Chap. 695.—An ACT to add independent sections to an act entitled an act to
amend the charter of the town of Fredericksburg, approved March 23, 1871.

Approved March 8, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
following independent sections be, and the same are, added to and
made a part of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the
town of Fredericksburg, approved March twenty-third, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-one.

a. The common council of the city of Fredericksburg shall have
power to forbid any merchant, tradesman or the keeper of an inn,
ordinary, bar-room or saloon, within the corporate limits of said city,
from selling, bartering, giving or furnishing by themselves, or by
any persons, in their employment or at their request, any spirituous
or intoxicating or malt liquors to a minor without first obtaining
the written authority therefor of his parent or guardian, and to im-
pose fines and imprisonments in the city jail for the violations of
such ordinances as may be made by said council in relation thereto,
additional to those prescribed by the state laws for such offences,
such fines to be not less than twenty dollars nor more than two hun-
dred dollars, and such imprisonment to be for not less than ten days
nor over two months for each offence; and to require the offender
upon conviction of such offence to enter into a recognizance with
surety in a penalty of three hundred dollars to be of good behavior
for one year.

b. The said council shall have the power to forbid the opening of
any bar-room, saloon, or other place for the sale of intoxicating or
malt liquors, within the corporate limits of said city, and to forbid
the selling, bartering, giving or furnishing any intoxicating or malt
liquors in any bar-room, saloon or other place within said corporate
limits, between twelve o’clock on any Saturday night and sunrise of
the succeeding Monday morning, and to impose fines and imprison-
ment in the city jail for the violation of such ordinances as may be
made by said council in relation thereto, additional to those pre-
scribed by the state laws for such offences, such fines to be not less
than twenty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and such
imprisonment to be not less than ten days nor over two months for
each offence, and to require the offender upon conviction of such
offence to enter into a recognizance with surety in the penalty of
three hundred dollars to be of good behavior for one year.

c. The right of appeal to the corporation court of said city is given
to any person convicted by the judgment of the mayor of said city
of offences under the provisions of the above sections a and b.

d. In every case of conviction under the ordinances of said com-
mon council made in relation to the offences mentioned in the above
sections a and b, the mayor shall certify the said convictions to the
judge of said corporation court with the names of the witnesses who
testified in each case.

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