Chap. 307.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town
of North Danville.

Approved March 7, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the act approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-
seven, entitled an act to incorporate the town of North Dan-
ville, and the act approved April fourth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-seven, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
sections eleven and twelve of an act approved March eighth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, entitled an act to incor-
porate the town ot North Danville, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows: .

2. That portion of the county of Pittsylvania included in
the following boundaries, to-wit: Beginning at Fall creck, at
the point where the southern line of W. B. Hodnett’s land
strikes the said creek; thence down the creek, as it mean-
ders, to the Dan river; thence into the stream of the Dan
river to a point fifty feet distant from the ordinary shore
line; thence up Dan river, keeping at the same distance of
fitty feet from the shore line, to a point opposite to the mouth
of the still-house branch; thence to the middle of the mouth
of the still-house branch, and up the said branch, as it mean-
ders, to the road-bed on track of the Virginia Midland rail-
road ; thence along the southern and western edve of the said
avibrnged, about one-half mile, to a stone culvert, near the
mouth of the deep cut; thence a straight course to the north-
western corner of David Tyree’s (senior) lot of land, as now
enclosed on the Franklin turnpike road; and thence crossing
said turnpike road, and continuing the same course. until it
strikes the Bradley road; thence crossing the said Bradley
road a straight course to the beginning, at Hodnett’s line. on
Fall creek , (being the same territory heretofore incorporated. )
be and the same is hereby continued to be incorporated by
the name of the town of North Danville. and by that name
shall continue to have all the rights, powers, privileges and
franchises provided by law for towns containing less than five
thousand inhabitants, and shall be subject. to vand governed
by all the laws of this state now in force, or which may
hereafter be enacted by the general assembly for such towns,
not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

3. The said town of North Danville, and the inhabitants
thereof, shall be exempt from all county levies, road tax, poor
tax, school tax, or taxation in any other form by tho county
of Pittsylvania; and it shall keep its own streets, and the
public roads running through it, in good order and repair,
and shall provide for its own poor, and levy and collect its
own echool tax sufficient in amount to maintain its own
schools in compliance with the laws of the state respecting
education, and shall have power to sue and be sued, and enter
ito contracts by its corporate name.

4. The corporate powers of the town of North Danville
shall be vested in a board to be known as the council of the
town of North Danville, which shall be composed of nine
members, any five of whom shall constitute a quorum for
the transaction of business. The said councilmen shall be
elected and qualified in the manner provided by law for
the yovernment and regulation of towns of less than five
thousand inhabitants.

5. There shall be elected biennially, on the fourth Thurs-
day in May, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and each
second year thereafter, by the qualified voters of said town,
one mayor, two justices of the peace, and nine councilmen,
each of which officers shall hold office for the period of two
years, or until their successors in office shall qualify.

6. The mayor shall be the chief magistrate of said town,
and as auch, shall see that the ordinances and by-laws of said
town are faithfully executed, and that the various officers of
the town faithfully discharge their duties. He shall be
invested with full powers of a justice of the peace, civil and
criminal, within the corporate limits of said town and one
mile beyond and outside the limits of the same, and shall,
in addition, have such other powers and perform such other
duties as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law for
mayors of towns of less than five thousand inhabitants, except
that he shall not be a member of the town council.

7. The justices of the peace herein provided tor, shall have
the like powers and duties within the corporate limits and
the police jurisdiction of said town, in both civil and criminal
proceedings, as other justices elected under the law of this
state.

8. The council of said town shall have all powers which
are now or may hereafter be vested by law in the council, or
mayor and council, of towns of less than five thousand inhabi-
tants, except that the councilmen shall have the powers of
justices or conservators of the peace. They shall have,
specifically, powers to lay and collect taxes on such property,
businesses, and professions, and such other subjects of taxa.
tion as are or may be taxed by the state: provided that the
rate of taxation shall not exceed for any one year in addition
to the school tax, seventy-five cents for each one bundred
dollars of the assessed value of real and personal property
on such property as is assessed and assessable, and the poll
tax shall not exceed fifty cents for each male taxable person
in any one year. The council shall have power, also, to fix
fines and penalties for the violation or non-performance of
town ordinances, which shall be collectable by warrant before
the mayor or one of the justices of said town, and to provide
for imprisonment in case of non-payment of fines.

9. The council shall, as soon as legally organized, or as
soon thereafter as may be, proceed to elect a commissioner
of the revenue and a collector for said town, who shall be
residents and qualified voters of said town, and shall hold
office for a term of two years, or until their successors shall
legally qualify.

10. The commissioner of the revenue shall also be a free-
holder of said town, and shall perform all the duties of com-
missioner of the revenue or assessor in and for the said town
provided by law, both for the town and state. He shall
assess the value of all the real and personal estate and
property liable to taxation within the limits of said town,
and sball also assess all merchants and other licenses within
said town for the state according to the laws of the state,
and for the town according to its ordinances and by-laws,
not inconsistent with the state laws; and the assessments so
made by him shall be the basis of all taxation upon the real
and personal property within said town. The official bond
and oath required of him by law shall be given before and
filed in the corporation court of the town of Danville, and
the penalty of his bond shall be two thousand dollars.

