CHAP. 397.—An ACT authorizing a portion of Stafford county to
provide for a free right of way over a bridge to be built at Fred-
ericKsburg.

Approved February 28, 1890.

Whereas it 18 contemplated by the city of Fredericks-
burg to build a bridge across the Rappahannock river
opposite said city, and it being desirable that the citizens
of a portion of Stafford county should have free passage
across said bridge; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall
be the duty of the judge of the county of Stafford, when
petitioned by fifty voters of lower Stafford, which district
shall comprise that portion of Stafford lying south of a
straight line beginning at a point on the Stafford side of
the Rappahannock river opposite French John’s wharf,
in Fredericksburg, running to the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac railroad; also that portion of Stafford
county lying south and southeast of the Richmond, Fred-
ericksburg and Potomac railroad from the King George line
to Acquia creek, and down the south side of Acquia creek to
Potomac river—one-half of whom shall be freeholders—
to cause a vote of said voters of said district to be taken
at such time and places as the court may designate,
whether they will increase their bridge taxation over,
above, and in addition to the tax now levied upon them for
bridge purposes under existing laws; said tax not to ex-
ceed ten cents on the one hundred dollars of real and per-
sonal property, to be reduced by any surplus to be paid over
to a commissidner to be appointed by the court by the
bridge commissioners of Ficklin’s bridge, after paying the
necessary expenses of said Ficklin’s bridge; which said
surplus said commissioners of Ficklin’s bridge are required
to pay over annually, on the first day of January of each
year; said commissioner appointed by the court to give
bond and security to an amount satisfactory to the court
for the faithful performance of his duties before entering
on the duties of his office or receiving any money as such
commissioner; and also whether they are willing to pay
to the city of Fredericksburg acertain amount to be agreed
upon for the annual use of said bridge free of toll—such
vote to be taken and canvassed pursuant to section twelve
hundred and forty-four, code of Virginia of eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-seven, except that on the ballots used
shall be printed or written, “For levy for use of bridge
free of toll,” and “ Against levy for use of bridge free of
toll,” instead of “For the subscription” and against the
subscription. If it shall appear that a majority of the
voters voting at said election, including a majority of the
freeholders so voting, are in favor of the scheme above
mentioned, then this decision shall be carried out as fol-
lows: The commissioner, who shall be a freeholder resid-
ing in said district, shall bargain with the city of Fred-
ericksburg and ascertain upon what terms said city will
allow the free use of said bridge to the citizens of said
district; and said commissioner is authorized to make
such contract as may be right, subject to the ratification
of the court, to be entered of record; and said commis-
sioner is authorized to call for an account from the com-
missioners of Ficklin’s bridge, and to receive from them
annually, on the first day of January, any surplus, as here-
inbefore mentioned, and for any deficiency over and above
said surplus so received, required by the contract to be
paid said city of Fredericksburg, and the costs incident to
the execution of the duties of the commissioner, the board
of supervisors of Stafford county is directed to levy annu-
ally a tax not to exceed ten cents in the hundred dollars
on the real and personal property of said district; which
tax is to be collected as all other taxes, and to be paid by
the treasurer of the county to the commissioner, to be paid
to said city of Fredericksburg, and to the costs of exe-
cuting the duties of his office.
2. Should said Falmouth bridge commissioners refuse
to render the account mentioned in the first section of this
act, and to pay over said surplus, for thirty days-after be-
ing so requested by said commissioner, such delinquency
on their part shall be deemed misfeasance in office, for
which they may be removed from their positions by the
court of the county, on motion, after ten days’ notice.

3. The commissioner appointed by this act shall be
allowed three per centum on all moneys received and dis-
bursed by him, and shall annually settle his account
before the board of supervisors, at its annual meeting in
July, and should he fail during any year to settle said
account, the board of supervisors shall report such failure
to the county court of said county, and after ten days’
notice, on motion made by any citizen of said district
mentioned in the first section of this act, he shall be re-
moved from his position, and a new appointment made.
The court shall have full power to make such new appoint-
ments whenever it may be deemed necessary, and to revoke
an appointment already made.

