Chap. 167.—An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Blacksburg, in the County
of Montgomery.

Approved March 22, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the town of
Blacksburg, in the county of Montgomery, as the same has
heretofore been, or may hereafter be laid off into lots, streets
and alleys, and within the following boundaries: beginning at
two white oak trees (marked with four chops on two sides of
each tree) on the north slope of a hill on the land of Edwin J.
Amiss, standing from the spring of said Amiss south, fifty-
seven and a half degrees east, eight poles; thence running
north, forty-six degrees west, ninety-eight poles (crossing the
upper or most eastern town spring branch at fifteen poles,
and the Blacksburg and Roanoke road at seventy-four poles)
to a stake in the land of James M. Evans, standing from a
small house belonging to Jacob Keister, north, twenty-seven
degrees east, five anda half poles, and including the above
named house within the limits; thence south, sixty-one de-
grees west, fifty-seven poles (crossing the Keister branch at
forty-eight poles), to the southeastern corner of the Olin and
Preston institute; thence with the lines of said institute, in-
cluding the same, north, forty-six degrees west, thirty-eight
poles to a stake; thence south, forty-five degrees west, sixteen
poles to a stake in the line of the institute on the east side of
the Montgomery and Giles turnpike road; thence west sixteen
poles (leaving the lines of the institute and crossing the above
named turnpike, and also crossing the old Pepper’s ferry turn-
pike road) to a stake at the northeastern corner of a lot called
the Harvey lot, and on the east side of the Pepper’s ferry
road; thence with the line of said lot, including the same,
south forty-seven degrees, west seven poles to a stake in the
land of John and Edward Black, a half of a pole from the
northwestern corner of said Harvey lot; thence south, thirty-
two degrees east, ninety-seven poles (crossing Black’s ditch at
five and a half poles, and the town branch at eighty-one poles)
to the chimney of Sarah Cabes’s house, including the same;
thence south forty-six degrees east, seventy-eight poles to a
stake in Miller’s land called the Alexander Black place (the
said stake standing from the western chimney of said Miller’s
dwelling house south, ten degrees west, two poles) and includ-
ing the same within the limits; thence north forty degrees east
one hundred and thirteen poles (crossing the Blacksburg and
Christiansburg turnpike road) to the beginning, shall be and
the same is hereby made a town corporate by the name of
The Town of Blacksburg, and by that name shall have and exer-
cise the powers conferred upon towns by the fifty-fourth chap-
ter of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and
sixty, and be subject to all the provisions of said Code and to
all laws now in force or which may hereafter be enacted in
reference to the government of towns of less than five thous-
and inhabitants, so far as the same are not inconsistent with
the provisions of this act.

2. Be it further enacted, That James M. Evans, James
Lawson, Harvey Black, Charles A. Ronald, Thomas Roberts,
John Lybrock, Benjamin R. Linkens, John Stanger, Charles
H. Miller, Thomas T. Jackson, A. J. Lucas, W. F. Wilhelm,
and Byrd Anderson, shall constitute the board of trustees of
said town, and in them and their successors the goverment of
said town shall be vested.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.