Chap. 134.—An ACT to amend section one of an act of the General
Assembly, approved March 21, 1871, entitled an sct to amend and
re-enact un act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Liberty, in
the county of Bedford.

Approved February 19, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act passed March the twenty- -first, eighteen hundred and
seventy-one, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Liberty, in the
county of Bedford, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

§1. The territory embraced in the following boundarics,
namely: Beginning at a spring known as the Cool spring, on
the north side of Otey’s mountain, near the Leesville road,
running west to the eastern boundary line of the lot of land
of William J. Cocke; thence in a straight line to the road
leading to the residence of Judge G. A. ° Winefield, touching
said road at a point two hundred yards south of its intersec-
ton with the Leesville road; thence with the western line of
stid road to the southern line of the second street south of
Franklin street, known as street, and with the southern
line of said street to the Lawn branch; and thence in a line
with said street to the old Dickinson’s mill road, and with
said old road to the Lawn branch; thence following said

branch to the eastern boundary line of Manson Williams;
thence with the said eastern boundary line of Manson Wil-
liams’ land to the Norfolk and Western railroad; thence in a
straight line to an extension ef Vineyard street at a point
three hundred yards west of the intersection of Vineyard
street with the tan-vard alley; thence in a straight line to
the peaks, or Fancy Form road, at the point where the lands
of William Graves and B. Farnhorn corner on said road;
thence eastward with the southern boundary line of the
land formerly owned by William Terry, but now owned by
Colonel William Graves and Samuel Bolling, to the Forest
road east of the residence of Coswell Turpin; thence in a
southeasterly direction in a straight line to the cattle. guard
on the Norfolk and Western railroad, cast of the lot pur-
chased and owned by the Bedtord spoke and iron manutye-
turing company; thence in a straight line to the Lynchburg
and Salem turnpike, at a point fitty yards east of the resi-
dence of A. W. Kelsey; and thence in a straight line to the
point of beginning at the spring on Otey’s mountain, shall
constitute and continue tu be the town of Liberty; and the
mayor, recorderand common councilmen, and their successors
in office, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate by
the name and style of the mayor and common council ot the
town of Liberty, and by that name and style shall have per-
petual succession, with capacity to sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, in any of the courts of law or equity of this
commonwealth, with authority to purchase, receive and hold
lands, tenements, goods and chattels, either in fee simple or
any loss estate therein, and the same to give, grant or assign
or sell again. But the passage of this act shall not affect the
right of the county court of Bedtord county to establish a
road upon or through any lot or lots embraced in said cor-
porate limits, in any case in which proceedings are now pend-
Ing in said court.
2. This act shall be in force from its passave.