Chap. 486.—An ACT to incorporate the town of Glasgow.
Approved February 29, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
all the territory in Rockbridge county contained within
the following limits, namely: Beginning at the confluence
of the North and James rivers; thence up the North bank
of James river, at low-water mark, to a point opposite the
extension of the western line of thirteenth street; thence
with the western line of said street to its intersection with
the northern line of Rockbridge road; thence with said
line of Rockbridge road to the northern boundary line of
the Norfolk any Western (Shenandoah Valley) railroad ;
thence with said line of said railroad to its intersection
with the western line of Blue Ridge road; thence with
said line of said Blue Ridge road to its intersection with
the northern line of Shawnee street; thence with the
northern line of said street extended to its intersection
with North river, at low-water mark; thence along the west
bank of North river, at low water mark, to the beginning
(which boundaries and those parts of the North and James
rivers and the outside lines of those streets, places, and
roads as laid off in the plat or map of the subdivision of
the lands of the Rockbridge company into lots, recorded
in the clerk’s office of the county court of Rockbridge
county, in deed-book number fifty-eight, at pages one and
two) shall constitute the town of Glasgow and the inhab-
itants within said boundaries and their successors, shal]
be a corporation under the name and style of the town of
Glasgow, and the forty-fourth and forty-sixth chapters of
the code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, as far as consistent with this act, shall be
applicable to said town; and the council of said town
may, from time to time, enlarge the boundaries of said
town by adding thereto the lots of such persons as desire
to be included in said corporation and who shall make
application therefor to said council.

2. The government of the said town shall be vested ina
mayor and acouncil of six members besides the mayor
(who shall be ex-officio a member of the council and pre-
side at all meetings thereof), who shall be residents of
said town, and shall be elected on the fourth Thursday of
May, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and on the fourth
Thursday of May in every second year thereafter, by those
qualified to vote for members of the general assembly and
who shall have been residents within the boundaries of
the corporation for three months next preceding the elec-
tion, and by no other person. There shall be five days’
notice of all elections by posting notices at three or more
public places within the corporation. The mayor and
council shall remain in office until their successors are
elected and qualified in their stead, but no longer.

8. The council shall fix and determine the place where
said election shall be held, shall prescribe the manner of
declaring and certifying elections, of deciding between two
or more where the number of votes shall be equal, and of
filling vacancies in said board. A majority of said coun-
cil shall constitute a quorum to do business.
4. The council shall appoint annually a sergeant, clerk,
and treasurer, and shall fix their compensation and pre-
scribe their duties, and require such bonds as may be
deemed proper.

5. The sergeant of said town, who shall from time to
time be appointed under this act, shall have the like rights
of distress and a power for collecting the taxes and levies
made by said council of said town as sheriffe in similar
cases, and shall be entitled to the same or like fees and
commissions for collecting said taxes and levies, as are
allowed sheriffs for collecting county levies, and in the
service and return of all processes, and in the collection of
all fines arising under the authority of this act, or of any
by-laws made in pursuance hereof, he shall have and pos-
sess the same rights and powers and be entitled to the same
or like fees and commissions as allowed by law to sheriffs
for similar services.

6. The sergeant of said town, upon entering into bond in
the county court of Rockbridge county, in the manner pre-
scribed by law for constables, and with such conditions as
constables are required by law to enter into, shall have all
the power and authority gf a constable in the collection of
money by warrant or otherwise, and to execute any and
all process to him directed, or which might have been so
directed; and shall and may do and perform all acts,
execute and return such warrants, and be liable in the
same manner and to the same extent that constables are
by laws now in force.

7. The sergeant of said town shall be conservator of the
peace, and shall] have power to arrest in said town, or any-
where within Rockbridge county, upon a warfant issued
by the mayor, recorder, or councilmen, any person charged
with a violation of the laws or ordinances of said town;
and when a violation of the laws or ordinances of said
town is committed in his presence, he shall have author-
ity and power, without warrant, forthwith to arrest the
offender, and carry him before some conservator of the
peace of said town to be dealt with according to law.

