CHAP. 622.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act
entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties
of Shenandoah and Page, approved February 6, 1878.

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the fourteenth section of an act approved February
sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled an act
to provide for the working of roads in the counties of
Shenandoah and Page, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

$14. The board of commissioners of roads for each
magisterial district, at its annual meeting in July, shall
assess and levy a tax upon the property, real and personal,
of the magisterial district assessed for state revenue, in-
cluding the railroads, an amount which, with the labor
contributed under the nineteenth section of this act, not
to exceed two days in any one year, shall be sufficient to
pay the expense of keeping all the public roads in its
magisterial district in good repair, and of such width and
condition’ as may be required by law, and for all other
purposes provided for in this act: provided, that the
assessment on property shall not be more in any one year
than fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars, the assess-
ment to be made upon the same basis as that upon which
state revenues are levied; but this act shall not apply to
Page county.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
CHAP. 5283—An ACT to incorporate the Citizens Bank of Carroll

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia
That John W. Green, George L. Carter, H. H. Johnson, W
H. Sutherland, C. L. ‘Hanks, D. W. Bolen, and such other
persons as may be associated with them now or hereafter
be, and they are hereby, created a body corporate with
perpetual succession under the name of the Citizens bank
of Carroll, whose place of business shall be in Hillsville
Virginia.

2. The capital stock shall not be less than ten thousand
dollars nor more than one hundred thousand dollars, and
shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.

3. The said bank shall not begin business until the
whole of the minimum stock is actually paid in, and shal!
require the residue of the amount subscribed to be paid
m six months in such instalments as the directors shall

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4, There shall be elected by the stockholders annually
five directors, one of whom shall be by the directors
elected president and another vice-president. The presi-
dent and vice-president shall remain in office unless re-
moved by a two-thirds vote of the stockholders for the
time for which they were elected as directors.

5. The first meeting of the stockholders may be held at
any time the corporators may determine upon, and the
annual meetings shall be held on the first Tuesday in
January of each year after the year eighteen hundred and
ninety, and special meetings may be called by the vote of
three-fifths of the directors. The stockholders may at
any meeting make or alter by-laws for the governmert of
said bank not inconsistent with the laws of this state or
the provisions of this act.

6. The Citizens bank of Carroll is authorized to make
loans and discounts; to purchase and sell either on its
own account or on commission for others, bonds, stocks,
and other securities; to receive deposits; to act as re-
ceiver for courts; to negotiate loans on commission, and
to do any business which banks are authorized by the laws
of the state todo. The said bank may take liens on real
estate as security for loans it may make or for debts which
may be owing to it.

7. This act shall be in force from its passage.
CHAP. 622.—An ACT to incorporate the Bertha zine, coal and
iron company.

Approved March 6, 1890. -

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That George W. Palmer, Richard T. Wilson, John H. In-
man, Charles F. Palmer, Thomas Jones, Alfred H. Miller,
and their associates and successors, or assigns, be, and are
hereby, constituted and made a body corporate and politic
by the name and style of the Bertha zinc, coal and iron
company; and by that name shall have perpetual succes-
sion, enjoy all the franchises and privileges incident toa
corporation, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded;
may have a common seal which they may have power to
alter and renew at pleasure, hold and possess real estate
not to exceed fifty thousand acres; to receive and hold in
fee simple or otherwise lands and tenements, estates,
personal and all other property by deed of conveyance,
lease or otherwise, and dispose of the same, or any part
thereof, and to do such acts as may be necessary, or expe-
dient to assist and promote the objects and designs of this
corporation.
2. The purposes of the corporation is to carry on a get-
eral mining and smelting of ores and minerals and min-
eral products, and the utilizing of the products ther+froz.
and more especially to develop, mine, manufacture ard
market the ores of zinc, iron and other metals in the sita’-
of Virginia, and to erect, maintain and operate furnaces.
chemical works,and such other mills as may be necessary
for the purposes of the corporation.

3. The capital stock of this corporation shall not be les
than one million dollars, but the same may be increas+
from time to time to such amount, and issued at suc
price, as the board of directors may determine; and fo:
the purpose of obtaining subscriptions to said capital stock
any three of the persons named in the foregoing section
may open books of subscription at such time and place:
as they may appoint and such subscriptions may be mad
payable in the stocks, bonds, or other property, real or per-
sonal, of any corporation or individual, the value of suct
stock, bonds, or other property, real or personal, to I»
agreed upon between the subscribers and the company 3°
the time of the subscription.

