CHAP. 150.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act
approved February 16, 1892, entitled an act to incorporate the town
of Shendun, Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 5,
1896, entitled an act to amend section 2 of an act to incorporate the
town of Shendun, Virginia, approved February 16, 1892, so as to
change the name of the town to Grottoes, and to alter the boundaries
thereof.

Approved March 12, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and two of an act approved February sixteenth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act to incorporate
the town of Shendun, Virginia, as amended by an act approved
February fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled an act
to amend section two of an act to incorporate the town of Shen-
dun, Virginia, approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

§1. That the territory contained within the limits set forth
and described in section second of this act be deemed and taken
as the town of Grottoes, and the inhabitants of the town of Grot-
toes, for all purposes for which towns are incorporated in this
commonwealth, shall be a body politic, in fact and in name, un-
der the style and denomination of the town of Grottoes, and as
such shall have, exercise, and enjoy all the rights, immunities,
powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and obli-
gations incumbent upon and pertaining to said town as a muni-
cipal corporation.

$2. The boundaries of the town of Grottoes shall be as fol-
lows, namely: Beginning at the northeastern corner of the villa
portion of Grottoes the intersection of the northern line of Shen-
Aun Pass street with the west line of Dinwiddie avenue; thence
southwardly direction along the west side of said avenue to the
northern side of C street; thence westwardly along the said side
of C-street to the right of way of the Norfolk and Western rail-
road; thence northerly along said right of way to the line divid-
ing the tract recently owned by Mary E. Crawford, from the tract
formerly owned by the Grottoes of the Shenandoah company;
thence westwardly along said last mentioned line to the middle
of South river; thence down the middle thread of South river to
Twenty-first street extended; thence east with Twenty-first street
to the right of way on the western side of the Norfolk and West-
ern railroad; thence along the western side of said right of way
to a point where the line between the land of A. J. Propes and
D. E. Ham, if extended westwardly, across said right of way,
would intersect said line; thence crossing the railroad to a corner
of A. J. Propes’ and D. E. Ham’s land; thence along the line be-
tween the said Propes and Ham eastwardly to the western side
of the new Port Republic road; thence with the west side of said
read southwardly to the line of Middle Shendun; thence south
fitty-nine degrees and fifty-nine and three-fourth minutes, east
eight hundred and twenty and two-tenths feet; thence north
twenty-three degrees and two and one-fourth minutes west, seven
hundred and seventy-four and nine-tenths feet; thence north fif-
ty-cight degrees and eighteen and one-half minutes west, one
hundred and ninety-one and twenty-five hundredths feet; thence
south twenty-two degrees and thirty and one-half minutes west,
sixteen hundred and sixty and forty-five hundredths feet, to the
southeastern corner of Middle Shendun; thence continuing in
the same direction to Shendun Pass street; thence eastward!
alovg said street to the point of beginning.