Chap. 427.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled “ an act
to incorporate Bondtown, in Wise county,” approved February 24, 1894.

Approved February 26, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six of an act entitled “an act to incorporate Bondtown, in Wise
county,” approved February the twanty-fourth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 6. The sergeant of said town shall have the same power and dis-
charge the same duties as constable within the corporate limits of said
town, and to the distance of one mile beyond same. He shall have
the power to arrest in said town, or anywhere within Wise county,
upon a warrant issued by the mayor ora justice of the peace, any
person charged with a violation of the laws of this commonwealth
or ordinances of said town, and where the same are committed in his
presence within the limits of said town, he shall have authority and
power to arrest forthwith without warrant the offender, and carry
him before the mayor or some conservator of the peace of said town,
to be dealt with according to law. The council may appoint him as
collector of taxes and levies, allowing him a certain per centum for
collecting the same. The mayorof said town shall exercise the same
power as a justice of the peace.