11. The collector shall be collector of state taxes as well
as town taxes within said town of North Danville. His
duties and responsibilities for the collection and disburse-
ment of taxes, shall be such as are or may be hereafter pro-
vided by law. Before proceeding to act. the collector shall
qualify and give bond before the corporation court, for the
town of Danville, in a penalty not less than ten thousand
dollars, with good security, and conditioned for the taithful
discharge of bis duties; and the judge of said corporation
court of Danville, may at any time increase the penalty of
such bond, if he deems it proper to do so. He shall hold his
office for two years, or until his successor is elected and
qualified, unless sooner suspended or removed from office by
the council. Said collector of taxes shall, during his term
of office, be a conservater of the peace, and shall have all the
powers, duties, and liabilities of a constable within the cor-
porate limits of the town of North Danville, and one mile
thereof.

12. The council shall also annually, appoint a clerk, whose
duty it shall be to keep a record of the proceedings of said
council, and to perform such other duties as may be pre-
scribed by the said council.

13. The council shall have power also to Appoint police-
men, and such other officers and agents for the proper gov-
ernment and business of the town as may be necessary.

14. Appeals from the decisions and orders of the mayor,
justices of the peace, and other officers of said town, in the
cases provided by law, shall be to the corporation court of
the town of Danville, or the circuit court thereof, when an
appeal lies to a circuit court, and not to the county or circuit
court of Pittsylvania county; and whatever by the general
laws respecting towns containing less than five thousand in-
habitants, is required or provided to be done by the county
court of the county witbin which such town is located, shall
in respect to the said town of North Danville, be done by the
corporation court of the town of Danville, instead of the
county court of Pittsylvania, except so far as herein other-
wise provided.

15. The registrar of voters and judges of elections in said
town of North Danville, shall be appointed by the corpora-
tion court of Danville, instead of the county court of Pittsyl-
vania.

16. Certificates for obtaining licenses to sell liquors of any
kind within the corporate limits of North Danville, or for
obtaining other licenses in said town, requiring the certificate
of a court, shall not be granted by the county court of
Pittsy lvania county, but may be granted by the corporation
court of Danville.

17. Process of the courts of Pittsylvania county, as well
as of the courts of the town of Danville, shall continue to
run within the town of North Danville, but the residents ot
said town of North Danville shall not hereafter be liable to
be sued in the courts of Pittsylvania county, as residents
thereof, nor to be summoned or required to attend the courts
of that county as grand jurors or petit jurors, except in
special cases provided by law, but they shall be liable to be
sued or summoned and to serve as jurors, grand or petit, in
the courts of the town of Danville, as if they were residents
of that town. They. may be included in the list of jurors re-
quired to be prepared by the judge of the corporation court
of Danville, under the third section of chapter one hundred
and fifty eight of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three; and in reference to the twenty-third section of chap-
ter one hundred and eighteen, and the first section of chapter
one hundred sixty five of tbe said Code, and generally in
reference to the laws regulating jurisdiction of courts, the
said residents of North Danville sball be construed to be resi-
dents of the town of Danville and not residents of the county
of Pittsylvania. The account and statements mentioned in
the fourth section of chapter one hundred and fifteen of said
Code, relating to mechanics’ liens on property in said town of
North Danville, instead of the county of Pittsylvania; con-
tracts, deeds of. conveyance, and other writings, which by the
fifth section of chapter one hundred and fourteen of the Code
of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, are declared to be
void as creditors and purchasers, unless and until they are
duly admitted to record in the county or corporation wherein
the property embraced in such deed or contract may be,
shall, if such deeds or contracts, or other writings, relate to
or embrace property, real or personal, within the corporate
limits of the eaid town of North Danville, be deemed to be
duly admitted to record, within the meaning of that section,
when duly admitted to record in the corporation court of the
town of Danville instead of the county court of Pittsylvania
county; and whatever other writings or proceedings are now
or may hereafter be required to be recorded, shall, if they re-
late to land or property situate within the corporate limits
of said town of North Danville, be, unless otherwise specially
provided, recorded in the corporation court of Danville instead
of the county court of Pittsylvania.

18. The said corporation shall have a right to issue bonds
to the amount of seven and one-half per centum of the as-
sessed value of real estate in said corporation, and pledge the
revenues of said corporation for the payment thereof, which
bonds shall bear interest at the rate of six per centum per an-
num, payable semi-annually, and redeemable in thirty years
or less, and said bonds shall not be sold at less than their par
value, and the proceeds shall be applied as the council may
direct for the benefit and use of the town.

19. In order to carry into effect the police regulations of
said town of North Dauville, that town shall be allowed, un-
til such time as it shall have provided a jail within its own
limits, to use the publie jail of the town of Danville, or of
Pittsylvania county, for the safe-keeping of persons sentenced
to imprisonment under the ordinances or by-laws of said town
or for violation of state laws therein; but for the use of said
jails by the town of North Danville, the county of Pittsy]-
vania, or the town of Danville, may require of it a reasonable
compensation.

20. This act shall be in force from its passaye.