Chap. 195.-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act
to incorporate the town of Lebanon, in Russell county, in force February 21,
1873, as heretofore amended, relating to the powers and duties of the town
council, and providing that the town may acquire for a public park and play-
ground, parcel of land owned by Russell County Livestock & Agricultural
Association. [H B 244]

Approved March 27, 1934

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
four of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Lebanon in
Russell county in force February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

Section 4. The council shall have authority to abate or cause to be
abated, anything which, in the opinion of the council, shall be a nuisance;
to provide for the annual assessment of the taxable property and per-
sons of said town; to appoint and publish the place of holding the town
elections ; to adopt such rules and regulations as they may deem neces-
sary; to prevent the running at large on the streets and alleys of the
said corporation of hogs, dogs, horses, cattle and any and all other

animals and to prevent the cumbering of streets, sidewalks and alleys
in any manner whatever; to provide a revenue for and appropriate the
same for its expenses, and said council shall have power to provide for
keeping the streets and sidewalks in good order and paving the same;
to keep the sidewalks free and clean by the owners and occupants
thereof, and to provide for other necessary improvements, for which
purpose they may levy such tax as they may deem necessary, not in
conflict with the provisions of general law, not exceeding ninety cents
on the one hundred dollars, and said council shall have power to levy
a poll tax of fifty cents. Said council shall appoint annually a sergeant;
and shall fix his compensation and provide for the payment of same,
and prescribe his duties and require such bond as they may deem proper ;
such bond shall be payable to the said corporation. Said council shall
have power to remove said sergeant at any time they may deem proper
and appoint his successor.

The town, by and through its council, shall have the power and
authority to acquire for a public park and playground, a certain parcel
of land lying within the corporate limits of the town and owned by
Russell County Livestock & Agricultural Association, and as a means
to that end, to acquire by gift or purchase, any part, or all, of the
capital stock of said association, and to do such other things, lawful to
be done, as may be necessary to enable the town to acquire the legal
title to said parcel of land.

It shall be the duty of the sergeant to take up and impound in
a pen kept for that purpose any hog, pig, or swine found running
at large upon the streets or alleys within the limits of said corpora-
tion, and when any such hog, pig or swine shall be so taken and
impounded by the said sergeant he shall immediately advertise same,
at three public places for ten days, for sale to the highest bidder for
ready cash, and apply the proceeds first to the payment of the cost, and
the balance to the owner of such hog; provided, that the owner of
such hog, pig, or swine may redeem them at any time before the sale by
paying the cost incurred by penning them; the sergeant shall charge
twenty cents for penning each hog, pig, or swine so penned, and shall
charge five cents per day for feeding each hog, pig, or swine so penned.