4. All acts inconsistent with this act shall be void.

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

CHapP. 398 —An ACT to amend the charter of thetown of Big-
Stone Gap, and to legalize certain act of the town council.

Approved February 28, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That an act approved April seventh, eighteen hundred and
eighty-two, entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Mineral City, in the county of Wise, and an act approved
February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Big-Stone Gap,
in Wise county, be, and both are hereby, amended as fol-
lows:

2. The town formerly known as Mineral City, and since
February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,
known as Big-Stone Gap, shall, within the hereinafter
described town limits, be a town corporate by the name of
Big-Stone Gap, and by: that name shall have and exercise
all the powers and rights conferred on towns of less than
five thousand inhabitants by general law, and be subject
to all the provisions of the code of Virginia, and to laws
now in force or which may hereafter be enacted in refer-
ence to the government of towns of less than five thousand
inhabitants, so far as the same are not inconsistent with
the provisions of this act.
3. The limits of said town shall be as follows: Begining at
a pointin the centre of the main or north fork of Powell’s
river opposite the mouth of Roaring branch; thence south
thirty-five degrees, west fourteen thousand feet to a stake
on Stone mountain; thence south forty-two degrees, east
twelve thousand one hundred feet, passing at forty-three
hundred feet a corner of the Kemmerer and Ellington
Wells tracts, and at eighty-four hundred and fifty feet,
Powell’s river to the top of Wallins’ ridge; thence north
fifty-eight degrees and forty-five minutes, east fourteen
thousand feet to the east corner of the “Tate tract;”
thence south eighty-nine degrees and fifteen minutes,
east twenty-nine hundred feet to the west corner of the
William H. Wemples land; thence south sixty-four and
one-half degrees, east nine hundred and twenty feet to a
stake; thence north fifty-six and one-half degrees, east
fourteen hundred feet to a stake; thence north twenty-
four degrees, west five hundred and thirty-one feet toa
stake; thence north forty degrees, east seventeen hundred
feet to the middle of the south fork of Powell’s river;
thence down the middle of the same, with its meanders,
to the mouth of De Busk branch; thence up said branch
with the meanders thereof to the county road leading
from Big-Stone Gap to Wise court-house; thence north
seventy-one hundred feet to the top of Stone mountain;
thence south sixty-seven and one-half degrees, west thir-
teen thousand and nine hundred feet to the point of begin-
-ning.

4. The municipal authorities of said town shall consist of
a mayor and six trustees, who, together, shall compose the
town council, and all the corporate powers of said town
shall be exercised by said council or under its authority,
except where otherwise provided.

5. All persons residing within the corporate limits of
said town who are qualified to vote for members of the
general assembly, and whose names are by the proper
registrar put on the list of registered voters, shall be quali-
fied electors of said town, and any qualified elector of said
town shall be eligible to hold the office of mayor or trustee
of said town.

6. Members of the council shall oe elected on the fourth
Thursday of May of each year, to go into office on the
first day of July succeeding, and to hold office for one
year thereafter.

7. When, from any cause, a vacancy shall occur in the
office of mayor or trustee, it shall be filled by the council
at its next regular meeting, either from its own body or
from the qualified electors of said town; such appointee
to hold office until the first day of July succeeding his
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9. Not jess han thirty davs previous tothe fourth Tears
dav in Mav of cach vear the judz- of Wise oganty eocrt
either in term or vacation, shail appoint one registrar far
each ward of said town. whose duty it shal! be at the times
and in the rnanner preserib<d by law for registrations of To
ters, to make and revise lists of all qualined electors msiding
Within the respective wards of said registrars: and for a
wilful faiiure to place on said list the name of anv .yusli-
fied elector, the registrar so doing sha!l be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and mav be fined from one to five hundred
doilara.

19. The council may, if it sees fit, and when there are
more than three hundred qualified electors in said town
(it shall be not less than forty-five days previous to any
election) divide the town into two or more compact wards,
in which reside as nearly as may be three hundred quali-
fied «electors; and for all elections held under this charter
there shall be established at least one polling place in each
ward: provided, that the location and boundaries of each
ward shall be published for at least one week previous to
the appointment of registrars of elections; and provided,
further, that failure to observe this last provision shall
not nullify or vitiate the result of any election.

