Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-07-28
liams, Councilmen, and L. L. Dicken-

Town of North Tazewell, Virginia:
| l. That the town of North Tazewell
hereby declares that it is desirable to
annex, in pursuance of the act of the
General Assembly of Virginia, APP
proved March 10, 1904, (Acts 1904,
page Had, 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.
Peery land, and in west line of the lot
formerly known as the Mont Steele
lot (stake about 260 feet North of the
Thompson LOTT, this being on the pres
ent line of the corporation, thence to
and with the north line of the first
alley in North Tazewcll Land Ccrpo.
ration's Riverside Addition to said
! town, which alley lies north of and
parallel to North Street of said Ad-
, dition, thence with said alley south
78 degrees west 595 feet to Il stake
thence north 80 degrees west $50
feet to Il stake, thence south 60 de-
grees so minutes east 100 feet TO
stake, thence north GO degrees AS nil
uteS east 243.2 feet to stake, Il COL.
ner to nj. l.. Peery land, thence will
the same south degrees As minutes
east $40 feet to stake, thence south
degrees IL minutes west Ga; 3 fee,
to Il stake on south side of County
Road, thence with the same north "a
degrees west 633 feet. thence north 60
degrees cast, 220 feet to stake
thence south 26 degrees Is minutes
east 65 feet to 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 stake
in south line of the Norfolk & West
ern Railway Company's right of way
being the division line between SAID
company and ]. S. Gillespie, 90 fee
west of the Town Branch near a tank
thence with the southwest lines of the
Tazewell Electric Light & Power
Company's lot to the northwest corn
err of j. S. Gillespie's north lot, thence
with west line of j. S. Gillespie's tive
lots, south 10 degrees as minutes cas-.
1913 feet to stake by the Town
Branch, thence north 81 degrees east
sc feet to stake in the west line of
public road leading to town of Taze-
well, there intersecting with the pres
GIN COl JOldle VI lIc IOWIl Ol
North Tazewell.
2. The Town of North Tazewel
does hereby set forth the necessit,
for and the expediency of the pro
posed anneNation-that is to say:
(a) That the crowded condition
prevailing in the town may be reliev.
ed by adding sufficient territory to tn
corporate limits of said town, adapted
to town improvements, SO as to af
ford cheap and desirable locations fo
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 tt
said town and also to the proposed
annexed territory.
(c) That part Of the territory
proposed to be annexed is already oc
cupied by several residences and 9th
er residences are in course of con
struction, and said territory is without
an adequate supply of water and pc
lice protection.
3. The Town of North Tazewell
hereby sets forth the terms and condi-
lions upon which it desires to make
the proposed annexation, and propos
es for the future management of the
annexed 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 IL
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
in said territory during the
first period of 5 years, either on prop
erty or from other sources, including
the Town of North TaZewell upon the
streets, sewers, lights, water and 9th
Ell public improvements in said terri
tory; except as is otherwise provided
by law.
(g) That all county levics 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-
well 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 ]. N. Hartman and H. C.
Pobst be authorized and requested
to forthwith institute in the Circuit
Court of Tazewell County the ne
cessary legal proceedings in order to
annex to the town of North Tazewell
by proper decree of said court the
territory hereinbefore described, up
on the terms and conditions hereinbe-
fore set forth.
The following councilmen voted in
favor of the foregoing resolutions,
namely: Wade II. Peery, w. w.
Poary C. p RpavarS w l., Baker