Chap. 198.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of an act
entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Nicholsville, in the county of
Scott”, approved April 2, 1902, so as to change the name of said town
from Nicholsville to Nickelsville, and to change the term of office of the
mayor and councilmen from one year to four years. fH B 542]

Approved March 18, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions one, two, three and four of an act entitled an act to incorporate
the town of Nicholsville, in the county of Scott, approved April second,
nineteen hundred and two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Section 1. The name of the town of Nickolsville, in the county
of Scott, as incorporated by chapter four hundred and sixty-four of
the acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and two, ap-
proved April second, nineteen hundred and two, is hereby changed
to and the said town and the inhabitants thereof shall hereafter be a
town corporate by the name of the town of Nickelsville, and by that!
name may sue and be sued, and have and exercise all the powers con-
ferred on towns of less than five thousand inhabitants by the laws
of Virginia, so far as the same are not inconsistent with the provisions
of this charter.

Section 2. The limits of said town shall be as follows: Begin-
ning in a hollow in the main road leading from Nickelsville to Gate
City, west of road leading to Bushes’ Mills; thence southeast to a
cave on Gren Kilgore’s land; thence to an oak tree near an old gate
north of Aaron Hartsock’s; thence to the main road at east end of
Susan Shoemaker’s cleared land; thence to the road leading to Corbet,
and north boundary of M. S. Darten’s land; thence via and including
W. M. Nickols’ and W. S. Quillins’ dwellings to the beginning.

Section 3. The government of said town shall be vested in a mayor
and five councilmen, one of which councilmen shall be appointed and
designated by a majority of the other councilmen as town clerk. On
the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight and
every four years thereafter, there shall be elected by the qualified voters
of said town, in the manner prescribed by law, a mayor and six
councilmen for terms of four years beginning on the first day of Sep-
tember next succeeding their election.

Section 4. The persons to be elected as mayor and councilmen
under the provisions of this charter shall be qualified voters of Scott
county and shall have been residents of said town for at least thirty
days next preceding their election. The terms of office of the mayor
and councilmen of said town, holding such offices immediately prior
to the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight,
shall expire on the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred thirty-
eight.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.