11. Not less than five days previous to the fourth Thurs-
day of May of each year, the judge of Wise county court
shall, either in term or vacation, appoint three qualified
voters of said town to act as judges of elections, and two
competent residents of said town to act as clerks of elec-
tions, for each of as many polling places as the council
shall have certified, under the hand of the mayor, to said
judge to be necessary; and the order of appointment by
said judge shall designate in what ward each set of judges
and clerks (if there be more than one polling place) shall
act. And said judges and clerks shall be paid the sum of
five dollars each for their services, to be paid by the coun-
cil out of the town treasury.

12. In all elections for mayer and trustees, held here-
after, the following method of procedure shall be followed :

(a) It shall be the duty of the town council to provide
at least one polling place for each three hundred qualified
electors in said town.

(b) At sunrise on the day of election, the council shall
furnish to the judges of election a sufficient number of
printed tickets—all of which shall be alike—which shall
contain on one side thereof the names of all persons who
are candidates for the position of mayor, which names
shall be printed under a caption, “For mayor,” and sepa-
rated from the other names on the ticket. Below the names
of candidates for mayor, and underneath the caption,
*‘ For trustee,” shall be printed the name of all persons
candidates for the office of trustee. The names of all per-
sons shall be placed on said tickets as candidates who
shall, in person or by agent, not later than noon of the
Tuesday preceding any election, announce themselves in
writing to the recorder of said town as candidate, and for
what office.

(c) Not earlier than six o’clock post meridian of Tues-
day preceding such election, and not later than noon of
the Wednesday preceding said day, it shall be the duty of
the council to have ten or more printed posters put in con-
spicuous places in said town, containing the names of all
candidates, arranged as the ballot tickets are; and said
posters shall also announce the place or places where the
polling is to be held.

(d) The polling shall be held only in a building or
buildings having two closed rooms, in one of which shall
be the judges and clerks of election and the ballot-box,
and in the other of which the voter, while engaged in
marking and folding his ballot as hereinafter indicated,
shall be; and said rooms shall be so arranged that all of
said parties may be entirely free from observation, and as
free as may be from the hearing of persons on the outside
of said polling place.

(e) For the failure of the council or of the recorder to
perform any of the duties above set out, the members of
the council or the recorder, as the case may be, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than fifty nor
more than five hundred dollars therefor.

(f) It shall further be the duty of the town council to
employ some suitable person to act as doorkeeper for each
polling place, who shall have all the powers and duties of
an assistant town sergeant during the holding of such
election, whose duty it shall be, subject to the directions
of the judges of election, to admit to the polling place one
and only one person at a time for the purpose of voting,
and while a voter is within the polling place he shall ad-
mit no other person within such polling place unless and
until he shall have been directed by the judges of election,
or any one of them, so to do.

(g) In the room into which the voter is first admitted
there shall be a table, a supply of the printed ballots, and
pen and ink or lead pencils, to be furnished by the coun-
cil. In this room, and not elsewhere, and while alone in

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said room, the voter shall, to designate the candidate for
whom he intends to cast his ballot, unless he be unable to
read, mark out from one of the printed tickets the names
of all persons other than those for whom he intends to
vote; he shall then fold the ticket in such manner that
the marking thereon cannot be seen without unfolding,
and then forthwith pass into the other room, and in the
presence of the judges and clerks of election, if the judges
decide that he is a qualified elector, and if his name be
found on the list of registered voters, deposit the ballot
which he has marked in the ballot box. When the voter
is unable to read, any one of the judges in the polling
place, and in the presence of the other judges, may strike
from the ticket such names as the voter directs, but shall
not by argument or in any way attempt to influence the
voter as to what names shall be stricken from said ticket;
the ballot shall then be deposited by the voter in the bal-
lot box, if he be found entitled to vote.

