Chap. 184.—An ACT to repeal section 2 of an act approved January 28, 1890,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to
provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March 28,
1871, and to amend and re-enact section 7 of said act as amended by an act
approved January 81, 1888; also to amend and re-enact sections 31, 32 and 35
of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottes-
ville, approved March 28, 1871; and also to amend and re-enact section 37 of
an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Charlottesville,
approved March 3, 1892.

Approved February 9, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two of an act approved January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred
and ninety, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section twenty-
two of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town
of Charlottesville, approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-one, and to amend and re-enact section seven of said
act as amended by an act approved January thirty-first, eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and
that sections thirty-one, thirty-two and thirty-five of an act approved
March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled an
act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, and sec-
tion thirty-seven of an act approved March third, eighteen hundred
and ninety-two, entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of
Charlottesville, be amended and re-enacted so that said sections
shall hereafter be as follows:

§ 31. If the said treasurer shall fail to account for and pay over
all or any moneys that shall come into his hands when thereto re-
quired by the council, it shall be lawful for the council, in the cor-
porate name of the city, by motion before any court of record hav-
ing jurisdiction in the city of Charlottesville, to recover from the
treasurer and his sureties, or their personal representatives, any sum
that may be due from said treasurer to said city on ten days’ notice.

§ 32. All fines imposed for any violation of any city ordinance
shall be collected by the chief of police; and if the said chief of
police shall fail to collect, account for and pay over al] the fines in
his hands for collection, according to the condition of his bond, it
shall be lawful for the council to recover the same by motion, in the
corporate name of the city, before the corporation court of said city,
against the said chief of police, his sureties on his said bond, or any
or either of them, his or their executors or administrators, on giving
ten days’ notice of the same. :

§ 35. The council shall not take or use any private property for
streets or other public purposes without making to the owner o1
owners thereof just compensation for the same; but in all cases
where the said corporation cannot, by agreement, obtain title to the
land or other property necessary for such purposes, it shall be lawfu.
for said corporation to apply to and obtain from either the corpora
tion court of the city of Charlottesville or the circuit or county cour
of Albemarle county, according to jurisdiction over the subject mat:
ter, for authority to condemn the same, which shal! be applied fo
and proceeded with according to law.
§ 37. There shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city o
Charlottesville, on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundres
and ninety-four, a mayor, who shall hold his office for two year
from the first of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-four; one clerl
of the corporation court, who shall hold his office’ for the term o
six years; one commonwealth’s attorney, one sergeant, one commis
sioner of the revenue, who shal! hold their offices for the term of tw
years; one city treasurer, one justice, and one constable, who shal
hold their offices for the term of three years. And there shall bs
established for the city of Charlottesville a corporation court, to bi
held by the city judge of said city at such times as may be desig
nated by law; and the jurisdiction of said court shall be such as i:
now prescribed by law, and the salary of said judge shall be fixec
by the city council at a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars pe:
annum; and the city of Charlottesville shall remain a part anc
parcel of the same legislative and senatorial district to which it be.
longed as the town of Charlottesville.

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