Chap. 247.—An ACT to incorporate and provide a charter for the town of
Dry Fork, in the county of Pittsylvania.

Approved March 15, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all the
territory in the county of: Pittsylvania contained within the following
limits—namely : Beginning on Dry Fork road, near a school-house, about
five hundred yards west of Dry Fork depot; thence a line between the
lands of Rada Pigg and C. F. Owen, on one side, and S. A. Hutchins on
the other, to the Southern railway ; thence along said railroad north to a
branch that runs from J. C. Taylor’s field; thence up said branch to said
Taylor’s line; thence a line between the lands of Rada Pigg and J. C.
Taylor to Telegraph road; thence a line between the lands of J. C. 'Tay-
lor, Thomas Oaks, Bryant Brothers, and J. L. Carter, on one side, and
Rada Pigg and J. S. Evans on the other to Banister river; thence up
said river to Sallie Emmerson’s line; thence a line between the lands of
Sallie Emmerson, J. A. May, and S. A. Hutchins on one side and Rada
Pigg on the other to Dry Fork road: thence along the same east to the
beginning, be, and the same is hereby, made a town corporate by the
name of Dry Fork, and by that name shal] have and exercise all powers
conferred on towns of less than five thousand inhabitants by the laws of
Virginia, now in force, or which mav hereafter be enacted in reference to
towns of less than five thousand inhabitants.

2. The government of said town shall be vested in the mayor, six
councilmen, and a sergeant, and such other officers as may be provided
for by law, and by the council of said town. James S. Evans is hereby
appointed mayor thereof; Messrs. Charles 'T. Owen, Richard Goad.
James R. Seruggs, C. E. Ricketts, J. W. Bryant, and William Bloom-
field are hereby appointed councilmen thereof, and John P. Grant, ser-
geant.

The members of the council shall serve without pay, and the mayor
shall receive such compensation as the council shall prescribe. The said
mayor and councilmen and other officers appointed and hereafter ap-
pointed shall have and exercise all the powers herein and hereafter granted
to said officers by the general assembly of Virginia, and shall continue in
office until their successors are clected at an election to be held on the
second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and six.

3. An emergency existing therefor. in order that an election may be
held at the election in June, nineteen hundred and six, this act shall take
effect from its passage.