Chap. 129.—An ACT to incorporate the town of North Danville.
Approved March 8, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the portion
of Pittsylvania county, included within the following boun-
daries, to wit:. Beginning at Fall creek, at the point where
the southern line of M. B. Hodnetts land strikes the said
creek; thence down the creek as it meanders to the Dan
river; thence into the stream of Dan river toa point fifty
feet distant from the ordinary shore line; thence up Dan
river, keeping at the same distance of fifty feet from the
shore line to a point opposite to the mouth of the Still House
branch; thence to the middle of the mouth of Still House
branch, and up the said branch as it meanders to the road
bed or track of the Washington City, Virginia Midland, and
great southern railroad; thence along the southern and west-
ern edge of the said railroad about one-half of a mile to a
stone culvert near the mouth of the deep cut; thence a
straight course to the northwestern corner of David Tyree’s
(senior) lot of land, as now enclosed on the Franklin turnpike
road, and there crossing the turnpike road and continuing
the same course until it strikes the Bradley road; thence
crossing said Bradley road a straight course to the beginning
at Hodnett’s line on Fall creek, be, and the same is hereby,
incorporated by the name of The Town of North Danville,
and by that name shall bave all the rights, powers, privileges
and franchises provided by law for towns containing less than
five thousand inhabitants, and sball be subject to and gow
erned by all the laws of this state now in force or which may
hereafter be enacted by the general assembly for such towns,
not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

2. The said town of North Danville, and the inhabitants
thereof, shall be exempt from all county levies, road tax, poor
tax, school tax, or taxation in any other form by the county
of Pittsylvania; and jt shall keep its own streets, and the
public roads running through it, in good order and repair,
and shall provide for its own poor, and levy and collect its
own school tax, sufficient in amount to maintain ils own
schools in compliance with the laws of the state respecting
education.

3. The government of the said town of North Danville
shall be vested in a mayor and six councilmen, who shall be
elected and qualified in the manner provided by the laws re-
lating to towns containing less than five thousand inhabi-
tants; and they shall have all the pone and duties con-
ferred or imposed upon such officers by the said laws, except
as herein otherwise provided.

4. The said mayor and councilmen, composing the council
of the said town, shall annually appoint an assessor, or com-
missioner of the revenue for the town, who shall he a resi-
dent and a freeholder of the town, who shall be qualified and
have the powers and perform the duties of assessor or com-
missioner of the revenue in aud for said town in the manner
provided by law. He shall assess the value of all the real
and personal estate and property liable to taxation within
the limits of said town, and shall also assess all-merchants
and other licenses within said town, for the state, according
to the laws of the state, and for the said town according to
its ordinances and by-laws, not inconsistent with the state
laws; and the assessments so made by him, unless corrected
or amended according to law, shall be the basis of all taxa-
tion upon the real and personal property, in the said town.
The official bond and oath required of him by law sball be
given before and filed 1n the corporation court of the town
of Danville. The tax imposed by the council of said town
of North Danville, upon the real and personal property with-
in its limits, shall not exceed in any one year seventy-five
cents for each one hundred dollars ot the assessed value, and
the poll-tax on its inhabitants shall not exceed fifty cents for
each male person in any one year.

3. The council shall also annually appoint a collector of
taxes, who shall collect the state taxes as well as the town
taxes within the said town of. North Danville. His duties
and responsibilities for the collection and disbursement of
the state taxes, shall be such as are now or may hereafter
be prescribed by law. Before the said collector of taxes
shall proceed to act, the council shall take from him bond
with good security, conditioned for the faithful discharge of
his duties, in a penalty to be prescribed by the council,*which
shall be sufficient to cover his liability to the state, as well
as his liability to the town, for all taxes that may be col-
lected by bim during his term of office. He shall hold his
office for one year, and until bis successor shall be appointed
and qualified, unless sooner suspended, or removed from office
by the council, in the manner provided by law: provided
that the bond aforesaid shail be approved by the hustings
court of Danville, and when approved shall be recorded and
filed in the clerk’s office of said court.

6. The council: shall also annually appoint a clerk, whose
duty it shall be to keep a record of the proceedings of the
eaid council, and to perform such other duties as may be pre-
aribed by the said council. —

7. The council may also appoint other officers and agents
for the proper business and government of the town, as pro-
vided by law.

8. Appeals from the decisions and orders of the mayor or
council of said town, in the cases provided by law, shall be
to the corporation court of the town of Danville, instead of
tothe county court of Pittsylvania cqunty; and whatever,
by the general laws respecting towns containing less than
five thousand inhabitants, is required or provided to be done
by the county court of the county within which such town
is located, shall in respect to the said town of North Dan-
ville, be done by the corporation court of the town of Dan-
ville, instead of the county court of Pittsylvania county,
except so far as is herein otherwise provided.

