EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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erty located in said town, and shall pass all ordinances
necessary to prescribe the duties and powers of said assessors;
provided, .however, that the assessment for town purposes
shall not exceed the assesments for State and county pur-
poses; and said commissioners shall have power, from time
to time, to pass such ordinances as they may deem proper
for the assessment, re-assessment, transferred and appeals
from assessments of the property in said town.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That all fines and forfeitures
imposed by the ordinances of the town shall be imposed by

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the said president or any justice of the peace resident in
said town upon a warrant to be issued directed to the said
bailiff or any policeman of said town; and the person con-
victed, in default of the payment of the fine and costs, may
be committed to the Alleghany county jail or the lockup of
said town, and the said president or justice of the peace and
bailiff or policeman shall be entitled to the same costs as
are provided in similar offenses against the State.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That in case of the death or

Fines
imposed.

refusal to act, resignation or disqualification of any of the
commissioners, clerk, bailiff or treasurer, the remaining com-
missioners, or a majority of them, shall fill such vacancy or
vacancies, and the person elected to fill any vacancy shall
serve for the unexpired term of the office to which said com-
missioners shall have elected him.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the commissioners shall

Vacancies
filled.

give at least ten days' notice of all elections by posting
handbills in at. least five conspicuous places in said town ;
and all places in said town and within one-half mile of the
limits thereof where spirituous and fermented liquors and
lager beer are sold or dispensed shall be and remain closed,
and no liquor sold or dispensed therein on the day of such
election, and any person neglecting or refusing to close his
saloon or place where liquors are sold or disposed, or any
person selling or dispensing liquors in said town, or within
one-half mile of the limits thereof, on the day of any elec-

Notice of
election
given.

tion held by said town, shall on conviction be subject to a
fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty
dollars for each and every offense, and in default of payment
of fine and the costs shall be committed to the town lockup
or the Alleghany county jail for thirty days or until the fine

Fine imposed.