Chap. 215.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 15 of an act to amend
and re-enact the charter of the town of Manassas, approved Apri] 2, 1873, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 18, 1884, as amended and re-
enacted by an act approved February 19, 1894, and as amended and re-enacted
by an act approved February 9, 1898, and to enact two additional sections
thereto, numbered 28 and 29.

Approved March 15, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
fourteen and fifteen of an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the
town of Manassas, approved April second, eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as amended and re-enacted by an act
approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and two
additional sections thereto, numbered twenty-eight and twenty-nine, be
amended and re-enacted and enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 14. No license shall be granted to any person, club, or corporation
to sell ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, or any bitters
containing alcohol, either by wholesale, retail, or to be drunk at the
place where sold, within the corporate limits of said town, unless the ap-
plicant shall first produce before the court authorized to grant such
license the written consent of the town council, and recommendation
from the said council that the applicant is a corporation under the laws
of some State of the United States, or that the person is sober, discreet,
and of good moral character, and that the place is suitable and convenient,
and such certificate shall further show that the said applicant has paid
into the town treasury a sum of not less than seventy-five dollars nor more
than the sum of three hundred dollars, as shall be prescribed by the said
council; and in no case shall it be lawful for any court to grant any such
license outside of the corporation and within one mile of its town limits,
neither shall it be lawful for said court to grant any such license unless
it shall be first satisfied that the sum prescribed by said council has been
paid into the town treasury, which sum shall be not less than seventy-
five nor more than three hundred dollars for any one vear. Any person
who shall, without first procuring the license as aforesaid, sell wine,
ardent spirits, malt liquors, or-any mixture thereof, or alcoholic bitters
within the corporate limits of said town, or within one mile of the same,
shall be fined twenty dollars for each offense; and if such fine and cost
be not paid at once, the offender shall be forthwith committed to jail
until the said fine and cost be paid. The mayor shall have jurisdiction
to try all violations under this section, and all fines imposed by him shall
be for the benefit of said town, and the mayor shall require any person
violating the provisions of this section to give bond, with good security,
in a reasonable sum, to be of good behavior during the twelve months
next succeeding; and in default of such bond the mayor shall commit
the person to the county jail until he shall give such bond. All acts or
parts of acts in conflict with this section are hereby repealed in so far as
the same relate to the said town of Manassas, or within one mile of the
limits thereof.

§ 15. The sergeant shall have and exercise the power of a constable,
and shall receive the like fees for his services as a constable, and shall
collect the town taxes, levies, and assessments and all fines imposed by
the mayor; and the mayor, sergeant, and policeman, in criminal and
police matters, shall have jurisdiction for one mile from the limits of
said town. The sergeant shall keep his books and accounts in such man-
ner as the council may prescribe, and such books and accounts shall
always be subject to the inspection of the mayor, the council, or any
committee thereof, or any tax-payer of said town. He shall pay no money
except on a warrant signed by the clerk, and countersigned by the mayor,
and shall keep a separate account of such funds and appropriation. He
shall report to the council at the end of each fiscal year, and oftener, if
required by said council, a detailed account of all receipts and expendi-
tures, and publish the same in any newspaper published in said town, if
deemed advisable by said council. He shall receive as his compensation
for collecting and disbursing the revenue five per centum on the amount
collected, and such additional compensation as will not exceed five hun-
dred dollars. The total salary, exclusive of his fees, shall at no time ex-
ceed said five hundred dollars. He shall hold all special assessments as a
special fund to the payment of the indebtedness for which the assess-
ment was made, and for no other purpose. The said council shall have
authority to create the office of town treasurer, who, when appointed by
said council, shall collect and receive all money due said town, and dis-
burse the same as provided and applicable to the sergeant by the pro-
visions of this section. He shall keep his books and accounts in such
manner as may be prescribed by said council. ‘The said treasurer, when
appointed as herein provided, shall be subject to such rules and regula-
tions as may be prescribed by said council. ‘he said treasurer’s books
shall be subject at all times to the inspection of the mayor, any member
of said council or committee thereof, or any tax-payer of said town. The
said council shall have authority to pay said treasurer a salary or com-
mission upon receipts for such an amount as it shall sce fit: provided,
however, the said sergeamt’s and treasurer’s joint salaries shall at no
time exceed the sum of five hundred dollars. The said treasurer, when
provided for by said council, shall have authority to collect all taxes,
licenses, and moneys due the said town by the same method as now pro-
vided by law and applicable to county treasurers.

