Chap. 395.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact af act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Stanley in Page
county, Virginia, approved February 14, 1900, approved March Ms, ple

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Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, that an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incor-
porate the town of Stanley, in Page county, Virginia, approved Feb-
ruary fourteenth, nineteen hundred, approved March seventeenth,
nineteen hundred and sixteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 1. The inhabitants of the territory in the county of Page,
contained within the boundaries prescribed and defined in the section
immediately following, be and they are hereby declared to be a body
politic and corporate, in fact, and in name, under the name and style
of the town of Stanley and as such, shall have and exercise all the
powers conferred by and be subject to all the laws of the State of
Virginia now in force or that may hereafter be enacted for the govern-
ment of towns so far as the same are not inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act.

CHAPTER I.
Corporate Boundaries

Section 2. The territory contained within the limits of the said
town shall be as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point in the New
Market and Gordonsville turnpike, east of the crossing of the said
turnpike and the Norfolk and Western railroad, and opposite the line
between the Harden Keyser lot owned by Earley V. B. Alger, and
the land of the late John W. Keyser, and following the boundary line
of the John W. Keyser land to the west corner of said land where the
Ruben Judy road intersects with said New Market and Gordonsville
turnpike, and crossing said Ruben Judy road to the east corner of
J. E. Tficker’s lot, thence with Tucker’s line fence on west side of
Judy road and also in part with fence on west side of Judy road along
the lands of S. E. Kite, to a point south of Ruben Judy’s residence
and directly opposite the center of Stanley avenue, west of the rail-
road; thence in a direct line through the lands of Ruben Judy and
S. E. Kite, crossing the railroad to center of said avenue and con-
tinuing with the same to the north side of the New Market and
Gordonsville turnpike thence west with said turnpike and B. H.
Louderback’s line fence to west corner of said Louderback’s lot;
thence north with division line of B. H. Louderback and J. S. Louder-
back to north corner of said B. H. Louderback lot; thence in a direct
line through the lands of what was formerly The Stanley Furnace
and Land Company, and Marvin L. Painter, and west corner of Wm.
F. Petefish’s land, continuing with Petefish’s line to north corner of
lot; thence in a direct line through W. D. Short’s orchard to his gate
north of and near to his residence; thence east with the north side of
said W. D. Short’s lane to G. N. Rogers’ line; thence south with
division line of said Short and Rogers to corner of Rogers and J. T.
Hilliards; thence east with division lines of said G. N. Rogers and
J. T. Hilliards; Jno. P. Foltz and P. W. Yates; Jno. P. Foltz and T. M.
Offenbackers’ estate; crossing the railroad, Jno. P. Foltz and Geo. W.
Good’s estate; Jno. P. Foltz and Gilbert Good; and continuing in a
direct line through the lands of James Dunavan to division line be-
tween Dunavan and L. V. Kite; thence south with said line to corner
of said Dunavan’s land in said L. V. Kite line; thence southward in a
direct line to the beginning.
CHAPTER 2.
Government.

Section 3. The government of the town of Stanley shall be vested
in a mayor and council.

Section 4. The municipal officers of said town shall consist of five
councilmen, one of whom shall be elected by said council from among
their own number, as mayor; a treasurer, and a sergeant; both of
which latter are also to be appointed by the said council.

Section 5. The council shall be elected by the qualified voters
on the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and twenty-six,
for a term of two years and every two years thereafter, and their
term of office shall begin on the first day of September, next ensuing,
and they shall hold office until their successors shall have qualified.

Section 6. No person shall be eligible to hold an elective office
unless he is a duly qualified voter of the said town.

Section 7. The council may also appoint such other officers,
agents and employees, as may be necessary to conduct the business
of the town, fix their compensation, and prescribe their duties, and
may appoint such committees of the council and create such boards
and departments of town government and administration with such
duties and powers and subject to such regulations as it may see fit,
consistent with the provisions of this act. The terms of all officers,
agents and employees appointed or employed by the council, unless
sooner removed from office as provided for herein, shall expire with
the council. The duties and compensation of all municipal officers,
except as herein defined or provided for, shall be defined and pre-
scribed by the town council. All officers, agents, and employees,
appointed by the council of the town may be removed by majority
vote of the council for good cause.

CHAPTER 3.
Oath of Mayor, Councilmen, et cetera.

Section 8. The mayor, sergeant, and treasurer, shall take the
oath prescribed by law for all State officers, and the councilmen and
all other officers shall take an oath faithfully to execute the duties of
their respective offices to the best of their judgment.

Section 9. The court or person administering the oath, required
by the preceding section, shall make duplicate certificates of the oaths
taken by the mayor, sergeant and treasurer, and the person taking
the same shall deliver the certificates to the clerk of the council, who
shall file all of the certificates among the records of the said town, and
shall deliver the copy of the oath of the mayor, sergeant and treasurer,
to the clerk of the circuit court of Page county, to be by him filed and
preserved.

Section 10. If any person elected or appointed to any office in
the said town shall neglect to take such oath on or before the date on
which he is to enter upon the discharge of the duties of the office or
shall for twenty davs after the beginning of his term of office, fail to
file such bond with security as may be required of him, by the council
of the said town, he shall be considered as having declined said office,
and the same shall be deemed vacant and such vacancy shall be filled
as prescribed in this charter, or by the general laws of this State.

CHAPTER 4.
Records, Books, et cetera.

Section 11. If any person having been an officer, agent or em-
ployee of the said town, shall not within ten days after he shall have
vacated or been removed from office, and upon notification or request
of the clerk of the council, or within such time thereafter as the council
may allow, deliver over to his successor in office or the clerk of the
council all property, books and papers belonging to the town or apper-
taining to such office in his possession or under his control, he shall
forfeit and pay to the town a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars
to be sued for and recovered by the said town with costs; and all
books, records and documents used in any office by virtue of any
provision of this act or any ordinance or order of the town council or
any superior officer of the said town, shall be deemed the property of
said town, appertaining to the said office and the chief officer thereof
shall be held responsible therefor.

CHAPTER 5.
Mayor.

Section 12. The mayor shall be appointed by the council of the
town for a term of two years.

Section 13. His salary shall be fixed by the town council and
shall not be diminished during his term of office, without his consent.