8. The mayor, recorder, and councilmen, and each of
them, shall and may exercise all jurisdiction, civil and
criminal, now by law conferred upon the justices of the
peace; shall preserve peace and good order in said town,
and to this end they, and each of them, shal] be conserva-
tors of the peace, with all the power conferred upon con-
servators of the peace by chapter one hundred and ninety-
one of the code of Virginia.

9. The mayor, recorder, and councilmen of said town,
and each of them, upon taking oaths required by law to
be taken by justices of the peace, shall each have author-
ity and jurisdiction to hear and determine all matters which
a justice of the peace would have jurisdiction, and to hear
and determine all controversies arising under the laws and
ordinances of said town, and to issue any and all proper
process, whether mesne or final, which may be necessary
to enforce their judgment and authority.

10. The said conncil shall have power and authority to
lay and collect, and apply to the maintenance of public
free schools in said town annually a sum equal to what
the inhabitants and property of said town would have to
pay annually to the county of Rockbridge for public free
school purposes if this act had not been passed.

11. The council shall have power to make accurate
bounds of existing streets, and to compel the removal of
obstructions therefrom, and to lay off and have new
streets, alleys and sidewalks, and to provide and protect
shade trees thereon. The council of said town shall have
the same jurisdiction for condemning land for streets,
alleys and sidewalks of said town as the county court has
for condemning lands for roadsin the county. The coun-
cil shall further have power to provide against and pre-
vent accidents by fire; to establish and regulate markets;
to prevent the running at large of hogs, dogs, horses and
other animals; to prevent the cumbering of streets, side-
walks and alleys in any manner whatever; to make sani-
tary regulations in reference to contagious and other di-
seases; to regulate the building of all houses, stables,
privies, hog-pens and slaughter-houses; to abate nuisances
at the expense of those who cause them; to restrain and
punish drunkards, vagrants, mendicants and street beg-
gars; to appoint police and prescribe their duties and
compensation; and to make, pass and ordain such rules,
regulations and by-laws as they may deem necessary and
proper for the internal and general good, safety and health
and convenience of the said town and inhabitants thereof,
and for enforcing the provisions of this charter. They
shall punish all violators of law by fine or imprisonment,
or both, in the discretion of the officer or officers trying
the offender: provided the accused shall have the right to
appeal to the county court in all cases whatsdever when-
ever the fine shall exceed twenty-five dollars or the im-
prisonment exceed thirty days. The authorities of said
town, with the consent of the county court entered of
record, shall have the right to use the county jail when-
ever it may be needed by them. Whenever judgment
shall be rendered against any person for fines, and there
be no visible effects which the sergeant may distrain and
sell therefor, the persons so in default may be compelled
to work out such fines on the public streets or other im.
provements, and to suffer, in addition, such term of im.
prisonment as may be prescribed by the ordinance of said
town. All fines for violation of the ordinances of saic
town shall be paid into the treasury of said town, anc
shall be appropriated as the council may determine.
12. The council may annually levy a tax for roads,
streets, sidewalks and all other purposes, by a two-thirds
vote, to be approved by the mayor, which on no property
shall exceed thirty cents on the hundred dollars’ valua-
tion, except that on a petition of freeholders representing
two-thirds of the valuation within the corporation, the
council may levy a corporation tax not to exceed ninety
cents on the one hundred dollars’ valuation. The poll-
tax shall not exceed fifty cents on each male person in any
one year.

13. The mayor and council, and each member of the
council, shall have power and: authority to deputize any
number of citizens of the town, and such as may be in
town from said county, to assist the sergeant in the full
discharge of his duties in all cases of riot and misdemean-
ors.

14, The following-named persons are hereby appointed
to fill the following offices until the first day of July,
eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and until their succes-
sors are duly elected and qualified, namely: John G. Meem,
mayor; and councilmen as follows: W. P. Irwin, R. G.
Paxton, David Funsten, J. P. Cleveland, A. D. Exall and
L. C. Haden. Said person are to take their oaths of office
and enter upon the discharge of the duties of their respect-
ive offices as soon as practicable after the passage of this
act; and they hereby clothed with all the powers and sub-
ject to all the provisions appertaining to their respective
offices herein prescribed.

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