Chap. 265.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to ineor-
porate the town of Milnes, in the county of Page, approved February 12,
1884, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 12
of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Milnes, in the county of
Page, approved March 7, 1884, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled
an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of an act
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Milnes, in the county of Page, ap-
proved February 6, 1890, in which the name of the town was thanged from
Milnes to Shenandoah, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact sections 2, 4, and 10 of the charter of the town of Shenandoah, Page
county, Virginia, approved February 26, 1896.

Approved March 13, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Milnes, in the county of Page,
approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as
amended by an act. entitled an act to amend and re-enact section twelve
of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Milnes, in the county
of Page, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as
amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
sections one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, nine and ten of an act
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Milnes, in the county of Page,
approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, in which the
name of the town was changed from Milnes to Shenandoah, as amended
by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections two, four and
ten, of the charter of the town of Shenandoah, Page county, Virginia,
approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. The town of Shenandoah, in the county of Page, shall continue
to be a town corporate, in the name and style of the town of Shenan-
doah, and by that name may sue and be sued and have and
exercise all the powers granted and imposed by the Con-
stitution, and laws pursuant thereto, now in force, or such
as may hereafter be enacted relative to, and for the government of,
corporate communities of less than five thousand inhabitants, within
this Commonwealth, except as hereinafter provided.

§2. The municipal authorities of the town shall consist of a mayor,
six councilmen, a clerk, a treasurer and a sergeant (as at present) whose
successors shall be elected by the qualified voters of the said town,
on the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and nine, and every
two years thereafter, and shall enter upon the duties of their respec-
tive offices on the first day of September, next after their election,
having duly qualified by taking the oath of office on or before that time.

§3. The council shall be composed of the six councilmen and the
mayor, and the latter shall be president thereof. Four members of
the body shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business.
They shall have regular or stated meetings twice a month, at such
time as shall be fixed by their body, and such extra or special meet-
ings as may be called by the mayor or by two other members of the
council, for the transaction of stated or special business; but the pur-
pose for which a special or extra meeting is called must be stated in
writing.

§4. The council shall have power to elect a commissioner of the
revenue for the said town, whose duty it shall be to assess the value of
all real and personal property, not exempt by general law, within the
corporate limits; or it may create and elect a board of assessment com-
posed of three persons for the same purpose. It shall have power to
elect such other officers as. it may deem necessary to carry out the
objects, purposes and duties of the government of the town,. the
tenure of all officers so elected by it to be co-existent with its own; all
of whom and any of the other officers, including its own members,
may be removed by it for good and sufficient cause upon ten days’
notice to the alleged offender of the nature of the charge and the
time and place of hearing, and vote of not less than four members
concurring in the sentence of removal, the mayor not voting in such
case, or in any other, except where a majority vote only is required
and there is a tie.

§5. The mayor shall have power to appoint such extra police officers
as in his judgment an occasion may require, to serve during such period
as he may deem necessary and proper.

§6. The council shall be the Judge of the election and qualifica-
tion of its members, and it shall have power to fill all vacancies in its
own body and in any other office of the town, for the unexpired term.

§7. If the mayor be absent during any meeting of the council, it
shall elect one of its number as president pro tempore.

§8. The clerk shall keep a correct journal of all the proceedings of
meetings, and those of each meeting must be signed by the presiding
officer immediately on ascertaining them to be correct, at the next
meeting in course.

§9. The council shall fix the salaries and compensation of all offi-
cers; provided, there shall be no change in the salary or compensation
of any officer which may affect pay for and during his then present
term.
§10. The mayor shall have the jurisdiction and authority of a justice
of the peace for Page county within, and one mile beyond, the corpo-
rate limits of the said town, in all matters arising under the civil and
criminal laws of the State, and exclusive jurisdiction in those arising
under the ordinances of the said town; and in his absence or during
temporary vacancy of his office, other members of the council shall
have and exercise the same jurisdiction and authority.

