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Chap. 79.—JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the Attorney-General
to institute such proceedings, or pursue such methods, a8 may be
proper and necessary to ascertain and recover all the interest of the
state of Virginia in the Roanoke Navigation Oompuny, bothin Vir-
ginia and North Carolina, and to provide compensation therefor.
Approved February 9, 1882.
Resolved (the house of delegates concurring), That the
attorney-general be instructed to institute the necessary pro.
ceedings in the proper courts, and to adopt such steps as, in
the opinion of the said attorney-general, the public interests
shall require, to ascertain and recover all the interest of the
state of Virginia in the property, franchises, stocks, dividends
rents, premiums, tolls, and other things in and arising out of
the property of the Roanoke Navigation company, situatec
both in the state of Virginia and in the state of North Car
olina; and that such expenses as may be incurred as may be
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proper in the opinion of the governor, shall be paid the said
sttorney-general, upon the warrant of the governor on the
reasury, out of moneys therein not otherwise appropriated.
2. This joint resolution shall be in force from its passage
‘aap. 80.—An ACT to authorize Grace Episcopal church in the city
of Kichmond, to borrow money and execute deeds of trust to secure
the sume.
Approved February 9, 1882.
1, Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
race Episcopal church, in the city of Richmond, be and is
ereby authorized to borrow, from time to time, as may be
ecessary for the purpose of repairing and improving the
burch property and building a Sunday schoolhouse, and so
rth, a sum or sums of money, not exceeding in the aggre-
ate five thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding
x per centum per annum; and that for the sum or sums of
ioney so borrowed, the said church be and is hereby author-
ed to issue notes or bonds, signed by the trustees, vestry-
en, or other authorities holding the legal title to the prop-
ty of the said church, and to secure the payment of the
id obligation by deed or deeds of trust, to be executed by
.¢ aforesaid officers of said church, upon the real estate now
-hereafter owned and held by, or for, the said church.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
iaP. 81.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed February 17
1873, to incorporate the town of Jonesville, in the county of Lee.
Approved February 9, 1882,
1. Be it enacted by the genoral assembly of Virginia, That
e town of Jonesville, in the county of Lee, as the same
3 heretofore been laid off into lots, streets, and alleys, and
e additional land and lots included in the following boun-
ry, to-wit: Commencing in the branch, a little northeast
the residence of William F. Hiptenstall, and with the
rth line of his lot westwardly, to Couk’s and Richmond’s
n-yard property; and with the north line of the same, to
wne's lots; and with his north line, to Bell’s land; and with
- north line of the same, to Milbourne’s land; and then
th bis east line, to the academy lot; and thence with the
rth and west line of the same, to the lot recently given to
e Presbyterian church by Andrew Melbourne; and thence
th the north and wert lines thereof to Willoughhw’a lot:
and with his west line, to Captain Joslyn’s farm; and thence
eastwardly with the north line of said Joslyn’s farm, to Mor-
gan’s lot; and with said Morgan’s west line, to the back line
of his garden lot; thence a straight line due east, to the
intersection of the roads in front of Mistress C. T. Dicken-
son’s dwelling house; thence northwardly with the road run-
ning by T. W. Denny’s dwelling house, to the beginning, is
made a town corporate by the name of Jonesville, and by
that name may sue and be sued, and shall have and exercise
the powers conferred upon towns by, and be subject to the
provisions of, the fifty-fourth chapter of the Code of Virginia,
so far as they are consistent with this act, and shall be sub-
ject to, and governed by, all laws now in force, or which may
e hereafter enacted, for the government of towns containing
less than five thousand inhabitants.
2. The council of said town may, from time to time, en-
large the boundaries of said town by adding thereto the lots
of such persons as desire to be included in said corporation,
and who shall make application therefor to said council.
3. The officers of said town shall consist of a mayor, five
councilmen, a recorder, and sergeant, who shall be elected
by the qualified voters living within the limits of said town.
4. The election for said officers shall be held at the court-
house in said town, on the first Saturday in January, an-
nually, and said officers shall enter upon the discharge of
their duties on the first day of February next after their elec-
tion, and continue in office until the first day of the next Feb-
ruary, and thence afterwards until their successors are elected
and duly qualified, and no longer.
