Chap. 455.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act
to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville, Virginia, approved Feb-
ruary 26, 1886 (acts 1885-86, page 293), and as amended by an act approved
February 25, 1892 (acts 1891-’92, page 654), and to amend and re-enact section
42 of said act, as amended by an act approved January 28, 1890 (acts 1889-’90,
page 187), and to amend and re-enact section 45 of said act, approved Febru-
ary 26, 1886 (acts 1885-86, page 293).

Approved February 26, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town
of Wytheville, approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-six, and as amended by an act approved February twenty-
fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; and that section forty-two
of said act, as amended by an act approved January twenty-eighth,
eighteen hundred and ninety, and section forty-five of said act, be
amended and re-enacted so as said sections shall hereafter be as
follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That that terri-
tory included in the following boundaries: Beginning at a stone on the
western side of the Tazewell turnpike, near William Huffard’s black-
smith shop; thence along his line with the Caughlin and Peirce pro-
perty north fifty and one-half degrees east nine hundred and seven-
teen feet to the northeast corner of D.S. Peirce’s property; thence
south eighty-one degrees east, crossing the Wytheville development
company’s land, twenty-two hundred and fifty feet to a gate post on
the west side of a lane and a corner with Mistress Betty F. Ewald and
the said Wytheville development company; thence along the west
side of said lane south fifty and one-half degrees east nine hundred
and fifty-nine feet to a corner of the Wytheville development com-
pany with the Moyers property; thence north sixty-two and one-
half degrees east seven hundred and fifty-nine feet, crossing Mistress
Campbell’s land and the Raleigh and Grayson turnpike, to the east-
ern side of the road leading to the Eastern cemetery and with C. J.
Noel’s line; thence with said line south fifty-one and one-quarter de-
grees east eight hundred and eighty-three feet to the southeast corner
of said cemetery and on R. A. Calfee’s line; thence north eighty- seven
and three-quarter degrees east seventeen hundred and sixty feet, cross.
ing Calfee’s land and the S. W. association land to the upper north.
east corner of the fair ground’s stables; thence with the S. W. asso-
ciation line south four degrees east ten hundred and fifteen feet to the
southeast corner of the fair grounds; thence south six degrees west five
hundred and fifty-one feet to the east side of McAdam road and inter-
section of Old fair grounds road; thence along the east side of Mc-
Adam road with meanders of the same south fifty-two and one-half
degrees east two hundred and twenty-two and five-tenths feet south
sixty-seven degrees forty-five minutes east four hundred and ninety-
seven feet, south fifty-one and one-half degrees east two hundred
and forty-one and five-tenths feet, south twenty-four degrees forty-
five minutes east five hundred and twenty-eight and eight-tenths feet
to Old fair grounds; thence south seventy-six degrees west fifty-five
feet, crossing McAdam road to stake on west side corner of Marshall
street and Shrader; thence south thirty-three degrees east thirteen
hundred and sixty feet to northern line of Norfolk and western rail-
road company, and with said northern line westwardly south fifty-
five and one-quarter degrees west six hundred and ninety-one feet;
thence south sixty-four degrees west four hundred and eleven feet
to cattle guard at Samuel Woolwine’s house; thence south thirty-
nine degrees west eleven hundred and thirty-two feet, crossing
the railroad to J. W. Caldwell’s southeast corner; then south fifty-
one degrees west twenty-five hundred and forty-four feet, cross-
ing’ the Stuart Crockett and Barrett land to a stone on James Wil-
liams’ line in the rear of the Episcopal chapel; thence north eighty-
one degrees west twenty-one hundred and ninety-two feet to the
southeast corner of Samuel Smithers’ lot at the intersection of
Twelfth street and Jackson street; thence with the north line of
Jackson street south sixty-two and one-half degrees west eleven hun-
dred and twenty feet to the west corner of the Fulton property;
thence south eighty-six degrees west thirteen hundred and sixty feet
to the southwest corner of Mistress Nannie Brown’s property ;
thence north eighty and three-quarter degrees west fourteen hundred
and thirty-eight feet to a stone, a corner of Doctor Leach, with
south line of Norfolk and western railroad company, and with said
south line sixty-three and one-quarter degrees west ten hundred and
sixty-two-feet to a stone opposite the line of south Main and the
Wytheville development company, crossing the Norfolk and western,
and with said line north thirty-one and-half degrees west twenty-
eight hundred and twenty-eight feet to the north side of Ridge street
(extended); thence along Ridge street to north forty-six and three-
quarter degrees east twenty-three hundred and three feet to the in-
tersection with the south side of the McAdam road; thence crossing
the McAdam road at right angles north fifteen and one-half degrees
west nineteen hundred and eighty feet, crossing Pine Ridge through
the Wytheville development company’s land to the north side of the
Ridge Gap road, and withit north seventy-eight and one-half degrees
east seven hundred and sixty-three feet, crossing Harkrader’s branch
toa stone; thence crossing said Ridge Gap road north fourteen de-
grees east eleven hundred and seventy-six feet to the blacksmith
shop at the beginning—shall constitute the corporate limits of said
own,
§ 42. For the execution of its powers and duties the council may
raise taxes annually by assessments in said town on all subjects
taxable by the state such sums of money as they may deem neces-
sary to defray the expenses of the same, and in such manner as they
may deem expedient, in accordance with the laws of the state and
of the United States; provided that no tax upon real and personal
property in said town shall exceed one dollar and fifty cents upon
the one hundred dollars assessed value thereof; and provided, also,
that no corporation tax shall be levied on machinery, implements,
and capital invested in the plant of any manufacturing establish-
ment hereafter erected actually in use for manufacturing purposes
within the said town, or the buildings in which said machinery is
located, with its offices, and so forth, for ten years from the date the
said manufacturing establishment shall begin operations.

§ 45. All goods and chattels wheresoever found may be distrained
and sold for taxes assessed and due thereon, and no deed of trust or
mortgage upon goods and chattels shall prevent the same from being
distrained and sold for taxes assessed against the grantor in said
deed. Any person failing to pay any corporation taxes or levies to
the treasurer by the first day of December shall incur a penalty
thereon of five per centum, which shall be added to the amount of
the taxes and levies due from such tax-payer, which when collected
by the treasurer shal! be accounted for in his settlement; and the
treasurer of said town shall have all the rights and powers in the
collection of the town taxes and levies as are given the city and
county treasurers under the general laws of this state.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.