Chap. 195.—An ACT to amend the charter for the town of Front Royal.

Approved February 15, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section six,
division “A” of chapter six hundred and fourteen of the acts of the gen-
eral assembly of Virginia, approved March the third, eighteen hundred
and ninety-four, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections two,
six, eight, and thirteen of chapter one hundred and fifty-five of the acts of
the general assembly of Virginia, eighteen hundred and eighty-three and
four, approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved November the first,
eighteen hundred and seventy, and acts amendatory thereof, approved,
respectively, November the fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one
and November the second, eighteen hundred and eighty, providing a
charter for the town of Front Royal, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

$6 (a). The council of said town is hereby empowered to make such
by Jame and ordinances, not contrary to laws and constitution of this state
or of the United States, as thev may deem necessary and proper for the

security, improvement, and good government of said town. Any person
or persons who shall violate any by-law or ordinance enacted by said
council, in pursuance of the power hereby vested in it, shall be subject
to such fine and imprisonment, or either, as the council shall have estab-
lished for the violation of said by-law or ordinance, not exceeding in any
ease the sum of five hundred dollars, and confinement of not more than
six months in the county jail for any one offense; on failure to pay which
fine and costs incident to the trial, the offending party may be confined
in the county jail not exceeding six months, with the right of appeal, how-
ever, upon giving good security, to be approved by the mayor, for amount
of fine and costs.

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