Chap. 144.—An ACT to validate, ratify, and confirm an order of the circuit court
of Shenandoah County incorporating the town of Toms Brook, in the said
county to validate the boundaries of the said town as set out in the said order, to
validate an election held in pursuance of said order; all the ordinances of the
council of said town and all official acts of the mayor of said town, and it:
council; to provide that said town shall have certain officers chosen by the
council, and that the elective officers shall be elected for a term of four years
instead of two years, as now provided by general law. [S B 192)

Approved March 15, 1932

_ Whereas, the circuit court of Shenandoah county, did upon the pe-
tition of S. B. Miley, and more than twenty other qualified voters o1
the unincorporated town of Toms Brook, after legal notice thereo!
had been published in the Shenandoah Herald, a newspaper publishec
in the town of Woodstock, Shenandoah county, Virginia, once a week
for four successive weeks, and posted at the front door of the court
house of Shenandoah county, for four successive weeks, enter an order
on the ninth day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, incor-
porating said town of Toms Brook, in pursuance of section twenty-
eight hundred and eighty-one of the Code of Virginia, and did de-
clare the boundaries of said town to be as follows: Beginning at a
post on the southeast side of the county road, leading from Toms
Brook towards the Shenandoah river and a corner to the lot of James
M. Walten, and extending thence with the back lines of the lots of
said Walten, Daniel Kibler, Lillian Keller, south fifty-nine west four
hundred and fourteen feet to a cedar post near Keller’s corner; thence
with another of her lines north thirty-one west two hundred and
thirty-eight feet to a post, corner to the lot of J. D. Hupp, his east cor-
ner; thence with the back line of the various lots fronting on the Val-
ley turnpike, south fifty-one and one-half west three hundred and
forty-five feet to a post; thence continuing with the back line of other
of said lots south sixty-three west eleven hundred and seventy-nine feet
to a stake at Angus Bauserman’s fence, thence with a fence crossing
his land north twenty-eight west two hundred and thirty-eight feet to
a stake on the west side of the said Valley turnpike; thence with the
west edge of the pike north fifty-five east two hundred and thirty-six
feet to a station on the west edge of the pike, and on the northeast side
of the new State road at its junction with the pike; thence along the
northeast side of said road north thirty-nine and one-half west four
hundred and sixty-seven feet to the west edge of the railroad limits:
thence with the west edge of the said limits north forty-eight east
fourteen hundred and sixty-five feet crossing Toms Brook stream,
to a post at the south corner of the cemetery north forty-four west
three hundred and thirty-one and one-half feet to the west corner of
the same; thence with the northwest line thereof, and a continued
‘corner, with a middle fence north fitty-ve east hive hundred and
ighty-eight feet to a post on the west edge of Caroline street ; thence
vith the west edge of the said street south thirty-one east twenty-nine
feet to a stake; thence with the back line of various residence lots and
‘rossing said street north sixty-three and one-half east seven hundred
ind eighty-two feet to a stake, in a line dividing the lands of H. S.
and D. M. Crabill, in the hollow ; thence with the said line south thirty-
one and one-half east three hundred and forty-nine feet to a stake on
the west edge of the railroad limits; thence with the northwest line
of said railroad north sixty-five and three-fourths east one thousand
and sixty-nine feet to a stake in the said limits at the fence; thence
crossing the railroad and the Valley turnpike south thirty-eight east
three hundred and seventy-two feet to a stake in a gateway back of the
barn of D. M. Crabill; thence with a middle fence south forty-eight
and one-half west thirteen hundred and thirty-six feet to a large white
oak tree, a corner to the residence lots of J. C. Paxton; thence along
with the lines of the said lots and including the same south forty-one
east three hundred and twenty-two feet to a post; thence south forty-
five west nine hundred feet recrossing the creek of Toms Brook to the
place of beginning, containing ninety-three acres, one rod, and thirty-
five square poles, more or less, including the lands embraced in the
Valley pike, the railroad and the county roads.

Whereas, in pursuance of the said order, an election was held in
the said town for the election of a mayor and six councilmen, on the
twenty-sixth day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-two ; and

Whereas, the said persons so elected duly qualified by taking and
subscribing the oaths of office and at once entered upon the discharge
of the duties of their respective offices, and their successors in office
are still performing said duties ; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the said
order of the circuit court of Shenandoah county, be, and the same is
hereby validated, ratified and confirmed, and that the boundaries of
the said town shall be in all respects as set out in the said order of the
said court.

2. The election aforesaid, and all ordinances passed by the coun-
cil of the said town and all official acts of the mayor of the said town
and its council, not in conflict with the general laws of this Common-
wealth, or its Constitution, or the Constitution of the United States,
are hereby validated.

3. The present elected officers of the said town shall continue to
hold office during the term for which they were elected as now pro-
vided by law; and at an election to be held on the second Tuesday in
June, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and every four years there-
after, a mayor and six councilmen shall be elected, whose term of
office shall begin on the first day of September, following their elec-
tion and continue for a period of four years thereafter.

4. The said town shall have a sergeant, clerk, and treasurer and
such officers as the council may deem necessary, or proper, all of whom
shall be chosen by the council for a term of four years. The council
shall prescribe the duties of such officers in addition to the duties re-
quired of them by law. It shall also fix their compensation, prescribe
the penalties for the neglect of their duties and determine which of
such officers shall give bond and shall fix the penalties thereof.