Chap. 154.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 20 and 21,
and to repeal sections 10, 11 and 12, of an act entitled an act to incorporate
the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia, approved December 21, 1901,
as amended by an act approved March 29, 1902. [S B 265]

Approved March 17, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions two, five, six, seven, eighteen, nineteen, twenty and twenty-one
of the charter of the town of Fries, approved March twenty-ninth,
nineteen hundred and two, be amended, and such sections of said
charter are hereby amended, to read as follows:

Section 2. Beginning at a point on the south bank of New river
opposite the mouth of Stevens creek, thence down said river and
binding thereon to the Carroll-Grayson county line, thence with said
Carroll-Grayson county line to a point on the Fries-Ivanhoe road,
thence north, approximately eighty degrees west, to the present cor-
porate limits of the said town of Fries at a point on the Fries-Dell
road, thence south, approximately twenty-five degrees west, to a point
where the Fries-Independence road crosses Stevens creek, thence down
said creek and binding thereon to the mouth of the same and crossing
said New river to the point of beginning.

Section 5. The seven councilmen, as provided in section three,
shall each be elected for a term of two years, and each shall serve
until his successor shall have qualified. They shall be elected on the
second Tuesday in June, immediately preceding the expiration of the
terms of their predecessors, and shall enter upon their duties on the
first day of September next succeeding their election, qualifying by
taking and subscribing to the usual oath, as prescribed by the general
law, before a person duly authorized to administer such oath.

Section 6. If any person elected as councilman shall fail to qual-
ify, or a vacancy in said council occur from any other cause, then the
remaining members shall, by a majority vote, fill such vacancy for
the unexpired term. Any person qualified to vote in the town shall
be eligible to the office of mayor or councilman.

The council shall be judge of the election, qualification and re-
turns of its members. The council may be convened at any time
upon the call in writing of the mayor or any three members of the
council. Four present shall constitute a quorum.

Section 7. The mayor, as executive head of the town government,
shall see that the duties of the various town officers, whether elected
or appointed, are faithfully performed and to that end he shall have
power to investigate their acts and examine their books and other
records. He shall have power and it shall be his duty to try all pros-
ecutions, cases and controversies which may arise under the by-laws
and ordinances of the town, and to inflict such punishments as are
provided by law, with the right of appeal to the circuit court of Gray-
son county, except that no appeal shall be granted from the decision
of the mayor imposing a fine for violation of any of the ordinances or
by-laws of the town, for offenses not made a felony by the common
law or statutes of Virginia, until after a suitable bond, with security
approved by the mayor, shall have been given.

In case of the absence or the incapacity of the mayor, the president
pro tempore of the council, to be chosen by a majority vote of the
council at a legal meeting, or in his absence or incapacity, some other
member of the council chosen in the same manner, shall possess all
of the powers and discharge all of the duties of the mayor, during such
absence or incapacity.

Section 18. For the purpose of maintaining the good order and
peace of the said town, under authority of this act, the jurisdiction
of the corporate authorities thereof shall extend one mile beyond the
corporate limits of said town, and all ordinances of said town provid-
ing for police regulation and imposing a license tax on shows, per-
formances and exhibitions shall apply within all of such jurisdictional
limits in exactly the same manner as within the corporate limits.

Nothing in this act shall be construed to give the said town author-
ities power to levy a license or other tax (except on shows, per-
formances or exhibitions) beyond the corporate limits.

Section 19. The warrants and processes.of the mayor of said town
may be executed, anywhere within the counties of Grayson and Car-
roll, by the sergeant, policemen, or by any legal officer of the county
to whom the same may be directed, for the violation of any of the laws
of the State of Virginia or any of the ordinances of the said town of
Fries, when any such violation shall have occurred within the juris-
dictional limits of the said town of Fries.

The sergeant or policemen of said town shall be, and are hereby
empowered to serve civil processes anywhere within the counties of
Grayson or Carroll when such processes are returnable before the
mayor of the said town of Fries.

Section 20. The present mayor and councilmen, and all other
officers of the town of Fries, shall continue to hold office and to per-
form the duties of their respective offices for the said town for the
terms for which they were elected or appointed, and until their suc-
cessors are elected and qualify.

Section 21. Wherever said charter heretofore provides for the
election of officers by the council during July, the same shall be and
is hereby changed to read September, and officers so elected by the
council during September shall qualify by taking and subscribing to
the usual oath, as prescribed by general law, before a person duly
authorized to administer such oath, on or before the first day of
October next succeeding such election, and shall hold such office for
one year, or until his successor is elected and qualifies.

2. Sections ten, eleven and twelve of said charter are hereby re-
pealed.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.