Chap. 750.—An ACT to amend certain sections of certain acts in regard to the
. town of Clifton Forge, Virginia.

Approved March 7, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
two and three of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sec-
tions two, three, four and six of an act entitled an act to incorporate
the town of Clifton Forge, in the county of Alleghany, approved
May twentieth, eighten hundred and eighty-seven, as amended and
re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections
two and three of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sec-
tions two, three, four and six of an act entitled an act to incorporate
the town of Clifton Forge, in the county of Alleghany, approved
May twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and to amend
and re-enact sections three, five, six and eleven of the original act,
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Clifton Forge, in the
county of Alleghany, approved December first, eighteen hundred
and eighty-four, and to add additional section, approved March
fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and section eleven of the
act approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as
amended by the act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, and section of said last-named act, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. That the boundaries of said town shall be as follows: Begin-
ning at F. B. Westerman’s slaughter-house; thence with the county
road to a point opposite the east end of the Chesapeake and Ohio
caboose track; thence by a direct line crossing Jackson river to the
county road, and with the north side of the said county road to the
southwestern corner of A. Jack Acord’s lot; thence by a direct line
recrossing Jackson river to the southwestern corner of the old
Haynes house; thence by a direct line to the south line of Ridgeway
street opposite the east line of Trevillian street; thence by a direct
line to the northwest corner of section one of the Clifton Forge com-
pany’s lands; thence with the northern boundary of said company’s
land to the corner near block forty-six, section two; thence by a di-
rect line to Hazel run; thence down Hazel run to the place of be-
ginning.

§ 3. ‘Che municipal officers shall consist of a mayor, a treasurer, a
commissioner of revenue, a sergeant, a clerk of the council, and a
council of six, who shall be residents and qualified voters of said
town. They shall be elected every two years by the qualified voters
who reside in the corporate limits of said town, except the sergeant,
who shall be elected by the town council at its first regular meeting
in July following the election of the council, said sergeant to be
elected to serve for a like period of two years. The town council
shall be composed of the mayor and six councilmen thereof, and five
of them shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Said mayor, council, treasurer and commissioner of revenue shall be
chosen by ballot on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred
and ninety-five, and every second year thereafter, and shall enter
upon their duties on the first day of July succeeding their election,
and they shall hold their offices for two years, and until their suc-
cessors are elected and qualified. (From this point section three
shall remain as it now 1s.)

§ 11. The sergeant of said town shall execute such bond and give
such security as the council shall prescribe. The said sergeant shall
be vested with all of the powers of a constable within the limits of
said town. (From this point this section is to remain as it now
stands down to division two.)

Second. The town treasurer shall qualify before the town council,
and shall give bond, to be approved by the council, in such sum as
that body may prescribe. He shall collect and be the custodian of
all money belonging to said town. The said town treasurer shall
keep his books and accounts in such manner as the council may
prescribe. (From this point to the end this section remains un-
changed.)

. 2..:This act shal] be in force from its passage.