(h) When any voter has cast his ballot, or when any
one has been decided by the judges to be not entitled to
vote, he shall forthwith leave the polling place by a rear or
side door other than the door by which he entered, and when
in the opinion of any two of the judges, any person is guilty
of wilful delay in preparing his ballot, depositing the same,
or in leaving the polling place after his ballot is cast, or
after he has been directed by any one of the judges so to do,
it shall be the duty of said judges to have the doorkeeper
of said polling place arrest such person. When the door-
keeper shall have thus arrested any person he shall at once
summon as many of the regular or extraordinary police
force as may be necessary, and may also summon the by-
standers to assist, to whom the person arrested shall be
forthwith delivered, and by whom such person shall with-
out delay, and without further process than the verbal
order of any one of the judges of election, be placed in
the town jail, there to remain until after the election shall
be closed and the votes counted and certified.

(i) When any vote is challenged—and nochallenge shall
be tried if made after the voter has passed within the sec-
ond or rear room, in which the judges and clerks are—the
judges shal] direct the doorkeeper to admit into the front
room the party challenged, the challenger, and as many wit-
nesses and advocates as the judges may think proper, not
to exceed ten 1n number. They shall] then forthwith ad-
minister the oaths prescribed by law, hear such testimony
as they see fit, and then, before deciding upon the qualifi-
cations of the voter, exclude from the polling place all
persons admitted for the trial of the challenge, except the
party intending to vote. The judges shall then decide as
to the qualifications of the intending voter, after which
the procedure shall be as above set forth.
(j) Where it is practicable, the house selected for the
polling place shall be on a lot otherwise vacant, and located
at least twenty-five feet back from the sidewalk of the
street on which it fronts. Before the day of election, if
the council deems it advisable a strong fence shall be built
as follows: Beginning at the house at a point just to the
left of the door of the front polling room; thence to the
line of the street in front of said house; thence to the left
with the street line a sufficient distance to clear the house;
thence back from the street a sufficient distance to clear
the house; thence parallel with the street line a sufficient
distance to clear the house, and three feet or more beyond;
thence to the line of the said street; thence to the left
with the street line to a point within three feet of the line
first above mentioned; thence parallel with said line toa
point within three feet of the said house. In some part
of the fence, giving egress to the street, other than the
three-foot alley leading from the street to the front door
of the polling place, is to be made a gate provided with a
spring latch on the inside. Across the narrow fenced
alley leading from the street to the front dodr of the poll-
ing place, not less than three feet and not more than six
feet from said door, shall be a bar or gate, which the door-
keeper and no one else, shall open to admit to the polling
place all persons rightfully entitled to enter the same.
No exit shall be made from the premises whereon the
polling place is established except through the other gate
herein above provided for.

(k) Fora failure to enforce any of the duties herein
above imposed upon the judges of election, each of the
judges shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined
not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars.

(1) If any person be found guilty of wilfully delaying
or obstructing any election, or of intimidating any voter,
or of attempting to do either, he shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and may be fined not less than ten nor more
than five hundred dollars.

(m) The method of keeping tally of thé voters, count-
ing the ballots, certifying and returning the result of any
election held under this charter, shall be the same as is
now provided by general law.

(n) The town council shall defray out of the town trea-
sury all expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions
herein above set forth.

13, All trials for offences against the above provisions
shall be held by some justice of the peace other than a
member of the council of said town, or before the judge
of Wisecounty court, but any fines collected therefor shall
be paid into the town treasury, and all the costs attending
such trials, together with the costs for board of any one
imprisoned, for offences against the above provisions, shall
be paid by said town.

14. The oaths of office of all officers of said town, in-
cluding the members of the council, may be taken and
subscribed before a notary public, and if recorded ina
book to be kept for that purpose by the recorder of said
town, the same need not be recorded in the county court.

15. The mayor shall appoint the town sergeant, who
shall give bond, to be approved by the mayor, and as many
assistant sergeants as the council may deem advisable, all
of whom shall hold office at the pleasure of the mayor.

16. The council may appoint such other town officials
as it sees fit, prescribe their duties, and fix their compen-
sation, as well as the compensation of the sergeant and
assistant sergeants.

17. All taxes, levies, licenses, and assessments shall be
collected by an officer, to be designated city collector, who
shall give bond, to be approved by tbe council, before com-
mencing his duties. The collector shall also receive all
funds collected by the mayor or other members of the
council as fines and penalties, and he shall forthwith de-
liver all public moneys received by him to the town trea-
surer.

