Chap. 95.—An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Tazewell, in Tazewell
county.

Approved January 29, 1894.

Whereas by an act of the general assembly of Virginia passed
February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled an
act to incorporate the town of Jeffersonville, in the county of Taze-
well, said town, according to the metes and bounds therein referred
to, was incorporated; and whereas the charter of said town, as thus
incorporated, was amended by an act approved sixteenth February
eighteen hundred and eighty-six, by which the metes and bounds 0!
said town were changed; and whereas by an act approved twenty.
ninth February, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the name of saic
town was changed to Tazewell; and whereas it is now desirous tha’
sections two, three, four, five and nine of the original act of incorpo
ration should be changed: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec.
tions two, three, four, five and nine of an act entitled an act to in
corporate the town of Jeffersonville, in the county of Tazewell
passed February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. The government of said town shall be vested in a mayor anc
a council of five and a recorder, who shall be residents of the saic
town, and shall be elected annually by those qualified to vote fo
members of the general assembly, and who shall have been resident
within the bouudaries of the corporation for three months next pre
ceding the election, and no other persons.

§ 3. The said election shall be held at the court-house in sai
town on the first Monday in April annually; and the mayor, coun
cilmen and recorder shall continue in office until the first Monda:
in April in each succeeding year, and until others shall be electec
und qualified in their stead.
§ 4. The council shall prescribe the manner of declaring and cer-
tifving elections; of deciding hetween two or more when the number
of votes shall be equal, and of filling vacancies in said board; shall
appoint annually a sergeant and shall fix his compensation and pre-
scribe his duties, and require such bond as may be deemed proper.
A majority of said councilmen shall constitute a quorum to .do
business.

§ 5. The sergeant of said town, who shall from time to time be
appointed by the council under this act, shall have the like rights
of distress and power in collecting the taxes and levies made by the
council of said town as treasurers in similar cases, and shall be en-
titled to the same or like fees and commissions for collecting said
taxes and levies; and in the service and return of all process and
in the collection of all fines arising under the authority of this act
or of any by-laws made in pursuance hereof, he shall have and pos-
sess the same rights and powers and be entitled to the same or like
fees and commissions as are allowed by law to sheriffs for similar
service.

§ 9. The council of said town shall be, and is hereby, invested with
all the powers, rights, liberties and prerogatives for the government
of said town as are now vested in councils of towns of less than five
thousand inhabitants, under the law as contained in the code of eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-seven, and said town shall be entitled to
all the immunities and privileges to which towns of less than five
thousand inhabitants are now entitled to under the law as contained
in the code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; but the persons
and property within the limits of the said town shall be exempt from
the payment of county levies for road purposes, for maintaining the
poor and for supporting the public free schools, so long as the said
town shall keep up its own streets, maintain its own poor, and levy
a special tax for the support of the public free schools.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.

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