Chap. 216.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
change the name of the tuwn of East Big Stone Gap, in Wise county,
to Fast Stone Gap, and to amend and re-enact an act approved Mareh
5, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Fast Big Stone Gap,
in Wise county, Virginia, approved March &, 1894.

Approved March 13, 1912.

1. Ee it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, entitled an act to change the name of the town of East
Big Stone Gap, in Wise county, to East Stone Gap, and to amend
and re-enact an act approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and
ninety, entitled an act to incorporate the town of East Big
Stone Gap, in Wise county, Virginia, be, and the same is hereby,
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. The town known as East Big Stone Gap shall, within
the hereinafter described town limits, be a town corporate by
the name of East Stone Gap, and by that name shall have and
exercise all the powers and rights conferred on towns of. less
than five thousand inhabitants by general law, and be subject to
all the provisions of the Code of Virginia and to the laws now
in foree or which may hereafter be enacted in reference to the
government of towns of less than five thousand inhabitants, so
far as the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this
act.

3. The limits of said town shall be as follows: Reginning
at a stake in the middle of the south fork of Powell's river and
in the line of Big Stone Gap corporation, near N. C. Wheeler’s:
thence with a line of said corporation south forty west seven-
teen hundred fcet to a stake; thence south twenty-four east five
hundred and thirty-one feet to a stake; thence south fifty-six
and one-half west fourteen hundred feet to a stake; thence south
sixty-four and one-half west nine hundred and twenty feet to the
west corner of William H. Wampler’s land; thence south forty-
five west to the east bank of the Wildcat road leading to Big
Stone Gap, thence south with the said road and its meanders, so
as not to include said road to the west corner of J. M. Gilly’s
land; thence, leaving said line and following the Wildcat road,
so as not to include said road, to a stake in the J. C. Wells line
where it crosses said road; thence south forty-five west with
said J. C. Wells’ line to a corner of the J. A. Jones land: thence
south forty-five west to the southwest corner of J. M. Gilly,
junior’s, land; thence south forty-five east ten hundred feet to
a stake; thence north fifty east to the south fork of Powell's
river; thence north twenty west to Butcher’s Fork, and with the
said Butcher’s Fork and its meanders to the middle of the south
fork of Powell’s river to a stake in the Big Stone Gap corpora-
tion line, and with the said line to the beginning.

4. All taxes, levies, licenses and assessments shall be col-
lected by an officer, to be designated as town collector, who
shall give bond, to be approved by the council, before com-
mencing his duties. The collector shall also receive all funds
collected by the mayor or other members of the council as fines
and penalties, and shall forthwith deliver all moneys collected
by him to the town treasurer. The office of collector may be
held by the town sergeant.

5. Two or more officers under the town government may be
held by the same person; provided that no member of the coun-
cil shall hold any other town office, except as hereinafter pro-
vided.

6. The office of treasurer may, if the council see fit, be filled
by some bank or banking company. The duties of the
treasurer shall be simply to receive the town money from the
city collector and to pay out the same on warrants signed by
the recorder and countersigned by the mayor, and to make
monthly statements to the council showing amounts secured and
paid out.

7. It shall be the duty of one council to fix the compensa-
tion of the succeeding council. But no council shall ever in-
crease the compensation of its own members, nor shall any com-
pensation be allowed to any council until the population of said
town shall exceed one thousand inhabitants.

8. It shall not be lawful for the council to impose or col-
lect any taxes, levies or assessments on any tract of land with-
in the town limits which is not platted and laid off in streets
which have been dedicated to public use and into blocks and
squares, and which tract is lying unused or is used only for farm
or garden purposes; provided that for the purpose of making
roads or repairing same through such land the same may be
taxed or assessed.

9. It shall be lawful for the council of said tuwn to make
by-laws requiring that when any judgment shall be rendered
against any person for any fine or penalty, under any ordinance
or resolution of said council, and the same be not immediately
paid, the person or persons so in default may be required, by
the order of the court passing sentence, to work out such fines
or penalties on the public streets, or elsewhere, at the rate of
fifty cents per diem, under the direction of the sergeant or his
assistants, ana unuer such rules and regulations as may be pre-
scribed by the council.

10. The power to change county roads within the corporaticn
limits of said town, so that they shall conform to the streets of
said town as they are now or shall be laid out, is hereby vested
in the town council.

11. The said town, after the year nineteen hundred and twelve
shall be exempt from the payment of district road levies (other
than taxes and levies for the payment of county or district road
bonds and interest thereon) and shall maintain and keep in
repair all roads and streets within the corporate limits.
12. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this act are hereby repealed.