Chap. 172.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3,4 and 5of an act en
titled “an act to incorporate the town of Gordonsville, Virginia, approve:
July 9, 1870, and to repeal chapter 352 of the acts of assembly of 1889-'90.”

Approved February 7, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec
tions three, four and five of an act entitled an act to incorporate th
ate of Gordonsville, be amended and re-enacted so as to read a
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§ 3. The officers of said town shall consist of seven trustees, who
shall compose the council (four of whom shall constitute a quorum
to trangact business), and a sergeant, who shall hold their offices for
two years, and until their successors are elected or appointed and
qualified. The members of the council provided for in this act shall
not be elected until the fourth Thursday of May, eighteen hundred
and ninety-five. The said council shall have power to pass all by-
laws and ordinances for the government of said town (not in conflict
with the constitution of the state or of the United States), and also
to provide for keeping the streets in order and paving the same and
for other necessary improvements, for which purpose they may levy
such tax as they may deem proper, not exceeding ninety cents on the
hundred dollars of the assessed value of property, and may impose
such license tax (not in conflict with the laws of the state or
United States) as they may deem proper upon any business.

& 4. The council shall elect from their own number a president,
who shall preside at all the meetings of the council, and when they
are equally divided, shall, in addition to his individual vote, give
the casting vote; and in case such president be absent, they may
elect a president pro tempore from their own number, with like
duties and powers. The said council shall have power to elect a
police justice, who shall be invested with all the powers of a justice
of the peace within the limits of said town.

§ 5. The sergeant of said town shall be appointed by the said
council, at its regular meeting in May, eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, and shall hold his office for two years, beginning on the first
day of July succeeding his appointment. But before entering upon
the duties of his office, he shal! give bond, with good security, in a sum
to be fixed by the said council, conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of all the duties of his office; said bond to be subject to
the approval of the said council; said sergeant shall be a conserva-
tor of the peace, and be invested with the full powers of a constable
within the limits of said town; also have the power to arrest
offenders within a mile of such limits for offences committed within
the limits of said town. The town council shall have the power to
appoint said sergeant, or any other person, collector of town taxes,
and such collector may distrain and sell therefor in like manner, as
a treasurer may distrain and sell for state taxes, and shall have in
other respects like powers to enforce the collection of said town taxes.

2. Chapter three hundred and fifty-two of the acts of assembly of
eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety
18 hereby repealed.

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