CHAP. 178.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an act’ to incor-
porate the Game Point association, approved February 2, 1888.

Approved February 6, 1890,

1. Be 1t enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the sixth section of the act entitled an act to incor-
porate the Game Point association, approved February
twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

S6. The said association shall consist of not more than
twenty active members and three honorary members at
the same time, and may make such by-laws for the gov-
ernment of the same as may be consistent with the laws
of the state of Virginia and for the objects of the asso-
ciation; and for the more effectually carrrying out the
purposes of the said association it may provide rules regu-
lating the admission of new members into the association
and prescribing the terms upon which the stock owned by
any member shall be transferred. Each active member
shall hold at least one share of the stock, and the said
association shall prescribe the terms and conditions of
honorary membership and the privileges of honorary mem-
bers. |

2. Be it further enacted, that the said association is
hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to
release its members from all subscriptions to the stock of
said association in excess of the one share thereof re-
quired as a qualification for membership.

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

CHapP. 179.—An ACT to incorporate the town of New Hope, in
) Augusta county.

Approved February 6, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the town of New Hope, 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 New
Hope, 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
tourth Thursday in May in each year. Any person enti-
tled to vote in the county of Augusta, and residing in the
corporate limits of the town of New Hope, shall be enti-
tied to vote at all elections under said act of incorpora-
tion. 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 o’clock and sunset,
and they shall decide any contest 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 aforesaid
by lot. Said clerk shall immediately thereafter make out
and deliver to each one of the councilmen elected a cer-
tificate 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 successors are elected and qualified. Said officers
shall qualify by taking 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 corpora-
tion shall serve without compensation, except as herein-
after provided. Said council shall appoint its own time of
meeting. Five members shall constitute a quorum, and
any vacancy among any of the officers of 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 of 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 same fees. The clerk shall
keep a correct record of all the proceedings of the council,
shall provide the books and stationary therefor, make out
the certificates of election, make out a list of the prop-
erty 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 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 oath of office to any of the
town officers, and for said service he shall be allowed an-
nually a certain sum to be named by the council, not to
exceed fifty dollars. The sergeant shall collect the taxes
voted by the council, for which he shall be allowed a cer-
tain rate per centum for collecting and paying out the
same; the rate 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 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. He shall perform all the duties of the over-
seer of roads and streets in the corporation, in accordance
with the laws of Virginia. No road tax shall be assessed
upon the property within the corporation except by the
council aforesaid, which road tax shall be expended upon
the roads and streets of said town by the sergeant afore-
said, under the direction of the council: provided, 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 road law of Augusta county. The sergeant shall, be-
fore he enters upon the duties of his office, execute a bond
for the faithful performance of his duties, which bond
shall be approved by the council and filed with the clerk.

5. The council shall have 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 protect shade trees; to establish fire depart-
ment, with suitable and necessary conveniences; to regu-
late in reference to contagious diseases, and to pass ordi-
nances to carry into effect the object of this incorporation,
and to punish the violation of the same by fine and im-
prisonment: provided, further, property for public use
may be taken in the manner provided for 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 for the condemning of
land for roads in the county.

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

7. That any person applying to the county court of Au-
gusta for license to sell liquor of any kind, either as the
keeper of a bar-room, wholesale or retail liquor dealer,
within the corporate limits of said town of New Hope,
Augusta county, or within one mile of the limits of said
corporation, shall produce before the court of said county
a certificate of the council of said town, signed by a
majority of the council, to the effect that the applicant
is a suitable person, and that no good reason is known
why said license should not be granted. And the court
having jurisdiction shall not grant any license to sell
liquor within the limits above described until and unless
such certificate be given.
8. That for the purpose of maintaining the police regu-
lation of said town, under the authority of this act, the
jurisdiction 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 New Hope: Beginning at Z. T. Kerr’s
stable; thence north to W.J. Brower’s house; thence north-
east to Christian Eakle’s house; thence east to the north
corner of the New Hope school lot; thence with the school
lot line to the east corner of the same; thence south to
Mrs. M. J. Finbaugh’s barn; thence south to the east cor-
ner of the Round Hill church lot, taking in all of the
church property; thence from the south corner of the
church property to the beginning, at Z. T. Kerr’s stable.

