Chap. 108.—An ACT to incorporate the town of Milnes, in the
county of Page.

Approved February 12, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the town of Milnes, in the county of Page, be made a town
corporate by the name and style of The ‘Town of Milnes, and
by that name sue and be sued, and by that name and atyle
have and exercise the power granted or conferred upon
towns by the fifty-fourth chapter of the Code of Virginia of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and also have and exer-
cise all powers conferred by laws now in force, or that may
hereafter be enacted, for the government of towns containing
lexs than five thousand inhabitants.

2. There shall be nine trustees of said town, who shall be
qualified voters of the town. They shall compose the council
thereof. and five of them shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business. They shall hold their offices for two
vears, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

3. Said trustees shall be chosen by ballot. on the fourth
Thursday in May, cighteen hundred and eighty-five, and
biennially there: Liter, ‘and shall enter upon their duties on
the first day of July succeeding their election. Any person
entitled to vote in the county of Page, and who has been a
resident for three months in the corporate limits of the town
of Milnes, shall be entitled to vote at all ecleetions under this
act. The mayor shall appoint three qualified voters of said
town. one of whom shall act as clerk, to hold said election
between the hours of one in the afternoon and sunset, and
they shall decide any contest, with reference to the right to
vote, of any individual, and shall count the ballots. In case
it is impossible to determine the nine who have the highest
number of votes, by reason of a tie, the said clerk shall
determine the matter in the presence of his associates, by
lot. The persons holding the election shall determine who
have received the greatest number of votes in such election,
and shall certify the same, and an abstract of the votes on
the poll-books, and return the same, together with the ballots,
to the clerk of the council, to be by him preserved. and said
clerk shall immediately thereafter make out and deliver to
each ot’ the persons elected, a certificate of election.

4. The council shall elect one of their own number to be
mavor ot said town, and he shall preside at the meetings of the
council; in his absence they may elect a president pro tempore.
They shall appoint yearly a sergeant, who shall be a resident
of the town, and also one of their mum bor as clerk.

5. Said sergeant and clerk shall qualify by taking the oath
of office before the mayor or other person nuthorized to ad-
minister oaths; they may be removed from office by a two-
thirds vote of the council for good cause. All the officers of
the corporation shall serve without compensation, except as
hereinafter provided. Said council shall appoint its own time
tor meeting. They may fill any vacancy arising in their own
body for the unexpired term.

6. The mayor shall have the jurisdiction and authority of
a justice of the peace of Page county, within the corporate
limits of said town, and within two miles of the limits of’ said
corporation, and shall be entitled to the same fees,

7. The clerk shall keep a correct record of all the proceed-
ings of the council; shall provide the books and stationary
therefor; make out ‘the certificates of election; make out a hst
of property to be taxed, real and personal, within the limits
ot the corporation, and fix the value of the same as deter-
mined by the officers of the state for state taxation; and shall
issue tickets for taxes voted by the council, which tickets he

shall deliver to the sergeant, When ordered by the council;

and shall have power to administer the oaths of office to any

of the town officers; and for said services he shall be allowed,

annually, a certain sum to be named by the council, not to
exceed fifty dollars.

8. The sergeant shall collect the taxes voted by the coun-
cil; for which. and for paying out the same, he shall be al-
lowed a certain per centum, the rate to be fixed by the coun-
cil. He shall have the power and authority of a constable or
collector of the county of Pave, within the corporate limits
of the said town, and shall be entitled to the same fees. He
shall pay out the money in his hands, on the warrant of the
mayor and clerk certifying that it is done by order of the
council. The sergeant shall, betore he enters upon the duties
of his office, execute a bond with security, for the faithful
performance of his duties; which bond shall be approved by
the council, and tiled with the clerk.

9, The council shall have power to mark accuraicly the
bounds of existing streets; to lay off new streets, alleys, and
sidewalks; to provide for order and quiet within the corpora-
tion; to establish a fire department, with suitable and neces-
sary apparatus; to make regulations in reference to conta-
cious diseases, and pass ordinances to carry into effect: the
objects of this Incorporation, and to punish the violation of
the same by tine and imprisonment: provided further, that
private property may be taken tor public use, in the manner
provided for by law; and tor that purpose the council of said
town shall have the same jurisdiction for the condemning of
land for said town, as the county court has for the condemn-
ing of land for public roads in the county, with the right of
appeal to the county court.

10. The council may annually levy a tax for corporation
purposes, Which on no property shall exceed fifty cents on the
hundred dollars valuation, except that on the petition of
three-fourths of the freeholders within the corporation; the
council may levy a corporation tax not to exceed the amount
named in the said petition: provided, however, that the Gem
Furnace, tovether with all the machinery and tauls necessary
to oper ate the same, shall be exempt ‘trom all corporation
taxes.

11. The following is hereby declared to be the boundary
of the town of Milnes: Beginning on the east side of the
Shenandoah river, at the corner between David Wyant and
the Shenandoah Tron, Lumber, Mining and Manufacturing
company’s land; thence north thirty-nine east, one hundred
and fifty-five and two-tenth poles, to a large pine tree near :
pond, and east of the Gem Furnace; continuing the same
course one hundred and seventy-nine and four- tenth poles in
all, to a bunch of white oaks north twenty-five west, cight-

tenths of a pole trom a stake, corner to John H. Pollard’s
acre lot; thence north fourteen and three-fourths west, one
hundred and thirty-five poles to a locust tree ona hill; the
same course continued one and forty-one-eightieths miles to a
stake on the line between Dovel and Sindlinger; thence north
seventy-eight west, one hundred and fifty-six poles to the cor-
ner between William Peters and George Kite, at the river;
thence up the river to the beginning.

12. Clarence H. Price, Frank Nieland, R. E. Brooks, James
Pulliam, 5. Arthur Austin, John P. Brown, I. A. Bricker, P.
J. Propes and John W. Coverstone are hereby declared and
appointed trustees of said town of Milnes, and may qualify
before any magistrate or justice of the peace in the county,
and thereupon they shall constitute the council of said town,
and as such shall have and exercise all the powers granted to
said council until their successors shall be duty elected and
qualified.

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