Chap. 123.—An ACT to Extend the Limits of the Town of Danville.

Passed January 28, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first,
third and fourth sections of an act to amend and re-enact the
act entitled an act amending the charter of the town of Dan-
ville, passed March fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four,
and incorporating mto one all acts amendatory thereof,
passed December fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty- five,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“$1. Beit enacted by the general assembly, That the limits
of the town of Danville shall be as follows: Beginning at a
point where Does’ spring branch runs into Dan river; thence
general course of said branch, south ten degrees and thirty
minutes west, four hundred and seventy-five feet to a stone
on Wilson’s ferry road; thence south twenty-six degrees
east, eleven hundred and fifty feet to willow; thence south
five degrees east, fourteen hundred and fifty feet to poplar;
thence south ‘eleven degrees and twenty-five minutes west,
five hundred feet to a stone; thence south five degrees east,
eight hundred and fifty feet to white oak tree near source of
aforesaid branch; thence south thirty-one degrees west, seven
hundred and seventeen feet, crossing Danville and Greens-
boro’ road to northeast corner of George C. Brown’s lot;
thence south eighteen degrees east, two ‘thousand and sixty
feet to bridge on Danville and Yanceville plank road, lying
across the Piedmont railroad; thence along the northern
boundary of said railroad to a stone monument on the lands
of N. T. Green, deceased; thence north seventy degrees east,
two thousand one hundred and fifty-four feet to a hickory
treeon Dan river; thence up the river as it meanders by a
line running into the river, and meandering with the water
edge, and at a distance of fifty feet from the water edge as
It meanders, to within fifty feet from the beginning; thence
a line running at right angles to the last line to the begin-
ning. The above lines shall be the boundary lines of said
town of Danville, and the inhabitants within said boundaries,
and their successors, shall be a corporation under the name
and style of The Town of Danville; and the fifty-fourth and
fifty-sixth chapters of the Code of Virginia, so far as they
are consistent with this act, shall be applicable to said cor-
poration and to the council of said town.

Ҥ3. There shall continue to be held in the town of Dan-
ville, twice in each year, a circuit court for said town, the
jurisdiction whereof shall extend to all cases arising within
the corporate limits of said town as defined in the enlarged
boundaries in section first of this act, and over the space of
one mile without and around the said enlarged limits as above
described, and in every direction from said limits; which
jurisdiction shall extend to all matters and things cognizable
by the other circuit courts of the commonwealth; and the
said court shall be held on the twenty-fifth day of March and
the twenty-fifth day of August, by the judge of the fourth
judicial district.

“$4. The jurisdiction of said court of hustings, except as
to matters of police, which shall belong ‘to the council, shall
correspond with that of the county courts as established by
law; and the said court shall have jurisdiction, and the said
mayor and aldermen shall have the powers of a justice of the
peace, not only within the corporate limits of said town as
set forth in section first of this act, but also over the space
of one mile without and around the said limits of said town
nm every direction from said boundaries; and shall execute
heir office in like manner-and under like responsibilities, and
‘eceive the like compensation for services rendered by them
in court and for services rendered by them out of court, as
the justices of the peace in the counties of the common-
wealth receive for the services rendered by them in court, to
be paid by the corporation aforesaid: provided, however,
that not’ more than three aldermen shall receive compensa-
tion for any one day of such service in court, unless such
court be one in which a greater number than three aldermen
are required by law. The said aldermen may classify them-
selves for service in court in like manner as county justices
are classified by law; and any presentment in said court by a
grand jury for an offence against the laws, committed within
the jurisdiction of said court, may be presented i in said court
in like manner and like pr oceedings may be had thereon as
in the county court of Pittsylvania; and the said court of
hustings shall bear the same relation to the circuit court for
the town of Danville as the county court of said. county bears
to the circuit court thereof, and appeals may be taken, and
writs of error, supersedeas, certiorari and other judicial writs
may be sued out and prosecuted in like manner as is done in
the county. courts of the commonwealth.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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