10. J. E. Eakle, Christjan Eakle, W. F. Stout, S. ZH.
Banserman, W. J. Brower, D. B. Myers, and J. C. Scott are
hereby declared and appointed councilmen; W. F. Frit-
well, as clerk; J. D. Fisher, as sergeant; Z. T. Kerr, as
treasurer, and J. M. Shelley, 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 ninety, the coun-
cil of said town of New Hope, and as such they shall per-
form all the duties of said council.

11. All previous acts or parts of acts relating to the
incorporation of said town are hereby declared null and
void. ;

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

CHAP. 180 —An ACT to incorporate the Carnegie iron company.

Approved February 6, 1890,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That John T. Wilder, J. W. Cure, James A. Maher, and A.
Cantwell, of Tennessee, and John B. Moon, of Virginia,
and their associates and successors, be, and they hereby
are, constituted and created a body politic and corporate
by the name and style of the Carnegie iron company, and
by that name and style shall have all the rights, powers
and privileges conferred by, and be subject to all the pro-
visions of the general laws of Virginia in reference to
corporations and chartered companies, so far as the same
may be applicable to, aud not inconsistent with, the pro-
visions of this act.

2. The capital stock of the said company shall not be
Jess than one hundred thousand nor more than two million
dollars, to be fixed from time to time by the board of di-
rectors, and shall be divided into shares of such par value
as sald board may determine, and such board may issue
shares of stock and sell the same at such price as may be
fixed and agreed to by them, and may in their discretion
receive pay for such shares in property or money, and
may issue shares of stock to represent the enhanced value
of its property.

3. The first meeting of the corporators hereinbefore
named shall be held in the town of Goodson, Virginia, as
soon as a majority of such corporators may convene; and
upon the minimum amount of capital stock being taken
or subscribed for, then such meeting, if attended by a
majority of said corporators, shall constitute the first
general stockholders’ meeting; and the general annual
meeting of such stockholders shall be held annually there-
after in the said town, or at such other time and place in
Virginia as the stockholders may in general meeting ap-
point, and the principal office of the said company shall
also be in the said town or at such other place as the
stockholders may in general meeting designate.

4. No stockholder shall be liable on account of his stock
further than for any unpaid subscription he may owe
thereon. |

5. The board of directors shall consist of five members,
who may appoint such officers or agents of the company
as they may deem proper, but the stockholders may in
general meeting increase the number of such directors.

6. The said company may prospect. for, explore, work,
develop, improve,and manage mineral properties and mines
of iron and other substances; may acquire and hold by
purchase, lease, or otherwise, real and personal property,
and may also build upon, improve, sell, encumber, lease,
or otherwise dispose of the same; may engage in the busi-
ness of mining, manufacturing, and working in minerals
and metals, and to that end establish, operate, and main-
tain furnaces, works, and manufactories, and may borrow
and lend money upon mortgage or other security.

7. Said company may hold stock in other corporations,
and other corporations may hold stock in said company.'

8. All taxes and other dues to the commonwealth of
Virginia accruing from said company shall be paid in
lawful money of the United States and in no other thing
whatsoever.

9. This act shall be in force from its passage.
CHapP. 181.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 7,
8, 9 and 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Milnes, in the county of Page, approved February 12, 1884, and
all acts amendatory thereof since passed.

Approved February 6, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections one, two, four, five, seven, eight, nine and
ten of the act approved February twelfth, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-four, entitled an act to incorporate the
town of Milnes, in the county of Page, and all acts
amendatory thereof since passed, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

S1. The town of Milnes, in the county of Page, char-
tered by act of the general assembly passed February
twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall hereafter
be called and known as the town of Shenandoah, and by
that name shall have and exercise all the powers and be
subject to all the duties which now belong to said town,
and be subject to all the provisions of the existing law
with regard to towns, except so far as may be herein other-
wise provided.

§2. There shall be seven trustees of said town, who
shall be qualified voters of said town. They shall com-
pose the council of said town, and four of them shal]
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
They shall hold their offices for two years, and until their
successors are elected and qualified.

$4. The council shall elect one of their own number as
mayor of said town, and he shall preside at the meetings
of the council; in his absence the members present, con-
stituting a quorum, may elect a president pro: tempore.
The council shall appoint yearly a sergeant, who shall be
a resident of the town, and also appoint one of their own
number as clerk; and they shall also appoint a treasurer:
provided, that in the appointment of .treasurer they shall
not be confined to their own number, but may appoint
any suitable person who is a resident of said town.

§5. The sergeant, clerk and treasurer shall qualify by
taking the oath of office before the mayor or other person
authorized to administer oaths. They may be removed
from office for cause by two-thirds’ vote of the council.

§6. All officers of the corporation shall serve without
compensation except as hereinafter provided. Said coun-
cil shall appoint their own time for meeting. They may
fill any vacancy arising in their own body.

87. The clerk shall keep a correct record of all the pro-
ceedings of the council, shall provide the books and sta-
tionery therefor, make out the certificates of election,
make out a list of property to be taxed, real and personal,
within the limits of the corporation, fixing the values of the
same as determined by the officers of the state for.taxa-
tion; shall issue tickets for taxes voted by the council,
which tickets he shall deliver to the treasurer, when or-
dered by the council, and shall have power to administer
oaths of office to any of the town officers, and for said
services shall be allowed annually a certain sum, to be
named by the council, not to exceed fifty dollars ($50).

§8. The treasurer shall collect the taxes voted by the
council, including all license taxes, for which, and for
paying out the same, he shall be allowed a certain per
centum, the rate to be fixed by the council. He shall, on
the first day of December in each year, turn over to the
sergeant all uncollected tax tickets in his hands, with five
per centum added, taking his receipt therefor. He shall
pay out the money in his hands upon a warrant drawn by
the clerk and countersigned by the mayor, and shall set-
tle his accounts annually with the council, rendering an
itemized statement of receipts and disbursements. The
sergeant shall collect all tax tickets placed in his hands
by the treasurer, as hereinbefore provided, retaining the
five per centum added to each tax bill collected as his
commission for such collection: He shall, regularly once
a month, pay over to the treasurer all taxes and fines col-
lected by him, taking his receipt therefor, and shall an-
nually settle his accounts with the council, rendering an
itemized statement of the receipts and disbursements.
He shall have the power and authority of a constable of
the county of Page, within the corporate limits of said
town, and shall be entitled to the same fees. His salary
shall be fixed by the council, and payable monthly. The
treasurer and sergeant shall each give a bond for the faith-
ful performance of his duties, in a penalty to be fixed by
the council, with security, which bonds shall be approved
by the council and filed with the clerk.

$9. The council shall have power to mark accurately
the bounds of existing streets, to lay-off new streets,
alleys, and sidewalks, and give additional width to those
now in existence; to provide for order and quiet in the
corporation; to establish a fire department, with suitable
and necessary apparatus; to contract for or establish
water-works to supply the town with water; to make regu-
lations 1n reference to contagious diseases, and pass all
ordinances to carry into effect the objects of this corpora-
tion, and to punish the same by fine or imprisonment, or
both : provided, further, that private property may be
taken for public use in the manner now provided by law;
and for that purpose the council of said town shall have
the same jurisdiction for the condemning of lJand for said
town, within the corporate limits and within two miles
thereof, as the county court of said county has for the
condemning of land for public roads in the county, with
right of appeal to the land-owners to said county court.

§10. The council may annually levy a tax for corpora-
tion purposes, which on no property shall exceed fifty cents
on the one hundred dollars valuation, except that, on the
petition of three-fourths of the freeholders within the
corporation, the council may levy a tax not exceeding the
amount named ip said petition: provided, however, that
the Gem furnace, together with all machinery, tools, et
cetera, necessary to operate the same shall be exempt from
all corporation taxes; and provided, further, that whenever
satisfactory evidence shall be presented to said council
that any person or persons, or corporation, has invested
within the corporate limits of said town the sum of two
thousand five hundred dollars, or more, for the purpose of
employing the said capital strictly in the business of
manutacturing within the corporate limits any article or
articles, the said council] shall, if the manufacturers be in
actual operation, issue to said person or persons, or cor-
poration, a license as such manufacturer, and no corpora-
tion or town taxes shall be assessed on, or required to be
paid on, said license or on said capital while so invested
and so employed within said corporate limits during the
period of five years from the date of the issuance of the
first license, as herein provided.

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