Chap. 260.—An ACT to amend the charter of South Boston, Virginia.
Approved February 26, 1886. .

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and two of an act to incorporate the town of South
Boston, in Halifax county, Virginia, approved February nine-
teenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be amended and re-
enacted to read as follows:

§ 1. That the town of South Boston, in the county of Hali-
fax, as the same has heretofore or may hereafter be laid off into
lots, streets and alleys, shall be and the same is hereby made a
town corporate, by the name of South Boston, and by that
name shall have and exercise the powers conferred upon towns
by the fifty-fourth chapter of the Code of Virginia, of one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-three, and be subject to all the
provisions of said Code, and to all laws now in force, or which
may hereafter be enacted in reference to the government of
towns of less than five thousand inhabitants, so far as the same
are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, but no citi-
zen of said corporation shall be required to work on the public
roads, nor require to pay any taxes for keeping the public roads
in order, nor any school taxes, save such as are levied by the
state or by the common council of the town of South Boston.

§ 2. The boundaries of the said town shall be as follows:
Beginning at a stone on the south side of the Richmond and
Danville railroad, near the Dry Bridge; thence north, thirty-
eight and a quarter degrees west, passing under the railroad at
the Dry Bridge, three hundred and forty-nine feet; north, one
degree, east, forty-two feet; north, sixty degrees, east, five
hundred and fifty-five feet, to the intersectibn of Bruce and Lee
streets; thence along the line of Lee street, crossing Mineral,
Jordan and Logan streets, to the intersection of Wilbourne and
Lee streets; thence along the line of Lee street to the intersec-
tion with Jefferson street; thence along Jefferson street to the
intersection with Hill street; thence along Hill street to the
back line of the lots of J. W. Easley, on the east side of Main
street; thence along the back line of the lots, on the east side
of Main street, crossing Moore and Hodges streets, to the cor-
ner stone of W. I. Jordan’s lot; thence south, one and a half
degrees, east, five hundred and thirty-two feet, to the old Irish
road, thence down the road south, seventy-four and a half: de-
grees, east, two hundred and eighty-two feet, to Hodge’s old
line; thence along Hodge’s old line, eight degrees forty minutes
east, to the south side of the Richmond and Danville railroad
track on said line; thence along the south side of the Rich-
mond and Danville railroad track to the beginning.

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