Chap. 207.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 1,
16 and 18, and to repeal sections 6, 7 and 8 of an Act entitled an Act
to provide for a Charter for the Town of Waynesboro, in the County
of Augusta, approved April 28th, 1874.

Approved March 15, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections
one, two, four, five, nine, eleven, sixteen and eighteen of the
act entitled an act to provide for a charter for the town of
Waynesboro, in the county of Augusta, approved April twen-
ty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows: .

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the town
of Waynerboro, in the county of Augusta, as the same has
been or may hereafter be laid off into lots, streets, and alleys,
shall be and the same is hereby made a town corporate by
the name of the town of Waynesboro, and by that name shall
have and exercise all the powers, rights, privileges and im-
munities conferred upon towns by the fifty-fourth chapter of
the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
so far asthe provisions of said chapter are not in conflict
with the provisions of this ‘act.

§ 2. That the government of said town shall be vested in

a council of seven, to be chosen annually, by ballot, on the
fourth Thursday in May, each year, after u notice of ten
days preceding said election shall have been given. Ail clec-
tions in said town shall be held and conducted as provided
by law for towns of less than five thousand inbabitants. On
the first day of July, after such election, the said council
shall qualify and enter upon the .discbarge of their duties,
and shall remain in office until their successors are elected
and qualified according to law; a majority of whom shall
constitute a quorum to transact business.

§ 4. And the said council shall also at their first meeting,
and annually thereafter, appoint a sergeant, who shall hold
his office for one year, and until his successor is appointed
and qualified. The said sergeant shall be a conservator of
the peace, and be invested with the full powers of constable
within the limits and for one mile beyond the corporate
limits of said town, and shall possess the like rights of dis-
tress and powers in collecting corporation taxes, service of
process and return thereof arising under authority of this
act, and all laws made in pursuance of it, and shall be enti-
tled to like fees and commissions as are allowed by the law
of this commonwealth to the collectors and constables thereof
for similar duties and services. Said sergeant shall execute
bond, with approved security, in such penalty as the council
shall deem necessary, payable to them and their successors
in Office, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties,
and payment over to them of said taxes and moneys col-
lected and received by him in virtue of his office. And he
and his securities, and his and their executors, and so forth
shall be subject to such proceedings, by motion or otherwise,
before the county or circuit court of Augusta county, for the
enforcement of the payment of such taxes or other moneys
by him collected or received as aforesaid, at the suit or mo-
tion of the said mayor, or other person entitled as collector
of the levies, and so forth, by them collected.

§ 5. The said council sball, by a two-third vote, remove
the said sergeant from office for misconduct, or for negligence
or incompetency, at any time during bis term of service. In
which case they are hereby empowered to appoint another
in his stead.

§ 9. That the said town, and taxable persons and property
therein, shall be exempt and free from the payment of any
poor rates or road tax, for any year in which it shall ap-
pear that said town shall, at its own expense, provide for its
own poor, and keep its roads and streets in order.
§ 11. That the said council shall appoint, annually, twe
assessors, who shall choose a third, all of whom shall be citz-
zens of said town, and owners of real estate; and the three
shall, between the first and the fifteenth day of April, tr
each year, assess the value of the real property in the cor.
porate limits of said town, and one of whom may, by diree-
tion of said council, also assess the value of the persona.
property of said town, which assessment shall form the baais
of taxation within the said town; and the said council shal!
also have power to levy and collect, annually, a tax on all
the real and personal property so assessed in said town, and
on such other subjects within said town as are or may b-
taxed by the revenue laws of this state, and on dogs belong.
ing to persons residing in the said town, and for the priv:.
lege of carrying on any regular business in the said town.
by persons who do not reside within the corporate limits o!
said town: provided, that the tax on real estate shall not
exceed, in any one year, fifty cents on one hundred dollars
value thereof, and that the poll or head tax shall not exceed
fifty cents on each male person in any one year; and for the
purpose of doing a regular business, or following any trade.
profession, occupation or calling, within said town, by a per-
son or persons who do not reside within said town, not
exceeding the sum of ten dollars, for any one year: and pro-
vided further, that the tax to be imposed on all other pro-
perty shall not exceed the taxes on like subjects by the
revenue laws of this state for the same year.

§ 16. The council of said town may extend the corporate
limits of said town, whenever authorized by a two-thirds
majority vote of the citizens of said town, and also of a
two-thirds majority vote of the person or persons owning
the real estate within the proposed extended limits, voting
on such Proposition: provided, that no tax other than for
roads and poor rates shall be levied on the land embraced
by the extended limits of said town, except on the lot:
which bave been improved by the orection of building:
thereon, or have been surveyed and sold as town lots, or
have been laid off and improved by the owner as town lots
by erecting thereon one or more buildings. , And said conn-
cil shall make an order to be recorded on the records of said
town, and in the clerk’s offico of Augusta county, establish-
ing such extended limits, and practically describe the same.
and also at any time after the passage of this act, to lay off
and open new streets, cross streets, and alleys, of such width
and extent as said council may think fit and convenient, or
alter those already laid off and opened, whether within the
original or extended limits of said town.

§ 18. All property within the corporate limits shall be
liable to a road tax not greater than fifteen cents on the one
hundred dollars. The council shall appoint and publish the

lace of bolding elections; and shall regulate and provide

or the weighing and measuring of hay, wood, coal, and
other articles sold or for sale in said town. All fines, penal-
-1e8, and amercements, and other moneys received and
“aised by virtue.of this act, and not otherwise directed to
de applied, shall be at the disposal of the council, for the
venefit of the town. All officers now holding office under
this charter shall continue to discharge the duties of their
respective offices until their successors are elected and quali-
hed.

2. Sections six, seven, and eight of the act approved April
twenty-eighth, cighteen hundred and seventy-four, charter-
ing: the town of Waynesboro’, in Augusta county, are hereby
repealed.

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