Chap. 189.—An ACT to amend and re-enect Section 2 of an Act ap-
proved June 8, 1870, entitled an Act to change the name of Fairfax
to Culpeper, and Provide a new Charter for the same; and the 6th
and 21st Sections of said Act, as amended by an Act approved April
29th, 1874, entitled an Act to amend the Charter of the Pown of Cul-

peper.
Approved March 20, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section two of an act entitled an act to change the name of
Fairfax to Culpeper, and provide a new charter for the same,
approved June eight, eighteen hundred and seventy, and sec-
tions six and twenty-one of said act, as amended and re-
enacted by an act of the general assembly entitled an act to
amend the charter of the town of Culpeper, approved April
twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 2. The corporate limits and bounds of Culpeper shall be
as follows: Beginning at the mouth of Tanyard branch on
Mountain run; thence following the natural bed of. said run
to the northwest corner between Lewis P. Nelson and Jobn
Jamieson, on said run; thence in a straight line at or near
White Oak spring to the old Fredericksburg road, at the
mouth of the lane between tue Hunley house and the house
of Ira Field; thence with said lane across the railroad to the
Tanyard branch; thence in a straight line to the southeast
corner of the United States cemetery; thence with the east-
ern wall of said cemetery in a straight line to said Tanyard
branch; thence with said: branch to beginning.

§ 6. There shall be a town sergeant of said corporation, to
be elected by the qualified voters. The council shall have
power to remove said officer for misfeasance, malfeasance or
incompetency in office, or neglect of duty, but the cause of
such removal shall be entered at length upon the journal.

§ 21. The levy so ordered may be upon all male persons
within said town over twenty-one years of age, and on all
real estate within said town which is not exempt from state
taxation; and all such other subjects in said town as may, at
the tine, be assessed with state taxes: provided, that the
tax dq not exceed fifty cents on every hundred dollars of the
value assessed on real and personal property, except that an
additional sum may be levied to meet the interest on the
funded debt of said town, and provide for the final payment
of the principal thereof, which debt shall not, at any time,
exceed ten per centum of the whole assessed value of the
property within said town: and provided further, that before
any debt shall be created by said council for money bor-
rowed, the question shall be submitted by said council to the
qualified voters of said town, and the vote on said question,
and the mode of determining the result thereof, shall con-
form to and be governed by the sixty-first chapter of the
Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, mutatis mutan-
dis.

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