Section 14. The mayor shall by virtue of his office, possess all
the power, authority and jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, for
Page county, in all civil and criminal matters within and one mile
beyond the corporate limits of the said town; and exclusive jurisdic-
tion under the ordinances of said town. And in his absence or during
the temporary vacancy of his office, other members of the council
shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction and authority.

Section 15. He may impose fines and inflict punishments when
and wherever they are authorized by ordinances or under general law;
issue execution for the collection of said fines, and may upon the
failure of the offender to pay the fine or penalty recovered, with costs,
order the offender to be confined in the jail of Page county, or the
prison of the said town.

Section 16. Appeals may be taken to the circuit court of Page
county, from the decision of the mayor in both civil and criminal
matters in the same manner and upon the same terms and be tried
in the same way, as appeals from the decision of a justice are taken,
and in like cases except that no appeals shall be granted from a de-
cision imposing a fine for violation of any of the ordinances of the said
town, for offences not made criminal by the common law or the
statutes of Virginia, until and after bond be given by the person so
fined, with security approved conditioned to pay all fines, costs and
damages, that may be awarded by the said court on appeal, the
penalty of said bond to be double the sum sufficient to pay all such
fines, costs and damages. Should the decision be affirmed in whole
or in part, the said court shall enter judgment against the said prin-
cipal and surety for the amount so affirmed with costs and the costs
of the appeal, and execution, shall issue thereon in the name of the
town against both principal and surety.

Section 17. The mayor shall see that the by-laws and ordinances
of the town are fully executed and enforced, and shall preside over
the meetings of the town council, voting only in case of a tie.

Section 18. The mayor shall see that the duties of the various
town officers, agents or employees and members of the police force,
whether elected or appointed, are faithfully performed. He shall
have power to investigate their accounts, have access to all their
books of accounts and documents in their office, and may examine
them or their subordinates on their oath; but the evidence given by
the person so examined, shall not be used against them in any criminal
proceeding. ; ,

Section 19. The mayor shall communicate to the town council
annually, at the beginning of each fiscal year or oftener if he be re-
quired by the council, a general statement of the condition of the
town in relation to its government, finances, and improvements, with
such recommendations as he may deem proper, and may from time
to time, communicate to the council such suggestions and recom-
mendations as he may deem proper.

Section 20. In case a vacancy shall occur in the office of mayor
the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the town council, of
any one eligible to such office.

Section 21. The mayor shall have power to call a meeting of the
council whenever he deems it necessary, and in case of the absence,
inability, or refusal of the mayor, the council may be convened by
the order of any two members thereof.

CHAPTER 6.
Council.

Section 22. The town council shall by ordinance, fix the time of
their stated meetings, and they shall meet at least once a month, and
no business shall be transacted at a special meeting thereof except
that for which it shall be called, unless all members of the council be
present.

Section 23. Three members of the council, of whom for the pur-
pose of constituting a quorum the mayor shall be counted as one,
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. No vote
shall be reconsidered or rescinded at a special meeting unless at such
special meeting there be as large a number of the council members
present as were present when such vote was taken.

Section 24. The meetings of the council shall be presided over
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by the mayor, or in his absence or inability to act, some other member
of the council chosen by the majority of that body.

Section 25. The town council shall have authority to adopt rules
for the regulation of their proceedings and appoint such officers,
agents, committees, and employees as they may deem proper. To
compel the attendance of absent members; to punish its members for
disorderly behavior, and by a vote of three-fifths of the whole council,
to expel a member for malfeasance or misfeasance in office.

Section 26. <A journal, or minute book, shall be kept of the pro-
ceedings of the town council and at the request of any member present,
the yeas and nays shall be recorded on any question. At the close
of each meeting the proceedings shall be read and signed by the person
presiding over that meeting, and attested by the clerk of said meeting.

Section 27. The clerk of the council shall keep the said journal
and shall record the proceedings of the council at large, thereon and
keep the same properly indexed.

Secti n 28. The town council shall judge of the election, qualifica-
tion, and returns of its members.

Section 29. The regular attendance of all members elected to the
council is desirable, and in the vent a member so elected to the said
council is absent without good cause, from any regular or stated
meeting, twice in succession, his seat shall automatically become
vacant, and the same shall be filled as hereinafter provided.

Section 30. All vacancies occurring from any cause whatsoever
in the office of mayor, councilman, or any other office, whether filled
by appointment or election shall be filled for the unexpired term by
the council.

Section 31. The council shall have power to suspend and remove
all officers and employees whether elected or appointed, for misfeas-
ance, malfeasance, inefficiency, or neglect of duty to, be specified in
the order of suspension or removal, but no such removal shall be made
without reasonable notice given to the person so suspended or re-
moved, and an opportunity afforded for his defense thereto; and no
removal of any town officer, agent or employee other than an officer
appointed by the mayor, shall be final until the same shall be ratified
by a majority vote of the town council.

Section 32. The town council shall have all powers and authority
that is now or may hereafter be granted to councils of towns by the
general laws of this State and by this act; and the recital of special
powers and authorities herein shall not be taken to exclude the exer-
cise of any power and authority granted by the general laws of this
State to town councils, but not herein specified.

Section 33. And the said council shall have power to enact
ordinances providing for the exercise within its jurisdiction of all
police powers which the State itself may exercise under the circum-
stances, except as may be specifically denied towns by the acts of the
general assembly.

Section 34. And it shall have the further power to control and
manage the fiscal and municipal affairs of the town and all property,
real, personal, belonging to the said town, and may make such ordi-
nances, orders and resolutions relating to the same as it may deem
proper and necessary.

And it shall have the further power—

(1) To purchase, hold, sell, and convey all real and personal
property within or without the corporate limits necessary for its uses
and purposes. |

(2) To acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, or to
construct or lease and operate its own plant, factory and equipment
for supplying its inhabitants, streets, grounds and buildings with
water, light, power, fuel, and sewerage, and to that end it may acquire
by purchase or lease any plant existing in or near the town and may
acquire lands and franchise outside of the limits of the said town,
and may by purchase, condemnation or otherwise acquire easements
and rights of way.

(3) To purchase, condemn, or otherwise acquire one or more
locations for a site for fire engine houses, stables, town buildings,
parks, play grounds, and for all municipal uses and purposes, within
or without the town.

