CHAP. 78.—An ACT to amend the ninth section of an act entitled
an act to amend and re-enact an act to amend the charter of the
coe of Warrenton, passed April 9, 1852, approved January 17,

71,

Approved January 22, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the ninth section of an act, entitled “an act to
amend and re-enact an act to amend the charter of the
town of Warrenton, passed April ninth, eighteen hundred
and fifty-two,” approved January seventeenth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-one, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:
§ 9. The council of said town of Warrenton, shall have
power to lay off streets, walks, or alleys; alter, improve,
and light the same, and have them kept in good order; to
lay off public grounds, and provide all buildings proper
for the town; to prescribe the time for holding markets
and regulate the same; to prevent injury or annoyance
from anything dangerous, offensive or unhealthy, and
cause any nuisance to be abated; to regulate the keeping
of gunpowder or other combustibles, and provide magazines
for the same; to provide, in or near the town, water-works,
and places for the interment of the dead ;° to prevent the
polution of the water, and injury to the water-works, for
which purpose their jurisdiction shall extend to a mile
above the same; to provide for the regular building of
houses in the town; to make regulations for the purpose
of guarding against danger from accidents by fire; and
on the petition of the owners of not less than two-thirds
of the ground included in any square, to prohibit the erec-
tion in such square of any building more than ten feet
high, unless the outer walls thereof be made of brick and
mortar, or stone and mortar, and provide for the removal
of any building or addition erected contrary to such pro-
hibition; to provide for the weighing and measuring of
hay, coal, or any other article for sale, and regulate the
transportation thereof through the streets; protect the
property of the town and its inhabitants, and preserve
peace and good order therein. For carrying into effect
these and their other powers, they may make ordinances
and by-laws, consistent with the laws of the state, and
prescribe fines or other punishment for violation thereof,
including imprisonment in the county jail of Fauquier
county, for a term not exceeding thirty days, and for fail-
ure to pay any fine, to which end the authorities of said
town shall have the right to use said jail for any purpose
for which the use of a jail may be needed by them, under
the acts of the council or of the state. From the judgment
of any legally authorized officer of the town, imposing a
fine on any offender against the laws of the commonwealth,
or the ordinances of said town, no appeal shall be allowed,
unless such fine, exclusive of costs, shall be more than ten
dollars, or the punishment of imprisonment be added to
said fine; but this provision is not to conflict with the
right of such officer to commit the offender in default of
the payment of any fines imposed as a means of enforcing
the payment of the same, in accordance with the general
laws of the commonwealth, or to be construed as giving
an appeal therefrom. The said council shall have power
to keep a town guard, appoint, or cause to be elected by
the voters of said town, a sergeant, collector, and such
other officers as they may deem necessary, remove them
from office, define their powers, prescribe their duties and
compensation, and take from any of them a bond, with
sureties in such penalty, and with such conditions as to
the council may seem fit, and payable to the town by its
corporate name.

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