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An Act to amend an act entitled an act amending the Charter of the Town of Danville. 1861 109 (1861.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0791 and id is 1 raw text is: PRIVATE OR LOCAL ACTS, CAP. 93.-Au ACT to anend fl act entitled an act amending the Charter of the Town of Danville, passed March 4th, 1854, and incorporating into one the subsequent acts amendatory thereof. assed March 7, 1862. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the territory corn- Charter - u , mended preliended and included in the following boundaries, viz : Beginning Corporate limits at a point on Dan river, directly o[posite a spring called Lynn's spring, on the canal ; thence, by said spring, in a direct line, to the northwest corner of the public burying ground; thence, along the western line of said burying ground, to the southwest corner of the same; thence, in a direct line, to the southwest corner of William T. Sutherlin's lot, including the same, and following the line of the said lot until it reaches the southeast corner thereof; thence, in a direct line, to the junction of the road leading by Nathaniel T. Green's with Calhoun street, leading by the house lately owned by R. L. Downes, and now by Thomas Grasty; thence, along the south- west side of said street, to the southwest corner of the said Grasty's lot, in the line of the said Nathaniel T. Green; thence, along the said Grasty's southern line, to the rear of his lot; thence, with the back line of said lot, until it reaches the northeast corner of the same; thence, in a direct line, to the southern bank of Dan river, toga point where once stood a large poplar tree, which marked the northeast corner of the town; thence, up the southern bank of the said river, as it meanders, to the beginning-shall continue to be the town of Danville: and the white inhabitants within said boundaries, and their successors, shall be a corporation, under the name and style of The Town of Danville; and the fifty-fourth and fifty-sixth chapters of the Code of Virginia, so far as they are consistent with this act, shall be applicable to said corporation and to the council of said town. 2. There shall continue to be for the said corporation a court of Municipal an. record, which shall be called the court of hustings for the town ofthorlty Danville ; and the same shall be held by the mayor and aldermen of said town, or any three or more of them, except where it shall be otherwise provided. The monthly terms of said court shall be held Time of holding on the Thursday before the third Monday in each month, and the courts quarterly terms thereof shall be in the months of March, June, Au- gust and November.

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