18. Two or more offices under the town government may
be held by the same person: provided, that no member of
the council shall hold any other town office except as here-
inafter provided.

19. The office of treasurer may, if the council see fit, be
filled by some bank or banking company. The duties of
the treasurer shal! be simply to receive the town money
from the city collector, and to pay out the same on war-
rants signed by the recorder, and countersigned by the
mayor, and to make monthly statements to the council
showing all sums secured and paid out.

20. It shall be the duty of the present council to fix the
compensation of the members of the council, who are to go
into office on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety; but
no council shall ever increase the compensation of its own
members.

21. The council may, in addition to the powers given by
general law, pass ordinances imposing punishments for all
offences against the ordinances of said town, except felo-
nies committed within said town; and the jurisdiction of
the town and state authorities for the trial thereof shall
be co-ordinate, and all by-laws and ordinances and reso-
lutions or acts under authority thereof, heretofore passed
or done, are hereby declared legal and binding.

22. The council may fix fire limits in said town as pre-
scribed by section one thousand thirty-eight of the code
of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; and further, upon
the petition of two-thirds of the owners of any square or
block in said town, it shall be the duty of the council to
forthwith pass an ordinance forbidding any one to erect
within such square or block any building or addition to
any building more than ten feet' high, unless the outer
walls thereof be of brick and mortar, or stone and mortar,
or glass, or iron, and unless the roof of the same be cov-
ered with tin, or iron, or slate, or some other non-combus,
tible material. .

23. It shall not be lawful for the council to impose or
collect any taxes, levies, or assessments on any tract of
land within the town limits which is not platted and laid
off in streets, which have been dedicated to public use and
blocks or squares, and which is lying unused, or is used
only for farm or garden purposes: provided, that for the
purpose of making roads or preparing the same to or
through such lands the same may be taxed or assessed.

24. In order to open, grade, pave, macadamize, or other-
Wise improve any street, sidewalk, or alley, the council is
authorized to make an assessment of such sum as may be
necessary to complete such work, to be charged on the
property abutting on such street, sidewalk, or alley, and
to be apportioned according to the number of feet front-
ing thereon. And to effectually carry out the powers thus
conferred, the council may make and enforce all needful
and proper by-laws and ordinances.

25. Licenses to sell vinous, spirituous, or malt liquors
shall be granted only by the town council, and only when
the application shall have been first licensed by the county
court of Wise county; but the fact thatany applicant has
been licensed by the said county court shall not make it in-
cumbent on the council to grant himalicense. Nolicense
to sell liquor shall be granted by the council unless and
until it be made to appear to the satisfaction of the said
council that the applicant is a fit and proper person, of
good moral character, and also that the situation in which
the applicant is to conduct the business of selling liquor
is a fit and proper place for such purpose, and until the
applicant shall have furnished a bond, payable to said
town, with security to be approved by the council, condi-
tioned upon the observance, by said applicant, his part-
ners, agents or employees, of all the ordinances, resolutions,
or by-laws of said town in force when said license is granted
or which may be passed thereafter.

26. It shall be lawful for the council at any time to pass
such reasonable ordinances as to it shall seem proper for
the regulation of places where liquor is sold, and no license
to sel] liquor shall be valid unless it shall be accepted by
the licensee subject to the following conditions: First,
that the council may at any time fix or alter the time of
opening and closing all saloons and bar-rooms; second,
that the mayor may at any time by proclamation forbid
the sale or giving away of liquors by said licensee, his part-
ners, agents, or employees, to any one: provided, that in
each such proclamation the period within which selling or
giving away of liquors is forbidden shall not exceed twenty-
four hours.

27. It shall not be lawful for the mayor to issue any
proclamation forbidding the selling or giving away of
liquors, except on special occasions, when he is of opinion
that the safety or good order of the town is imperilled,
and not more than fifty such proclamations shall be issued
in any one year, unless the mayor be directed by a unani-
mous vote of the council to issue more than said number.

