Chap. 265.—An ACT to incorporate the town of Dendron, in the county of
Surry, Virginia.

Approved March 15, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the territory
contained within the limits set forth and described in the second section of
this act be deemed and taken as the town of Dendron, and the inhabitants
of the said town for all purposes for which towns are incorporated, in this
Commonwealth, shall be a body politic, in fact and in name, under the
denomination of the town of Dendron, and as such shall have and exer-
cise and enjoy all the rights and privileges and powers, and be subject to
all the duties and obligations incumbent upon and pertaining to said as a
municipal corporation, subject to all the general laws of the State.

2. The boundaries of the said town shall be as follows: Beginning at a
point on the Cobham road, where the division line between the lands of
the Surry lumber company and the Holdsworth estate crosses said road:
thence in a northerly direction along the Cobham road to the old road
leading to Spratley’s mill; thence along said mil] road across the new
road to a point one hundred yards from said new road; thence parallel
to said new road, one hundred yards from it, to the Parker line; thence
in straight line across the Parker land to the nearest corner of the Parker
and the old Richardson tract; thence in a westerly direction along the
old Richardson line to the branch running by Faisond old store; thence
down said branch to the point where the line of the old Heffelfinger tract
leaves said branch, near Faisond old store: thence along said Heffelfin-
ger’s line to Blackwater swamp; thence along said swamp to Cypress
swamp to the boundary line between Holdsworth and the Surry lumber
company ; thence along said line to the point of beginning.

3. The government of the said town shall’ be vested in a mayor and six
councilmen, who shall be residents and voters in the said town, to be
chosen every two years by ballot, at an election held according to law, on
the second Tuesday in June; the first election to be held in June, nineteen
hundred and six, and to enter upon their duties the first day of Septem-
ber following their election; and until the regular election and qualifica-
tion of the said officers as is hereinbefore provided for, the following shall
be the officers of the said town: Arthur Rogers, mayor ;-and J. E. Rogers.
R. H. Faison, J. A. Derring, A. S. Higgins, T. D. Parker, and J. D. Hart.
councilmen.

The council shall appoint a clerk and a sergeant, whose terms of office
shall be two years, and to expire with the terms of the council electing
them, or until their successors are elected and qualified.

4. The said town and its officers shall have all the powers and privi-
leges and be subject to all the restrictions provided hy the general Jaws
f this Commanwealth for the government of towns and the powe
ficers of towns.

5. The said town council shall have power to adopt any and all
ances and to enforce the same as they may deem necessary for the
ition and improvement of said town, subject, however, to general
f the State.

6. The authorities shall have the use of the county jail of Surry
ntil the said town shall have built one of their own, for the safe-ke
f all persons who shall be sentenced under the ordinances of the tor

7. To improve the sanitary conditions and secure police protecti
nee, an emergency exists, and it is ordered that this bill shall be in
rom its passage.