Chap. 4.—An ACT to Extend and Define the Boundaries of the City of
Lynchburg.

Approved December 19, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the bounda-
ries of the city of Lynchburg shall be extended and defined
as follows: |

Beginning at the intersection of the Southside railroad
bridge at the lower end of Percival’s island and the north
bank of James river, and running thence with said bridge to
said island; thence north seventy-six degrees west, to the
south bank of the James river and Kanawha canal; thence
with and along the south bank of the canal, and up the same,
to the mouth of aravine at the east base of what is known and
called White Rock hill; thence south sixty-three degrees
west to the south corner of the Presbyterian graveyard;
thence south seventy-nine degrees west to Spring valley
branch; thence up and with said branch to the spring at
Spring valley house (the property of T. W. Johns); thence
north twenty-three degrees west, crossing both arms of the
Lynchburg and Salem turnpike road to a marked chestnut
tree on Langhorne’s lot; thence north nine and three-quarter
degrees west to a stone culvert over Meeting-house branch
(and known familiarly as Dirt bridge), on the Forest road;
thence with said branch to its mouth at the east margin of
Blackwater creek; thence with the east margin of Blackwater
creek to the east abutment of the Virginia and Tennessee rail-
road bridge; thence with said railroad, and passing through
the tunnel, to the east mouth of the tunnel on Blackwater
creek; thence crossing the Blackwater north forty-six degrees
east to the south abutment of the Orange, Alexandria, and
Manassas railroad bridge spanning James river and the James
river and Kanawha canal; thence with the said bridge, bear-
ing north, across Daniel’s island, and crossing and with the
railroad bridge over the north branch of James river to the
north bank of James river; and thence with the north bank
of said river down the same to the beginning.

And the territory so taken into the limits of said city shall
be and the same is hereby made, with the inhabitants thereof,
a part of the said city of. Lynchburg, subject to the same laws,
rules, regulations, ordinances, and government, as if and they
had been included within the heretofore limits of said city.

2. The plat of said city, as its limits and boundaries are de-
fined in the first section of this act, with the notes and remarks
thereon, and explanatory of the same, made by Colonel Aug.
Forsberg, the city engineer for said city, and copied into the
minutes of the council of said city at its meeting on the
twenty-third day of September, eighteen hundred and seventy,
shall be certified by the president and clerk of the council to
the clerk of the corporation court for the city of Lynchburg,
and, together with said certificate, shall be by him recorded in
the current deed book of his office, and an authenticated copy
thereof shall be evidence in all the courts of this common-
wealth whensoever the boundary line of said city may be drawn
in question.

3. The inhabitants of the district of country lying between
the present boundary of the city and the new boundary hereby
established, shall not be liable in their persons or property,
within said district, for the period of three years, commencing
on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-one
and ending on the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy three, for any portion of the debt contracted
by the city of Lynchburg prior to the commencement of this
act, or of the interest due and accumulating thereon, except
as hereinafter mentioned.

4, All taxes levied and collected upon the persons and
property within the limits hereby added to the city of Lynch-
burg, and by reason of such addition, shall, for the period of
three years, beginning and ending as stated in the third section,
be applied to the improvement, protection, and police of the
district so annexed, except as hereinafter stated.

5. No taxes, of any kind whatsoever, for the year eighteen
hundred and seventy shall be levied or collected from the per-
sons or property within the limits hereby added to said city by
the authorities thereof, under any provision of this bill, except
only as to the tax called the “ guarantee interest,” hereinafter
referred to.

6. It shall be lawful for the sheriff and other proper officers
of the counties of Campbell and Amherst, respectively, to col-
lect and make distress for any public dues or officers’ fees
which shall remain unpaid by the inhabitants embraced by the
extended limits of said city at the time when this act shall
commence and be in force, and they shall respectively be ac-
countable for the same in like manner as if this act had never
passed.

7. The county levy, or any levy for the sub-divisions or:
townships, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy, for the
counties of Amherst and Campbell, respectively, within the
limits added by this bill to the city of Lynchburg, shall be col-
lected for said year by the proper authorities of said counties,
respectively; but on and after first day of January, eighteen
hundred and seventy-one, no assessment or levy shall be made
upon the inhabitants and property atoresaid by either of said
counties.

8. But it is hereby expressly declared and enacted that
nothing in this act shall be so held or construed as to invali-
date, destroy, narrow, or in any manner qualify, suspend, or
postpone the right, power, and authority of the city of Lynch-
burg, and of the council of the said city, to levy, assess, and
collect a tax upon the persons and property of said city, and
upon the persons and property within half a mile of said city
limits, as those limits were up to the passage of this bill, for
the purpose of paying the interest due or accruing upon cer-
tain stock of the Virginia and Tennessee railroad company
(and upon certain bonds of the city in lieu of a portion of
said stock), known now and heretofore for many years as the
guaranteed interest, under authority of an act of the general as-
sembly, passed on the twenty-fourth day of March, eighteen
hundred and forty-eight, to incorporate the Lynchburg and
Tennessee railroad company, and of other acts original, amenda-
tory, and explanatory thereof, and under authority of the va-
rious ordinances of the city in pursuance of said laws; but all
such laws and all ordinances made in conformity therewith,
shall be and continue in full force.

9. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this bill shall be
so held or construed as to inhibit or restrain the proper au-
thorities of the city of Lynchburg, on and after the first day
of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, from levying
and collecting a uniform tax upon all its then inhabitants and
property for support and maintenance of its poor and for edu-
cational purposes, and expenses incident thereto, according to
the laws of this state.

10. The council of the city of Lynchburg shall, prior to and
at the next election for members of the city council, provide,
by ordinance, for representation in its body of the inhabitants
of the territory embraced in said extension, and to that end,
may divide said city into so many wards as it may seem proper,
designate them by proper names, and apportion representation
among them.

11. This act shall be in force from the passage thereof.