Chap. 94.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35 of chapter 3, and sections
37 and 38 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act to define the corporate
limits and charter for the city of Williamsburg, approved March 17, 1884,
as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900.

Approved February 29, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-five of chapter three, and sections thirty-seven and thirty-eight
of chapter four, of the act entitled “an act to define the corporate limits
and charter for the city of Williamsburg,” approved March seventeenth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as amended and re-enacted by an
act approved March fifth, nineteen hundred, be amended and re-enacted
to read as follows:

§35. The city council shall grant, and pay to all city officers elected
in pursuance of this act, such salaries or compensation as the said
council may from time to time deem just and proper, or shall be fixed
by this act. :

And, further, whenever, by act of assembly or ordinance of the council,
the necessity of collecting, maintaining and handling a sinking fund
for the retirement of city obligations may arise, the mayor, the chair-
man of the finance committee of the council, and the treasurer of the
city be, and the same are hereby, constituted a board of sinking fund
commissioners, who are authorized to invest such sinking fund in bonds
of the United States government, those of the city of Williamsburg
and such other municipal or county bonds issued by cities or counties
in Virginia as shall meet the approval of the council, to collect, care
for, and reinvest the interest or income accruing from the same as may
be directed by the city council by resolution or ordinance. No fees nor
commission shall be paid to any officer for the handling and control of
the sinking fund.

§37. The sergeant of the city shall be a member of the police force
of said city, and may be designated chief of the police force, in the
discretion of the city council; he shall have and exercise the powers of a
constable; and the mayor, councilmen, sergeant, and policemen, in
criminal and police matters, shall have jurisdiction for one mile from
the corporate limits of the said city. ;

$38. The sergeant shall collect and disburse all fines, licenses, and
all other moneys due the corporation in such manner as the council
may from time to time determine, except the taxes assessed at the regu-
lar levy, which, by law, are collectible by the treasurer: provided, that
all moneys derived from the sale of bonds or from the sale of real
estate belonging to the city, or fees, rents and sums derived from the
sale of water or gas or other products of water or gas plants, including
sewerage, owned by the city, shall be collected and disbursed as the
city council may determine by special ordinance affecting the same, the
fees and compensation therefor being under the entire control of the
council and fixed by them. He shall perform such additional duties
as the council, by ordinance or resolution, may direct. He shall, before
entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, execute in the
circuit court of the city of Williamsburg and county of James City a
bond according to law, with surety, in such penalty as the city council
may prescribe, conditioned for the faithful performance of the same.