5. The council shall prescribe the manner of declaring and
certifying elections, of deciding ties or contested elections,
and of filling vacancies in said board. A majority of said
council shall constitute a quorum to do business.
6. The sergeant of said town shall have the like rights of
distress and power in collecting the taxes and levies made by
the council of said town, as county treasurers now have in
the collection of revenue, and shall be entitled to the same
fees and commissions for the collection of said taxes and
levies, as are allowed to the treasurer of Lee county for col-
lecting the county levy; and in the service and return of all
process, and in the collection of all fines arising under the
authority of this act, or any law or by-law made in pursu-
ance hereof, he shall have and possess the same rights and
powers, and be entitled to like fees and commissions, as are
allowed by law to sheriffs for similar services.
7. The sergeant of said town, upon executing bond before
the county court of Lee county, with conditions such as arc
required by law of constables, shall have power and author-
ity to execute any and all process to him directed, and shall
aud may do and perform all acts, and execute and return
such warrants, and be liable in the same manner, and to the
same extent, that constables are liable, or may perform, by
the laws now in force.
8. The sergeant of said town shall have for his services, in
addition to the fees and commissions mentioned in the sixth
section of this act, such salary as the council of said town
may prescribe.
9. The mayor, recorder, and councilmen of said town shall
and may exercise all the jurisdiction of a justice of the
peace, in order to preserve the Peace and good order in said
town, and to this end, they, and each of them, shall be a con-
servator of the peace, with all the powers and duties author-
ized to be exercised by such conservators by the laws now in
force in Virginia.
10. The mayor, recorder, and councilmen, upon taking the
oath required by law, shall each have authority and jurisdic-
tion to hear, try, and determine all matters in controversy,
under the laws, by-laws, and ordinances of said town, and to
issue any and all proper process, whethcr mesne or final,
which may be necessary to enforce their authority.
11. The council of said town shall be and is hereby
invested with all the powers, rights, liberties, and preroga-
tives in relation to the poor of said town, which is now con-
ferred upon towns containing less than five thousand inhabi-
tants by existing laws; and the said town and its citizens
shall be entitled to all the immunities, exemptions, and privi-
leges pertaining to a town that maintains and keeps its poor
according to the laws of Virginia now in force.
12. The said council shall have power and authority, when-
ever they deem it expedient, to have the sidewalks and gut-
ters along any street, within the said town, of such width as
they may prescribe, properly paved, or otherwise suitably
improved, repaired, and altered, at the proper costs and
expense of the owners and occupiers of the land or lots along
the front or sides of which such sidewalks or other improve-
ments extend, and to levy and collect a special tax sufficient
for that purpose, on each of such lots or pieces of land, which
special taxes on real estate within said town are directed to
be collected.
13. All taxes, general or special, assessed upon lands or lots
within the said town, under this act, are hereby declared to
constitute a lien upon said land or lots in the hands of the
owner or his heirs, devisees, assignees, or any subsequent
purchaser or other person claiming the same, and may be
collected from such subsequent purchaser, or other person
entitled to such land or lot, in like manner as they might
have been collected from the original owner or occupier.
14. The council may prevent hogs, dogs, and other animals
from running at large within the limits of said corporation,
and muy subject the same to such regulations and taxes as it
may deem proper.
15. The council of said town may make such regulations
ag it deems proper, with reference to the sale of ardent
spirits, spirituous or malt liquors, or any mixture thereof,
within the corporate limits of said town, and may impose
such taxes upon the sale thereof, or for the privilege of sell-
ing, as to said council may seem expedient and proper: pro-
vided that the qualified voters of said town, by a two-thirds
vote of all those voting on the question, may prohibit the
granting of a license to sell ardent spirits, spirituous liquors,
or any mixture thereof, within the limits of said town, as
hereinbefore laid down.
16. The council of said town shall have power to impose
fines, not exceeding ten dollars, and not less than two dollars
and fifty cents in amount, for breaches of the peace commit-
ted in said town; also for obstructing the streets, sidewalks,
or alleys, for any willful or malicious injury done thereto, or
for any violation of any of the laws, or ordinances, or by-
laws of said town, and may commit the offender to the jail
of Lee county until said fines are paid.
