Chap. 24.—An ACT to incorporate the town of Newbern in the county of Pu-
laski, and to amend and re-enact an act approved March 20, 1916, en-
titled an act to incorporate the town of Newbern, in the county of Pu-
laski, and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Newbern, in the county of Pulaski, approved March 4, 1872. {H B 68)

Approved February 7, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Newbern, in the county
of Pulaski, approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and six-
teen, and to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town
of Newbern in the county of Pulaski, approved March fourth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 1. That the town of Newbern in the county of Pulask,
be and the same is hereby made a town corporate and by that name
shall have and exercise all powers conferred upon towns for the
government of the same, which are now in force or may hereafter
be enacted.

Sec. 2. The boundaries of the said town shall be as follows:
Beginn‘ng at the intersection of the west line of the Thorn Spring
road with the northwest line of the town lots along Main street;
thence with said line to a point in H. Alexander’s field where the
northeast line of H. A. Farris’s lane intersects; thence with said
southeast line of town lots to the southeast corner of H. D. Smith’s
lot; thence with the northeast line of H. D. Smith’s lot and the lot
of Henry Houston to the southeast corner of Houston’s lot; thence
with the southeast line of Houston’s lot to the northeast line of the
cross street; thence along the northeast line of the cross street to the
southwest corner of H. Alexander’s store lot; thence with the south-
east line of the town lots to the point of intersection with the south-
west line of Thorn Spring road; thence with the southwest line
of Thorn Spring road to the beginning.

Sec. 3. The first officers of said town shall be: mayor, C. B.
Anderson; councilmen, H. Alexander, H. A. Faris and Edgar Akers,
who shall continue in office until the first day of September, nine-
teen hundred and twenty, or until their successors shall be elected
and qualified.

Sec. 4. The council shall have authority to levy a water tax
against each and every head of a family of said town, and may en-
force the collection of the same in accordance with the laws govern-
ing the collection of taxes on real and personal property. Any per-
son who shall divert, use, apply, or draw off any part of the water
supplied by the water system of the town without first obtaining the
consent of the council, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and pun-
ished by a fine of twenty dollars, payable to the treasurer of the
said town. Said council may impose a license tax upon dogs, and
may assess and collect an annual tax on all real and personal prop-
erty in said town, subject to local taxation not exceeding in any one
vear fifty cents on every one hundred dollars of value thereof.

Sec. 5. The council shall have authority to pass ordinances to
regulate the use of the streets of said town, to maintain order, and
enforce the laws and ordinances of said town; provided that any
ordinance of said council may be vetoed by the mayor and shall not
be approved unless passed over his veto by a two-thirds vote of the
members elected to the council.

Sec. 6. The council shall not contract any debt for said cor-
poration in excess of one thousand dollars in any one vear.

Sec. 7. All other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this
act are hereby repealed.

See. 8. An emergency existing by reason of the necessity for
certain improvements in said town this act shall be in force from
its passage.