Chap. 248.—An ACT to Amend the Charter of the Town of Scottsville.

Approved March 29, 1871.

1. Be it enacted, That an act to prescribe the mode of elect-
ing trustees for the town of Scottsville, in the counties of Albe-
marle and Fluvanna, and vesting them with corporate powers,
passed March the second, eighteen hundred and thirty-three,
and amended February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and
sixty-six, be again amended and re-enacted, so as to read as
follows:

Ҥ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the town of Scottsville, lying partly in the county of
Albemarle, and partly in the county of Fluvanna, as the
same has been heretofore laid off in lots, streets, and al-
leys, and as the same may be kereafter further laid off
and extended into lots, streets, and alleys, including the
addition made thereto by the act, entitled an act to enlarge
the town of Scottsville, in the county of Albemarle, passed
March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and
all that portion of the county of Albemarle included within a
line, commencing at lot number one hundred and seventy-six,
and running nine hundred and fifty feet to a corner of a field
belonging to the estate of William M. Wade, deceased; thence
one thousand and thirty-two feet, to a corner on the land of
Peter V. Foland; thence one thousand four hundred and ten
feet, to the corporate line at lot number forty-nine, shall be,
and the same is hereby made a town corporate, by the name
and style of The Town of Scottsville, in the counties of Albe-
marle and Fluvanna; and by that name and style shall bave
and exercise all the powers hereinafter granted.

Ҥ 2, And be it further enacted, That there shall be held an-
nually, on the fourth Thursday in May, an election for a mayor
and six fit and able men, citizens of the said town, as council-
men.

Ҥ 8. Beit further enacted, That the mayor of said town of
Scottsville, shall be vested with all the powers and duties of a
justice of the peace, within the corporate limits and for one
mile around said town, both in civil and criminal matters; and
in the exercise of that jurisdiction, in the cases of appeals,
commitments for trial, and transfers to court, under the first
section of chapter one hundred and fifty of the Code of Vir-
ginia of eighteen hundred and sixty, and in all other matters,
civil, or criminal, in which, in case of a justice of the peace,
any matter would be transferred to court for record, or other
purpose, the said mayor, shall in every such case, allow, or
make the same to the court of that county to which the same
would be allowed, or made by a justice of the peace, of either
of the said counties, in the absence of the powers and duties
created by this act.

Ҥ 4. And be it further enacted, That the sergeant of the
corporation of Scottsville, shall be vested with all the powers
and duties of a constable within the limits of the same juris-
diction of the mayor of said town, and shall be entitled to
receive the same fees and emoluments, as are now received
by county constables.

Ҥ 5. And be it further enacted, That the mayor and coun-
cilmen, before entering upon the duties of their respective
offices, shall take and subscribe before some justice of the
peace, or notary public, the same oaths as are now taken by
all state officers.

Ҥ 6, And be it further enacted, That the said corporation
of Scottsville, shall be entitled to all the privileges, benefits,
powers, and immunities, granted by the several acts of the
general assembly of Virginia for the government of towns of
less than five thousand inhabitants.

“§ 7. This act shall be in force from its passage.”