Chap. 107.—An ACT to incorporate the town of Jonesville, in the county of
Lee.

Approved February 13, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the town
of Jonesville, in the county of Lee, as the same has been heretofore laid
off into lots, streets and alleys, and the additional land and lots included
in the following boundary—to-wit: Commencing in the Harlan road
at a point directly west of the northwestern corner of Henry Martin’s
barn; thence due west to the division line between the lands of W. E.
Wynn and J. W. Orr; thence with said Wynn’s west line scuthwardly to
the town branch; thence up said branch to the northwest corner of W. B.
Andis’ lot; thence with said Andis’ west line to his southwest CORNET 5
thence castwardly to a point one hundred yards southeast of C. 'T. Dun-
can’s residence; thence due north to the Fincastle read; thence north-
westwardly to the southeastern comer of J. N. Cridlin’s land: thence
northw ardly to the southeastern corner of the lands of Lavina Graham ;
thence a straight line to the Crockett spring; thence a straight line to
the beginning, is made a town corporate by the name of Jonesville, and
by that name may sue and be sued, and shall have and exercise the powers
conferred upon towns by, and be subject to, the provisions of, the laws
of Virginia, so far as they are consistent with this act, and shall be
subject to, and governed by, all the laws now in force or which may here-
after be enacted for the government of towns containing less than five
thousand inhabitants.

The government of said town shall be vested in a mayor and seven
councilmen, and the first election under this charter for mayor and
councilmen shall be held on the first Saturday in May, nineteen hundred
and one, and thereafter annually on the first Saturday in May, and shall
qualify and enter upon the duties of their respective oflices on the first
day of July following their election. Any person entitled to vote in the
county of Lee, and who has resided within the corporate limits of said
town for thirty days previous to any election, shall be entitled to vote
in said election under this act of incorporation. The mayor shall appoint
two electors of said town, who, with the town clerk, shall hold said elec-
tion between the hours of one, post meridian and sunset, and shall decide
any and all contests with reference to the right of any person to vote, and
shall count the ballots and certify to the council the names of the per-
sons elected mayor and councilmen. In case of a tie vote the clerk shall
decide, in the presence of the two electors, by lot, who shall be entitled
to the certificate of election, and shall immediately after said election
make out and deliver to the mayor and each councilman a certifieate of
his election. All officers of said town shall take the oath of office before
the town clerk, or some other officer authorized to administer oaths, and
should any of the officers hereby appointed, or who may hereafter be
appointed or elected, refuse or fail to accept and qualify within thirty
days after such appointment or election, then it shall be the duty of the
mayor, or a majority of such town council as may accept and qualify,
in the absence of the mayor, to fill such vacancy or vacancies by appoint-
ment. The council shall designate the time of its meetings.

3. The mayor and the councilmen shall constitute the council of said
torn. a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum to do
business, and all the corporate powers of said town shall be exercised by
said council or under its authority, except when otherwise provided by
law. The mayor shall be president of the council. and shall have all the
tights, powers and privileges such office confers under the general laws
governing towns within this state, and shall be invested with all the
powers of a justice of the peace within the limits of said town, and one
mile bevond said limits; and all fines, penalties or imprisonments for
violations of the by-laws or ordinances of said town shall be recovered
before or enforced under the judgment of the mayor, and for that pur-
pose he may issue process as a justice of the peace, and shall be entitled
to the same fees as a justice of the peace for like service; but the mayor
shall have no vote in the council, except in case of a tie. Any vacancy
which may occur in the office of mayor or councilman shall be tilled by
the council, and in case of sickness, absence, refusal or inability of the
niaiyvor at any time to act, the council shall designate some one of then
number to act in place of said mayor, and who shall have the powers
conferred upon said mayor by this charter. The mayor and the council-
men shall hold their respective oflices for one year from the first day of
July succeeding their election, and until their successors are elected and
quite vd.

