Chap. 59.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved March
8, 1873, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Louisa, Louisa county, Vir-
ginia.

Approved January 16, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section five
of an act approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Louisa, in Louisa county, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$5. There shall be annually elected on the first Monday in November,
by the qualified voters of said town, seven trustees and one town sergeant,
who shall be a conservator of the peace, and invested with the full power
of a constable within the limits of said town, and also have power to
arrest all offenders within one mile of said limits of said town. He shall
collect the town taxes, and may distrain and sell therefor in like manner
as State taxes and county levies are distrained for, and the said town
council may take such bond as will insure his accountability for all taxes
received by him, and in the event a vacancy should at any time occur in
the office of town sergeant, the council of said town may fill the vacancy
by appointment, without respect to whether the appointee be a resident
or non-resident of said town.

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