§ 28. There shall be a lien on the real estate in the town of Manassas
for the taxes assessed thereon for the said town from the commencement
of the year for which they are assessed, not exceeding five years from the
age of this act, and when any of the said taxes are returned delin-
it, a list of the same shall be returned to the clerk of the county court
rince William county, and be by him entered in a book furnished by
town and kept in his said office, the form and manner of entering
same to be similar to that provided by law for the record of delin-
it taxes on real estate due the State. In said book there shall also
olumns in which shall be entered the names of purchasers, the
unt and date of sales of real estate sold for delinquent taxes, as pro-
d in this charter. When the taxes so returned delinquent are en-
1 in said record, as herein provided, the same shall be held to be
tructive notice of the lien thereof, and the said real estate shall be
e thereto as against creditors in the hands of purchasers or other
ons into whose hands the said real estate may pass. And the said
estate may be sold for said taxes, as provided for in this charter,
ther owned by the persons in whose names it was assessed or not.
r said real estate has been so sold for taxes the same may be redeemed
in such time and by such persons and upon such terms as is pro-
d by law for the redemption of lands sold for State taxes, except
the money paid for such redemption shall be paid into the treasury
he town of Manassas. Upon the redemption of said real estate the
surer shall issue to the persons so redeeming it-a certificate to that
t, which shall be presented to the clerk of the county court, who shall
eupon mark in the said record the redemption of said real estate,
name of the party redeeming it, and the date thereof. The clerk
| receive for his services a fee of ten cents for each lot or parcel of land
itered in said record, a fee of ten cents for the entry of such sale of
estate as is provided in this charter, and a fee of twenty-five cents for
redemption so entered, to be paid by the said town of Manassas, and
th shall be charged against and be a lien upon said land along with
taxes against the same. The purchaser of all such delinquent lands
| take possession of same directly upon paying into the town treasury
purchase money for same, to have and to hold until it is redeemed as
in provided. The said town shall have authority to purchase said
estate for any delinquent taxes due the same thereon. At the expi-
nm of the time within which such real estate may be redeemed, if the
» has not been redeemed as herein provided, the mayor of the town of
assas shall execute to the purchascr thereof a deed conveying the
2 in like manner as is now prescribed by law for the conveyance of
estate bv the clerk of the county court which has been sold for delin-
it taxes due the State, and such deed shall convey such title as would
onveyed had the same been sold for delinquent State taxes. Any
t of record for Prince William county, on application of the council
e town of Manassas, through its mavor, may order real estate delin-
it for the non-payment of taxes to be sold by the sergeant or treas-
for the town at public auction for such taxes at such time as it shall
t, said sale and the advertisement thereof to be made in conformity,
ear as may be, to the State law with reference to the sale of delin-
t lands. When such sale has been made, the same, with the date
20f, the name of the purchaser, and the amount for which said real
estate sold, shall be entered by the county clerk in the reeord of delin.
quent real estate provided for in this section of this act.

§ 29. The mayor of said town in which any judgment for a fine is ren
dered, going, in whole or in part, to the said town, may, of his owr
motion, or upon the complaint of any citizen thereof, issue a capias prc
fine directed to the sergeant of said town, and upon arrest commit the
defendant to jail until the fine and costs are paid, or until the costs are
paid where there is no fine. ;

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