Chap. 342.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 8 and 15 of an act en-
titled an act to incorporate the town of Banister in the county of Halifax,
epproved May 16, 1887, as heretofore amended and to repeal section 10
of said act. [S B 276]

Approved March 19, 1920.

1. Be f enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions two, eight and fifteen of an act entitled an act to incorporate
the town of Banister, in the county of Halifax, approved May six-
teenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as heretofore amended,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2. That the name of the town of Houston, in the county of
Halifax, incorporated by an act of the general assembly, approved
May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended Feb-
ruary twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety, be and the same
is hereby changed to Halifax, and shall by this name continue, and
the mayor and councilmen now in office, and their successors in office,
shall continue to be a body politic and corporate by the name and
style of the town of Halifax, and by that name and style shall have
perpetual succession, with the power to sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded, in any of the courts of the Commonwealth, and with au-
thority to purchase, receive, and hold lands, tenements, goods, and
chattels, either in fee simple or any less estate therein, and the same
to lease, give, grant, and assigne or sell; and shall have and exer-
cise, in addition to the rights and powers that belonged to the town
of Houston, all rights, powers and privileges, conferred upon town by
chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the Code of Virginia of nine-
teen hundred and nineteen, and be subject to and governed by the
provisions of said chapter, applicable to towns, and all laws which
may be hereafter enacted by the general assembly for towns, so far
as the same are not in conflict with this act.

Sec. 8. Where, by the provisions of law, the council have author-
ity to pass ordinances on any subject, they may prescribe punishment
by fine or imprisonment, or both, for all violations thereof ; provided,
that in no case shall the fine exceed fifty dollars or the imprisonment
for sixty days. Fines may be recovered with costs, upon warrants
issued in the name of the town of Halifax before the mayor or coun-
cilman of said town. Whenever judgment is rendered against any
person for a fine, the officer trying the offender may require imme-
diate payment thereof, and in default of such payment may commit
the party so in default to jail until such fine and costs be paid, or may
compel him to work out such fine and costs on the public streets or
ways or other improvements of said town, upon such terms as the
council may by ordinance prescribe. All fines for the violations
of the ordinances of said town shall be paid into the treasury thereof
and be appropriated as the council may determine.

Sec. 15. All acts and parts of acts in conflict or inconsistent with
this act are hereby repealed, so far as they may apply to the town of
Halifax. ,

Section ten of said act is hereby repealed.