4. The business of the corporation shall be conducted
and managed by a board of directors and president, to &
chosen in such a manner, and to consist of such a number.
and to hold office for such periods of time, as may be pr--
scribed in the by-laws of the corporation; and the direc-
tors, or a majority of them, shall have power to make by-
laws and rules for the government of the corporation, ani
to alter and amend them when necessary; toappoint such
officers and define their duties, to enter into contracts, bur
and sell real and personal! property, minerals, and minera:
products, and also to do a general merchandise business.
and to do all other acts and things incident and accordinz
to the laws governing corporations, and the above-named
incorporators, or a majority of them, shall manage tk-
affairs of the corporation until such time as the stock o
share holders may meet and elect a board of directors.
who shall elect a president.

5. The principal office of the corporation shal] be at Pulas-
ki, Virginia, but the directors shall have power to establizh
such other offices in the state of Virginia, or in such othe:
states or in Europe, for the selling of their product, conduc*-
ing their financial business, and for the selling and tran:-
ferring of the stocks or bonds, or other obligations, as the+
may deem best for the interest of the corporation, and tk:
directors may appoint such places for holding of meet-
ings, and for the election of directors, and for the trans-
action of the business of the corporation as a majority otf
them may deem most convenient.

6. It shall be lawful for the corporation to borrow monet
to such an amount as may be necessary in the prosecutio:.
of its works, and to issue and sell its bonds from time to
time for such sums and on such terms as the board of
directors may deem expedient. Such bonds or debentures
may be expressed in dollars, or in pounds sterling, and to
secure the payment of such bonds by mortgage or mort-
gages upon all, or any parts of its properties, franchises
or income.

7. It shall furthermore be lawful for the corporation
hereby chartered to subscribe for and hold shares in
the capital stock or bonds of any railroad, or other corpo-
ration, whenever the board of directors of the company
shall deem it to its interest to do so, and any such corpo-
ration may guarantee or hold the bonds of the stock of the
said company.

8. No stockholder in said company shall be held or
made responsible for its debts or liabilities in a larger or
further sum than the amount of any unpaid halance due
the said company for stock subscribed for by said stock-
holders.

9. All taxes due the commonwealth by said company
shall be paid in lawful money of the United States and
not in coupons.

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

CHapP. 623.—An ACT to incorporate the Aurora bridge and turn-
pike company.

Approved March 6, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That W. W. Berkeley, James A. McConnel, George O.
Houston, and such other persons as they may asgociate
with them, and their successors, are hereby created a body
politic and corporate under the name and style of the
Aurora bridge and turnpike company; and by that name
shall have perpetual succession, may contract‘and be con-
tracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in
all courts and places, have a common seal, and alter the
same at pleasure; may make all necessary by-laws and
regulations for the government of said company not incon-
sistent with the constitution and laws of the state of
Virginia or of the United States.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less
than two thousand dollars, or more than fifty thousand
dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars,
which may be subscribed and paid for in such manner as
may be prescribed by said company in their by-laws; and
said shares may be transferred in such manner as the said
company by its by-laws may direct.
3. Said company shall have power to purchase and hold
real estate in the city of Roanoke, town of Vinton, and
county of Roanoke, not exceeding two thousand acres in
quantity, and such personal property as they may deem
necessary and proper for the successful conduct of their
business.

4. Said company is hereby authorized to construct and
maintain bridges made and constructed of iron, stone, or
wood, or combinations thereof, across Glade creek and
Tinker creek, between the railroad crossings of the Nor-
folk and Western railroad, over said creeks and their con-
junction, or between the conjunction of said creeks, known
as the conjunction of Tinker creek and the Roanoke river;
and also to make, grade, and improve roads or streets
leading to and across said streams, and shall have power
to charge toll for the use of said bridges and roads: pro-
vided, the same shal] not exceed three cents per head for
man or beast, not including animals hauled in wagons or
carts, and three cents per wheel for either one of the said
bridges, or not to exceed five cents per head and wheel for
both bridges, the said company to build the said bridges
within two years after the passage of this bill, and the
privileges herein granted shall not be restricted within
twenty years, and not then unless a just compensation
shall be made them for such restriction as may hereafter
be placed upon them, or for such of their property as may
be hereafter taken for the public use.

