Chap. 70.—An ACT to amend an act approved March 3, 1879, entitled
an act to incorporate the town of Culumbia in Fluvanna county.

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Approved April 11, 1887.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections two gnd three of the act approved March third, eigh-
teen bundred and seventy-nine, entitled an act to incorporate
the town of Columbia in Fluvanna county, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows: :

2. The boundaries of the town shall be the same as those
adopted by an act of the general assembly, passed the twenty-
fitth day of November, seventeen hundred and elvhty-eight,
establishing the metes and bounds of said town, and desena-
ting the streets thereof, except that on the east the corporate
Jimits shall extend to the line of the county of Goochland,
and on the south to the line of the county of Cumberland;
and said town shall be subject to all the provisions of said act,
except that no person by reason of anything contained in
said act shall be required to pull down or remove any per-
manent improvement or building which may occupy a por-
tion of the street or streets of suid tow n, so long as unob-
structed passave can be given to foot passengers and yebicles
without encroachment upon private property. But hereafter
no person shail be allowed to erect any building or improve-
ment within the limits of said town, unless the same be
erected in conformity with the streets as laid down in the afore-
mentioned act. And the limits of said town, as berein ex-
tended, when laid out in streets and allevs, shall conform to
the present streets and alleys of said town.

3. There shall be a mayor and six councilmen for said
town, who shall compose its board of council, who shall be
elected annually on and after the fourth Thursday in May,

eighteen bundred and seventy-nine, in manner as now pre-
scribed by law: provided that neither the mayor or members
of the board of council shall be entitled to a salary or other
compensation, except that in all cases tried by the mayor he
shall be entitled to the same fees now allowed justices of the
peace for like services, which shail be paid in lke manner
and from the same source as are now paid justices. The

ublic burying ground in said town, composed of lots num-
bers thirty-seven, thirty-eight, fifty-three and fifty-four, shall
be under the charge and manayement of the council of said
town

4. This act sball be in force from its passage.