CHAP. 580.—An ACT to incorporate the Danville Savings Bank,
Loan and Improvement company.

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia
That P. R. Jones, B. S. Crews, W. T. Sutherlin, F. X. Bur.
ton, W. T. Harris, H. W. Cole, Charles H. Conrad, W. J
Dance, J. D. Spencer, J. G. Penn, J. M. Neal, G. P. Tal.
bott, R. B. Graham, E. F. Acree, W. S. Copeland, John W
Carter, E. B. Withers, and J. E. Lipscombe, and suct
other persons as they may associate with them, and thei
successors in office, be, and hereby are, constituted anc
made a body politic and corporate under the name anc
style of the Danville savings bank, loan and improvemen
company.

2. That the capital stock of said company shall not b
less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, nor more
than one million dollars, and shall be divided into shares
of the par value of one hundred dollars each.

3. As soon as the sum of two hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars shall be subscribed td the capital stock of
said company, one per centum whereof shall be paid at
the time of organization to a committee to be appointed
by the incorporators, the persons named in this act of in-
corporation, or a majority of them, shall call a meeting
of the subscribers by giving five days’ notice by publica-
tion in some newspaper published in the town of Danville,
Virginia, at which meeting the subscribers may elect nine
directors and adopt such by-laws and regulations as they
may deem necessary for the proper management and con-
duct of the affairs of said corporation. The directors so
elected shall constitute the first board of directors of said
company, and shal! continue in office for one year and
until their successors shall be elected. The by-laws may
provide conditions for the payment of all or any part
thereof in advance. Said company shall also have power
to enforce the payment of all instalments on stock and
all other dues to the said company for its stockholders or
members by the imposition of fines and forfeitures such
as the board of directors may from time to time prescribe.
Every stockholder shal] be entitled to one vote for every
share of unredeemed stock held by him in said company:
provided, that no stockholder shall be entitled to cast
more than one hundred votes at any meeting of the stock-
holders. No stockholder shall be eligible to election in
said company who shall not at the time own absolutely in
his own right at least ten shares of the capital stock of
said company. The annual meeting of the stockholders
shall be provided for in by-laws. ,

4, The number of directors shall be nine. They shall
be elected annually at the annual meeting of the stock-
holders, and may be removed by the members in general
‘meeting by a majority vote based upon the then capital
stock of the company; but unless so removed, shall con-
tinue in office until their successors are elected.

5. The directors shall elect one of their number presi-
dent of the company, and shall fix his compensation; and
may also fill any vacancy occurring in the board, unless
it shall be occasioned by removal by the stockholders in
general meeting; in which case the stockholders shal] fill
the same in general meeting. The board of directors shal]
appoint all such subordinate officers, agents, and servants
as they may deem it necessary to have, or as shall be desig-
nated by the by-laws, for the conduct of the business of
the company, prescribe their duties and compensation,
and take from them auch bonds and such surety as the
board may deem proper, conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of their duty; and the subordinate agents and
officers’ so appointed shall hold during the pleasure of the
board of directors.

6. The said the Danville savings bank, loan and im-
provement company shall have authority to, and may
purchase, hold, sell, mortgage, lease, improve, and dispose
of property, both real and personal, may receive money on
deposit, may negotiate loans, buy and sell bullion, coin,
bank notes, foreign and domestic bills of exchange, stocks,
bonds, and other evidences of debt, lend money upon real
and personal security upon such time, in such amounts,
and to such persons as it may deem best, and receive the
interest, in advance, guarantee the payments of notes,
bonds, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt, and
receive compensation for such guarantee, and may borrow
money and create loans for the purpose of advancing upon
buildings and lands and improve property and for such
other objects as may promote the interest of the company ;
and especially for enabling persons of small means to pur-
chase and build homesteads for themselves and families,
and may exercise all incidental powers that may be neces-
sary to carry on its business.

7. The said corporation shall have power to adopt and
use a common seal, to change and alter at pleasure, to
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of
law or equity, to make all deeds, transfers, contracts, con-
veyances, and grants whatsoever, and to use, exercise, and
enjoy all the powers and privileges necessary for and per-
taining to bodies politic and corporate not inconsistent to
the laws of Virginia and of the United States.

8. The principal office of the company shall be at Dan-
ville, Virginia.

9. This act ‘shall be in force from its passage.

('HAP. 581.—An ACT to provide a charter for the town of New-
castie, in Craig county.

