Chap. 384.—An ACT to incorporate the town of North Tazewell, in the county
of Tazewell.

Approved February 24, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
town of North Tazewell, in the county of Tazewell, shall be, and the
same is hereby, declared to be a town corporate under the name and
style of the town of North Tazewell, and by that name shall have and
exercise the powers hereinafter granted.

2. The government of said town shall be vested in a mayor, five
councilmen, a sergeant, a recorder and a treasurer, who shall be
chosen annually by ballot, on the first Saturday in April in each
year. Any person entitled to vote in the county of Tazewell, and
residing within the corporate limits of said town, shall be entitled
to vote at all elections under said act of incorporation.

3. The mayor shall, by virtue of his office, possess all the power,
authority and jurisdiction of a justice of the peace of Tazewell
county. He shall see that all the ordinances of the town are faith-
fully enforced. |

4. The council shall, at its first meeting after election, elect one o
its members to act as president of the council, who shall, in the
absence of the mayor, preside at all meetings of the council, and
have and exercise all the power, authority and duties of the mayor,
and three of said council shall constitute a quorum.

5. They shall have power to mark accurately the bounds of existing
streets, to widen them if necessary; to lay off new streets, alleys and
sidewalks; to regulate and prescribe the location and building of all
houses, and order the removal of any building condemned as danger-
ous in any way by the council.

6. To require and compel the abatement of all nuisances in said
town at the expense of persons causing the same, or the owner or
owners of the ground whereon the same shall be; to prevent hog-
pens, privies, stables, the useof fireworks or the exercise of any
dangerous, offensive or unhealthy business or trade in said town;
to remove for cause any officer.
7. To prevent the riding or driving of horses or other animals at an
Improper or dangerous speed; the throwing stones or engaging in
any sport or employment on the streets and alleys dangerous or
annoying to the citizens.

8. To restrain and punish drunkards, vagrants, street-beggars and
persons coming into the town without any visible means of support;
to prevent vice and immorality; to preserve the peace and good
order of the town; to prevent and quell riots, disturbances and dis-
orderly conduct and assemblages; to suppress houses of ill-fame
and gambling; to prevent and punish lewd conduct on the streets,
and to expel from the town persons guilty of any offence mentioned
above.

9. They may require such persons to give bond with approved se-
curity for their good behavior in a penalty not to exceed one thou-
sand dollars, and, upon failure to give such bond, be imprisoned in
the county jail not to exceed twelve months.

10. To fill any vacancy that may occur in any of the offices named
from any cause whatever; to issue bonds for the purpose of im-
provements, in such forms, running for such length of time, in such
sums, payable at such periods and places and bearing such rate of
interest, not to exceed six per centum per annum, as said council
may determine.

11. They are also authorized and required to levy and collect a
tax sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to create a sink-
ing fund to pay the principal of the same when they shall become
due, and shall, in their discretion, exempt said bonds from taxation
by said town.

12. Whenever judgment shall be rendered against any person for
fines and costs, in default of payment may be compelled to work out
such fines and costs on the public streets or other improvements.

13. All fines for the violation of the ordinances of said town shall
be paid into the treasury of said town, and shall be appropriated as
the council may determine.

14, The sergeant of said town shall have authority and power to
collect all taxes, levies, costs and fines legally imposed by the mayor
or council, and may levy on and take into his possession and sell for
cash, after ten days’ written notice, posted at such places as the
council may determine, stating the time, terms and place of sale,
any property subject to the payment of such taxes, levies, fines and
costs.

15. He shall have power to execute, within the county of Tazewell,
in @ civil or criminal proceeding any warrant or process legally
directed to him by the mayor or council of the said town. The coun-
cil shall prescribe by ordinance his compensation for such services.