17. For the purpose of carrying into effect the police regu-
lations of said town, the town shall be allowed the use of the
county jail of Lec county for the safe-keeping and confine-
ment of all persons who shall be sentenced to imprisonment
under the ordinances of said town; and all persons so con-
fined, shall be under the custody and charge of the jailor of
said county, who shall receive, keep, and discharge the same
in such manner as shall be prescribed by the ordinances of
said town, or otherwise discharged by due course of law:
provided that said council may, if they deem it expedient,
require all persons sentenced to jail, or committed thereto in
default of the payment of fines assessed against them, to
work on the public streets of said town, under such regula-
tions and restrictions as said council may prescribe.
18. Charles L. Hamblin, John A. G. Hyatt, Henry J. Mor-
gan, Henry C. Joslyn, and P. B. Cecil, are hereby authorized
to hold ap election, agreeable to the provisions of this act,
for said officers in January, eighteen hundred and eighty-two,
or as soon theaeafter as practicable, after giving due notice
thereof by publication in the Lee county Sentinel, for at least
two weeks before the day of election. Said election shall be
held at the courthouse of Lee county. If the aforesaid par-
ties should fail to hold the election as authorized, then the
county court shall, upon application of five or more citizens
of said town corporation, order the same.
19. The clerk of the county court of Lee county is author.
ized and empowered to qualify those persons elected to fill
the several offices herein mentioned, by administering to each
person elected, the oaths prescribed by law, or who may be
elected to fill any vacancy accruing in any of said offices.
20. All acts and parts of acts in reference to said town of
Jonesville heretofore enacted, inconsistent with this act, are
hereby repealed.
21, This act shall be in force from its passage.
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Chap. 79.—An ACT providing a home for aged and indigent females,
in the city of Norfolk.
Approved April 21, 1882.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the trustees of the Freemason street Baptist church, city of
Norfolk, James H. Calrow, E. Cuthriell, George W. Dey, C.
A. Davis, L. Royster, T. P. Warren, T. B. Anderson, and
their successors in office, be and they are hereby constituted
trustees for the purpose, and empowered to receive and to
hold, by purchase, gift, or devise, real and personal estate,
for the purpose of providing a home for the aged and infirm
females, now or hereafter connected with the congregation
worshipping at the Baptist church, on corner of Bank and
Freemason streets, in Norfolk, Virginia.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
Chap. 79.—JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the Attorney-General
to institute such proceedings, or pursue such methods, a8 may be
proper and necessary to ascertain and recover all the interest of the
state of Virginia in the Roanoke Navigation Oompuny, bothin Vir-
ginia and North Carolina, and to provide compensation therefor.
Approved February 9, 1882.
Resolved (the house of delegates concurring), That the
attorney-general be instructed to institute the necessary pro.
ceedings in the proper courts, and to adopt such steps as, in
the opinion of the said attorney-general, the public interests
shall require, to ascertain and recover all the interest of the
state of Virginia in the property, franchises, stocks, dividends
rents, premiums, tolls, and other things in and arising out of
the property of the Roanoke Navigation company, situatec
both in the state of Virginia and in the state of North Car
olina; and that such expenses as may be incurred as may be
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proper in the opinion of the governor, shall be paid the said
sttorney-general, upon the warrant of the governor on the
reasury, out of moneys therein not otherwise appropriated.
2. This joint resolution shall be in force from its passage
‘aap. 80.—An ACT to authorize Grace Episcopal church in the city
of Kichmond, to borrow money and execute deeds of trust to secure
the sume.
Approved February 9, 1882.
1, Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
race Episcopal church, in the city of Richmond, be and is
ereby authorized to borrow, from time to time, as may be
ecessary for the purpose of repairing and improving the
burch property and building a Sunday schoolhouse, and so
rth, a sum or sums of money, not exceeding in the aggre-
ate five thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding
x per centum per annum; and that for the sum or sums of
ioney so borrowed, the said church be and is hereby author-
ed to issue notes or bonds, signed by the trustees, vestry-
en, or other authorities holding the legal title to the prop-
ty of the said church, and to secure the payment of the
id obligation by deed or deeds of trust, to be executed by
.¢ aforesaid officers of said church, upon the real estate now
-hereafter owned and held by, or for, the said church.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
iaP. 81.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed February 17
1873, to incorporate the town of Jonesville, in the county of Lee.
