Chap. 236.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed, granting a charter tc
the town of Lebanon, county of Russell.

Approved February 8, 1898.

Whereas by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, passed Febru-
ary twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled an act
to incorporate the town of Lebanon, in Russell county, said town, ac-
cording to the metes and bounds therein referred to, was incorporated.
and

Whereas the charter of said town, as thus incorporated, was amended
by an act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, by
which the metes and bounds were changed; and

Whercas it is now desirous that sections two, three, four and eight o!
the original act of incorporation, and sections two, three and four of thc
said amendment to the original act of incorporation should be changed
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section:
two, three, four and eight of the said original act of incorporation o
the town of Lebanon, passed February twenty-first, eighteen hundrec
and seventy-three, and that sections two, three and four of said amend
ment, passed March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amendec
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. Section two of the said original charter and section two of th
amendment—the boundaries of said town shall be as follows, namely
Beginning at a point at Little Cedar creek, opposite the line between H
G. Burns and E. §. Finney; thence westward with the meanderings o
said creek to the mouth of a small branch emptying into the said creek
on the north side thereof, and west of the residence of D. K. Banner;
thence northwardly with said branch to the middle of a small bridge
ucross the turnpike road; thence northward a straight line to a low gap
in the graveyard ridge; thence eastward with the top of said ridge en-
closing the graveyard, and thence leaving the graveyard at the northeast
corner, east a straight line to the road, and with the road southward to
the northwest corner of V. B. Gilmer’s lot; thence east with the line of
\'. B. Gilmer to the line of H. H. Dickenson; thence east to the line
between H. H. Dickenson and E. 8. Finney; thence with the said line
southward to the road; thence southward in a straight line to Little
Cedar creek; thence up the said creck to the beginning.

3. Section three of the said original charter and section three of the
amendment: The government of said town shall be vested in a mayor
and a council of four, three of whom shall constitute a quorum to trans-
uct business, and who shall be elected annually by the voters of said cor-
poration, and shall hold their office for one year, and until their succes-
sors are elected and qualified

4. Section four of the original charter and section four of the amend-
ment: The council shall have authority to abate, or cause to be abated,
anything which, in the opinion of the council, shall be a nuisance; to
provide for the annual assessment of the taxable property and persons
of said town; to appoint and publish the place of holding the town
elections; to adopt such rules and regulations as they may deem neces-
sary; to prevent the running at large on the streets and alleys of the said
corporation hogs, dogs, horses and other animals, except milch cows,
and to prevent the cumbering of streets, sidewalks and alleys in any
manner whatever; to provide a revenue for and appropriate the same
for its expenses, and said council shall have power to provide for keep-
ing the streets and sidewalks in good order and paving the same; to keep
the sidewalks free and clean by the owners and occupants thereof, and
to provide for other necessary improvements; for which purpose they
may levy such tax as they may deem necessary, not exceeding nincty
cents on the one hundred dollars, and said council shall have power to
levy a poll tax of fifty cents. Said council shall appoint annually a
sergeant, and shall fix his compensation and provide for the payment of
same, and prescribe his duties and require such bond as they may deem
proper; such bond shall be payable to the said corporation. Said coun-
cil shall have power to remove said sergeant at any time they may deem
proper and appoint his successor.

It shall be the duty. of the sergeant to take up and impound in a pen
kept for that purpose any hog, pig, or swine found running at large
upon the streets oralleys within the limits of said corporation, and when
any such hog, pig, or swine shall be so taken up and impounded by the
said sergeant he shall immediately advertise same, at three public places
for ten days, for sale to the highest bidder for ready cash and apply the
proceeds first to the payment of the cost, and the balance to the owner
vf such hog: provided, that the owner of such hog, pig, or swine may
redeem them at any time before the sale by paying the cost incurred by
penning them; the sergeant shall charge twenty cents for penning each
hog, pig or swine so penned, and shall charge five cents per day for feed-
ing each hog, pig, car ' swine SO penned.
5. Section eight of original charter: the said town and taxable persons
and property therein shall be exempt and free from any road tax and
county poll tax, and from contributing for any county expenses for roads
in said county outside of the corporation for any year in which said
town shall levy and collect its own poll tax and road tax and shall keep
its streets and sidewalks in good order.

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