Chap. 141.—An ACT to incorporate the Town of Glade Spring, in the
County of Washington.

Approved March 8, 1875.

1. Be it @hacted by the general assembly, That the town
of Glade Spring, in the county of Washington, as the same
has been or may be laid off into lots, streets, and alleys, shall
be and the same is hercby made a town corporate by the
name of Glade Spring, and by that name shall have and
exercise all the powers, rights, privileges, and immunities,
and be subject to all the provisions of chapter fifty-four of
the Code of Virginia, eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
and all laws now in force, and which may hereafter pass, so
far as the same relate to towns of less than five thousand
inhabitants, and are not in conflict with the powers herein
conferred.

Z. The boundaries of said town shall be: Beginning at a
stake in John B. Allison’s field, north twenty-six, west
ninety rods, to a stake in Mrs. F. M. Smith’s field, in the flat
a little northeast of an old house; south seventy-two and
one-half, west twenty-seven rods, to a stake on the top of
the hill, a little south of the colored graveyard ; west thirty-
five rods, to a white oak, a corner of Mrs. M. H. Ligons and
S. D. Allison’s line; also on the line of Mrs. E. Snead, south
fifty-eight, west eighty-six roads, to a stake on the top of a
hill in J. O. Ryburn’s field; south nineteen, east ninety-five
and one-half rods, to a stake in John B. Allison’s field; north
sixty-six, east one hundred and thirty-two rods, to the be-

ginning:

3. Noah C. Baldwin is hereby appointed mayor of said
town, and James S. Jones, Maitin Van Buren Edmundson,
John B. Allison, Benjamin D. Ligon, Benjamin W. Curtis,
and Eldred R. Baylor, are hereby appointed councilmen
thereof, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business. The said mayor and council shall
have power to appoint a sergeant and such® other officers as
may be necessary together with a police force for the preser-
vation of order, who shall remain in office until their succes-
sors are appointed and qualified according to law. _ The said
mayor and councilmen, above named and appointed in this
act, shall continue in office until the fourth Thursday in
May, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and thereafter until
their successors shall be elected and qualified.

4. It shall be lawful for the mayor and council of said
town to require any inhabitant thereof, who desires to keep
a dog, or dogs, to obtain a license so to do, and to pay into
the treasury of said town such tax as they may impose
therefor.

5. It shall be lawful for the mayor and council of said
town to assess and collect an annual tax, in said town, on all
such property, real and personal, as is now subject to taxa-
tion by the revenue laws ot the state, as provided in chapter
fifty-four of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three: provided, that the tax on real and personal estate
shall not exceed, in any one year, twenty cents on every
hundred dollars of value thereof: and provided further, that
any land or lot on which there is no dwelling house or tene-
ment, shall be exempt from taxation by. said corporate au-
thorities.

6. The mayor and council of said town are hereby pro-
hibited from contracting a debt for said corporation of more
than one thousand dollars at any time.

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

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