Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-08-04

] son, Recorder.
On motion duly made and seconded
and unanimously carried, the follow
ing resolutions were adopted, name
ly:
Be it ordained by the council of the
Town of North Tazewell, Virginia.:
l. That the town of North Tazewel
hereby declares that it is desirable tc
annex, in pursuance of the act of the
General Assembly of Virginia, APP
proved March 10, 1904, (Acts 1904
page 144), certain territory of the
county of Tazewell, adjacent to the
present corporate limits of the said
town, being composed of two parcels
of land, on the west and south OF
said town, described as follows:
First parcel: Beginning at stake
on the east line of the old w. w
formerly known as the Mont Steele
lot (stake about 260 feet North of the
Thompson lot), this being on the pres
and with the north line of the first
alley in North Tazewell Land Corpo-
rations Riverside Addition to said
| town, which alley lies north of and
parallel to North Street Of said Adj
dition, thence with said alley south
rs degrees west sos feet to stake
thence north 80 degrees west $50
! feet to stake, thence south 90 de-
grees 80 minutes cast 100 feet to q
stake, thence north 68 degrees 40 min
utes east 243.2 feet to stake, col =
ner to M. l.. Peery land, thence with
the same south degrees 45 minutes
east $40 feet to n stake, thence south
. degrees IL minutes west 6ii 3 feet
to Il stake on south side of County
Road, thence with the same north Sd
degrees west 633 feet. thence north 60
degrees east, 220 feet to stake
thence south &c degrees Is minutes
east 65 feet to a stake in the middle
of Clinch river on the line between
w. w. Peery and j. S. Gillespie, the
present corner of said town.
Second parcel: Beginning at a stake
in south line of the Norfolk & West
ern Railway Company's right Of way
being the division line between said
company and j. S. Gillespie, 90 feet
west of the Town Branch near Il tank,
thence with the southwest lines Of the
Tazewell Electric Light & Power
Company's lot to the northwest corn
er of j. S. Gillespie's north lot, thence
with west line of j. S. Gillespie's two
lots, south 10 degrees As minutes east
1913 feet to n stake by the Town
Branch, thence north Sd degrees east
SO feet to stake in the west line of
public road leading to town of TaZe-
well, there intcrsecting with the pres
ent corporate limits of the Town of
North Tazewell.
2. The Town of North Tazewell
does hereby set forth the necessity
for and the expediency of the pro-
posed annexation-thati is to say:
(a) That the crowded condition
prevailing in the town may be reliev-
ed by adding sufficient territory to the
corporate limits of said town, adapted
to town improvements, so as to af-
ford cheap and desirable locations for
the erection of necessary residences.
(b) That the present and prospec-
tive system of public improvements
of the town, such as the extension of
the water system of said town, and
the present improvements of the town,
are and will be of great advantage to
said town and also to the proposed
territory.
(c) That part of the territory
proposed to be annexed is already oc-
cupied by several residences and 9TH
Ell residences are in course of con-
struction, and said territory is without
an adequate supply of water and po-
lice protection.
3. The Town of North Tazewell |
hereby sets forth the terms and condi- |
tions upon which it desires to make |
the proposed annexation, and propos- |
es for the future management of the |
territory the following:
(d) That the public school proper
ty situate within said territory shall
remain the property of the School |
Board of Jeffersonville Magisterial |
District of said county.
(e) That the tax rate upon the |
lands within the annexed territory |
shall not be increased beyond the rate
assessed by the County of Tazewell
for its purposes at the time of the an
nexation under this ordinance for a
period of five years after such annex
alton, except upon the petition of a
majority of the freeholders of such
territory presented to the Council of
said town.
(f) That all revenues derived by
the Town of North Tazewell from
taxation in said territory during the
first period of 5 years, either on prop
erty or from other sources, lncludlnS
licenses, shall be wholly expended by
the Town Of North Tazewell upon the
streets, sewers, lights, water and 9TH
err public improvements in said terri
tory; except as is otherwise provided
by law.
(g) That all county levies imposed
on persons and property within such
territory for the current fiscal year
in which said annexation is made shall |
be paid to the county of Tazewell.
(h) That the town of North Taze-
we'll will. as soon as annexation is
accomplished, afford police protection
to the citizens residing in the annexed
territory, and will, within reason
able time, furnish water and such
other public improvements as it fur
nishes to other sections of the town
similarly situated, without Partially.
(4) That j. N. Hartman and II. c.
Pobst be authorized and requested
to forthwith institute in the Circuit
Court of Tazewell County the ne
ccssary legal proceedings in order to
annex to the town of North Tazewell
by proper decree of said court the
territorv hereinbafore described, up