§11. The stated fees for the mayor, or those acting as such, shall be
the same as those prescribed for justices of the peace in like matters.

§12. The treasurer shall collect all taxes, licenses and levies author-
ized by the town, or in any manner accruing to same, and he is hereby
vested with all the authority of a county treasurer to enforce the col-
lection of same; provided, however, that the council may designate the
time at which, and the person to whom, unpaid bills may be turned
over by him, should he so request, and thereupon he shall be credited
with the bills so turned over; and provided, further, that the council
shall fix the time at which the penalty of five per centum shall be added
to bills in default for a given year. Before entering upon the duties
of his office, he shall be required to execute a bond, with approved
surety, for the faithful performance of his duties, in such penalty as
may by ordinance or resolution be prescribed, conditioned according
to law: and provided, further, that before entering upon his duties,
the person to whom the said treasurer is required to turn over such
bills as above mentioned, shall also execute such bond, in such’ penalty
as may so be prescribed, and with like conditions; and as to which such
bills or sums so turned over, the said treasurer shall be relieved from
liability, until their collection, and the money derived from such
collection shall have been turned over to him and receipted for by him.
The. treasurer shall pay out moneys only by order of the council,
signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk.

813. The sergeant shall be the chief of the police force of the town,
and in addition to such other legal authority which may be prescribed
or duties which may be imposed by the council, he shall have the power
and authority of a constable of the county within, and two miles be-
yond the corporate limits of the town; but before entering upon the
duties of his office, he shall execute such bond and surety with such
penalty as may be prescribed by council, for the faithful performance
of same.

§14. The bonded indebtedness of said town shall be limited to the
provisions of section one hundred and twenty-seven of the present Con-
stitution of Virginia only; and the manner of creating same shall be
in accordance therewith.

§15. The assessment of real and personal property for municipal
taxation shall be in accordance with the provisions of section one hun-
dred and twenty-eight of the present Constitution of Virginia.

§16. All local option elections to determine the question of license
or no license to sell spirituous or malt liquors within the said town
shall be had and held in accordance with chapter twenty-five of the
Code of Virginia, nineteen hundred and four; provided ‘however, that
no license to sell spirituous or malt liquor within the corporate limits of
said town or within two miles from said limits shall be granted by
the circuit court of Page ‘county, or by any other authority hereafter
exercising such power or jurisdiction, unless the party or parties ap-
plying therefor shall produce to such court or authority the certificate of
the council giving its consent to the granting of such license; and that
the council may require from persons so licensed to sell spirituous
or malt liquors a bond with approved surety, payable to said town in
such penalty as may be therein prescribed, conditioned upon ‘the
strictest obedience of the law governing the sale of spirituous or malt
liquors, which penalty shall be forfeited by the maker or makers and
his or their surety or sureties, on failure to comply with such condition ;
as to any violation of which the council shall be the sole judge.

817. The following is hereby declared to be the boundary of the
said town of Shenandoah: beginning on the east side of the Shenan-
doah river, at the corner between David Wyant and the Shenandoah
Tron, Lumber, Mining and Manufacturing company’s land; thence
north thirty-nine east, one hundred and fifty-five and two-tenths
poles, to a large pine tree near a pond, and east of the Gem furnace;
continuing the same course one hundred and seventy-nine and four
tenths poles in all, to a bunch of white oaks north twenty-five west,
eight-tenths of a pole from a stake, corner to J. H. Pollard’s acre lot;
thence north fourteen and three-fourths west, one hundred and thirty-
five poles to a locust tree on a hill; the same course continuing and
forty-one eightieths mile to a stake on the line between Dovel and Sing-
linger; thence north seventy-eight west, one hundred and fifty-six poles
to the corner between William Peters and George Kite, at the river;
thence up the river to the beginning.

§18. All acts or parts of acts relating to the said town or in con-
flict herewith are hereby repealed.