(4) To close, extend, widen, or narrow, straighten, lay out,
graduate, curb, and pave, and otherwise improve the streets, side-
walks, roads and public alleys in the town, and have them kept in
good order and properly lighted, and to require the payment, by the
property owner, benefited by such works or improvements of such
property, of the cost as shall not exceed five per centum of the assessed
value of said property, and to make such item a lien upon their real
estate, and collectable in the same manner as is herein provided, and
also as provided by the general laws of the State for the collection of
taxes generally, and over any street or alley in the town which has
been or may be ceded to the said town, or conveyed to the town by
proper deed, they shall have like power and authority as over other
streets and alleys. They may build bridges over and culverts under
the streets, and may prevent and remove any structure, obstruction
or encroachment over or under or in any street, sidewalk, or alley in
the said town, and may permit shade trees to be planted along said
streets, also cut down and remove or may require to be taken down
and removed any shade trees upon any of the streets and alleys of the
said town; but no company, firm, corporation and individual shall
occupy with ‘its or his works or appurtenances thereof the streets,
sidewalks and alleys of the town, without the consent of the council
duly entered of record, and whenever in the construction of any
sewer, conduit or public improvement, it is necessary that the same
shall run through or under private property, the council shall have
authority to contract and agree with the owner thereof for the use
and purchase of the right of way or other easement, in, through, or
under the same, or have the same condemned according to law.

(5) To require the owners of real estate abutting upon paved or
granolithic sidewalks to remove the snow therefrom, to prevent skat-
ing or riding of bicycles thereon, and of all other improper uses thereof,
and to punish such violation by fine.

(6) To prevent the cumbering of streets, sidewalks, alleys, roads,
lanes, avenues, or bridges in the town in any manner whatsoever, and
to have full and complete control thereof.

(7) To determine, restrain and regulate the use and speed of
bicycles, motorcycles, traction engines, locomotives, engines, cars,
automobiles, and all other vehicles upon the said streets, roads and
alleys of the said town; or regulate the speed of locomotives or trains,
and require flagmen at dangerous railroad crossings within the town.

(8) To require and compel the abatement of all nuisances, and
the removal thereof within the town at the expense of the person or
persons causing the same, or the owner or owners of the ground
whereupon the same may be.

(9) To require and compel the owners of the houses in the town,
or if the owners be unknown or absent, the occupants of such houses,
to connect their water closets and water drains with the sewers of the
town, or otherwise comply with such regulations as to sewers and
nuisances as the council may prescribe, and upon failure so to do the
same may be done by the town, by entering upon the premises, if
necessary, and the cost attending same shall be collected from the
owner and occupant of such houses, as taxes are herein in this charter
allowed to be collected by the town. ,

(10) To direct the location of all buildings for storing gun-
powder, fire crackers, or other works manufactured or prepared there-
from, kerosene oil, nitroglycerine, camphene, burning fluid, or other
combustible material; to regulate and restrain the exhibition and use
of fire works, fire crackers, the discharge of fire arms, the use of candles
or lights in barns, stables, and other buildings; and to regulate and
restrain the making of bonfires in the streets, alleys, roads and prem-
ises in the said town.

(11) To prevent horses, cattle, hogs, dogs, cats, chickens and all
other poultry and animals from running at large in the said town, and
may subject the same to confiscation, regulation and taxes as may be
deemed proper; and the town council may prohibit the raising and
keeping of hogs in the town or in any part thereof, or if permitted,
may regulate the same.

” (12) To prevent the riding and driving of horses or animals at
an improper speed, throwing stones, or engaging in any employment
or sports on the streets, sidewalks, roads or public alleys dangerous to
or annoying to pedestrians; and to prohibit and punish cruel treat-
ment of horses and other animals in the said town.

(13) To protect the person and property of the inhabitants of
the town, and others within the town, to restrain and punish drunk-
ards, vagrants, idlers, and street beggars, to prevent vice and im-
morality, obscenity, profanity, abusive language, and gambling, to
preserve peace and good order; to prevent and quell riots, disturb-
ances and disorderly assemblies; to suppress houses of ill fame and
gambling houses; to prevent lewd, indecent, and disorderly conduct,
or exhibits on the said town, and to expel therefrom persons guilty of
such conduct; to prevent the coming into town of persons having no
ostensible means of support and persons who may be dangerous to the
peace and safety of the town and compel such persons to leave the
town if they have been in the town not more than six months before
the order is given.

(14) To punish any husband who shall without just cause desert
and wilfully neglect or refuse to provide for the support and main-
tenance of his wife, or any parent who shall desert or wilfully neglect
or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his or her
child or children, under the age of sixteen years, she and they being
then and there in destitute or necessitous circumstances in the said
town; or any child over the age of sixteen years and under the age of
twenty-one years; physically fit, who fails or refuses to contribute
towards the support of any parent, the said parent being then and
there in destitute or necessitous circumstances.

(15) To make and enforce ordinances to secure the safe and ex-
peditous use of streets, roads, and alleys of the said town; to regulate
all manner of traffic thereon, and for the protection of persons and
property thereon or near thereto.

(16) To establish and maintain parks, playgrounds, and boule-
vards, and cause the same to be laid out, equipped and beautified; to
give names to or alter the names of streets, and fix building lines.

(17) To lay off public grounds and provide, acquire, erect, and
keep in order all buildings proper for the town.

(18) To prohibit and punish for mischievous, wanton or malicious
damage to school and public property as well as private property.

(19) To prohibit and punish minors from frequenting, playing in
or loitering in any public pool room, billiard parlor or ten pin alley
and to punish any proprietor or agent thereof for permitting same.

(20) To restrict the dumping of garbage to such places as the
council may designate and to punish all who fail to comply with such
rules and regulations as to garbage disposal.

(21) To provide a prison house and work house and employ
managers, physicians, nurses and servants for the same, and prescribe
regulations for the government and discipline of persons therein.

(22) To authorize and regulate the erection of party walls and
fences and prescribe how the cost thereof shall be borne by coter-
minous owners; and to prohibit and punish trespassing upon private
property within the town.

(23) To regulate and control auction sales, livery stables, gar-
ages, barber shops, slaughter houses, soap factories, theatrical per-
formances or other public shows or exhibitions; the hiring or use for
pay of carriages, carts, wagons and drays, and the business of hawkers,
peddlers, persons selling goods by sample, persons keeping billiard
tables, ten pin alleys, and pistol galleries for profit, and all other
similar business, occupations and employments, and as to such trades,
occupations, and employments and of any other like nature, or not,
may grant or refuse license as it may deem proper.

