Chap. 493.—An ACT to amend the 24th section of an act entitled an act to in-
corporate the town of Berryville, and to provide a charter for the same.

Approved March 1, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
twenty-fourth section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the
town of Berryville, and to provide a charter for the same, approved
October twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy, be amended as
follows, to-wit:

§ 24. The treasurer of said town shall have power to collect the
town taxes, levies and assessments, and shall have power one month
after he shall have received the books of the commissioner of the
revenue of said town to distrain and sell therefor in like manner
as a county treasurer may distrain and sell for state taxes, and
shall have in all other respects the same powers as a county trea-
surer to enforce the payment and collection thereof.

The sergeant shall have power to exercise within the corporate
limits of said town all the duties that a constable can legally exer-
cise in regard to the collection of claims, executing and levying pro-
cess, 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 that a constable is legally liable to for any failure or
dereliction in his said office, to be recovered in the same manner
and before the same courts that said fines, penalties and forfeitures
are now recovered against a constable.

2. All the provisions of said act of Octoher twenty-ninth, eighteen
hundred and seventy, inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

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