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


and unanimously carried, the follow
ing resolutions were adopted, name
ly:
Be it ordained by the council of the
Town of North Tazewell, Virginia:
1. That the town of North Tazewell
hereby declares that it is desirable to
annex, i'll pursuance of the act of the
General Assembly of Virginia, APP
proved March 10, 1904, (Acts 1904,
page l44), 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
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
alley in North Tazewell Land Corpo-
ration's 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 a stake.
thence north SO degrees west $50
feet to stake, thence south GO de-
grees so minutes east 100 feet to Il
stake, thence north 6S degrees As min
utcs east 243.2 feet to stake, Il cor
ncr to NJ. l.. Peery land, thence with
the same south S degrees as minutes
east $40 feet to a stake, thence south
Q degrees IL minutes west 64I 3 feet
to Il stake on south side of County
Road, thence with the same north ga
degrees west 633 feet. thence north 60
degrees east, 220 feet to stake
thence south &c degrees Is minutes
east 65 feet TO II 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 ut stake
in south line of the Norfolk d West
ern Railway Company's right of way
being the division line between said
company and j. S. Gillespie, SO feet
west of the Town Branch near tank,
thence with the southwest lines of the
Tazewell Electric Light & Power
Company's lot to the northwest corn
or of j. S. Gillespie's north lot, thence
with west line of j. S. Gillespie's two
lots, south 10 degrees 45 minutes east
1913 feet to a stake by the Town
Branch, thence north Sd degrees east
sc feet TO stake in the west line Of
public road leading to town of Taze-
well, there intersccting with the pres
ent corporate limits of the Town of
North Tazewell.
2. The Town of North farewell
does hereby set forth the necessity
for and the expediency of the pro-
posed anneXation-that is to say:
(a) That the crowded condition
prevailing in the town may be reliev-
ed by adding sufficient territory to the
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,
IRE and will be of great advantage to
said town and also to the proposed |
territory.
(c) That part of the territory |
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 po-
lice protection.
3. The Town of North Tazewell |
hereby sets forth the terms and condi- |
lions upon which it desires to make |
he proposed annexation, and propos-
IS for the future management of the |
territory the following:
(d) That the public school proper
~ 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
ands 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
1exation under this ordinance for n
period of five years after such annex
ltion, except upon the petition of n
majority of the freeholders of such
.erritory presented to the Council of
said town.
(f) That all revenues derived by |
he Town of North Tazewell from
AVIATION in said territory during the
first period of 5 years, either on prop
,rty or from other sources, including |
licenses, shall be wholly expended by
The Town of North Tazewell upon the
streets, sewers, lights, water and 9TH
or 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
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
nshes to other sections of the town
similarly situated, without partiality.
(4) That ]. N. Hartman and ii. G.
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