Chap. 67.—An ACT to incorporate the town of Appalachia, in the county of
Wise.

Approved March 1, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the commu-
nity of Appalachia, in the county of Wise, be, and the same is hereby.
made an incorporated community by the name of Appalachia, and by
that name shall have and exercise all of the rights, powers, and priv-
ileges, and be subject to the duties, liabilities, and restrictions impoeed
by law for the government of towns of less than five thousand inhabitants.

2. The boundaries of said town shall be as follows: Beginning at a
chestnut and spruce pine and beech on a spur of Stone mountain, corner
to Virginia coal and iron company and inter-State coal and iron com-
pany; thence north twelve degrees and forty-five minutes west, two
thousand five hundred and sixty feet to a black oak and small white oak
on a line between the inter-State coal and iron company and keystone
coal and iron company; thence with said line, continuing the same
course north twelve degrees and forty-five minutes west, four hundred
and two feet {o a small chestnut, north thirteen degrees and fifteen
minutes east, two hundred and ninety-two fect to a small spotted oak.
north eleven degrees and forty-five minutes west, three hundred and four
feet to two spotted oaks; north one degree and forty-five minutes west.
three hundred and three feet to a stake and chestnut pointer; north
eleven degrees and forty-five minutes west, one hundred and eighty-
seven feet to a spotted oak; north two degrees and forty-five minutes
east, two hundred and ninety feet to a stake and small chestnut pointer ;
north nine degrees, forty-five minutes west, three hundred and forty-five
fect to a beech stump on top of Isom rock ridge, a corner to the kev-
stone coal and iron company and the inter-State coal and iron com-
pany’s Jands; north fifty-seven degrees and fifteen minutes cast, two
thousand one hundred feet, crossing Callahan creck and the inter-state
railroad, to a stake a corner to the Martin Kilbourn fifty-acre patent:
south seventy-two degrees and fifteen minutes east, twelve hundred feet
to a stake a corner to the Johnson Wells survey; thence with a line
thereof south eighty-six degrees and thirtv minutes east, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty feet, to a stake in the Hagan line; south twenty-four
degrees and thirty minutes east, eighteen hundred fect, to a stake on the
south bank of Powell's river at the upper end of an island; south forty-
five degrees west, one thousand and fifty feet. to a stake, beech, and two
dogwoods, pointers, a corner to the Martin Kilbourn twenty-five acre
patent; south fifty-three degrees and fifteen minutes west, eight hun-
dred and sixty feet, to two pines and a white oak, a corner to the Rosie
Bloundell tract; thence with lines thereof south eight degrees and thirty
minutes west, two hundred and sixty feet, to a pine stump; south sixtv-
four degrees and fifteen minutes west, one hundred and twenty-four
feet. to a stake: south eighty-four degrees west, three hundred and
thirty-two feet, to a stake; south sixty-four degrecs west, three hundred
and fifty-two feet. to a stake: south seventy-six degrees and_ thirty
minutes west. six hundred and thirty-four feet, to a white oak and dog-
wool; thence leaving said Bloundell’s line south forty-six degrees and
forty-five minutes west, two thousand six hundred and forty feet, to the
beginning.

3. That the officers of said town shall be mayor, a council, consisting
of six members, a sergeant, a treasurer, and a recorder. All officers of
the town shall be elected or appointed in the manner prescribed by law,
and in the absence of any provision of law on the subject, they shall be
elected in the manner prescribed by ordinance of the council.

+. That the following named persons be, and they are hereby, ap-
pointed officers of the said town, to hold their respective offices until
their successors are duly elected and qualified, namely: A. F. Pruner,
mayor: J. W. Guntner, F. W. Blondell, G. B. Head, G. W. Brown, W.
F. Lee, and G. C. Jeffers, councilmen; A. 1. Sturm, treasurer; Stuart
Stover, recorder; M. D. Collier, commissioner of the revenue; the ser-
ceant of the said town to be elected by the town council.

5. And it appearing that in order that said town may have assessed
and collected taxes on the property, real and personal, in said town re-
quired to be assessed as of February one, nineteen hundred and six, an
emergency doth exist, and this act shall be in force from its passage.