(24) To compel persons sentenced to confinement in jail for petty
larceny, or other misdemeanor, or other violation of town ordinances,
to work on the public streets of the said town.

(25) To provide for the regular and safe construction of houses
in the town for the future, to require the standard of dwelling houses
be maintained in residential sections in keeping with the majority of
residences therein.

(26) To designate and prescribe from time to time, the part of
the town within which no buildings of wood shall be erected, and to
regulate the construction of buildings in the town, so as to protect it
against danger of fire; to remove or require to be removed any build-
ing, structure or addition thereto, which by reason of dilapidation,
defect of structure, fire, or other cause may become dangerous to life
or property, and also refuse a permit to repair any such building or
structure.

(27) To prevent injury or annoyance of anything dangerous,
offensive or unhealthy.

(28) To provide by regular ordinances what are nuisances; to
cause the abatement of any nuisance so declared to be by the general
laws of this State, or the regular ordinance of the town.

(29) To provide for the weighing of hay, fodder, oats, grains,
shucks, and other forage, ice, coal, and live stock, and the measure-
ment of wood and lumber.

(30) To provide in or near the town lands to be used as burial
places for the dead; to improve and care for the same and the ap-
proaches thereto, and to charge for and regulate the use of ground
therein; and to provide for the perpetual upkeep and care of any plat
or burial lot therein, the town is authorized to take and receive sums
of money by gift, bequest, or otherwise, to be kept invested, and the
income thereof used in and about the perpetual upkeep and care of
the said lot, or plot, for which the said donation, gift, or bequest shall
have been made.

(31) To offer and pay rewards for the apprehension of criminals.

(32) To control, regulate, limit, and restrict the operation of
motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire, upon the streets and alleys
of the town, to require a bond with satisfactory surety thereon of the
owner of every motor vehicle so used, conditioned to satisfy all dam-
ages caused to any person, or property, in the negligent operation of
such motor vehicle, or adequate insurance, to require the annual
registration of each and every motor vehicle so used and a license
tax to be paid thereon, to require all drivers of such motor vehicles,
whether owners or not, to obtain permits from the mayor and council
before operating any such motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire
upon the said streets and alleys, to refuse permits to so operate any
motor vehicle to any person who is not of good character, reputation,
physically fit, capable, competent, of sufficient age and discretion,
or who is addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors or narcotics, to
revoke any permit issued to any person for good cause and after a
hearing thereon; or, a franchise may be granted for the transportation
of passengers by motor vehicles for hire upon the said streets and
alleys, to be advertised and sold as provided for by the Constitution
and the laws of this State, subject nevertheless to such rules, regula-
tions, restrictions, and limitations and upon such conditions, not in
conflict with the Constitution, as the council may determine. But
nothing in this section shall be construed to be in conflict with the
general State law on motor vehicle carriers.
(33) To pass all resolutions and ordinances not repugnant to the
Constitution and the laws of the State, or in conflict with this act,
which may deem necessary for the good order and government of the
said town, the management of its property, the conduct of its affairs,
the peace, comfort, convenience, order, morals, health and protection
of its citizens or of their property, and do such other things and pass
such other laws as may be necessary or proper to carry into full effect
any power, authority, capacity, or jurisdiction, which is or shall be
granted to or vested in the said town or in the council, or the officers

thereof, or which may be necessarily incident to a municipal cor-
poration.

CHAPTER 7.
Sergeant.

Section 34144. The town council shall have the power and auth-
ority to prescribe for the town sergeant such general and other duties
as it may see fit, and shall fix his compensation, and in all civil and
criminal cases arising under the State laws, the sergeant shall receive
the same fees as are provided by law for constables, and in all cases
arising under the town ordinances where not otherwise provided, he
shall receive the same fees as constables receive in similar cases arising
under the State, laws.

Section 35. The town sergeant shall perform the duties, receive
the compensation and be subject to the liabilities prescribed by this
act, the ordinances, by-laws and regulations of the town council, and
by the laws of this State, and also shall have the powers and discharge
the same duties as constables within the corporate limits of the town,
and be subject to the same liability touching all process lawfully
directed to him, as constables are subject to, under the laws of this

tate.

Section 36. The sergeant and the police officers of the town shall
have power to arrest without warrants and carry before the mayor or
other proper authority, to be dealt with according to law, any and all
persons who shall violate any ordinance of the town or law of the State
in their presence, and it shall be their duty to swear out warrants of
arrest for any person or persons where they have reason to believe any
offense has been committed.

Section 37. The sergeant shall be collector of all fines and pen-
alties imposed for the violation of town ordinances, by-laws, rules
and regulations, and of delinquent town levies, and of all tax tickets
declared delinquent by the town council, and allowed the treasurer
in his settlement with the town council, shall be turned over to the
sergeant to collect, and for that purpose he shall have all the power
and authority and be subject to the same liabilities and penalties as
are prescribed for county treasurers in the collection of State taxes
and county levies, and may be proceeded against in the same manner,
so far as applicable.

Section 38. The sergeant shall pay over to the treasurer monthly
or oftener if he thinks proper all money which comes into his hands
for taxes, or levies, or otherwise, belonging to the town.
Section 39. He shall be required to give bond with satisfactory
surety, payable to the said town for the faithful performance and
discharge of all of his duties as sergeant, and to faithfully account for
all money coming into his hands by virtue of his office.

CHAPTER 8.
Use of Streets, et cetera.

Section 40.. No street, gas, railway, water, steam, or electric
heating, electric light, or power company, compressed air, viaduct,
conduit, telegraph, telephone, or bridge company, firm, or corpora-
tion, association, persons or partnership, engaged in these or like
enterprises shall be permitted to use the streets, roads, alleys of
public grounds of the town without the previous consent of the cor-
porate authority of the town.

Section 41. No person or corporation shall occupy or use any of
the streets, avenues, parks, bridges, boulevards, alleys or any other
public place or public property of the town, or any public easement
of the town of any description in a manner not permitted to the general
public, without having first obtained the consent thereto of the town
council, or a franchise therefor, and any person upon conviction of so
doing before the mayor shall be fined not less than five dollars, nor
more than fifty dollars, each day’s continuance thereof to be a separate
offense, such fine to be recovered in the name of the town and for its
use, and such occupancy shall be deemed a nuisance, and the mayor
shall have power to cause the said nuisance to be abated, and to com-
mit the offenders and all their agents and employees engaged in such
offense to the town prison until such order shall be obeyed.

