Chap. 180.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incor-
porate the town of Boydton, in the county of Mecklenburg, approved
March 16, 1874, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-
enact sections 2 and 4 of the charter of the town of Boydton, in the
county of Mecklenburg, approved February 22, 1890. (H. B. 438.)

Approved March 21, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boydton, in the
county of Mecklenburg, approved March sixteenth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-four, as amended by an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact sections two and four of the charter of the
town of Boydton, in the county of Mecklenburg, approved Feb-
ruary twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
1. That the town of Boydton, in the county of Mecklenburg,
as the same has been heretofore laid off into lots, streets and alleys,
and as the same may hereafter be laid off into lots, streets, and
alleys, shall be, and the same is hereby, made a town corporate, by
the name of the town of Boydton, and by that name shall have and
exercise the powers conferred upon towns by the forty-fourth
chapter of the Code of Virginia, eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, and of all Jaws now in force and which may hereafter be
enacted for the government of towns containing less than five thou-
sand inhabitants, so far as the same are not in conflict with the pro-
visions of this act. ,

2. The boundaries of said town of Boydton shall be as follows:
by a line running north and south, seven hundred vards east of
the centre of the courthouse; by a similar line, one thousand and
seventy yards west of the centre of the courthouse; by a line run-
ning east and west, seven hundred and five and one-third yards
south of the centre of the courthouse; and by a similar line six
hundred and three and one-third yards north of the centre of the
courthouse.

3. The municipal officers of said town shall be a mayor, a clerk
of the council, a commissioner of the revenue, a treasurer, a town
sergeant, and six councilmen, all of whom shall be residents and
qualified voters of said town. The council of said town shall have
power to elect or appoint any other officers they may deem neces-
sary and to define their powers. In the discretion of the council
the same person may be elected or appointed to and hold, at the
same time, the offices of mayor, clerk of the council, and commis-
sioner of the revenye, or the offices of councilmen, clerk of the
council, and commissioner of the revenue; and the same person may
be elected or appointed to and hold, at the same time, the offices of
treasurer and town sergeant.

4, The officers of clerk of the council and commissioner of the
revenue shall be filled by appointment of the council of said town.
The treasurer and the town sergeant of said town shall be elected
at the same time, in the same manner, and for the same term, as
the mayor and councilmen of said town are elected, who shall be
elected as provided for by the general laws of the State applicable
to the election of town officers.

5. Any vacancy in any of the municipal offices of said town, oc-
curring during the term of said office, may be filled for the unex-
pired term by the council from the electors of said town.

6. The sergeant and the treasurer of said town, if said offices
are held by different persons, shall execute bonds, and if held by the
same person, shall execute a bond, with approved security, in such
penalty as said council shall deem necessary, payable to the town
of Boydton, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of
said office.

7. In addition to the powers and duties of the sergeant of said

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town provided for by chapter forty-four, Code of Virginia, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-seven, it shall be the duty of said ser-
geant to collect all town levies, taxes, dues, and assessments, and
all other moneys due said town, and pay the same over to the
treasurer of said town.

8. The salaries of all municipal officers of said town, as now
ecnstituted, or hereafter elected or appointed, if any be allowed
by the town council, shall be fixed by the council; and no regula-
tion diminishing or increasing such compensation, after it has once
been fixed, shall be made to take effect until after the expiration of
the terms for which said officers shall have been elected. The sala-
ries of said officers, when fixed, shall so continue until changed by
the town council.

9. In additicn to the powers conferred by other general stat-
utes the council ef said town is hereby authorized to make appro-
priations of public funds, or personal property, or of any real
estate, for the benefit of any public free school within the limits of
said town, or for any other purposes deemed beneficial to the in-
terests of said town.

10. The municipal officers of said town at the time of the pass-
age of this act shall be continued in office until the expiration of
the terms for which they were elected or appointed, or until their
successors are duly elected or appointed and qualified according to
law.

11. All ordinances now in force in the town of Boydton con-
sistent with this charter, the laws of the State, and of the United

States, shall be, and remain, in force until amended or repealed by
the tewn council.