Chap. 120.—An ACT for the relief of James A. Wright, Sheruf of Buck-
Ingham county, Virginia,

Passed April 27, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Vi ir ginia, That
the auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized anh di-
rected to issue his warrant on the treasury, to be paid out of
any money therein not otherwise appropriated, in favor of
James A. Wrieht, sheritt of Buckingham county, for the
sum of sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents, it being the
amount of the license assessed on Jesse Maxey (a colored
person), for eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and paid by mis-
take into the treasury.

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

Chap. 120.—An ACT to prevent Fraud on the Distal Swamp, Albemarle
and Chesapeake Canals.

Passed April 29, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That if any mas-
ter or.clerk of any steamboat or other vessel navigating the
Dismal swamp or Albemarle and Chesapeake canal, shall
make a false manifest or return of the cargo contained on
board of any vessel to the collector of tolls of said canals, the
said master or clerk may be fined twice the amount of tolls
on said cargo, which fine shall be paid to the collector or
other person appointed by the company to receive it; one-
half of said fine shall go to the party giving information, the
other to the company defrauded. In default: of payment of

the same, the master or clerk may be excluded trom = navi-
gating the said canal.

2. Be it further enacted, That if the collector of either of
said canals should have reason to suspect a fraudulent mani-
fest, he may cause such vessel to be unloaded; and if said
manifest be found correct, ‘the expense of unloading and

taking account of said cargo shall be paid by the collector: if
the manifest should be found incorrect, then the said expense
shall be paid by the master or owner of the vessel.
. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Ciar. 150.—An ACT to incorporate the Town of Jonesville.
Passed April 29, 1807.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the town
of Jonesville, in the county of Lee, as the same has hereto-
fore been laid off into lots, streets and alleys, shall be and the
same is hereby made a town corporate, by the name of Jones-
ville; and by that name shall have and exercise the powers
conterred upon towns by, and be subjected to the provisions
of the fitty-fourth chapter of the Code of Virginia, so far as
they may be consistent with this act.

2. The officers of said town shall consist of a mayor, five
councilmen, a recorder and sergeant, who shall be’ elected by
those qualified to vote for members ‘ot the general assembly,
and no other persons.

8. The said election shall ie held at the courthouse in said
town on the first Monday in September, annually; and the
mayor, recorder, councilmen and sergeant shall continue in
office until the first Monday in April in each succeeding year,
and until others shall be elected and qualified i in their stead
and no longer.

4. The council shall prescribe the manner of declaring and
certifying elections, of deciding between two or more when
the number of votes shall be equal, and of filling vacancies in
said board. A majority of said council shall constitute a
quorum to do business.

The sergeant of said town, who shall from time to time
be elected 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 sheriffs in similar cases, and shall be
entitled to the same or like fees and commissions for collect-
ing said taxes and levies, as are allowed to sherifts for the col-
lection of county levies, and in the service and returns of all
process and in the collection of all fines arising under the au-
thority of this act or of any by-laws made in pursuance hereof,
he shall have and possess the same rights and powers and be
entitled to the same like fees and commissions as are allowed
by law to sheriffs tor similar services.

6. The sergeant of said town, upon entering into bond
with the county court of Lee county, with conditions such
as constables are required by law to enter into, shall have
power and authority to execute any and all process to him
directed, and shall and may do and perform all acts and exe-
cute and return such warrants, and be liable in the same man-
ner and to the same extent that constables are lable to by
the laws now in force.

7. The mayor, recorder and councilmen shall and may ex-
ercise all jurisdiction of a justice of the peace in order to pre-
serve the peace and good order in said town, and to this end
they and each of them shall be a conservator of the peace,
witlpall the powers and duties authorized to be exercised by
such conservator, by chapter two hundred and one of the
Code of Virginia.

%. The mayor, recorder and councilmen, upon taking the
oath required by law, shall each have anthority and jurisdic-
tion to hear and determine all matters in controversy arising
under the laws and ordinances of said town, and to issue any
and all proper process, whether mesne or final, which may be
necessary to enforce their authority.

9. The council of said town shall be and is hereby invested
with all the powers, rights, liberties and prerogatives, in rela-
tion to the poor of said town, as are contained in chapter
fifty-one of the Code of Virginia; and the said town shall be
entitled to all the immunities, exemptions and privileges ap-
pertaining to any town that maintains and keeps its own
poor, according to the laws now in force in said Code of Vir-
ginia.

10. The said council shall have power and authority, when-
ever they deem it expedient, to have the sidewalks and gut-
ters along any street within the said town of such width as
they may prescribe, properly paved or otherwise suitably im-
proved and repaired and altered, at the proper costs and ex-
pense of the owners and occupiers of the land or lots along
the front or sides of which such sidewalks or other improve-
ments’extend, and to levy and collect a special tax sufficient
for that purpose on each of such lots or pieces of land;
which special taxes on real estate within said town are
directed to be collected.

11. All taxes, general or special, assessed upon lands or
lots within the said town, under this act, are hereby declared
to constitute a lien upon such land or lots in the hands of the
owner or his heirs, devisees, assignees or any suggsequent pur-
chaser or other persons claiming the same, and may be col-
lected from such subsequent purchaser or other persons en-
titled to such land or lot, in like manner as they might have
been collected trom the original owner or occupier.

12. The council may prevent hogs, dogs and other animals
from running at large within the corporate limits, and may
subject the same to such regulations and taxes as it may
deem proper. .

13. The council of said town shall have power to impose
fines not exceeding ten dollars in amount, for breaches of the
peace committed in said town; also for obstructing the
streets and sidewalks, or for any wilful or malicious injury
done thereto, as may be regulated by ordinance of said coun-
cil, and commit to the jail of Lee county until said fines are

aid. . ;
P lJ. For the purpose of carrying into effect the police regu-
lations of said town, the town shall be allowed the use of the
county jail of Lee county for the safe keeping and confine-
ment of all persons who shall be sentenced to imprisonment
under the ordinances of said town; and all persons so con-
fined shall be under the charge and custody of the sheriff of
said county, who shall receive, keep and discharge the same
in such manner as shall be prescribed by the ordinances of
said town, or otherwise discharged by due course of law.

15. All acts and parts of acts in reference to the said town
of Jonesville heretofore enacted, inconsistent with this act,
are hereby repealed. °

16. Marien D. Richmond, Robert Baylor, C. C. Bell, Sam-
uel L. Saul and C. F. Hobbs are hereby authorized to hold
an election, agreeably to the provisions of this act, for said
officers, on the first Monday in September next, at the court
house of Lee county, in said town.

17. The clerk of the county court of Lee county is autho-
rizetl and empowered to qualify those persons elected to fill
the several offices, by administering the oaths now required
by law, who may be elected on the first Monday in Septem-
ber next, or who may be hereafter elected to fill any vacancy
in any office in said council which may have occurred by
either expiration of term, death, resignation or removal.

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