Chap. 114.—An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Boydton, in the
County of Mecklenburg.

_ Approved March 16, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the town
of Boydton, in the county of Mecklenburg, as the same has
been heretofore laid off into lots, streets, and alleys, and as
the same may hereafter be laid off into lots, streets, and
alleys, shall be, and the same is hereby made a town corpo-
rate, by the name of the town of Boydton, and by that name
shall have and exercise the powers conferred upon towns by
the fifty-fourth chapter of the Code of Virginia of eighteen
hundred and sixty, and of all laws now in force and which
may hereafter be enacted for the government of towns con-
taining less than five thousand inhabitants.

2. The boundaries of said town of Boydton shall be as
follows: By a line running north and south, five hundred
yards east of the centre of the court-house; by a similar line,
five hundred and sixty yards west of the centre of the court-
house; by a line running east and west, five hundred and
fifty yards south of the centre of the court-house; and by a
similar line, two hundred and fifty yards on the north side
of the court-house.

3. A. S. Boyd is hereby appointed mayor, and Thomas F.
Goode, C. C. Haskins, W. . Atkins, W. P. Webb, W. H.
Jones, and KR. B. Pickett councilmen of the said town; and
the said mayor and councilmen shall have and exercise all
the powers granted to such officers by the fifty-fourth chap-
ter of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and sixty,
and of all laws now in force and which may hereafter be
enacted for the government of such towns, and remain in
office until their successors shall be elected and qualified
according to law.

4. That the said council shall have power to assess and
collect an annual tax within said town on all such persons
and property as is now subject to taxation by the revenue
laws of this state: provided, that the tax on such real and
personal pruperty shall not exceed, in any one year, fifty
cents on every one hundred dollars value thereof, and a tax
not exceeding fifty cents in any one year on all male inhabit-
ants of said town over twenty-one years of age; but no such
tax shall be levied unless a majority of all the councilmen
elected or appointed vote in favor of such levy at a regular
meeting of the council.
5. Be it further enacted, That the said council shall ap-
point biennially a sergeant or town collector, who shall be a
conservator of the peace, and shall possess the like rights
and powers in collecting the said taxes, service and return
of process, and shall be entitled to like fees and commissions
as are allowed by law to constables for similar duties and
services. Said sergeant shall execute bond with approved
secunty, in such penalty as said council shall deem necessary,
payable to them and their successors ‘in office, conditioned
or the faithful discharge of his duties and payment over of
said taxes and moneys collected by him in virtue of his office;
and he and his securities, his and their administrators or
executors, shall be subject to such proceedings, by motion or
otherwise, before the county court of the county of Meck-
lenburg, for enforcing payments of such taxes and other
moneys by him collected or received as aforesaid, at the suit
or motion of said mayor or other person entitled, as collec-
tors of county levies are by law subject to for enforcing pay-
ment of the levies by them collected.

6. The first election for mayor and councilmen of the said
town shall be on the second Tuesday of June, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-four, and once in every two years there-
after.

7. That hereafter any person applying to the county court
of Mecklenburg county for license to sell ardent spirits in
any way within the corporate limits of the said town of
Boydton, or within one mile of the limits of said corpora-
tion, shall produce before said court a certificate of the town
council of said town to the effect that the applicant is a suit-
able person and that no good reason is known to said town
council why such license should not be granted; and the
court of said county shall not grant any license to sell ardent
spirits within the limits above prescribed until and unless
such certificate be given.

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