CHAP. 146,—An ACT to amend the first section of an act to amend
and re-enact an act passed March 15, 1849, entitled an act to extend
the limits and provide for electing trustees for the town of Marion,
ta the county of Smyth, investing them with ceftain corporate
powers.

Approved February 27, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first section of an act to amend and re-enact an act passed
March fifteen, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled an act
to extend the limits of and provide for electing trustees for the
town of Marion, 1n the county of Smyth, investing them with
certain corporate powers, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
all the lands, grounds, waters, water-courses, and territory with-
in the following boundaries shall be included within the corpo-
rate limits of the town of Marion, and shall be deemed and
taken within the limits and made part of the said town, in like
manner as if the same had been originally established as part
and parcel thercof, to-wit: Beginning at a point on the western
end of the front wall of the Atkins dam (now D. D. Lfall’s),
thence by a straight line in a southwesterly direction, crossing
Stalev’s creek, to the northeastern corner of the tract of land
conveyed by Vincent S. Morgan and wife to John P. Sheffey,
by deed dated August five, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
of record in Smyth county clerk’s office; thence by a straight
line crossing Tom branch to a rock in the road in the edge of
said branch, beginning corner J. P. Sheffey’s three-fourth acre
lot, bought of Morgan; thence a straight line to the nearest
eorner of the John Fudge tract of land, south of the A. B.
Sprinkle vineyard; thence with the souih lines of said tract to
the lines of D. D. Hull; thenee with said Hull’s lines, and with
the western line of said Fudge tract, crossing the railroad to
the intersection of said line of the Fudge tract with the north-
western boundary of the eighty-feet strip of the railroad afore-
said; thence with same boundary and said road to a point on
the western side of Holstein river, at the railroad bridge near
the grist-mill of Look and Lincoln; and thence on the western
and southern bank of said river at high-water mark, to the
beginning.

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