Section 42. In every case when a street of said town has been, or
shall be encroached upon by any fence, building, porch, projections or
otherwise, the town council may require the owner, if known, or if
unknown, the occupant, to remove the same, and if such removal be
not made within the time prescribed by the council they may impose
a penalty of not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each and every day
it is allowed to continue thereafter, and may cause the encroachment
to be removed and collect from the owner, or if the owner be unknown,
from the occupant of the premises, a reasonable charge therefor, with
costs, by the same procedure as they are hereinafter empowered ta
collect taxes. No encroachment upon any street of the said town,
however long the same shall have been or may be continued, shall
constitute an adverse possession to, or confer any rights upon the
person claiming thereunder, as against the town.

CHAPTER 9.
Police.

Section 43. The town council shall have the power and authority
to appoint a chief of police, and such additional police officers as it
may deem necessary or proper. Until the town council shall appoint
a chief of police, the town sergeant shall perform the duties of such
office.
Section 44. The town council shall prescribe rules and regulations
for the government of the police department, prescribe uniforms and
badges of the officers therefor, and fix their rate of pay, and in addition
thereto, the mayor, or in his absence, the president pro tempore of the
council, or in the absence of both, any councilman shall have the
power and authority, whenever the regular police force of the town is,
in the judgment of such person, deemed inadequate to meet the needs
of the occasion, to appoint and swear in such additional or special
policemen as he may deem requisite, for a term of service not to ex-
ceed ten days, and at such compensation as the council may fix for
special policemen, or, if no compensation be fixed by the council, then
at the same compensation per day paid regular police officers of the
regular police force. The duties and powers of such special policemen
shall be the same as that of a private on the regular police force.

Section 45. The police force shall be under the control of the
mayor for the purpose of enforcing peace and order, and executing
the laws of the State and ordinances of the town. They shall also
perform such other duties as the council may prescribe. For the
purpose of enabling them to execute their duties and powers, any
policeman is hereby made a conservator of the peace, and endowed
with all the powers of the constable in criminal cases, and all other
powers which under the laws of the State may be necessary to enable
him to discharge the duties of his office.

Section 46. The officers and privates of the police force of the
town shall be vested with all the powers and authority which belong
to the office of a constable at common law in taking cognizance of and
enforcing the criminal laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the
ordinances and regulations of the town respectively; and it shall be
the duty of each and eveyone of such policemen to use his best en-
deavor to prevent the commitment within the said town of offenses
against the laws of the Commonwealth, and against the ordinances
and regulations of the town, to observe and enforce all such laws,
ordinances and regulations, to detect and arrest offenders against
the same, to preserve the good order of the town, and secure the in-
habitants thereof from violence, and the property therein from injury.

Section 47. The police of the town shall have all the power and
authority of a sergeant and in all cases execute such warrants or sum-
mons as may be placed in his or their hands by the mayor of the said
ow er properly constituted authority, and shall make due return
thereo!.

CHAPTER 10.
Fire Department.

Section 48. The town council shall have the power and authority
to establish and maintain a fire department for the town, and all power
necessary for the government, management, maintenance, equipment,
and direction of such fire department, and the premises, property and
equipment thereof. The council may make ordinances as it may
deem proper for the prevention of fires, the construction of flues,
chimneys, and stove pipes, and the extinguishment of fires; for the
egulation of the conduct of persons in attendance at fires in relation
-o the powers and duties of the officers and men of the fire department;
-O require citizens to render assistance to the fire department in case
»f need, and in relation to the acquisition, use, maintenance, and
oreservation of real estate, personal property, fire apparatus and
2quipment necessary or proper for the use of the fire department.

Section 49. The town council may in their discretion authorize
or require the fire department to render aid in case of fire occurring
beyond the limits of the town, and may prescribe the conditions
under which aid may be rendered.

CHAPTER 11.
Dedication of Streets, et cetera.

Section 50. All streets, cross-streets, roadways, alleys, avenues,
and walkways which have already been laid off and opened according
to plats of the several subdivisions of the town as now constituted,
not heretofore changed, closed or altered by the municipal authorities,
and all streets, cross-streets, avenues and alleys, lanes and walkways
which have heretofore been opened and used as such, or which may
at any time be located, surveyed and opened in the said town or any
extension of the same within the corporate limits of the town, shall be
and they are hereby established as public streets, avenues, lanes and
walkways of the town.

Section 51. Any street, alley, avenue or walkway heretofore or
hereafter reserved or laid out in the division or subdivision into lots
of any portion of the territory within the corporate limits of the town
as now constituted by a plan or plat of record, not altered, closed, or
vacated by the municipal authorities, or otherwise as provided by
law, shall be deemed and held to be dedicated to public use as and for
a public street, avenue, alley or walkway, as the case may be, of the
town, unless it appears by the said record that the street, avenue,
alley or walkway so reserved is designated for private use, and when-
ever any street, alley, avenue, walkway or lane in the town shall have
been opened and used as such by the public for a period of five years,
the same shall thereby become a street, avenue, alley, walkway, or
lane for public use, unless notice of the contrary intention on the part
of the land owner be given in writing to the mayor of the town, who
shall report the receipt of such notice to the council that it may be
spread on the journal; and the council shall have the same authority
and jurisdiction over, and right and interest therein, as they have by
law over the streets, avenues, walkways and lanes laid out by them;
and all streets, avenues, alleys and walkways hereafter laid out in the
division or subdivision into lots of any portion of the territory within
the corporate limits of he town shall be made to conform to existing
streets, avenues, alleys and walkways, both in width and their courses
and direction.

Section 52. The town shall repair, maintain, and keep in good
order the public streets and roads, except the State road, within the
corporate limits of the town, and if the said town so keeps in order
repairs and maintains, the public roads and streets, within the said
corporate limits, no road tax shall be levied therein by the county of
Page, or any subdivision thereof; and the inhabitants of the town and
all taxable property, personal and real, within the corporate limits of
the town shall be exempt from all assessments and levies imposed by
the authorities of the county of Page, or Marksville magisterial dis-
trict thereof, for the construction, repair or maintenance of roads
lying outside of the corporate limits of the said town.

