Chap. 270.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4, 17, 23. and:
of an Act entitled an Act to Provide a new Charter for the Twa-.
Charlottesville, approved March 28, 1871.

Approved April 28, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Ths:
sections four, seventeen, twenty-three, and twenty-four «
an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the tom
of Charlottesville, approved March twenty-eighth, eightee
hundred and seventy-one, be amended and re-enacted sox
to read as follows:

Ҥ 4, There shall be elected annually by the council of ssi4
town a town sergeant, collector, clerk, assessor, treasurer.
overseer of poor and street commissioner, all of which office.
or apy number of same, may be held and exercised by th:
same person or different persons as the council may deter.
mine.”

Ҥ 17. The levy so made may be laid on all male person
who are residents of said town, over twenty-one years of ag¢.
upon dogs, and upon all personal and real estate within said
town, except such persons, personal and real estate as ar
exempt from taxation under the laws of this state, and alz
upon all other such subjects within said town as may at the
time be assessed with state taxes: provided, however, that the
tax on real estate and personal property, including choses in
action, shall not exceed in any one year, fifty cents on every
hundred dollars value thereof; and provided moreover, that
the tax on income shall not exceed the rate of taxation on
the same as fixed by the laws of this state at the time of said
levy. But nothing contained in this section, as hereby
amended, shall limit or restrict the power of the town coun-
cil to levy such additional taxation as they may deem neces.
sary for the use and benefit of the town: provided, such ad-
ditional taxation shall be authorized and sanctioned by s
vote of the qualified voters of said town, in the mode aad
manner prescribed in section twenty-three of the new char.
ter of said town as hereinafter amended, for creating a loan
or loans of money.

Ҥ 23. The council of said town may negotiate any loan or
loans, for the purpose of improving the streets, lighting the
same, buying necessary real estate, erecting public buildings,
supplying the town with water, and for other purposes, and
shall have authority to issue registered or coupon bonds for
said loan or loans, payable not more than twenty years after
the date of said bonds, bearing interest at a rate not greater
than eight per centum, payable semi-annually: provided, that
two-thirds of the council of said town shall approve and an-
thorize said loan or loans: and provided further. that said
loan or loans shall not be made unless and until the same
shall be sanctioned by three-fifths of the qualified voters of
said town, voting upon the question, which three-fifths shall
include a majority of the votes cast by the freeholders at
such election, and also a majority of the registered voters of
said town, to be ascertained by a vote taken and conducted
in the manner authorized for any election under the charter
of said town, after having given notice thereof by publica-
tion for four weeks successively, in the newspapers published
in said town. And at any election held under this section,
each ballot shall be endorsed with the name of the voter,
which shall be inspected by the officer or officers conductin
the election at their respective voting places: and provide
further, that the council of said town shall annually invest
in Virginia state or United States bonds, as a sinking fund,
such proportion of the revenue of said town as shall be equal
in cash value to one-twentieth of said loan or loans, which
sinking fund shall be used exclusively for the payment of the
bonds issued for said loan or loans. Any bonds issued under
the provisions of this section, shall be regularly numbered,
signed by the mayor, clerk and treasurer, and recorded in a
book to be kept for that purpose; the collector shall have
power to collect the town taxes, fines and levies, and shall

ave power, one month after he shall have received the bodks
of the commissioner of the revenue of said town, to distrain
and sell therefor, in like manner as the collector of taxes may
sell and distrain for state taxes, and shall have in all other
respects the same powers as such collector to enforce the pay-
ment and collection thereof; and the said sergeant shall have
power to exercise, within the corporate limits of said town,
and within one mile thereof, all the duties that a constable
can legally exercise in regard to the collection of claims, ex-
ecuting and levying process; and he shall be entitled to the
same compensation therefor, and he and his securities shall
be liable to all the fines, penalties and forfeitures, as a con-
stable is legally held to, for any failure or dereliction of duty
in his said office, to be recovered in the same manner, and
before the same courts, that said fines, penalties and for-
feitures, aro now recovered against a constable.

2. Before the foregoing amendments shall take effect as a
part of the charter of said town, they shall be submitted to
& vote of the qualified voters of said town, at the next elec-
tion held therein, on the second Saturday in June, eighteen
hundred and seventy-four, for mayor and council, and at said
election each qualified voter who shall approve of the amend-
ments embraced in this act shall deposit a ticket or ballot,
on which shall be written or printed the words, “For the
amendments,” and those who oppose said amendments shall
deposit a ticket or ballot whereon shall be written or printed,
“Against the amendments.”

3. If it shall appear that a majority of the qualified voters
voting upon the questior at such election are in favor of said
amendments, then the same shall be part and parcel of the
charter of the said town, otherwise not.

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