Chap. 551.—An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Gordonsville.

Approved February 28, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the charter
of the town of Gordonsville, in the county of Orange, approved July
ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and amended by the acts of eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-three and ninety-four, be amended by adding
thereto the following sections—to-wit:

§ 8. There shall be a lien on the real estate within said town for the
town taxes assessed thereon from the commencement of the year for
which they are assessed. When any of said taxes are returned delin-
quent a list of the same shall be returned to the clerk of the county
court of Orange county, and be by him entered in a book furnished by
the said town and kept in his said office, the form and the manner of
entering the same to be similar to that provided by law for the record
of delinquent taxes on real estate due the state. In said book there
shall also be columns in which shall be entered the names of purchasers,
the amount and date of sales of real estate sold for delinquent taxes as
provided in this charter. When the taxes so returned delinquent are
entered in said record as herein provided, the same shall be held to be con-
structive notice of the lien thereof, and the said real estate shall be liable
thereto as against creditors, and in the hands of purchasers or other per-
sons into whose hands the said real estate may pass. And the said real
estate may be sold for said taxes as provided in this charter, whether
owned by the persons in whose name it was assessed or not. After said
real estate has been so sold for taxes the same may be redeemed within
such time and by such persons and upon such terms as is provided by
law for the redemption of lands sold for state taxes, except that the
moneys paid for such redemption shall be paid to the president of the
council of the town of Gordonsville. Upon the redemption of said real
estate the president of the council shall issue to the persons so redeeming
it a certificate to that effect, which shall be presented to the clerk of the
county court of Orange county, who shall thereupon mark in said record
the redemption of said real estate, the name of the party redeem-
ing 1t and the date thereof. The clerk shall receive for his services a
fee of ten cents for each lot of land so entered in said record, a fee of
ten cents for the entry of such sale of real estate as provided in this
charter, and a fee of twenty-five cents for each redemption so entered, to
be paid by the town of Gordonsville, and which shall be charged against
and bea licn upon said land along with the taxes against the same. At
the expiration of the time within which said real estate may be re-
deemed, if the same has not been redeemed as herein provided, the pre-
sident of the council of the town of Gordonsville shall execute to the
purchaser thereof a deed conveying the same in like manner as is now
prescribed by law for the conveyance of rea] estate by the clerk of the
county court which has been sold for delinquent taxes due the state, and
such deed shall convey such title as would be conveyed had the same
been sold for delinquent state taxes,

S$‘). The county court of Orange county on the application of the
council of the town of Gordonsville may order real estate delinquent for
taxes assessed by said town to be sold by the sergeant at public auction
for such taxes at such time as it shall direct; said sale and the advertise-
mient thereof to be made in conformity, as near as may be, to the state
law with reference to the sale of delinquent lands. When such sale has
been made the same, with the date thereof, the name of the purchaser,
and amount for which the said real estate sold, shall be entered by the
lerk in the record of delinquent real estate provided for in section eight
f this act.

§ 10. Authority is hereby given to the sergeant of the town of Gor-
onsville for the term of one vear from the passage of this act to dis-
rain and levy for all taxes and levies for the years eighteen hundred
nd ninety-three, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and eighteen hun-
red and ninety-five, still in his hands and not returned delinquent, and
vyhich have been accounted for by him.

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