Chap. 213.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to extend the
corporate limits of the town of Manchester.

Approved March 12, 187%,

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
rection one of an act entitled an act to extend the corporate
limits of the town of Manchester, approved March twenty-
second, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows: .

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the corporate limits of the town of Manchester be
extended from the present exterior lines of said town to the
following lines, to-wit: commencing above said town at a
point on the southern shore of Jumes river, opposite the
point at which Canoe run crosses the Richmond and Dan-
ville railroad, which is just below the Spring-bill mill site;
thence to said crossing; thence to a point at which the
southern line of Maury street, of Marx’s addition, extended
westward intersects with the western line of the Richmond
and Petersburg railroad, and thence down said southern line
of said Maury street to a point three hundred feet from the
intersection of said Maury strect with James river; thence
in a line south, three hundred feet from, and parallel with
the natural margin or bank of said James river, to a point
one mile below the southern boundary line of said Maury
street; thence ina line east to the margin or bank of said
James river; thence up said river coincident with the south-
ern line of the city of Richmond as far as the line of said
city extends in that direction; thence up said river coinci-
dent with the line of the county of Henrico to the beginning:
provided, however, that the tax levied by the city of Man-
chester upon any additional lands incorporated by this
extension of corporate limits, shall not exceed the tax here-
tofore levied from year to year by the county of Chesterfield
upon said lands for the term of twenty years: and provided
further that the city council of Manchester shall have the
right, if they deem it best, to exempt said lands from all
taxes for city purposes for the said space of twenty years.

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