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Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1872/1873 |
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Law Number | 347 |
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Chap. 347.—An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Gnas City, in the
County of Mecklenburg. ~
Approved April 1, 1873.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the town of
Chase City, in the county of Mecklenburg, as the same has been
or may be laid off into lots, streets and alleys, shall be and the
same is hereby mace a town corporate, by the name of the town
of Chase City; and bythat name shall have and exercise the pow-
ers conferred upon towns by and be subject to the provisions
of the fifty-fourth chapter of the Code of Virginia, so far as
the provisions of said chapter are not in conflict with the pro-
visions of this act.
2. The boundaries of said town of Chase City shall be as
follows: the lands extending one-half mile east, west and south,
and three quarters of a mile north from the present post office
at Christiansville, with such additional land as shall be neces-
sary to make an oblong square.
3. Theofficers of said town of Chase City shall consist of seven
councilmen, who shall compose the council (five of whom
shall constitute a quorum to transact business), and a sergeant,
who shall hold their offices for two years and until their suc-
cessors are appointed. The said council shall have power to
pass all by-laws and ordinances for the government of said
town of Chase City that they may deem proper (not in conflict
with the constitution of the state or of the United States),
and also to provide for keeping the streets in order and paving
the same, and for other necessary improvements, for which pur-
pose they may levy such tax as they may deem proper, not ex-
ceeding fifty cents on the hundred dollars.
4, The council shall elect from their own number a mayor,
who shall preside at all the meetings of the council, and when
they are equally divided, shall, in addition to his individual
vote, give the casting vote ; and he shall be invested with all
the powers of a justice of the peace within the limits of said
town of Chase City, except that no civil warrants shall be
tried by him.
5. The sergeant of said town of Chase City shall be a con-
servator of the peace and be invested with the full powers of
a constable within the limits of said town of Chase City; also
have the power to arrest offenders within half mile of said
limits for offences committed within the limits of said town of
Chase City; he shall collect the town taxes and may distrain
and sell for state taxes, and shall have in other respects like
powers to force the collection thereof.
6. The time for holding an election for said officers agree-
ably to this charter shall be the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, rea-
sonable notice being given of the piace of voting within said
town of Chase City; and once in every two years thereafter
an election shall be held for said officers on the same day in
November.
7. John KE. Boyd, George A. Endly, J. M. Sloan, James Y.
Ashenhurst, Jacob Holt, John B. Painter, and Doctor R. C. Nel-
son are hereby appointed aldermen of said town of Chase City,
and are invested with all the powers, functions and duties of
said office as prescribed in this act and the said fifty fourth
chapter of the Virginia Code, and will hold the same until the
regular election day as herein set forth, and their successors
are elected and qualified.
8. This act shall be in force from its passage.