CHAPTER 12.
‘Treasurer.

Section 53. The treasurer of the said town shall be appointed
by the council for a term of two years, at the time the mayor and
council are installed in office, and shall collect and receive all money
belonging to the town, and shall perform such other duties as are pre-
scribed by the council. He shall keep his office at some convenient
place in the town, provided by the town council. He shall keep his
books and accounts in such manner as the town council may prescribe,
and such books and accounts shall always be subject to the inspection
of the mayor and council, or any committee or committees of the
council. He shall receive for his services such compensation, either
in fees or salary, as the town council may from time to time allow,
and when such compensation has been fixed by the council, the same
shall not be diminished during the term of his office.

Section 54. No money shall be paid out by the town treasurer
except by order of the council and upon a warrant of the clerk of the
council, countersigned by mayor, except as hereinafter provided.

Section 55. The town treasurer or his deputy duly appointed by
the council and qualified, or by order of the council of the said town,
the town sergeant, or any other person appointed by the town council
shall collect all the taxes, revenues and assessments, which may be
levied by the said town council, and for this purpose the said treasurer
or other person appointed by the town council as aforesaid, shall be
vested with power and be subject to liabilities and penalties now pre-
scribed by law in regard to the county treasurers of the State of Vir-
ginia in the levying and collection of taxes, and said officers or persons
appointed as aforesaid to collect said taxes, revenues, and assessments,
shall have full power to levy on property and sell the same for the
payment of such tax, as the said county: treasurers of the State of
Virginia are now empowered by law to do, and such sales shall be
made upon the notice and in such manner as now prescribed by law
in sales of personal property for State taxes; and any person so ap-
pointed shall give bond and receive such compensation as said council
shall direct.

Section 56. The treasurer shall be required to keep all money in
his hands belonging to the town in such place or places of deposit as
the town council by ordinance may provide or direct.

Section 57. The treasurer shall report to each stated meeting of
the council the amount of cash then on deposit to the order of the
town, and in what depositories deposited, and shall annually at the
end of each fiscal year publish, either in the newspapers or by posting
in front of the post-office, a statement showing all the receipts and
income of the said town and from what sources, and all disbursements
made and for what pyrpose.

Section 58. The treasurer shall execute bond with satisfactory
surety, payable to the town for the faithful performance of all duties
of his office, and to account for all money coming into his hands.

CHAPTER 13.
Clerk of the Council.

Section 59. The clerk shall attend the meetings of the council and
keep the record of its proceedings; he shall have the custody of the
corporate seal; he shall keep all the papers that, by the provisions of
this act, or the direction of the council, are required to be filed with or
kept by him; he shall give notice to all parties presenting communica-
tions or petitions to the town council of the final action of the council
on such communication or petition; he shall publish such reports and
ordinances as the council is required to publish, and such other re-
ports and ordinances as it may direct and shall, in general, perform
such other acts and duties as the council may from time to time pre-
scribe and require of him. He shall receive such compensation as the
council may direct.

Section 60. The clerk of the council shall perform all the duties
in relation to the assessment of property for the purpose of levying
the town taxes or levies, shall see to it that all persons, firms and cor-
porations, chargeable with a town license tax are assessed with such
license tax.

And shall perform all such other duties in relation to the assess-
ment of property and other subjects of taxation as may be ordered
by the town council.

Section 61. For the performance of his duties, the clerk of the
town shall be vested with all the power and authority that county
commissioners of revenue are vested with, under the general laws of
the State of Virginia, and shall have the power and authority to pro-
pound interrogatories to any person subject to taxation, and may use
such other evidence as he may be in position to procure; such inter-
rogatories shall be answered under oath and any applicant refusing
to answer such interrogatories under oath, shall be fined not less than
five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, for each offense.

Section 62. It shall be the duty of the assessor to assess for
taxation all persons and property subject to town taxation, whether
the same shall have been omitted from the assessment of the com-
missioner of revenue for Page county or not.

Section 63. All books, schedules and records, and papers per-
taining to the office of assessor shall be open to and subject to the
inspection of the mayor, the members of the town council, or any
committee thereof, and of the collector of town taxes.

Section 64. He shall receive for his services such compensation
as the town council may from time to time prescribe.
Section 65. For the execution of its powers and duties the council
may tax all real and personal property in the town not exempt by law
from taxation; all corporations located in the town or having their
principal office therein and not exempt by law from taxation; all
credits due to any person living in the town; all capital of persons
having a place of business in the town and doing business therein and
employed in the said business, though the said business may extend
beyond the town, provided that so much of said capital as is invested
in real estate or employed in the manufacture of articles outside the
town limits shall not be taxed as capital; and all stocks in incorporated
joint stock companies, doing business in the town and by whomsoever
owned and not exempt by law from taxation. Assessments upon
stock and bonds shall be according to the market value thereof.
Nothing in this act shall be construed as conflicting with the general
laws of the State providing for the segregation or partial segregation
of the subjects of taxation.

Section 66. The council may impose a tax of one half ($.50)
dollar per annum upon each resident of the town who has attained
the agent of twenty-one years, for general town purposes.

Section 67. The council may impose a tax on merchants, com-
mission merchants, auctioneers, manufacturers, traders, lawyers,
physicians, dentists, brokers, keepers of ordinaries, hotel keepers,
boarding house keepers, keepers of drinking or eating houses, keepers
of livery stables, garages, filling station, distributors of oils, gasoline
and grease, photographic artists of all kinds, agents of all kinds, ex-
cluding the agents of insurance companies, venders of quack medicine,
public theatricals or other performances cr shows; soda fountains and
distributors of soft drinks; keepers of billiard tables, ten pin alleys,
pistol galleries, hawkers, peddlers, sample merchants, railroad com-
panies, telegraph companies, telephone companies, gas companies,
electric companies, street railway companies, express companies, con-
tractors, barber shops, and any other person, firm, corporation, em-
ployment, or trade whether of like kind with any of the foregoing or
not, which it may deem proper, whether such person, firm, corpora-
tion, business, employment, or trade be herein specifically enumerated
or not, and whether any tax be imposed thereon by the State or not.
As to all such persons, firms, corporations, employments, or trades,
the council may lay a direct tax or may require a license tax therefor,
under such regulations as it may prescribe and levy a tax thereon;
and where jt is not prohibited by the laws of this State or of the
United States may levy both a direct tax and a license tax, but the
taxes herein authorized shall be subject to the provisions and con-
ditions set forth in this act, but this section shall not render it legal
to conduct within the town any business, calling, or vocation which
but for this section would be illegal.