Approved February 9, 1882,
1. Be it enacted by the genoral assembly of Virginia, That
e town of Jonesville, in the county of Lee, as the same
3 heretofore been laid off into lots, streets, and alleys, and
e additional land and lots included in the following boun-
ry, to-wit: Commencing in the branch, a little northeast
the residence of William F. Hiptenstall, and with the
rth line of his lot westwardly, to Couk’s and Richmond’s
n-yard property; and with the north line of the same, to
wne's lots; and with his north line, to Bell’s land; and with
- north line of the same, to Milbourne’s land; and then
th bis east line, to the academy lot; and thence with the
rth and west line of the same, to the lot recently given to
e Presbyterian church by Andrew Melbourne; and thence
th the north and wert lines thereof to Willoughhw’a lot:
and with his west line, to Captain Joslyn’s farm; and thence
eastwardly with the north line of said Joslyn’s farm, to Mor-
gan’s lot; and with said Morgan’s west line, to the back line
of his garden lot; thence a straight line due east, to the
intersection of the roads in front of Mistress C. T. Dicken-
son’s dwelling house; thence northwardly with the road run-
ning by T. W. Denny’s dwelling house, to the beginning, is
made a town corporate by the name of Jonesville, and by
that name may sue and be sued, and shall have and exercise
the powers conferred upon towns by, and be subject to the
provisions of, the fifty-fourth chapter of the Code of Virginia,
so far as they are consistent with this act, and shall be sub-
ject to, and governed by, all laws now in force, or which may
e hereafter enacted, for the government of towns containing
less than five thousand inhabitants.
2. The council of said town may, from time to time, en-
large the boundaries of said town by adding thereto the lots
of such persons as desire to be included in said corporation,
and who shall make application therefor to said council.
3. The officers of said town shall consist of a mayor, five
councilmen, a recorder, and sergeant, who shall be elected
by the qualified voters living within the limits of said town.
4. The election for said officers shall be held at the court-
house in said town, on the first Saturday in January, an-
nually, and said officers shall enter upon the discharge of
their duties on the first day of February next after their elec-
tion, and continue in office until the first day of the next Feb-
ruary, and thence afterwards until their successors are elected
and duly qualified, and no longer.
5. The council shall prescribe the manner of declaring and
certifying elections, of deciding ties or contested elections,
and of filling vacancies in said board. A majority of said
council shall constitute a quorum to do business.
6. The sergeant of said town shall have the like rights of
distress and power in collecting the taxes and levies made by
the council of said town, as county treasurers now have in
the collection of revenue, and shall be entitled to the same
fees and commissions for the collection of said taxes and
levies, as are allowed to the treasurer of Lee county for col-
lecting the county levy; and in the service and return of all
process, and in the collection of all fines arising under the
authority of this act, or any law or by-law made in pursu-
ance hereof, he shall have and possess the same rights and
powers, and be entitled to like fees and commissions, as are
allowed by law to sheriffs for similar services.
7. The sergeant of said town, upon executing bond before
the county court of Lee county, with conditions such as arc
required by law of constables, shall have power and author-
ity to execute any and all process to him directed, and shall
aud may do and perform all acts, and execute and return
such warrants, and be liable in the same manner, and to the
same extent, that constables are liable, or may perform, by
the laws now in force.
8. The sergeant of said town shall have for his services, in
addition to the fees and commissions mentioned in the sixth
section of this act, such salary as the council of said town
may prescribe.
9. The mayor, recorder, and councilmen of said town shall
and may exercise all the jurisdiction of a justice of the
peace, in order to preserve the Peace and good order in said
town, and to this end, they, and each of them, shall be a con-
servator of the peace, with all the powers and duties author-
ized to be exercised by such conservators by the laws now in
force in Virginia.
10. The mayor, recorder, and councilmen, upon taking the
oath required by law, shall each have authority and jurisdic-
tion to hear, try, and determine all matters in controversy,
under the laws, by-laws, and ordinances of said town, and to
issue any and all proper process, whethcr mesne or final,
which may be necessary to enforce their authority.
11. The council of said town shall be and is hereby
invested with all the powers, rights, liberties, and preroga-
tives in relation to the poor of said town, which is now con-
ferred upon towns containing less than five thousand inhabi-
tants by existing laws; and the said town and its citizens
shall be entitled to all the immunities, exemptions, and privi-
leges pertaining to a town that maintains and keeps its poor
according to the laws of Virginia now in force.
