CHAPTER 42

An Act to amend and reenact § 1, as amended, of Chapter 486 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1891-92, approved February 29, 1892, which provided
a charter for the town of Glasgow, the section relating to the corporate

limits.
[H 158]
Approved February 18, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 1, as amended, of Chapter 486 of the Acts of Assembly of
1891-92, approved February 29, 1892, be amended and reenacted as follows:

. All of the territory in Rockbridge county contained within the
following limits, namely: Beginning at the confluence of North and James
rivers, thence up the north bank of James river at low-water mark to a
point opposite the extension of the western line of Thirteenth street; thence
with the western line of said street to its intersection with the northern
line of Rockbridge road; thence with the northern line of Rockbridge road
to its intersection with the eastern line of the fifty acres reservation of
Mistress E. G. Johns; thence with said line of Mistress Johns’ fifty acres
tract to its intersection with the northern boundary line of the right of

of the Norfolk and Western railway; thence with said line of said
railway to its intersection with the western line of Blue Ridge road; thence
with said line of Blue Ridge road to its intersection with the northern line
of Shawnee street; thence with the northern line of Shawnee street
extended to its intersection with North river at low-water mark; thence
along the west bank of North river at low-water mark to the beginning
(which boundaries and those parts of North and James rivers and said
streets, places and roads are laid off and described in the plat or map of
the subdivision of the lands of the Rockbridge company into lots, recorded
in the clerk’s office of the county court of Rockbridge county, in deed-book
number fifty-eight, at pages one and two), as enlarged and modified by the
metes and bounds described in a certain order of annexation signed Novem-
ber sixteen, nineteen hundred fifty-nine and of record in the Circuit Court
of the County of Rockbridge, shall constitute the town of Glasgow, and the
forty-fourth and forty-sixth chapters of the Code of Virginia, edition of
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as far as consistent with this act, shall
be applicable to said town; and the council of said town may from time to
time enlarge the boundaries of said town by adding thereto the lots of
such persons as desire to be included in said corporation, and who shall
make application in writing therefor to said council.
An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.