Chap. 711.—An ACT to amend sections 19 and 21 of chapter 615 of the acts of
1893-’94, approved March 3, 1894, entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Crewe, in the county of Nottoway.

Approved March 3, 1598.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
nineteen and twenty-one of chapter six hundred and fifteen of the acts
of eighteen hundred and ninety-three and ninety-four, approved March
third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

§ 19. No license shall be granted to any person, club, or corporation
to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, cider
containing alcohol, alcoholic bitters, or fruits preserved in ardent spirits,
either by wholesale or retail, or to be drunk at the place where sold, or
in any other way, within the corporate limits of said town, or within
two miles thereof, unless and until the applicant shall produce to the
court or oflicers authorized to grant such license the written consent of
the council of said town; and upon the production of a copy of the
record of said council to said court, showing such consent and specify-
ing the house in which it is to be sold, that the applicant is a corpora-
tion chartered under the laws of Virginia, or, if the applicant is not a
corporation, that the person so applying is sober, discreet, and of good
moral character, and that the place is suitable and convenient; that the
applicant has paid into the treasury of said town the license tax charged
by said town, which in no case shall be less than five hundred dollars,
and to the treasurer of Nottoway county the tax required by law to be
paid to the state for the exercise of said privilege, said court may grant
such applicant a license to sell allor any of the things mentioned in this
section, by wholesale or retail, or to be drunk at the place where sold.
Any person who shall, without first procuring a license, as required by
this section, to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture
thereof, cider containing alcohol, alcoholio bitters, or fruits preserved in
ardent spirits, either by wholesale, retail, or to be drunk on the premises,
or in any other way, within the corporate limits of said town or within
two miles thereof, shall be punished by a fine not less than thirty dol-
lars and not more than one hundred dollars for cach offence. And any
person not having a License to sell liquor tn said town under this section who
shall within the police jurisdiction of the town of Crewe take orders for de-
livery of wine, ardent spirits, malt Uquors, or any mirture thereof, cider con-
tating alcohol, alcoholic bitters, or fruits preserved in ardent spirits either by
wholesale or retail, and shall deliver the same or any of them, in person or by
an agent or employe, within the town or within tvo miles of the corporate
limits shall be deemed to hare sold the article or articles so ordered and delivercd
at the place of delirery, and in violation of this section, And any person
not having a lUcense, or haring license to sell said articles more than two miles
from the corporate limits of said toun, who shall constitute or attempt to con-
stitute himself the ayent or who shall permit any of his agents or enployes to
constitute or atlempt to constitute himself or themselves the agent or agents of
the purchaser, and who as such agent or ayents shall deliver the articles or
any of them named in this section within the limits of said town or within two
miles of said limits, shall be deemed to have sold the articles so delivered
at the place of delivery and in violation of this section, but nothing im this
act shall prevent any person from sending for such articles by any other per-
son not employed by or connected with parties selling the same.

The mayor of said town, the council, or any member thereof, shall
have jurisdiction to try any person charged with a violation of any of
the provisions of this section and impose the punishment hereby in-
flicted. All fines imposed under this section shall be for the benctit of
the town, and shall be paid into the treasury thereof.

§ 21. The council may require such bonds as it may deem proper of
the officers by it under the provisions of this charter, and shall fix the
salaries of such officers: provided, that the salary of the mayor shall
not exceed one hundred dollars per annum, which shall be in lieu of all
fees and other compensation; that the sal: ry of the town sergeant and
of the policemen shall not exceed forty dollars per month each; that
the recorder shall not receive over fifty dollars per ainum. The meni-
bers of the council shall not be entitled to any compensation out of the
treasury of the town, but shall be entitled to the fees alowed by the
laws of the state for services performed as justices of the peace; the
treasurer for collecting and disbursing, and the assessor, for assessing
taxes, shall receive e the same fees as are allowed by state laws to county
treasurers and commissioners of the revenue; and the street commis-
sioner shall be paid reasonable sums for the time he is actually employed
in the discharge of his duties.

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