12. The said council shall have power and authority, when-
ever they deem it expedient, to have the sidewalks and gut-
ters along any street, within the said town, of such width as
they may prescribe, properly paved, or otherwise suitably
improved, repaired, and altered, at the proper costs and
expense of the owners and occupiers of the land or lots along
the front or sides of which such sidewalks or other improve-
ments extend, and to levy and collect a special tax sufficient
for that purpose, on each of such lots or pieces of land, which
special taxes on real estate within said town are directed to
be collected.
13. All taxes, general or special, assessed upon lands or lots
within the said town, under this act, are hereby declared to
constitute a lien upon said land or lots in the hands of the
owner or his heirs, devisees, assignees, or any subsequent
purchaser or other person claiming the same, and may be
collected from such subsequent purchaser, or other person
entitled to such land or lot, in like manner as they might
have been collected from the original owner or occupier.
14. The council may prevent hogs, dogs, and other animals
from running at large within the limits of said corporation,
and muy subject the same to such regulations and taxes as it
may deem proper.
15. The council of said town may make such regulations
ag it deems proper, with reference to the sale of ardent
spirits, spirituous or malt liquors, or any mixture thereof,
within the corporate limits of said town, and may impose
such taxes upon the sale thereof, or for the privilege of sell-
ing, as to said council may seem expedient and proper: pro-
vided that the qualified voters of said town, by a two-thirds
vote of all those voting on the question, may prohibit the
granting of a license to sell ardent spirits, spirituous liquors,
or any mixture thereof, within the limits of said town, as
hereinbefore laid down.
16. The council of said town shall have power to impose
fines, not exceeding ten dollars, and not less than two dollars
and fifty cents in amount, for breaches of the peace commit-
ted in said town; also for obstructing the streets, sidewalks,
or alleys, for any willful or malicious injury done thereto, or
for any violation of any of the laws, or ordinances, or by-
laws of said town, and may commit the offender to the jail
of Lee county until said fines are paid.
17. For the purpose of carrying into effect the police regu-
lations of said town, the town shall be allowed the use of the
county jail of Lec county for the safe-keeping and confine-
ment of all persons who shall be sentenced to imprisonment
under the ordinances of said town; and all persons so con-
fined, shall be under the custody and charge of the jailor of
said county, who shall receive, keep, and discharge the same
in such manner as shall be prescribed by the ordinances of
said town, or otherwise discharged by due course of law:
provided that said council may, if they deem it expedient,
require all persons sentenced to jail, or committed thereto in
default of the payment of fines assessed against them, to
work on the public streets of said town, under such regula-
tions and restrictions as said council may prescribe.
18. Charles L. Hamblin, John A. G. Hyatt, Henry J. Mor-
gan, Henry C. Joslyn, and P. B. Cecil, are hereby authorized
to hold ap election, agreeable to the provisions of this act,
for said officers in January, eighteen hundred and eighty-two,
or as soon theaeafter as practicable, after giving due notice
thereof by publication in the Lee county Sentinel, for at least
two weeks before the day of election. Said election shall be
held at the courthouse of Lee county. If the aforesaid par-
ties should fail to hold the election as authorized, then the
county court shall, upon application of five or more citizens
of said town corporation, order the same.
19. The clerk of the county court of Lee county is author.
ized and empowered to qualify those persons elected to fill
the several offices herein mentioned, by administering to each
person elected, the oaths prescribed by law, or who may be
elected to fill any vacancy accruing in any of said offices.
20. All acts and parts of acts in reference to said town of
Jonesville heretofore enacted, inconsistent with this act, are
hereby repealed.
21, This act shall be in force from its passage.
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Chap. 79.—An ACT providing a home for aged and indigent females,
in the city of Norfolk.
Approved April 21, 1882.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the trustees of the Freemason street Baptist church, city of
Norfolk, James H. Calrow, E. Cuthriell, George W. Dey, C.
A. Davis, L. Royster, T. P. Warren, T. B. Anderson, and
their successors in office, be and they are hereby constituted
trustees for the purpose, and empowered to receive and to
hold, by purchase, gift, or devise, real and personal estate,
for the purpose of providing a home for the aged and infirm
females, now or hereafter connected with the congregation
worshipping at the Baptist church, on corner of Bank and
Freemason streets, in Norfolk, Virginia.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.