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the town known as Newcastle, in the county of Craig
(being the county-seat of said county)—laid off within
the following described boundaries: Beginning at the west
corner of P. V. Jones’ lot, on the top of a hill just in rear
of his present residence, and running with his line to the
Cumberland Gap road and crossing said road to the corner
of said Jones’ stable lot, and with the line of same to the
east corner of same, and thence in a straight line to the
southwest corner of J. P. Martin’s lot and the Britt’s land;
and thence on the line dividing the lands of said Martin
from the Britt’s land, and across the Salem turnpike to
the southwest corner of the John Craft lot; and thence on
the line dividing the lot of said John Craft and the J. P.
Martin land to the southeast corner of the said John Craft
lot; and thence in a straight line over the lands of C. C.
Lewis to the east corner of J. H. Zimmerman’s wife’s lot,
and with his line to Broad street, and with said street on
the east side to the mill-race, and with said race to the
dam on John’s creek; and thence up John’s creek toa
point in said creek just opposite where the old forge race
crossed the John’s creek road; and thence across said road
to the south side of said road; and thence with said road
on the south side thereof to the northwest corner of the
M. B. Crawford land, known as the Midway land; and
thence with the north line of the same to the northeast
corner of G. C. Huffman’s heirs lots, and with the line of
the same to the west corner of the Huffman lot; thence
south with the same tothe northeast corner of P. V. Jones’
lot and on the line of the same to the beginning—shall be,
and is hereby, made a town corporate by the name and
style of the town of Newcastle, of the county of Craig;
and by that name and style shall have and exercise the
powers hereinafter granted; and that James H. Turner is
hereby appointed mayor thereof, and Thomas B. McCart-
ney, John W. Wyatt, Clifton C. Jones, John W. McCartney,
James P. Martin, and Clifton W. Elmore are hereby ap-
pointed couneilmen thereof; and the said mayor and
councilmen shall] have and exercise all the powers herein-
after granted to said officers, and shall continue in office
until the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety,
and thereafter until their successors shall be elected and
qualified according to law; a majority of whom shall form
a quorum for the transaction of business. The mayor and
councilmen shall compose the town council.

2. The election for mayor and councilmen shall be held
on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and
ninety, and on the same day in each year thereafter, by
the electors of said town of Newcastle qualified to vote
for members of the general assembly of Virginia. The
person so elected mayor of said town as aforesaid shall be,
and he is hereby, invested with the powers and authority
of a justice of the peace within the corporate limits of
said town, and also such like powers and authority of a
justice of the peace within one mile of the outside boun-
daries of said town as herein provided, and to have and
exercise the like jurisdiction in all cases whatsoever
originating within said limits as a justice of the county
now has or may hereafter have by law, but acting upon
and under the by-laws and ordinances of said town and in
accordance with the general laws of .the land. It shall be
the duty of said mayor to suppress all disturbances,
riots, and disorderly conduct within the bounds of said
town; he shall have the power to issue process, hear, and
determine all prosecutions, cases, and controversies arising
under the by-laws and ordinances, and issue executions,
saving to parties the right of appeal to the county court
of Craig in all cases where the fine or other matter in
controversy shall exceed ten dollars. Such appeal shal]
be taken in the same time and manner and upon the same
terms that appeals are now taken from judgments of a
single justice. The judge of the county court of Craig
county, either in term time or vacation, shall, not less than
twenty days before any election under this charter, ap-
point a registrar and three judges of election, who may
also act as commissioners of election. The registrar shall
in the manner prescribed by law make and revise lists of
all persons qualified to vote within the corporate limits of
said town.

3. Should any of the officers hereby appointed refuse or
fail to accept and qualify within two months after the
passage of this act, then it shall be the duty of the county
judge of Craig county to fill such vacancy by appoint-
ment, made either in term time or vacation. After
the positions of mayor and councilmen shal] have been
filled, as herein provided for, should any vacancy occur
therein, it shall be the duty of the remaining members of
the town council to fill such vacancy or vacancies. And
the mayor and councilmen herein appointed, and herein-
after to be elected, shall qualify, either in term time or
vacation, before the judge of the county court of Craig
county.

4. That for the purpose of carrying into effect the police
regulations of said town, the said town shall be allowed
the use of Craig county jail for the safe-keeping and con-
finement of all persons who shall be sentenced to impris-
onment under the general laws or ordinances of said town.
And when any judgment shall be rendered against a per-
son for any fine or penalty under any ordinance of said
town, and the same be not immediately paid, the person
or persons so in default may be required by the order of
the court passing sentence to wozk out such fines or pen-
alties on the public streets, or other public improvements,
at fifty cents a day, under the direction of the sergeant,
and under such rules and regulations as may be deemed
proper by the council.

