CHAP. 340.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 522, acts of assem-
bly of Virginia, 1899-1900, approved February 26, 1900, entitled an
act to establish Wise school district in Wise county, etc., so aa to en-
large said district. (=. B B02)

Approved March 20, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
chapter five hundred and twenty-two, acts of assembly of Vir-
ginia, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred,
approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, entitled an
act to establish Wise school district in Wise county, et cetera, be
amended and re-enacted so as to enlarge said district. It is
therefore enacted, that the following territory shall constitute
said Wise school district in Wise county, namely:

Beginning on the main road leading from Wise courthouse
to Norton, at Parson’s shop, and thence with the road leading
to Ramsey, to Bear creek; thence up Bear creek to the bridge
across same on the road leading from Wise courthouse to Coe-
burn; thence with the line of S. F. Porter’s land to the division
line between said Porter and George W. Fraley; thence with
said division line a northwest direction to the Hurricane road,
and with the said Hurricane road to a corner of the land sold
by T. G. Wells to George W. Fraley; thence northwest with said
line to the end of the same, and continuing on the same course
to the corner of the land sold by said Wells to W. L. Dale; thence
with said line to the top of the ridge of said Wells’ and Dales’
corner ; thence in a northwest direction to the forks of the Birch-
field and Turkey branch road; thence northwest direction to the
top of the ridge between Glady creek and the waters of Guest
river; thence a straight line to a point in Pinnacle branch below
and so as to include the Crockett Jones house; thence a south-
west direction a straight line to the Dean and Creech land on
the north side of a ridge; thence with the Dean and Carter lines
to the top of a ridge; thence along the top of the ridge to a knob
northwest of the house formerly occupied by R. J. B. Hubbard,
now owned by the Stonegap colliery company; thence a straight
line to the head of the Parson’s branch, and down the same to
a point opposite the Parson’s shop; thence a straight line to the
beginning.

2. An emergency existing therefor, this act shall be in force
from its passage.
1916.) — ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. 561