Chap. 263.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and five of an
act to incorporate the town of Abingdon, 1 passed March sixteenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended and re-enacted by an
act passed April 2d, 1877, and to extend the corporate limits of said
town.

Approved March 4, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and five of an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Abingdon, passed
March sixteenth, eightcen hundred and seventy-one, as
amended and re-enacted by an act passed April second, cigh-
teen hundred and seventy-seven, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That so much land, together with the improvements there con,
as is included within the followi ing described boundary lines,
to-wit: Beginning on the south ‘side of the main road east
of Abingdon, at the northeast corner of the lot purchased by
G. V. Litchfield, W.G. G. Lowry. and James Fields from Mis-
tress Rosalie 8. Humes, by deed dated the first day of August,
eighteen hundred and cishty-three ; thence south twenty-five
and one-half degrees, enst fifty eight and twenty-one twenty-
fifths poles and nine links to a planted stone in Humes’ field;
thence south sixty-four and one-half, west four hundred and
thirty poles to a planted stone in Hurt’s ficld; thence north
twenty-five and one-half, west one hundred and nine poles,
six links, passing the western boundary of Snow, Ingham and
Company’s tobacco factory lot, to a planted stone in the
Abingdon academy field ; thence north sixty-four and one-
half degrees, east four hundred and thirty poles to a planted
stone in Thomas W. Whitc’s eleven acre lot; thence south
twenty-five and one-half degrees, cast fifty poles and twenty-
two links to the beginning, shall be and continue to consti-
tute the area of the town heretofore known as the town of
Abingdon, in the county of Washington; and the inhabitants
thereof shall have and exercise the following powers and
privileges.

§5. That the said council shall appoint a treasurer, pre-
scribe bis duties, and direct the penalty in which he shall
exccute his bond, payable to said corporation, with such
surety as they may approve, conditioned for the faithful
discharge of his duties as they may be prescribed by said
council. Tho said council shall also have power to make
such by-laws and ordinances not contrary to the laws and
constitution of this state, or of the United States, as they
may think necessary for the regulating and improvement of
the streets and alleys of said town, and for protecting them
from injury; for protecting property in said town against
accident by fire; for organizing fire companies, and authoriz-
ing the purchase of fire-engines, hose, and other apparatus
thoreto belonging; for keeping public springs and wells in good
order and condition; for regulating the erection of privies, and
prescribing their location; for keeping the streets and alleys
in repair, and lighting the samo; for removing and abating
nuisances within the limits of said town at the expense of
those who occasion them, or otherwise; for establishing and
regulating markets, and directing market hours; for regu-
lating butcher stalls and slaughter-houses; for presc ribing
rules for the orderly and regular building of hoses and
chimneys; for the location of stables and cow-sheds; for the
regulation of all shops; for prohibiting hogs and doya from
running at large within the limits of said town without their
owners; for prohibiting exhibitions of stud horses on pubhe
days in the streets; and generally such other by-laws as they
may deem necessary for regulating the police and preserving
the peace, good order and government of the said town, and
to enforce observance of said by-laws and ordinances, under
penalty not exceeding the sum of twenty dollars for any one
offence. The said council shall have power to levy and col-
lect, annually, a tax on the tithables and property—real and
personal—within the said town, and on such other subjects
as are taxed by the laws of this state, for the purpose of
earrying into effect all or any of the powers hereby vranted
them, so that the tax on real and personal property shall not
exceed thirty cents on every one hundred dollars value thereof
in said town at its assessed value for state taxation, and to
make provision for the collecting and accounting for the said
taxes. The said council may also regulate the ‘fees of town
sergeants and prescribe their duties, and the penalties of
their bonds, and may provide for keeping the streets and
alleys in good order and condition.
2° ‘This act. shall be in force from its passage.