CHAP. 466.—An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Wood-
stock, in the county of Shenandoah, Virginia.

Approved March 3, 1s.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That an act passed February twenty-eight, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-four, entitled an act to incorporate the
town of Woodstock, in the county of Shenandoah, and the
act passed and approved February fourteen, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-two, incorporating the said town of
Woodstock, in the county of Shenandoah, under the pro-
visions of the act entitled an act for the government of
cities and towns of less than five thousand inhabitants,
approved November five, eighteen hundred and seventy, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1. The boundaries of the said town shall be as follows:
The present boundaries of the town of Woodstock to remain
as at present, except as follows: The line of the corpora-
tion of said town on the west side thereof shall extend
from the black-oak tree in the corner of Luther Neeb’s
field, adjoining the Cedar creek road, coming up the south-
west side of said road towards Woodstock, to the line be-
tween the lands of Luther Neeb and L.S. Walker, and
running north in said line toa black walnut, corner to said
Luther Neeb and L. S. Walker; thence across with said
Walker’s line to the corner of the land of said Walker and
Jacob B. Keller, and thence east on the line between the
lands of Jacob B. Keller and I. Hite Bird until it reaches
the west side of the Zane’s road; thence along said west
side of Zané’s road; thence south to the corner of M. B.
Wunder and Z. W.S. A. Nelson; thence east along the
line of said Wunder and Nelson and P. W. Magruder and
I. S. Irwin to the old line of W.B. Ott; thence south along
said old line through P. W. Magruder’s lands to near a
white oak on the mill road; thence south to a cherry tree
on the top of a hill on the land of W. T. Williams, near
the road leading to Hottel’s school-house; thence running
west to the present corporate line on the east side of Wood-
stock. And the said council shall have the power, in
addition to the authority under the charter, to cause to he
made a survey and plat of the said town, showing dis-
tinctly its boundaries, its public streets, alleys, and side-
walks, and their width, with such remarks and explana-
tions as they may deem proper; and to lay off new streets,
and alter or change the same, and keep them in order,
and to make other improvements, for which purposes the
council of said town shall have the same powers and juris-
diction for condemning land for streets, alleys, and side-
walks as the county court has for condemning lands for
roads in the county: provided, that this section shall only
be effective when to effect some public improvement the
same is actually laid off and surveyed, and said survey is
approved by an act of said council. And said survey may
include a less area or a greater, if the same is necesaary,
to run the lines square.

2. That the council of said town shall have the right,
for corporate purposes and for the general improvement
and benefit of the said town, to issue bonds, with the con-
sent of the people expressed by a majority vote of the
legally qualified voters of the said corporation ascertained
by a special election to be held in such manner as the
council shall prescribe, if necessary, ten days after the
passage of this act, subject to the general law regulating
special elections, for any amount not exceeding ten per
centum of the assessed value of the real and personal pro-
perty in said corporation as it appears upon the present
assessor’s books of the corporation, and pledge the reve-
nues of the said corporation for the payment thereof.
The said bonds shall bear interest not exceeding the rate
of six per centum per annum, payable annually, and be
redeemable in twenty years or less.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage, and all
acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed.