891.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections three, seven, eleven and fourteen of an act
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Franklin, South-
ampton county, approved March fifteenth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-six, and amended as to section fourteen,
by act approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred
and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 3. The officers of the said town shall consist of a
mayor, 81x councilmen, a recorder, a sergeant and a street
commissioner; the sergeant and street commissioner may
be the same person if the council think proper, and both
shall be selected by the council. The mayor and council-
men shall compose the council of the town. The said
officers shall hold their offices for two years and until
their successors are duly elected and qualify, except that
the sergeant and street commissioner may be removed by
the council at any time for good cause.

§ 7. That the election of officers provided for by this
act, shall be held in the town of Franklin, on the fourth
Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and
on the same day every alternate year thereafter, and the
electoral board of the said county of Southampton shall
appoint a registrar and three judges of election for said
town, in like manner as they are appointed for the county,
which judges may also act as commissioners of election.
The said registrar and judges shall discharge their duties
to the voters residing in the corporate limits of the said
town in accordance with the general provision of law
applying to registrars and judges.

11. The said council shall have power to levy sueh
taxes as they may deem necessary for the purposes of said
town: provided that no tax upon the real and personal
property in said town for town purposes, shall exceed the
amount of fifty cents per annum upon the one hundred
dollars assessed value thereof.

§ 14. The said town shall have the right to purchase
and hold such real estate as it may deem necessary for
street purposes or for the erection of public buildings, or for
any other public purpose allowable by law. The coun-
cil shall have the right to sell the interest of the town in
the strip of land located therein, thirty by two hundred
and ten feet in size, and located between the land of
Frank Holland’s heirs and Main street and First and
Second avenues. And the council shall be allowed at any
time to se]] any land that the town may own, and that has
ceased to be used for the purpose for which it was intend-
ed, and which the council may. desire to dispose of.

2. Be it further enacted, That sections eighteen and
nineteen be added to the said act, as follows:

§ 18. The street commissioner shall have general super-
vision of the streets under direction of the council; and
he shall perform such other duties, and receive such com-
pensation as the council may prescribe.

§ 19. The town shall have the right to establish any
electric light or gas plant, water-works, system of fire pro-
tection, or street railways, that the council may see fit,
and use the same for the benefit of the town; and may
also furnish its citizens with light, water, fire protection,
or transportation on street railways, and receive compen-
sation therefor; and no other person, persons, corpora-
tion, or corporations, shall exercise any of the aforesaid
privileges in said town without having first obtained the
right or franchise from the council of said town.

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