The council shall have the power to elect a treasurer, a clerk, a
sergeant and any other oflicers they may deem necessary for said town :
to regulate their compensation, prescribe their duties, remove them from
office, and require bonds with approved security for the faithful perform-
ance of their respective duties. The council shall also have the power
to pass al! by-laws and ordinances for the government of said town which
they may deem proper, and which is not in conflict with the
constitution and Jaws of this state and the constitution and
laws of the United States: to lay off streets, walks and alleys; to
alter or change the same, to keep the same in order, and for which pur-
poses shall have the same powers and jurisdiction for condemning land
for streets, allevs and sidewalks that the county court has for condemning
lands for roads in said county; to prevent riding or driving horses or
other animals at an improper or dangerous speed along the streets, or to
prevent riding or driving horses or other animals across or along said
sidewalks; to prevent the engaging in any sport or employment in said
town dangerous or annoying to the citizens thereof; to restrain and
punish drunkenness, vagrancy and begging in said town; to prevent
vice and immorality; to preserve peace e and good order; to quell disturb-
ances and disorderly conduct and assemblages; to suppress houses of ill-
fame and gambling: to prevent lewdness or ‘unbecoming and immoral
conduct in said town: to prevent swearing, cursing or other unbecoming
and immoral Janguage in said town; to make regulations in reference to
contagious diseases: to abate nuisances, and to punish all violations of
the ordinances and by-laws of the incorporation with fine and imprison-
ment, or either.

5. For the purposes of taxation the council shall provide for the
annual assessment of all real and personal property within the corporate
limits of said town so that said assessment be not higher than that made
for. state purposes, and such assessment shall be the basis of taxation.

. The council may levy and provide for the collection of such taxes
as * may deem proper on all the property, real and personal, within
the limits of said town, so as not to exceed fifty cents on the one hundred
dollars assessed value; to impose a specific license on all shows, perform-
ances and exhibitions that may be given in or within one mile of the
corporate limits of said town: to impose a license on all business on
which the state imposes a license; to impose a license on the sale of
merchandise or other manufactured articles that may be offered for sale
by any person not permanently located and doing a regular business in
said town; and the officers of said town shall have the same power to
collect fines and taxes within the corporate limits of said town, and one
mile beyond, that county oflicers now have under the general laws of the
state.

7. In the taxation of real estate provided for by this charter, all lots,
tracts or pareels of land which lie partly within and partly without the
incorporate limits, that part of the same lying within the incorporate
limits shall be properly taxable by said incorporation.

8. All taxes assessed upon property, real and personal, within the
corporate limits of said town, under this charter, are hereby declared a
lien upon said property.

9. The council may prevent hogs, dogs, horses, cattle or other animals
from running at large within the corporate limits of said town, and may
subject the same to such regulations and restrictions as it may deem
proper.

10. Tn all offenses, which by the general laws of the state are made
misdemeanors, the mayor shall have power in like offenses to impose
like penalties, when the offense is committed in his jurisdiction, and in
all other cases, which is in violation of an ordinance or by-law of said
town, the mayor shall impose the penalty prescribed by said ordinance
or by-law, so that the same be not Jess than one nor more than twenty
dollars, or thirty days’ imprisonment, or both, as to him may seem proper,
and he may commit the offender to the jail of Lee county until his judg-
ment be satisfied, so that said commitment does not exceed sixty days.

- 11. For the purpose of carrying into effect the police regulations of
suid town, the town shall be allowed the use of the county jail for the
safe-keeping and confinement of all persons who shall be sentenced to
imprisonment under the ordinances and by-laws of said town: and all
persons so confined shall be under the custody and charge of the jailer
of the county, who shall receive, keep and discharge the same in the
manner prescribed by the ordinances and by-laws of said town, or other-
wise discharged by due course of law: provided, that said council may.
if it deem expedient, require all persons sentenced to jail, or committed
thereto in default of the payment of fines assessed against them, to work
om the streets of said town, under such regulations and restrictions as
said council may prescribe.

12. Said town and the persons and property therein shall be exempt
and free from the payment of any and all county and district road tax,
and for which exemption the said town shall keep its own streets in
order and shall not be embraced in any road district of said county of
Tee. And this provision shall apply to the assessment of taxes for the
year nineteen hundred and one.

13. The mayor and councilinen of said town shall serve without com-
pensation, further than that the mavor shall be entitled to, and may
receive such fees as are now allowed by law, when he acts in the capacity
of, or exercises the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace: provided, that
from and after two years from the passage of this act, the town council
may fix the compensation or salary which the mayor and councilmen
are to receive during their term of office.

14. The following-named persons are hereby appointed to fill the fol-
lowing offices until their successors are duly elected and qualified—
nanely: mayor, R. L. Pennington; councilmen, H. C. Joslyn, C. 1.
Couk, C. A. Russell, W. E. Orr, J. O. Gibsen, L. T. Hyatt, and A. M.
Goins. Said persons are to take the oath of office and to enter upon the
discharge of their duties as soon after the passage of this act as practi-
cable, which oaths may be taken before a justice of the peace or other
person authorized by law to administer oaths.

15. All other acts and parts of acts in reference to the incorporation
of the town of Jonesville are hereby repealed.

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