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

CHAP. 624 —An ACT to incorporate the town of Tacoma, in Wise
county.

Approved March 6, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the settlement of Tacoma, in the valley of Guest’s
river, in Wise county, as the same shall be laid off into
lots, squares, streets, and alleys, shall be, and the same is
hereby, made a town corporate by the name of Tacoma,
and by that name shall have and exercise all the powers
conferred on towns of jess than five thousand inhabitants
by the code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, 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 thousand inhabitants, so far as the same are not
inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

2. The limits of said town shall be as follows: Begin-
ning at a stake one-half mile due north of a corner-stone
on the south bank of Guest’s river, near the bend of said
river, a corner of the D. W. Bruce and H. C. Bruce farms;
thence due east one mile; thence due south one mile:
thence due west two miles; thence due north one mile:
thence due east one mile to the beginning point.

3. The officers of said town shall consist of a mayor,
four trustees, recorder, and sergeant, and assistants of
said recorder and sergeant. The mayor and trustees shall
compose the town council.

4. Until an election is held, as hereinafter provided for,
H. C. Bruce shall be mayor, and J. B. Miller, D. W. Bruce,
James Durham, and James Bruce shall be trustees of said
town, and shall hold office until their successors are duly
elected and qualified.

5. Should any of the officers hereby appointed refi or
fail to accept and qualify within two months after the
passage of this act, then it shall be the duty of the county
judge of Wise county to fill such vacancy by appointment,
made either in term time or vacation. After the positions
of mayor and trustees shall have been filled, as herein
provided for, should any vacancy occur therein, ‘it shall be
the duty of the remaining members of the town council to
fill such vacancy or vacancies.

6. The recorder of said town shall be elected by the
town council.

7. The recorder shall keep in a well bound book, to be
provided for the purpose by the town council, an accurate
record of the proceedings of the council, its by-laws, acts,
and ordinances, which record shall be open at all times to
the inspection of any voter of the town, and the recorder
shall be ex-officio treasurer of said town; he shall give
bond with good security in such sum-.as the council shall
fix; his duties and compensation shall be prescribed by
the council, and the council may elect such other officers
as they may deem proper, and define their duties, powers,
and compensation. The council shall prescribe the tenure
of office of all officers appointed by it.

8. The sergeant of said town shall be appointed by the
mayor, to hold at his pleasure. Such assistants of the
sergeant as the council shall deem necessary shall also be
appointed by the mayor, to hold at his pleasure. The ser-
geant and his assistant shall be conservators of the peace,
and invested with the full powers of constables within the
town limits and for one mile beyond. The sergeant shall
collect the town taxes, and may distrain and sell therefor
in like manner as state taxes are enforced and collected,
and shall perform such other duties and receive such com-

nsation as the council may prescribe.

9. The election for mayor and trustees, provided for by
this act, shall be held on the fourth Thursday in June.
eighteen hundred and ninety, and on the same day in each
vear thereafter. And the judge of the county court of
Wise county. either in term time or vacation, shall, net
less than twenty days before any election under this
charter, appoint a registrar and three judges of election.
who may also act as commissioners of election. The reg-
istrar shall, in the manner prescribed by law, make and
revise lists of all persons qualified to vote. and who shall
reside within the corporate limits of said town.

10. That for the purpose of carrying into effect the police
regulations of said town, the said town shall be allowed
the use of the Wise county jail for the safe-keeping and
confinement of all persons who shall be sentenced to
Imprisonment under the ordinances of said town. And
when any judgment shall be rendered against a pereon for
anv fine or penalty under any ordinance of’said town, and
the same be not immediately paid, the person or persons
so in default may be required by the order of the court
passing sentence to work out such fines or penalties on the
public streets or other public improvements, at fifty cents
per day, under the direction of the sergeant, and under
such rules and regulations as may be deemed proper by
the council.

11. The supervision and control of streets, roads, high-
ways, and alleys shall be vested in the town council of
said town, and the power to change county roads so that
they shall conform to the streets of said town as they shall
be laid off shall also be vested in said council.

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