5. The said council shall have power and authority to
improve the streets, walks, and alleys of said town; to
prevent and punish by reasonable fines the firing of guns
or pistols or other explosives, or running or riding horses
at an unusual gait in said town, or any other violation of
the by-laws of said town made, if in pursuance of the
general laws of the state; to license and regulate shows
and other public exhibitions, and tax the same as thev
may deem expedient; to appoint all such officers as may
be necessary for conducting the affairs of said town, not
otherwise provided for in this act, and allow them such
compensation as they may deem reasonable; and the said
council shall elect one of their number treasurer of said
town, and said treasurer shall give bond, with approved
security, in such penalty as the council shall fix, payable
to them and their successors in office, conditioned for the
faithful discharge of his duties and payment over of all
moneys received by him in virtue of his office, and his
duties and compensation shall be prescribed by the coun-
cil; and, finally, to make all such by-laws, rules, and regula-
tions as they may deem necessary and proper for the good
government of the town: provided, they be not contrary
to the laws of this state or of the United States; and the
same to amend, repeal, or enforce by reasonable fines and
penalties, not exceeding for any one offence the sum of
fifty dollars, and sixty days’ imprisonment, to be recov-
ered, with costs, in the name of the mayor of said town.

6. Said council shall have power and authority to assess
and collect an annual tax within said town for the pur-
poses before mentioned on all such property, real and per-
sonal, as is now subject to taxation by the revenue laws
of this commonwealth: provided, that the tax on such
real and personal estate shall not exceed in any one year
fifty cents on every hundred dollars value thereof, and a
tax not exceeding fifty cents in any one year on all male
inhabitants over twenty-one vears of age within said town ;
and, moreover, it shall be competent for said council to
conduct and distribute water into and through said town
upon a request of a majority of the qualified voters of
said town, such request to be made in such manner as the
said council may deem best calculated to obtain the full
expression of opinion on the subject, and to provide for
the lighting of the streets of said town by lamps or other-
wise as they may deem expedient.

7. The said council shall appoint annually a sergeant
or town collector who shall possess the like right of dis-
tress and powers in collecting the said taxes, service and
return of process arising under the authority of this act
and the by-laws made in pursuance of it, and shall be
entitled to like fees and commissions as are allowed by
law to sheriffs for similar duties and services. Said ser-
yveant shall execute bond with approved security in such
penalty as said council shal] deem necessary, payable to
them and their successors in office, conditioned for the
faithful discharge of his duties and payment over of said
taxes, fines, and moneys collected and received by him in
virtue of his office. And he and his sureties, his and
their executors or administrators shall be subject to such
proceedings, by motion or otherwise, before the county
court of Craig county, for enforcing payment of such
taxes, fines, and other moneys by him collected or received
as aforesaid, at the suit or motion of said mayor or other
person entitled as collectors of county levies are by law
subject to for enforcing payment of the levies by them
collected. The said sergeant, the sheriff of Craig county,
or any of his deputies, or any constable of said county
shall execute all processes directed to them by the mayor
of said town.

8. The mayor, or any two of said council, shall have
power tocall a meeting of said council as often as occa-
sion may require.

9. All fines, penalties, and emercements and other
moneys received and raised by virtue of this act and not
otherwise directed to be applied, shall be at the disposal
of the council for the use and benefit of the said town.

10. That the act in force February the third, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three entitled an act to incorporate
the town of Newcastle, in the county of Craig, be, and the
same is hereby, repealed.

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

CHAP. 580.—An ACT for the protection of game in the county
of Loudoun.

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall be unlawful for any person in the county of
Loudoun to hunt, kill, or capture woodcock between the
first of January and the fifteenth day of June in any year,
or partridges and pheasants between January first and
October fifteenth; or robins between May first and Feb-
ruary fifteenth; or rabbits between January first and
October fifteenth in any year, or at any time to take or
destroy the eggs of partridges, pheasants, woodcock, or
robins, or catch such birds with nets or traps.

2. If any person violate any provision of the preceding
section he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be punished in the manner prescribed by the provi-
sions of chapter ninety-five, section twenty hundred and
eighty, relating to unlawful hunting, as far as the same
may apply to this act.

d. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are
hereby repealed.

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