CHAP. 439.—An ACT to incorporate the town of Basic City.

Approved Mareh 3, 1800.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the territory contained within the following limits,
namely: Beginning at the point where the southern line
of the right of way of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway
company intersects South river, thence with the southern
line of said right of way and excluding said right of way,
in an easterly direction six thousand seven hundred and
eighty-five feet; thence south forty-three degrees, west
six hundred and ten feet; thence south sixty-four degrees,
west seven hundred and eighty-four feet; thence north
seventy-three degrees forty-five minutes, west two thou-
sand nine hundred and five feet; thence north forty-three
degrees forty-five minutes, west eight hundred and fifty-
eight feet, crossing the Shenandoah Valley railroad at two
hundred and fifty feet to a stake; thence north fifty-five
degrees fifteen minutes, west four hundred and ninety-five
feet to a stake near the bank of South river; thence with
the meanderings of the said river in a northerly direction
three thousand two hundred and fifty-three feet to the be-
ginning; all of said land being situate at and near
Waynesboro Junction, in Augusta county, and the inhabi-
tants of the town of Basic City shall be a body politic
in fact and in name, under the style and denomination of
the town of Basic City, and as such shall have, exercise,
and enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers, and privi-
leges conferred upon towns by law, and be subject to all
of the laws now in force or that may be hereafter enacted
for the government of towns of less than five thousand
inhabitants.

2. The administration and government of said town
shall be vested in one principal officer, to be styled the
mayor, and six councilmen, who, with the mayor, shall
constitute the council of said town, and in such other
officers as may be appointed by the council.

3. The following named persons are hereby appointed
to fill the offices of mayor and councilmen until the first
day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and until
their successors are duly elected and qualified, namely:
M. W. Quarles, as mayor, and E. Smith Dinkle, J. A.
Wise, C. E. Smith, R. W. Martz, L. G. Durham, and James
A. Critzer, as councilmen. Any four of said council,
which includes the mayor as president thereof, shall con-
stitute a board or quorum for the transaction of business.
Said council shal] have power to appoint a sergeant and
such other officers as may be necessary, together with a
police force, for the preservation of order, who shall re-
main in office until their successors are elected and quali-
fied according to law. Any vacancy occurring during the
term for which any of the said persons are appointed by
this act may be filled by the council by the appointment
of any one eligible to such office.

4. An election of the municipal officers above men-
tioned, except such as are appointed: by the council, shal!
be held on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred
and ninety-one, and on the fourth Thursday in May in
every year thereafter.

5. The said council shal] have the power to exempt from
municipal taxation all real estate, money, and other prop-
erty used in industrial or manufacturing enterprises within
the corporate limits of said town for a period not exceed-
Ing ten years.

6. The said council may at any time extend the corpo-
rate limits of said town in any direction, not including
the town of Waynesboro or any part thereof: provided,
such extension be first favorably voted for by at least two-
thirds of the legal voters of the said town of Basic City
and two-thirds of the land-owners of the district proposed
to be annexed, whether resident therein or not: provided,
further, that any corporation owning lands in the said
district shall be entitled to only one vote in respect of such
lands, and that no person or corporation whose ownership
of lands in the said district amounts to Jess than one-
eighth of an acre shall be regarded as a land-owner within
the meaning of thissection. Of any election held pursuant
to the provision of this section, thirty days’ notice shall
be given in the manner usual] for giving such notices, and
the election held in the manner prescribed by law for
holding elections. If the said election shall result in
favor of extending the corporate limits of the said town,
then said council shall declare the corporation limits
extended, and accordingly proceed to make an order estab-
lishing such extended limits, and accurately describing
the same; and such order of the council shall be recorded
in the clerk’s office of the county court of Augusta county.

7. The jurisdiction of the corporate authorities of said
town shall be the same as that prescribed by section one
thousand and thirty-two of the code of Virginia as to the
matters therein mentioned, but it shall not extend into
the corporate limits of the town of Waynesboro.

8. The town of Basic City and the officers thereof,whether
appointed by this act or hereafter elected or appointed,
shall be clothed with all the powers and be subject. to all
the provisions of the general laws of this state, except in
so far as the same are in conflict with the provisions of
this act.

9. All taxes and dues to the state of Virginia shall be
paid in lawful money of the United States and not in cou-

pone.
10. This act shall be in force from its passage.