9. The registrar of votera and the judges of elections in
said town of North Danville shall be appointed by the cor-
poration court of the town of Danville, instead of the county
court of Pittsylvania county.

10. Certificates tor obtaining licenses to sell liquors of any
kind within the corporate limits of North Danville, or for
obtaining other licenses in said town requiring the certificate
of a court, shall not be granted by the county court of Pitt-
sylvania county, but may be granted by the corporation
court of the town of Danville.

11. Process of the courts of Pittsylvania county, as well as
of the town.of Danville, shall continue to run within the
corporate limits of the said town of North Danville; but.the
residents of the said town of North Danville shall not be
summoned or required to attend the courts of Pittsylvania
county, as grand jurors or as petit jurors, except in special
Cases ; and said residents shall not be included in the list of
jurors referred to in the third section of chapter one hundred
and fifty-eight of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, prepared by the judge of the county court of Pittsy!-
vania county, but may be included in the list of jurors pre-
pared under that section by the judge of the corporation
court of the town of Danville.

12. Contracts, deeds of conveyance and other writings,
which* by the fifth section of chapter one hundred and four-
teen of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, are
declared to be void as to creditors and subsequent pur chasers,
unless and until they are duly admitted to record in the
county or corporation wherein the property embraccd in such
contract or deed may be, shall, if such deeds, contracts or
other writings relate to, or embrace property, real or person-
al, within the corporate limits of the said town of North
Danville, be deemed to be duly admitted to record, within
the meaning of that section, when duly admitted to record
in the corporation court of the town of Danville, instead of
the county court of Pittsylvania county; and the residents
of the said town of North Darville shail, in reference to the
first section of chapter one hundred and sixty-five of the
Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be construed to
be residents of the town of Danville, liable to be sued in the
courts of the town of Danville, and not in the courts of Pitt-
sylvania county; excepting, howover, the cases provided for
in the second section of the last mentioned chapter.

13. In order to carry into effect the police regulations of
the said town of North Danville, that town shall be allowed
(until such time as it shall have provided a jail within its
own limits) to use the public jail of the town of Danville, or
the public jail of Pittsylvania county, for the safe-keeping of
persons sentenced to imprisonment under the ordinances or
by-laws of the said town of North Danville; but in such cases
the town of Danville, or the county of Pittsylvania, may re-
quire the said town of North Danville to pay a reasonable
compensation for such use of their respective jails.

14. The aforesaid collector of taxes, during his term of
office, shall be a conservator of the peace, and shall have all
the powers and duties of a constable within the corporate
limits of the said town of North Danville, and within one
mile thereof.

15. The mayor of the said town of North Danville shall,
ex officio, during his term of office, have all the powers and
duties of a justice of the peace, in and for the said town and
within one mile thereof.

16. Until the mayor and six councilmen, provided for in
this act, shall have been elected and qualified according to
law, the following persons shall be the mayor. and council-
men of said town, namely: James M. Walker, mayor; and
Thomas B. Fitzgerald, William A. Baugh, Thomas J. Lee,
Nathaniel C. Mottley, John T. Kien, and B. T. Jefferson,
councilmen; and in case any or all of the persons named,
fail to qualify as such mayor and councilmen within two
months after the passage of this act, the judge of the cor-
poration court of the town of Danville, is hereby authorized
to appoint and fill such vacancy or vacancies, until the elec-
tion and qualification of their successors uccording to law:
provided that this act shall not be so construed as to relieve
the property of the citizens of said town of North Danville
from a just proportion of taxation for the payment of the
bonded debt of the county of Pittsylvania, incurred ‘on ac-
count of the subscription to the Washington city, Virginia
Midland, and Great Southern railroad. And it shall be the
duty of the town council of North Danville to furnish an-
nually to the board of supervisors of said county, a certified
copy of the commissioners’ land and property books of the
said town, within thirty days after the completion of said
books for purpbdses of state taxation, and the said board of
supervisors shall, at the time of making their annual levy,
ascertain the amount of money necessary to be raised in the
said town, to meet the accruing instalments for the discharge
of said debts, and shall certify the same to the mayor and
council of said town, who shall cause the said amount of
money to be levied, collected, and paid over to the treasurer
of the county, to be, by him, paid out, according to the direc-
tions of the said board of supervisors; and in the event there
should be a failure to levy, collect, and pay said money, or
apy part thereof, to the said treasurer prior to the time at
which the semi-annual interest on said debt falls due, then it
shall be the duty of the treasurer of said county to collect
said money from the inhabitants of said town, in the same
manner as by law taxes are collected, and when collected, to
be paid out by him as hereinbefore directed.

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