Chap. 136.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an
act to repeal the charter of the town of Smithfield, and to grant a new
charter to the said town, which took effect February 17, 1900.

Approved March 11, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Virginia,
That section eleven of an act entitled an act to repeal the charter of the
town of Smithfield, and to grant a new charter to the said own, which
took effect February seventeenth, nineteen hundred, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§11. The treasurer of the town of Smithfield shall be a citizen and | a
qualified voter of the said town, and shall be elected by the qualified
voters of the said town; his term of office shall be for the period of two
years ; the said treasurer shall not be a member of the council of the said
town; the duties of the said treasurer shall be to collect and to have the
care and custody of all taxes and levies of the said town, and the said
treasurer shall act as clerk of the said council without compensation for
his services as such clerk; the said treasurer shall make a monthly report
of his transactions’ as such to the council of the said town; the said
council may require of the said treasurer any bond in any penalty, with
such sureties as it may deem proper, payable to the town of Smithfield,
and conditioned according to law for the faithful performance of his
duties, as treasurer of the said town. Before entering upon the dis-
charge of his duties he shall take the oaths required to be taken by the
treasurer of the county. He may be removed by the council at any time
from the office of treasurer for any default in duty or any failure prop-
erly and promptly to account for any money in his hands, as the council
may order and direct. ‘The said council shall have the right to prescribe
the amount to be received by the said treasurer for his services as such,
but that the amount so prescribed by the said council shall not exceed
five per centum on al] money coming into his hands as such treasurer of
the said town and disbursed by him as such.