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Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1895/1896 |
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Law Number | 285 |
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Chap. 285.—An AOT to provide a new charter for the town of Iron Gate.
Approved February 11, 1896.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
town of Iron Gate is made and hereby continued a town corporate
by the name of the town of Iron Gate, and by that name shall have
and exercise all of the powers conferred upon towns by law, and be
subject to all the laws now in force or that may hereafter be enacted
for the government of towns containing less than five thousand in-
habitants, so far as such laws are not in conflict with the provisions
of this act.
2. The government of said town shall be vested in one elector of
the town, who shall be denominated the mayor, and six other elec-
tors, who shall be denominated the councilmen of said town; and
said mayor and councilmen shall constitute the council of said
town. They shall be elected biennially on the fourth Thursday
in May, commencing with the vear eighteen hundred and ninety-
seven. ,
3. The boundaries of said town shall be as follows, to-wit: Begin-
ning at a point in the middle of Jackson river about one hundred
feet southeasterly from the centre line of Thirteenth street pro-
duced; thence south fifty-one degrees forty-four minutes west,
fifteen hundred and forty feet to corner; thence north fifty-nine de-
grees fifty-eight minutes west, nine hundred and ninety and
three-tenths feet to corner; thence south fifty-two degrees twenty-
five minutes west, fourteen hundred and fifty-two feet to corner,
near southeasterly corner of block one hundred and thirteen; thence
north forty-three degrees twenty-five minutes west, thirty-six hun-
dred and sixty-three feet to corner, near westerly corner of block
seventeen ; thence north twelve degrees fifty minutes east, twenty-
one hundred and fifty feet to corner, near northerly corner of block
two; thence north fifty-two degrees twenty-two minutes east, twenty-
four hundred and forty feet to corner, about one hundred and fifty
feet northerly from chalybeate spring ;{thence north forty-two de-
grees forty-nine minutes east, crossing railroad toa point in the
middle of Jackson river; thence up the river seven hundred feet to
a point in the middle of the river; thence south eighty-seven de-
grees eight minutes east, sixteen hundred feet to corner near north-
erly corner of block one hundred and forty-five; thence south
twenty-three degrees fifty-nine minutes‘ east, nine hundred and
ninety-feet to corner; thence south thirty degrees’ seven minutes
west, six hundred and forty feet to a point in the middle of the
river; and thence along the middle of the river forty-nine hundred
feet to the beginning, including also a somewhat semi-circular
piece of land comprising the extension of Crescent avenue and land
enclosed. —
4. The council at their first meeting in July after their election
shall appoint a sergeant, who shall hold his office for six months
and be clothed with the same powers and discharge the same duties
as constables within the corporate limits of the town and to the
distance of one mile beyond, and in addition thereto he shall per-
form such other duties as the council may prescribe. The council
shall also appoint a clerk, who shall perform such duties as the
council may prescribe as well as those imposed by this act. The
council shall fix the amount of compensation to be paid to all of the
officers appointed by them.
5. The council shall annually, at its regular meeting in May, or as
soon thereafter as practicable, order a levy for town purposes, not
exceeding one dollar upon the hundred, and said levy shall be upon
all property in the town assessed during that year for state taxation.
They shall, as soon as may be after the land and property books of
the county shall have been completed, cause tickets to be made out,
based on assessments contained in said books, of the property, real
and personal, embraced within the corporate limits of said town,
and as soon as the board of public works shall have completed the
assessment of the property of the railway and telegraph companies
doing business in the state, also cause to be made out tickets, based
upon such assessments, for the amount of the levy upon such pro-
perty of said companies as may be within the corporate limits of
said town. The said tickets shall be placed in the hands of some
person appointed by the council for the purpose for collection, who
shall have the same powers in collecting the same as is given by
eections six hundred and twenty-two, six hundred and twenty-three,
and six hundred and twenty-seven of the code of Virginia of eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-seven to the officers named therein. The
said levy, from the time it is laid, shall constitute a lien also upon
the real estate on which it is made. The said collector shall hold
all moneys collected by him subject to the order of the council, and
shall pay out the same only upon the warrant of the mayor, counter-
signed by the clerk of the council.
6. The collector shall make up, within six months after said
tickets are placed in his hands, the list of delinquents as provided
for by sections ten hundred and forty-five and ten hundred and
forty-six of the code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, and in doing so he shall conform to the provisions of said
sections. The council shall have the power to order the sale of a’!
land returned delinquent and to make all necessary regulations for
selling the same.
7. The council, whenever in their judgment it is proper so to do,
may appropriate out of the moneys of the town a sum, not exceed-
ing four hundred dollars in any one year, to be used in extending
the sessions of the public schools now or hereafter established in
said town.
8. The present mayor and councilmen—namely, mayor A. Alex-
ander, and councilmen T. C. Jones, R. S. Payne, W. H. Cox, H. J.
Lackey, W. A. Cahoon, and T. D. Robinson—shall constitute the
council of the town of Iron Gate until their successors are elected as
provided for herein and qualified according to law.
9. This act shall be in force from its passage.