16. The recorder shall keep an accurate record of all the proceed-
ings of the council, its by-laws, acts and ordinances; he shall make
out the tax bills upon estimates of property as per state assessment
when ordered by the council, and deliver the same to the sergeant for
collection. The council shall prescribe by ordinance his compen-
sation for his services.
17. The treasurer of said town shall pay out the money in his
hands on the warrant of the mayor and recorder, certifying that it is
done by order of the council. He shall, before entering 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 recorder. .

18. The persons and property within the corporate limits of said
town shall be exempt from the payment of county levies for road
purposes, maintaining the poor and supporting the free schools so
long as the said town shall keep up its own streets, maintain its own
poor and levy a special tax for the support of the free schools.

19. For the purpose of carrying out the police regulations of said
town, the officers shall have jurisdiction for one mile in any direc-
tion from the limits of said town, and shall be allowed the use of
the county jail for the safe-keeping of all persons who shall be sen-
tenced to imprisonment under the ordinances of said town; and all
persons so confined shall be under the charge of the sheriff of Taze-
well county, who shall receive, keep and discharge the same in such
manner as shall be prescribed by the ordinances of said town or
otherwise discharged by due process of law.

20. The following 1s declared to be the boundary of the town of North
Tazewell: Beginning at the northwest corner of the Tazewell Court-
house improvement company’s land, and with the said company’s line
to the line of A. J. Tynes; thence, with the line between A. J. Tynes
and C. A. Fudge, to the centre of Clinch river; thence, with the me-
anderings of the same, to opposite the corner of W. L. Britt’s land;
thence north thirty-one degrees east two poles to said Britt’s cor-
ner; thence, with the right of way of the Norfolk and Western rail-
road, to opposite C. H. Peery’s corner; thence, crossing said railroad
and with the line between C. H. Peery and W. L. Britt’s, to an oak
tree on the northwest corner of W. L. Britt’s land; thence north
twenty-eight and one-half degrees west seventy-eight poles to the
line between C. H. Peery and C. A. Fudge; thence with same south
fifty-six degrees west ninety poles to the corner of A. 8. Iveson’s lot ;
thence south seventy-four and one-half degrees west one hundred
and seventy-two poles to the top of the hill northward from H. G.
Peery’s house; thence south fifty-nine and one-half degrees west
fifty-eight poles to where C. A. Fudge and Mount Steele corner on
the land of W. W. Peery; thence south thirty-two degrees east thirty
poles to the corner of Stuart Thompson’s lot; thence south seventy-
three and three quarter degrees west sixteen poles; thence south
thirty-two degrees east twenty-nine poles to the middle of Clinch
river; thence down same south forty-eight and one-half degrees
west twenty-seven poles to the line, between W. W. Peery and A. P.
and J. S. Gillespie, and with same south thirty-four degrees east,
crossing the Norfolk and Western railroad to south line of the right
of way between said railroad and A. P. and J. 8. Gillespie; thence
eastwardly, with said line between said railroad and A. P. and J. 8S.
Gillespie, to the town branch near the tank; thence, with the line of
A. P. and J. S. Gillespie, to a point opposite J. H. Whitley and Son’s
store, on the west side of the street-car line; thence southward with
the line of A. P. and J. S. Gillespie to a stake opposite the begin-
ning, and on the west side of the street-car line; thence, crossing
said street-car line and county road, to the beginning.

21. The foregoing boundary as described, and north to the top of
Whitley’s ridge, also extending west to the mouth of Cavatt’s creek,
shall constitute a separate gchool district.

22. N. W. Kiser, C. H. Peery, C. A. Fudge, J. H. Whitley and G. P.
Hall are hereby declared councilmen; A. G. Kiser, recorder; R. F.
Steele, sergeant; H. G. Peery, junior, treasurer, and T. K. Hall, mayor
of said town, and may qualify before any magistrate or notary pub-
lic in the county; and thereupon they shal! constitute, until the first
day of April, eighteen hundred and. ninety-five, the officers of the
said town of North Tazewell, or until their successors shall be elected
and qualified.

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