Section 68. The council may subject any person who without
having obtained a license therefor shall do any act or follow any em-
ployment or business in the town for which a license may be required
by ordinances, such fine or penalty as it is authorized to impose for
any violation of its laws.

Section 69. The town council may exempt from all municipal
taxation, bonds and other obligations of indebtedness issued by the
town.

Section 70. The council shall have power to fix and collect water
rents, and make proper charges for light and power furnished and
provided by the municipal power plant.

Section 71. The council shall not appropriate any part of any
sinking fund or its accrued interest thereon for any other objects or
purposes than that for which the said sinking fund is collected:

CHAPTER 15.
Tax Liens, et cetera.

Section 72. There shall be a lien on real estate for the town
taxes as assessed thereon from the commencement of the year for
which they were assessed. And the town council may, by ordinance,
allow and require said taxes to be paid in two equal installments at
such times, and with a penalty not in excess of ten per centum, as the
said council may designate. The council may require real estate in
the town delinquent for the non-payment of taxes or assessments, to
be sold for said taxes and assessments, with interest thereon from the
time the same is delinquent, at the rate of six per centum per annum,
and ten per centum of the amount of the tax to cover costs and
charges, exclusive of costs attending the redemption thereof, as here-
inafter provided, and may cause a good and sufficient deed to be made
to the purchaser.

Section 73. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the town to
make out and deliver to the council at their regular meeting in July,
in each year following the passage of this act, a list of all real estate
whereupon delinquent taxes or assessments are due and unpaid for
the previous year, and thereupon the treasurer of the town, under
the direction of the town council, and when so ordered by it, shall
sell said real estate and shall cause a notice of the time and place of
such sale to be published in a newspaper published in the said county
of Page, for at least once a week for four consecutive issues of the said
paper or papers, previous to the day of the sale and he shall cause
to be published, at the same time and for the same length of time, a
list of the several parcels of real estate delinquent for the non-payment
of assessments due and the amount of tax or assessments due on each
parcel.

Section 74. If such tax or assessment and the six per centum
interest and ten per centum costs and charges aforesaid be not paid
previous to the day for which said sale is advertised, or on some day
immediately thereafter to which said sale may be adjourned, the
treasurer shall proceed to make sale accordingly of said parcel of real
estate, or so much thereof as shall be necessary to satisfy the taxes,
interest and charges aforesaid, to the highest bidder, and the sale may
be adjourned from day to day until it shall be completed. On such
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sale the treasurer shall execute to the purchaser a certificate of sale,
in which the property purchased shall be described and the aggregate
amount of tax or assessments with interest and costs specified; but
the treasurer shall not for himself, whether directly or indirectly,
purchase any real estate so sold.

Section 75. If at any sale no bids shall be made by any person
for any such parcel of land, or such bids shall not be equal to the tax
or assessment with interest and costs thereon, the same may be bid
in and purchased by the treasurer for the said town. On such sale
the treasurer shall execute to the town a certificate of sale in which
the property purchased shall be described and the aggregate amount
of taxes or assessments, with interest and costs specified, and shall
deposit such certificates with the clerk of the council of the town.

Section 76: The treasurer shall, within thirty days after the sales
are completed, make a report of said sales showing parcels of land
sold, the date of sale, the name of the purchaser, and the amount of
purchase money for each lot; this report shall within the time aforesaid
be filed with the clerk of the council and by him recorded in the book
kept for the purpose. |

Section 77. The owner of any real estate so sold, his heirs or
assigns, or any person having the right to charge such real estate for a
debt, or otherwise interested therein may redeem the same by paying
the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, within two years from the sale
thereof, the whole amount paid by such purchaser, and such additional
tax thereto as may have been paid by the purchaser, his heirs and
assigns, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum;
or, if purchased by the town with such additional sum as will have
accrued for taxes thereon, if the same had not been purchased by the
town, with interest on the said purchase money, and taxes, at the
rate of ten per centum per annum from the time that the same may
have been so paid, or the same may be paid within the said two years
to the said town sergeant in any case in which the purchaser, his heirs
or assigns, may refuse to receive the same or may not reside or cannot
be found in the town.

Section 78. Any infant, insane person or persons in prison whose
real estate may have been so sold, or his heirs, may redeem the same
by paying to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, within two years from
the removal of their disability, the amount for which the same was
sold, with the interest and costs as aforesaid, and such additional
taxes on the real estate as may have been paid by the purchaser, his
heirs or assigns, or the appraised value of any improvements that
may have been made thereon, with interest on the said items at the
rate of six per centum per annum, from the time they may have been
made. Upon such payment and the payment of such additional
sums as may have been incurred by the purchaser in obtaining a deed
within two years after the removal of such disability the purchaser,
his heirs or assigns, shall, at the cost of the original owner, his heirs
or assigns, convey to him or them by deed with, special warranty the
real estate so sold. -

Section 79. If any real estate so sold be not redeemed within the
time allowed for redemption the purchaser of such real estate or his
assigns, may thereupon petition the mayor and council that the prop-
erty shall be conveyed to him, and thereupon, after due notice to the
party or parties, for whose delinquent taxes said real estate was sold,
and similar notice to the owner as shown by the records of the clerk's
office of the circuit court of Page county either by personal service or
in the event personal service cannot be had by reason of non-residence
or disability of any kind, by publication for’ four consecutive weeks
in some newspaper published in the county at the expense of the
applicant, the said council shall determine whether all the require-
ments as to the assessment, the sale, the purchase, and the pericd of
redemption shall have been complied with; and if upon such inquiry
it be ascertained that the same has been regularly complied with, and
that the purchaser or his assigns is entitled to a conveyance of the
said real estate, the council shall direct the same to be conveyed by
the clerk of the council of the town. Where the purchaser has
assigned the benefit of his purchase, the deed may be with his consent
evidence by his joining therein or by writing annexed thereto be exe-
cuted to his assignee. And if the purchaser shall have died, his heirs
or assigns may move the council to order the clerk of the council of
the town to execute a deed conveying the property to such heirs or
assigns; such inquiry shall be deemed conclusive as to the regularity
of all proceedings connected therewith, but nothing contained in this
section shall apply to the real estate purchased by the town at de-
linquent tax sales.

