Chap. 329.—An ACT to provide a charter for and incorporate the town of
Portlock; to authorize the taking of a census and the effect thereof. [S 314]

Approved March 18, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. The territory hereinafter set forth and described in
section two of this act is a thickly settled community within this State,
lying wholly within the county of Norfolk, and it is now and since time
immemorial has been known as Portlock, and the number of inhabitants
thereof exceeds two hundred and does not exceed five thousand, and it
will be to the interest of the inhabitants of the territory that it be in-
corporated as a town, and the area of land designed to be embraced
within the town is not excessive.

Section 2. The description of the territory according to the metes
and bounds thereof is as follows:

Beginning at a point where the western line of the right of way of
Norfolk and Western Railway Company intersects the southeastern
line of the right of way of the Virginian Railway Company and from
the point of beginning running thence in a southwesterly and westerly
direction along the southeast and southern line of the right of way of
the Virginian Railway Company to its intersection with the Port
Warden’s line of the southern branch of the Elizabeth River. Thence
in a southwesterly and southerly direction up the Port Warden’s line of
the southern branch of the Elizabeth River to its intersection with the
northern line of the right of way of U. S. Route thirteen—thence easterly
and northeasterly along the northern right of way line of U. S. Route
thirteen and the northern right of way line of the outer loop of the north-
west quadrant of the interchange to a point on U. S. Route four hundred
sixty north of the limits of the interchange, thence in an easterly direction
to the northern right of way of the Norfolk and Western Railway Com-
pany and in a northeasterly and northerly direction along the northern
and western line of the right of way of the Norfolk and Western Railway
Company to the point of beginning aforesaid.

Section 3. The territory and the inhabitants thereof are hereby
incorporated as a town to be known as Portlock. The town and its
officers shall have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all
the restrictions provided by the general laws of this Commonwealth
for the existence of a body corporate and politic, and for the government
of towns and the powers of officers of towns.
Section 4. The first election of town officers shall be held on the
second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred forty-eight, at a place in
the town designated by the electoral board of the county of Norfolk.
The electoral board of the county of Norfolk shall, not less than fifteen
days before the election, designate one registrar and three judges of
election who shall also act as Commissioners of election and such officers
of election shall conform to the requirements of section twenty-nine hun-
dred ninety-five of the Code of Virginia, and the conduct of such election
shall conform in all respects to the requirements of the general law
regarding the holding of elections in towns, so far as applicable. The
election shall be held and the vote counted, canvassed and certified, but
officers elected at the election shall only hold office until the next regular
election of town officers to be held as provided for by general law.

Section 5. Until the regular election held on the second Tuesday in
June, nineteen hundred forty-eight, the following shall constitute the
council of such town: Simeon S. Leary, Mayor; A. L. Cofield, H. S.
Boyette, M. K. Hassell, C. L. Richardson, and W. P. Nothnagel, council-
men. The town council shall appoint a recorder and a town sergeant.

Section 6. The council as soon as may be shall proceed to have a
census taken of the town at the expense thereof.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.