Chap. 257.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 23, 61, 108, 109 of an act ap-
proved February 28, 1896, entitled ‘‘An act to provide a new charter for the
city of Roanoke.”’

Approved February 9, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
twenty-three, sixty-one, one hundred and eight and one hundred and
nine of an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-six, entitled ‘‘An act to provide a new charter for the city of
Roanoke,’’ be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 23. To establish a market or markets in and for said city, and to ap-
point proper officers therefor; to prescribe the time and place for hold-
ing the same; to provide suitable buildings and grounds therefor, and
to enforce such regulations as shall be necessary to prevent huckstering;
forestalling and regrating. And for the purpose of regulating and con-
trolling the sale of fresh meats, fresh fish, farm and domestic products
in said city the common council shall have authority to confine the sale
of such articles or products to the public markets and public squares
provided by the city for that purpose, and shall have authority to levy
and collect a license tax for the sale of fresh meats and fresh fish, and
may impose a curbage tax, not exceeding twenty cents, for each wagon,
cart or other vehicle containing farm and domestic products brought into
said city and offered for sale.

§ 61. The police justice shall possess and exercise all the jurisdiction
and exercise all the power and authority in criminal cases of a justice of
the peace for said city, but he shall receive no fees from the said city for
services as such police justice in the issuance or trial of state warrants or
for any services to the state, and all fees collected by such police justice
for state services shall be by him reported to the city auditor and paid
into the treasury by pay-in warrant according to law. He shall also try
all violations of the city ordinances and inflict such punishment as may
be prescribed for a violation of the same. He shall keep his office and
court at the place prescribed by the council daily, except Sunday, and
if from any cause he shall be unable to act the mayor shall appoint one
of the justices of the peace of said city to discharge the duties of the
police justice prescribed herein during such inability, and who shall be
paid for such services by the police justice (except in case of inability
from sickness of said police justice, not exceeding thirty days in any
one year) at the same rate per diem as such police justice receives.
From any decision of the police justice affecting the legality or validity
of any ordinance passed by the council the city shall have the right of
an appeal! to the hustings court of said city.

$108. There shall be a lien on real estate for the city taxes assessed
thereon from the commencement of the year for which they are assessed ;
and there shall be a further len upon the rent of said real estate, whether
the same be in money or in kind, for taxes for the current year. And
the interest and penalties to be imposed or charged on account of the
non-payment of all city levies and assessments shall be the same ag is pro-
vided by the general statute in the case of state taxes. The tax collector
of said city shall make out a list of the lands delinquent for the non-
payment of the city taxes and assessment thereon, and shall deliver
said list to the city treasurer, who shall consolidate or combine the same
with the list of lands delinquent for the non-payment of state taxes for
the like year, arranging said lists in separate columns, and shall advertise
and sell the same in conjunction therewith, and at the same time and in
the same manner as is provided for the sale of lands delinquent for the
non-payment of state taxes, and shall make report thereof, as is pro-
vided by law, to the corporation court. After said sales have been con-
firmed or corrected by said court they shall be recorded in the office of
the clerk of said court in a book to be known as the ‘‘ Delinquent land
book’’; and the sales of delinquent lands for city taxes for the years
eighteen hundred and ninety-six and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven
shall be by the tax collector reported to the corporation court for said
city, and after being confirmed or corrected shall also be recorded in
said delinquent land book. And said lands may be redeemed in accord-
ance with the statute made and provided for the redemption of delin-
quent lands sold for state taxes.

§ 109. The collector of city taxes and his deputies, and any other
collector of sums due to said city which the council thereof may ap-
point, shall be vested with any and all of the powers which are now or
may hereafter be vested in any collector of state taxes, and the mode of
his proceeding and the mode of proceeding against him for a failure to
perform his duties shall be in accordance with the law made and pro-
vided in the case of collectors of state taxes and the ordinances and
regulations provided by the common council for said city. No deed of
trust or mortgage on goods and chattels shall prevent the same from
being distrained and sold for taxes assessed against the grantor in such
deed while such goods and chattels remain in the possession of the
grantor, nor shall any such deed prevent the goods and chattels con-
veyed from being distrained and sold for taxes thereon, no matter in
whose possession they may be found. And in the event that the party
or persons owing said taxes, or the person in the possession of the goods
and chattels upon which said taxes have been assessed, is about to ab-
scond, remove said goods and chattels beyond the jurisdiction of the
corporation court of said city, or make way with or dispose of said
goods and chattels, with the design of avoiding the payment of said
taxes, then said collector may levy or distrain and sell said goods and
chattels for the payment of said taxes then due in the same way and with
the same effect as he would be authorized to do on or after the first day
of August of the year in which said taxes accrued.

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