CHAP. 227.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
incorporate the town of Stanley in Page county, Virginia, approved
February 14, 1900. (H. B. 475.)

Approved March 17, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Stanley in Page
county, Virginia, approved February fourteenth, nineteen hun-
dred be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. The town of Stanley in the county of Page, as
the same has been or may be laid off in lots, streets, and al-
leys, shall be, and the same is hereby, made a town corporate
by the name of Stanley and by that name shall have and exer-
cise the powers hereinafter granted.

Sec. 2. The government of said town shall be vested in five
councilmen, who shall be qualified voters of the town, three of
whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business,
and they shall be elected as soon as a special election may be
had by order of the circuit court of Page county, on application
of twenty-five qualified voters of the said town, and the said
court is hereby empowered to order said election. Thereupon
the candidates so elected shall be qualified before the clerk of
the circuit court and shall hold office until their successors, who
shall be elected at the next general election for municipal corpo-
rations and are qualified according to the general law, and all
of the officers of the said town shall thereafter be elected at the
said general election.

Sec. 3. The council shall elect one of their own number to
be mayor of said town, and he shall preside at the meetings of
the said council. In his absence they may elect a president
pro tempore. They shall appoint yearly a sergeant, who shall
be a resident and voter of the said town, and also one of their
number as clerk. The officers of said corporation shall serve
without compensation, except as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 4. The sergeant and clerk appointed by said council
shall qualify by taking the oath of office before the mayor or
other person authorized to administer oaths; they may be re-
moved from office by a three-fifths vote of the council for good
cause. Said council shall appoint its own time for meeting, and
may fill any vacancy arising in their own body for the unexpired
term. The mayor shall have the jurisdiction and authority of
a justice of the peace of Page county, within the corporate lim-
its of said town and within one mile of the limits of the said
corporation, and shall be entitled to the same fees.
Sec. 5. The clerk shall keep a correct record of all the pro-
ceedings of the council; shall provide the books and stationery
therefor; make out the certificates of election; make out a list
of property to be taxed, redl and personal, within the limits of
the corporation and fix the value of the same as determined by
the officers of the State for State taxation; and shall issue tickets
for taxes voted by the council, which tickets he shall deliver to
the sergeant when ordered by the council, and shall have power
to administer the oath of office to any of the town officers; and
for said services he shall be allowed annually a certain sum
to be named.by the council.

sec. 6. The sergeant shall collect the taxes voted by the
council, for which and for paying out the same he shall be al-
lowed a certain per centum, the rate to be fixed by the council.
He shall have the power and authority of a constable and col-
lector of the county of Page, within the corporate limits of said
town, and shall be entitled to the same fees. He shall pay out
the money in his hands on the warrant of the mayor and clerk
certifying it is done by order of the council.

The sergeant shall, before he enters upon the duties of his
office execute a bond, the amount of which shall be determined
by the council, with security for the faithful performance of his
duties, which bond shall be approved by the council and filed
with the clerk. |

Sec. 7. The council of said town shall have power to pro-
vide for order and quiet within the corporation, to make regula-
tions in reference to contagious diseases, and pass ordinances to
carry into effect the object of this incorporation and to punish
the violation of the same by fine and imprisonment, and to pro-
vide a place of imprisonment for all persons ordered to be con-
fined or imprisoned by the proper authority. The officers of
said town and the council thereof, shall have all the powers
granted officers, and to the councils of towns corporate, under
existing general laws not inconsistent with this act:

Sec. 8. The council may levy annually, a tax for corpora-
tion purposes which on no property shall exceed fifty cents on
the one hundred dollars valuation; provided that not more than
thirty cents on each one hundred dollars valuation may be levied
on intangible property; provided further, that not more than ten
acres of enclosed farming lands belonging to one person shall be
taxed for corporation purposes. The council may, upon peti-
tion of two-thirds of the freeholders within the corporate limits
requesting an increase of the rate of taxation, levy a corporation
tax not to exceed the amount named in said petition.

Sec. 9. The jurisdiction of the corporate authorities of said
town shall extend one mile beyond the limits thereof, for impos-
ing and collecting a license tax upon all shows, performances
and exhibitions which may take place anywhere within the said
extended boundaries.
Sec. 10. The council of said town shall have authority to
levy and collect annually a license tax upon any business con-
ducted in said town upon which a license is imposed by the State,
but such license shall not be more than one-fifth of that imposed
by the State upon such business.

Sec. 11. The council of said town may enact a stock law
only upon the petition of three-fourths of the qualified voters of
the town.

Sec. 12. The council of said town may, upon the petition of
two-thirds of the freeholders within the corporate limits, pro-
vide for keeping in repair the public roads and streets and alleys,
and supporting the paupers of said town; provided, the citizens
thereof shall be exempt from all other taxes for said purposes.

Sec. 13. The following is hereby declared to be the bound-
ary of the town of Stanley, Page county, Virginia: Beginning
at a point in the New Market and Gordonsville turnpike, each
of the crossing of said turnpike and the Norfolk and Western
railroad, and opposite the line between the Harden-Keyser lot,
owned by George W. Keyser, and the land of John W. Keyser,
and following the boundary line of John W. Keyser’s land to the
west corner of said land, where the Reuben Judy road intersects
the said New Market and Gordonsville turnpike and crossing
said Reuben Judy road to east corner of S. E. Kite’s land; thence
south with S. E. Kite’s line fence on west side of Judy road, toa
point south of Reuben Judy’s residence and directly opposite the
centre of Stanley avenue, west of railroad; thence in a direct
line through the lands of Reuben Judy and S. E. Kite crossing
railroad, to center of said avenue and continuing with same to
north side of New Market and Gordonsville turnpike; thence
west with said turnpike and H. W. Coffman’s line fence to west
corner of said Coffman’s lot; thence north with division line of
H. W. Coffman and George W. Foltz to north corner of said
Coffman’s lot; thence in a direct line through the lands of the
Stanley furnace and land company and John W. Short and James
P. Dunivan and west corner of William F. Petefish’s land, con-
tinuing with said Petefish’s line to north corner of lot; then in a
direct line through George H. Petefish’s orchard to his gate,
north of and near to his residence; thence east with north side
of said George H. Petefish’s lane to G. W. Rogers line; thence
south with division line of said Petefish and Rogers to corner of
Rogers and Stanley furnace and land company’s land; thence
east with division lines of said G. N. Rogers and Stanley fur-
nace and land company, John P. Foltz and Stanley furnace and
land company, John P. Foltz and Thomas S. Brown; John P.
Foltz and Thomas M. Offenbacher, crossing railroad, John P.
Foltz and George W. Good, John P. Foltz and John W. Good and
continuing in a direct line through the land of James P. Dunivan
to division line between said Dunivan and Noah Kibler land;
thence south with said line to corner of said Dunivan’s land in
said Noah Kibler land; thence southward in a direct line to the
beginning.