Section 80. Any real estate purchased by the town at delinquent
tax sales provided for in this charter, if not redeemed in accordance
with the provisions of this charter shall be disposed of by the town in
such mode as the council may prescribe.

Section 81. When the purchaser of any real estate sold for the
taxes, his heirs or assigns, shall have obtained a deed therefor, and
within sixty days from the date of such deed shall have caused same
to be recorded, such estate shall stand vested in the grantee in such
deed, and his title shall not be subject to defeat, except by showing
that the real estate was not subject to the taxes for which it was sold,
or that the taxes for the year for which it had been sold, had been paid.

CHAPTER 16.
Loans, Bonds, et cetera.

Section 82. The town council shall have the power and authority,
without reference thereof to a vote of the people to issue certificates of
indebtedness, bonds, or other obligations issued in anticipation of the
collection of the revenue of the town for the then current year; pro-
vided that such certificates, bonds, or other obligations mature within
one year from the date of their issuance, and be not past due and do
not exceed revenue for such year.

Section 83. The town council shall have the power and authority,
without reference to a vote of the people, to provide by ordinances for
the issuance of new bonds, for the redemption and liquidation of any
lawfully issued bonds, when they fall due, become subject to call, or
can for any reason be refunded or redeemed. Said new bends shall
not exceed in amount, the original bonds to be redeemed, liquidated,
or refunded, may be registered, serial, or coupon, and shall be sold, at
not less than par, to the highest bidder for cash, provided no such new
bonds shall bear a higher rate of interest than six per centum per
annum, and provided further that the proceeds of the sale of the new
bonds so issued shall be used only in the payment of the old bonds,
which are subject to call, redemption or can otherwise be refunded or
redeemed. Such bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the
United States and a sinking fund shall be created and maintained
sufficient to redeem such bonds at maturity, and shall be applied to
such redemption and to no other purpose; provided, further, such
short term notes or obligations of the said town outstanding at the
time this act goes into effect, may likewise be refunded into long
term bonds under this section.

Section 84. And the council shall have the further power and
authority to borrow money in the name of the town and for its uses
and purposes whenever in the opinion of a majority of its members,
ascertained by a recorded affirmative vote of all of the members
elected to the council, it is to the best interest of the municipality to
do so, such borrowed money to be evidenced by the bonds, notes, or
certificates of indebtedness of the said town duly executed by the
mayor thereof and attested by the clerk of the council,.but the amount
of the indebtedness of the town at any one time including the existing
indebtedness shall not exceed eighteen per centum of the assessed
valuation of the real estate therein, subject to taxation as shown by
the last preceding assessment. The classes of debts mentioned under
section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Constitution in para-
graphs ‘‘a’”’ and ‘‘b’’ thereof shall not be included in determining the
indebtedness of the town. None of the obligations issued under this
provision shall be sold at less than their par value, nor bear interest
at a rate exceeding six per centum per annum, and shall become due
and payable not exceeding thirty-four years from the date of their
issuance; provided, however, no bonds, notes, or certificates of in-
debtedness shall be issued under this provision unless and until the
question shall have first been submitted to the qualified voters of the
town whether or not such bonds, notes, or certificates of indebtedness
shall be issued, and the majority of the qualified voters participating
in any election held for such purpose shall have voted for such issuance.
The council shall call such election and fix the date thereof by ordi-
nance, copies of which shall be published in the local newspaper at
least once a week for three consecutive weeks before the date of such
election, and the regular election officials of the town shall conduct
the election provided for hereunder. The council shall make pro-
visions for the payment of interest on the bonds, notes, or certificates
of indebtedness so issued and shall provide a sinking fund for the
retirement thereof at or before maturity. The coupons shall be re-
ceived for town taxes.
Section 85. All criminal and civil writs and process issued by
the mayor, under the general laws of the State of Virginia shall run in
the name of the ‘“Commonwealth of Virginia,” and all criminal and
civil writs or process issued by the mayor for the violation of or under
ordinances of the said town shall run in the name of “the town of
Stanley,’’ and writs and process issued in the name of the town shall
conform as near as may be to the form for similar writs and processes
issued under the general State laws. .

Section 86. The jurisdiction of the corporate authorities of the
town in criminal matters, except as otherwise provided by law, and
for imposing and collecting a license tax on all shows, performances
and exhibitions shall extend one mile beyond the corporate limits of
the town.

Section 87. Appeals from decisions rendered by the mayor shall
lie to the circuit court of Page county, when permitted or allowed,
and upon similar and subject to like conditions as is provided by law
in such cases, unless otherwise provided for herein.

Section 88. If any section or provision of this act or any part
of any section shall be declared unconstitutional, the part so declared
unconstitutional shall cease to be operative, but the remainder of
this act and every. section or part thereof not so declared unconstitu-
tional shall continue to be the law governing this town.

Section 89. In case of default on the part of any bonded muni-
cipal officer, the town shall have the same remedies against him and
his sureties as are provided for the State in enforcing the penalty of
any official bond given to it.

Section 90. The same person shall be eligible to, and if elected,
or appointed, may hold a county office and a town office if the said
offices be of the same nature, at the same time; provided, such officer
lives within the town limits; and a person otherwise qualified who is a
resident of the said town shall be eligible to election or appointment
to any county office of Page county.

Section 91. Where by the provisions of this act or the general
laws of this State, the council has the authority to pass an ordinance,
resolution or regulation on any subject, it may prescribe a penalty
not exceeding five hundred dollars or confinement in jail not exceeding
twelve months, or both, for the violation thereof and any other form
of punishment provided for by the laws of this State for the punish-
ment of misdemeanors.

Section 92. All ordinances now in force as the ordinances of the
town of Stanley, not inconsistent with this act shall be and remain in
force until altered, amended, or repealed by the town council.

Section 93. The present officers of the town shall be and remain
in office until the expiration of their several terms.

Section 94. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed, but only insofar as they affect the provisions of this
act.
Section 95. An emergency is hereby declared to exist and this
act shall be in effect from and after the date of its passage.