Chap. 161.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 30 and 33 of an act entitlec
an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, a provec
January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended. ( 326

Approved March 14, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
thirty and thirty-three of an act entitled, an act to amend and re-
enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, approved January eleventh,
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as heretofore amended, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 30. The duty of the recorder shall be to keep a journal
of the proceedings of the council and have charge of and preserve the
records of the town. In the absence from town or the sickness of the
mayor, or during any vacancy in the office of mayor, he shall perform
the duties of the mayor and be invested with all his powers. He shall
be a conservator of the peace within the said town. He shall receive
a compensation for his services not to exceed six hundred dollars per
annum, to be fixed annually for the ensuing year by the council pre-
ceding the election of the officers of the town, which shall not be in-
creased or diminished for the term for which he shall have been elected.
He shall issue warrants upon the treasurer for all moneys ordered to be
paid by the council, which warrants shall be drawn upon the treasurer
payable to the person or persons entitled to receive the same, and
signed by the mayor of the town and countersigned by the recorder.
He shall provide a book of blank warrants, to each of which shall be
attached a stub, upon which stub shall be entered the number of the
warrant taken therefrom, the name of the person to whom payable,
the amount and date thereof, and for what issued, all of which shall
correspond with the warrant so issued. This book, with all others
kept by the recorder, shall be open at any time to the inspection of the
council or any member thereof. He shall be ex-officio the assessor of
the corporation, with like powers and duties as a commissioner of the
revenue in the assessment of persons and property for State taxation,
and shall make and preserve a book in which the real estate of the
town is assessed, and one in which the persons and personal property
of the town is assessed for taxation, and shall return the same to the
council at such time as it may prescribe for its inspection and approval.
To the personal property book he shall make and subscribe an oath
that he actually assessed the personal property of each person named
therein according to law; that the said book contains, to the best of
his belief, a complete list of all the persons and personal property within
the town assessable for corporation taxes, and that the values put
upon the property therein are just and fair.

Section 33. All moneys belonging to said town shall be paid over
to the treasurer, and no money shall be paid out except as the same
shall have been appropriated and ordered to be paid by the council;
and the treasurer shall pay the same only upon warrants drawn upon
him as provided in section thirty of this charter. He shall keep regular
accounts with the town, crediting it by all moneys received, and which
by due diligence he might have received, and charging it with all moneys
so disbursed, which books, as well as all others relating to the business
of the town, shall be opened at any time to the inspection of the council,
or any member thereof. He shall also keep a book in which shall be
registered all warrants presented, payments of which is refused for
want of funds to meet the same, and the warrants so registered shall
be paid in the order in which they are registered, when funds appli-
cable thereto shall come into his hands; except that the person to whom
any warrant is made payable may use the same in the payment of
taxes. Should the person to whom any warrant is made payable be
indebted to the town for taxes or otherwise, then the said indebted-
ness shall be deducted therefrom, whether in the hands of the person
to whom payable or any other. He shall annually, on the first day of
June, or as soon thereafter as practicable, settle his accounts with the
council or a committee thereof, at which time he shall furnish a state-
ment of all moneys received by him during the preceding year, and
of all disbursements made, together with the warrants upon which said
payments were made, which warrants shall be inspected, and, if ap-
proved, cancelled by ‘the said council or committee, as the case may
be. He shall receive a compensation for his services not to exceed six
hundred dollars per annum, to be fixed by the council preceding the
election of officers of the town, which shall not be increased or diminished
for the term for which he shall have been elected.

2. An emergency ‘existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-

sage.