28. For the purpose of street improvement, drainage,
sewerage, building bridges, erecting a town hall, a jail,
market-houses, supplying the town with light and water,
and for all such public purposes, the town council is au-
thorized to issue and sell the registered bonds of the town,
payable in not more than twenty years from the date of
issue, to bear interest at a rate not greater than eight per
centum per annum: provided, however, that no such issue
of bonds shall be made unless and until, at an election to
be ordered held, for such purpose by the council, a ma-
jority of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor
of the issue. No such election shall be held until after
twenty days’ notice thereof shall have been given by pub-
lication or posting, which notice shall show what amount
of bonds is proposed to be issued, within what period or
periods they are to become due, what rate of interest they
are to bear, and to what purpose or purposes the proceeds
of the sale of said bonds are to be applied. At such elec-
tion all residents of said town qualified to vote for mem-
bers of the general assembly may vote. And the town
council is hereby authorized, by proper ordinances, to
regulate and direct the manner and details of holding
such elections and of ascertaining the result thereof. A
vote entered on the town minutes by ayes and noes, show-
ing two-thirds of the trustees of said town in favor of
holding such election, shall be had before such election
can be legally held.

29. If such an election be held, and a majority of the
votes legally cast be found in favor of an issue of bonds,
it shall be the duty of the town council to elect four com-
petent and suitable residents of said town, who, together
with the mayor of the town, shall compose a board to be
known as the board of sinking fund commissioners. The
mayor of the town (ex-officio a member) shall be the presi-
dent of said board. All the members of the said board
shall give bond before entering on their duties in such sum
and with such security as the council may prescribe, and
no trustee of the town shall be a member of said board.
The members of the said board shal] hold office until the fif-
teenth day of July succeeding their election, unless sooner
removed by the council, and until their sucessors are duly
elected and qualified: provided, however, that the mayor
(member ex-officio) shall, on the first day of July follow-
ing the assumption by him of the office of president of
said board, be succeeded in said office by his successor in
the office of mayor. Between July first and July fifteenth
succeeding the election of the first board, and annually
thereafter between said dates, the council shall elect four
members of said board, to hold office for one year and until
their successors are duly elected and qualified, unless
sooner removed by the council. When any member of said
board shall die, resign, or become incapacitated, the coun-
cil shall forthwith elect a successor in office. It shall be
the duty of the board of sinking fund commissioners, when
any issue of bonds is ordered by the council, to have the
same'prepared, signed by the president of said board and
the recorder of said town, and to sell the same on the best
terms and for the best price that can, by all reasonable
effort, be obtained. ;

Whenever an issue of bonds shall have been made, it
shall be the duty of the town council to levy and have col-
lected a sufficient sum each year after such issue to pay
the interest on said bonds which will have accrued up to
the time such collection can be made and disbursed, and
also equal to such proportion of the principal of all of such
bonds as one year bears to the number of years to elapse
from the date of issue of such bonds until the time the
same become due and payable.

The sums thus collected shall be turned over to the
board of sinking fund commissioners, who shall, when it
is due, pay the accrued interest on all of said bonds, and
the balance of the money thus placed in their hands shall
be by said board invested in interest-bearing or dividend-
paying securities which, in their judgment, are safe and
not liable to fluctuate in value. And the fund thus col-
lected shall, until the discharge of the bonds of the issue
to secure which it is collected, be applied to no other pur-
pose whatever.

The council shall make and pass all necessary by-laws
and ordinances to carry out the provisions above as to
the creation, investment, preservation and application of
such sinking fund.

30. It shall be lawful for the council of said town to
make by-laws requiring that when any judgment shall be
rendered against any person for any fine or penalty under
any ordinance or resolution of said council, and the same
be not immediately paid, the person or persons so in de-
fault may be required, by the order of the court passing
sentence, to work out such fines or penalties on the public
streets or elsewhere, at the rate of fiftv cents per diem,
under the direction of the sergeant or his assistants, and
under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by
the council.

31. The power to change county roads within the cor-
porate limits of said town so that they shall conform to
the streets of said town as they are now or shall be laid
out, is hereby vested in the town council. -

32. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act are hereby repealed.

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