Chap. 159.—An ACT to incorporate the Town of Greenville, Augusta
county.

Approved February 25, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the town of Greenville, in the county of Augusta, shall be
and the same is hereby declared to be a town corporate, under
the name and style of The Town of Greenville, and by that
name shall have and exercise the powers hereinafter granted.

2. The government of said town shall be vested in a council
of seven, to be chosen annually by ballot on the fourth Thurs-
day in May in each year. Any person entitled to vote in the
county of Augusta, and residing in the corporate limits of
the town of Greenville, shall be entitled to vote at all elec-
tions under said act of incorporation. The mayor shall
appoint two members of the council, who, with the clerk of
the council, shall hold said election between the hours of one
in the afternoon and sunset, and they shall decide any con-
test with reference to the right of any individual, and shall
count the ballots. In case it is impossible to decide the seven
who have the highest number of votes by reason of a tie, the
said clerk shall decide in the presence of the two councilmen
atoresaid by lot. Said clerk shall immediately thereafter
make out, and deliver to each one of the councilmen elected,
a certificate of his election.

3. Said councilmen shall meet in the first week of July
following, the mayor to be their president. Said officers shall
hold their respective offices for one year, or until their suc-
cessors are elected and qualified. Said officers shall qualify
by tuking the oath of office before the clerk or other person
authorized to administer oaths; they may be removed from
office by the unanimous vote of the council for good cause.
All the officers of the corporation shall serve without com-
pensation, except as hereinafter provided. Said council shall
appoint its own time of mecting. Five members shall con-
stitute a quorum, and any vacancy among any of the officers
ot the corporation shall be filled by said council.

4. In addition to the above named officers, there shall be
elected, annually, by the qualified voters of said town, a
mayor, a clerk. a town sergeant and treasurer. The mayor
shall be the presiding officer of the council, but shall have no
vote except in case uf a tie, and shall have jurisdiction and
authority of a justice of the peace of Augusta county within
the corporate limits of said town, and shall be entitled to the

rk same fees. The clerk shall keep a correct record of all the

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proceedings of the council, shall provide the books and sta-
tionery therefor, make out the certificates of election, make
out a list of the property to be assessed, real and personal,
within the limits of the corporation, and assess the same
according to the best information obtained by him; and shall
issue tickets tor taxes voted by the council, w hich 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 fitty dollars. The sergeant shall collect the taxes
voted by the council, for which he shall be allowed a certain
rate per centum for collecting and paying out the same, the

‘ate to be fixed by the council. He shall have the power and
authority of any constable or collector in the county of
Augusta within the corporate limits ot the said town. and
shall be entitled to the same fees. Ife shall pay out the
money in his hands on the warrant of the mavor and clerk,
certifying that it is done by order of the council. LHe shall
perform all the duties of the overseer of roads anc streets in
the corporation, in accordance with the laws of Virginia. No
road tax shall be assessed upon the property within the cor-
peration except by the council atoresaid, which road tax shall
be expended upon the roads and streets of said town by the
sergeant aforesaid, under the direction of the council, provi-
ded said town supports its own poor. For his services as
overseer of said roads and streets, he shall be entitled to the
same compensation allowed by law to overseers of roads.
Said council and sergeant shall have all the powers and per-
form all the duties belonging to overseers of roads under the
general road law. The sergeant shall, be ‘fore he enters upon
the duties of his office, execute a bond for the faithful per-
formance of his duties, which bond shall be approved by the
council and filed with the clerk.

5. The council shall bave power to mark accurately the

‘bounds of existing streets; to lay off new streets, alleys and

sidewalks; to regulate and prohibit the running at large of
animals; to provide for order and quiet, and the observance
of the Sabbath within the corporation; to provide and pro-
tect shade trees; to establish fire department, with suitable
and necessary conveniences; to regulate in reference to con-
tayious discases, and to pass ordinances to carry into effect
the object of this incorporation, and to punish the violation
of the same by fine and imprisonment: provided further,
property for public use may be taken in the manner provided
tor by law, and for that’ purpose the council of said town
shall have the same jurisdiction for the condemning of land
for streets for said town, as the county court has tor the con-
demning of lands for roads in the county.

6. The council may annually levy a tax for roads and cor-
poration purposes, which on no property shall exceed fifty
cents on the hundred dollars’ valuation, oxcept that, on the
petition of two-thirds of the freeholders within the corpora-
tion, the council may levy a corporation tax not to exceed
the amount named in said petition.

7. That any person applying tothe county court of Augusta,
for license to sell liquor of any kind, either as the keeper of
a bar-room, wholesale or retail liquor dealer, within the cor-
porate limits of said town of Greenville, Augusta county, or
within one mile of the limits of said corporation, shall pro-
duce before the court of suid county.a certificate of the coun-
cil of suid town, signed by each member of the council, to the
effect that theapplicant is a suitable person, and that no good
reason is known to said council why said license should not
be granted. And the court having jurisdiction shall not
grant any license to sell liquor within the limits above des-
cribed. until and unless such certificate be given.

8. That for the purpose of maintaining ‘the police regula-
tions of said town, under the authority of this act, the juris-
diction of the corporate authorities thereof, shall be and the
same is hereby made to extend one mile beyond the limits of
said town,

9 The following is hereby declared to be the boundary of
the town of Greenville: Beginning at Mistress Mary Gil-
liam’s spring; thence southerly to the north corner of John
Wagoner’s lot, and along said Wagoner’s line to the west
corner of Paul Mead’s lot; thence south to the corner of said
Paul Mead’s lot at the road: thence southwest with the road
to the west corner of Doctor J. M. Tate’s lot; thence east
with the line of his lot to Junction Valley turnpike; thence
southerly with said pike to James N. Mitchell's corner, at
Wrisht’s lane; thence with James N. Mitchell's line, xeventy-
five feet southe: isterly toa stake on his line; thence north-
easterly to the south corner of R. HH. P: mer’s lot, and with
the back line of said lot northerly, a straight line to a stake
in William F. Smith’s orchard; thence northwesterly, run-
hing with the northeast end of Robert Supple’s dwelling-
house. to the north corner of his shop on the Junction Valley
turnpike; thence with said pike westerly to the east corner
of John W. Almarod’s lot; thence northwesterly with said
lot to the north corner; thence westerly with said lot to the
corner of William F. Smith’s lot near the creck, at Waller
Allen's corner, and thence westerly to the place of beginning.

10. H.C. Palmor, John B. Smith, C. W. Fitch, J. B. Bur-
well, A. G. Duncan, Doctor T. Van L. Davis, and James
N. Mitchell are hereby declared and appointed councilmen ;
Robert H. Palmer as clerk, William Masincup as sergeant,

. W. Fitch as treasurer, and William F. Smith as mayor of
said town, and may qualify before any magistrate or notary
public in the county, and thereupon they shall constitute,
until the first day of July, eighteen hundred and cighty-four,
the council of said town of Greenville, and as such they shall
perform all the duties of said council.
11. All previous acts, or parts of acts relating to the incor-
poration of said town, are hereby declared to be null and void.
12. This act shall be in force from its passage,