CHAP. 454.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4, 7 and 12
of an act approved December the 19th, 1889, entitled an act to
incorporate the town of Mendota, in the county of Washington.

Approved February 29, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections two, four, seven and twelve of an act ap-
proved December the nineteenth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine, entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Mendota, in the county of Washington, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. Beginning where the Mendota and Moccasin turn-
pike intersects the Poor Valley road; thence due south to
the top of Little Mountain; thence with the top of said
mountain to the north fork of Holston river; thence across
said river in a southwestern direction across what is
known as the Kinderhoek farm to what is known as the
Big Rock on eastern bank of said river; thence with said
river in a northern direction to where said river makes a
bend in an eastern direction; thence due north to Poor
Valley road to a point about one hundred yards east of
what is known as the Old Oyler or Sproule house, thence
with said road west to the Scott county line; thence with
said line one mile; thence due east to said turnpike;
thence with said turnpike to the beginning.

§ 4. Any person entitled to vote in the county of Wash-
ington, and residing in the corporate limits of Mendota
ten days previous to any election, shall be entitled to vote
at all elections under said act of incorporation: provided
he shall have first registered at least five days before said
election under the clerk of the council of said town,
who shall be ex-officio registrar for said town, and
who shall proceed to register the voters of said town, in
said town elections, all persons entitled to vote in said
town elections, or that may hereafter become entitled to
vote in the same manner as persons are registered to vote
in county and state elections, except as herein otherwise
provided.

§ 7. In addition to the above-named officers there shall
be elected annually by the qualified voters of said town
a mayor, a clerk, a town sergeant, and treasurer. The
mayor shall be the presiding officer of the council, but
shall have no vote except in case of a tie. The mayor
shall and may exercise all jurisdiction, civil and criminal,
both within the limits of said incorporation and within the
county of Washington, now by law conferred upon justices
of the peace, and shall preserve peace and good order in said
town; and to this end shall be conservator of the peace
with all the powers conferred upon conservators of the
peace, by law, and shall be entitled to the same fees as a
justice of the peace.

§ 12. I. T. Martin, John M. Hamilton, J. W. Kaylor, A.
F. Barker, H. W. Bellamy, Thomas C. Price, and James
W. Barker, are hereby declared and appointed councilmen ;
J. A. Imboden, as mayor; P. L. Barker, as clerk of the coun-
cil; Abb Grant as sergeant; and D.W. Garrett as treasurer
of said town, and may, together with said councilmen,
qualify before any magistrate or notary public in the
county of Washington; and thereupon they shall consti-
tute, until their successors are elected and qualified as
hereinbefore provided, the council, the mayor, the clerk,
the sergeant, and the treasurer of said town of Mendota,
and as such they shall perform all the duties of said
offices; and in the event that any of said officers shall
fail or refuse to qualify as such within thirty days from
the passage of this act, or shall become from any cause
unable or disqualified to discharge the duties of said offices
within said time, the judge of the county court of Wash-
ington county, any time after said time, in vacation or
term time, shall, upon application of ten or more citizens
of said town, appoint such officers as may fail to qualify
as hereinbefore provided, or shall become unable or dis-
qualified to discharge the duties of said offices within said
time.

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