Chap. 145.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to provide
a new charter for the town of Emporia, approved January 31, 1898.
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Approved March 5, 1908, we

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act
entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the town of Emporia,”
approved January thirty-one, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be
amended .and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. That the town of Emporia, in the county of Greenesville, as the
same heretofore has been, or may hereafter be, laid off in lots, streets
and alleys, shall be a town corporate by the name of Emporia, and by
that name shall have and exercise all the powers conferred upon towns
by, and be subject to the provisions of, chapter forty-four of the Code
of Virginia, and all general laws now in force, or that hereafter may
be enacted, for the government of towns, so far as the same are not incon-
sistent with the provisions of this act.

3. The boundaries of said town shall be as follows: beginning at a
point on the Petersburg railroad one hundred yards north from its in-
tersection with the Atlantic and Danville railroad; thence north, fifty-
four and one-half degrees west, eight hundred yards; thence south,
thirty-five and one-half degrees west, twenty-four hundred yards; thence
south, fifty-four and one-half degrees east, thirteen hundred yards;
thence north, thirty-five and one-half degrees east, twenty-four hun-
dred yards; thence north, fifty-four and one-half degrees west, five hun-
dred yards to the Petersburg railroad to point of beginning.

4. The government of said town shall be vested in a mayor, nine
councilmen, a treasurer, a town clerk, a sergeant, a deputy sergeant, and
such other officers as may be provided for by law, or by the council of said
town. All officers or employees of said town, except the mayor, said
councilmen and town treasurer shall be appointed by the town council,
and for a term not exceeding two years. The treasurer shall not be a
member of the town council. That all sums collected by the treasurer
shall be deposited equally in the solvent banks of Emporia.

5. Each and every section of chapter one hundred and seventy-three,
acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and ninety-eight, approved
January thirty-one, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which is not
embodied in this act, and each and every amendment heretofore made
to anv of said sections, is hereby repealed.