For the county of Mineral, on the twentieth day of March, August Mineral. and October;

For the county of Hardy, on the first day of April, September and Hardy.

November;

For the county of Pendleton, on the tenth day of April, September Pendleton. and November; and

For the county of Grant, on the twenty-fifth day of April, the Grant. twentieth day of September and the twentieth day of November.

CHAPTER 30.-An ACT to legalize the qualification and acts of Zane Underwood as Supervisor of McElroy township in Tyler county.

Passed February 22, 1869,

WHEREAS, It is represented to the legislature, that Zane Underwood Preamble. was duly elected at the general election in October last to the office of supervisor of McElroy township, in Tyler county, and qualified by taking all the oaths required by law, through mistake, such qualification was after the time prescribed by law; therefore,

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

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The qualification of Zane Underwood, as supervisor of McElroy Qualification and township, in Tyler county, as set forth in the foregoing preamble, be galized. and the same is hereby legalized, together with all the acts performed by him as such supervisor since his said qualification.

CHAPTER 31.-An ACT extending the time for Uz H. Knight, county surveyor elect of Marion county, to qualify and execute his official bond.

Passed February 22, 1869.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia :

The time for U. H. Knight, county surveyor elect, of Marion Time extended to April 1, 1869. county, West Virginia, to qualify and file his official bond, is hereby extended to and including April first, eighteen hundred and sixtynine.

CHAPTER 32.-An ACT authorizing the Trustees of the M.
E. Church South, in Shepherdstown, Jefferson county,
West Virginia, to sell and convey their church property.

Passed February 22, 1869.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ance authorized.

The trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in Shep- Sale and conveyherdstown, Jefferson county, are hereby authorized to sell and convey their church property, situate on New Street, in said town.

Act repealed.

CHAPTER 33.-An ACT to repeal an act passed February 27, 1867, entitled "An Act to provide for the improvement of the Navigation of the Great Kanawha River.'

Passed February 22, 1869.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia :

The act passed February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An Act to provide for the improvement of the navigation of the Great Kanawha River," is hereby repealed.

Taxes collected from state

1864-7 to be re

of supervisors.

CHAPTER 34.-An ACT to refund the taxes collected from the West Virginia State Guards.

Passed February 22, 1869.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of 'West Virginia:

All taxes heretofore collected from any person for bounty purposes guards, for years who volunteered into the service of the state, and who has been funded by board honorably discharged therefrom, or from the heirs or widows of such guard for said purposes, during the years eighteen hundred and sixtyfour, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, eighteen hundred and sixtysix and eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, shall be refunded upon application to the board of supervisors of the county wherein the taxes were paid.

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Corporators.

tion.

CHAPTER 35.--An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of
Raleigh High School.

Passed February 22, 1869.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia :

1. That Henry L. Gillespie, Edwin Prince, John S. Ewart, John Beckley, James Scott, Rev. Mathew Ellison, Rev. Neville C. Beckley, Garner Calloway, Jackson Carper, William Furguson, and Alfred Beck. ley, Sen., be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corPowers of corpo- porate under the name and style of "The Trustees of Raleigh High School," and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, with power to purchase, receive and hold to them and their successors forever, any land, tenements, rents, goods and chattels of what kind soever, which may be purchased by or be devised, or given to them for the use of the said high school, and to lease, sell, rent, or otherwise dispose of the same in such manner as shall seem most conducive to the interests of said high school; provided, that the lands, tenements, goods and chattels so authorized to be held, shall not exceed in amount or value three thousand dollars; and provided, also, that not less than a majority of the trustees for the time being shallbe sufficient to authorize the sale of any real estate belonging to the said high school.

Officers.

2. The said trustees and their successors shall have power to appoint a president, librarian, treasurer, tutors, and such other officers as they may deem proper, and to make and establish from time to time, such by-laws, rules and regulations, not contrary to the laws of By-laws. this state, or of the United States, as they may judge proper for the good government of said high school. A majority of said trustees Quorum. shall be a board for the transaction of business, and they may appoint an executive committee of their own body, to consist of not Executive com. more than five, three of whom may act, to transact such business as may be designated by the board; said committee to report to the board as often as the board may deem necessary, and the said board Its reports. shall have power to fill all vacancies among the trustees, occasioned

mittee.

by the removal, death, disability or resignation of any member or Filling of vacanmembers.

cies.

duties and bond.

3. The treasurer shall receive all moneys accruing to the high Treasurer; his school and property delivered to his care, and shall pay or deliver the same to the order of the board of trustees. Before entering upon the discharge of his duties, he shall give bond with such security and in such penalty as the board may direct, made payable to the trustees for the time being and their successors, and conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, under such rules and regulations as the board may adopt; and it shall be lawful for the said trustees to obtain a judgment for the amount thereof, or for any Judgment special delinquency incurred by said treasurer, on motion in any court for default. of record in this state, against the said treasurer or his securities, his or their executors or administrators, upon giving ten days previous notice of said motion.

against treasurer

stock.

Dividends.

4. The said trustees are hereby authorized to raise by joint stock Subscription to subscription a sum not less than fifteen hundred, nor more than three thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and shall, from time to time, declare such dividend on the same as the net profits of the high school may justify, and shall also have power to collect the subscription to the said stock, in the manner now provided by law for the collection of subscriptions to joint stock companies.

CHAPTER 36.-An ACT extending the time for the county and township officers in the counties of Hardy, Grant and Pendleton to file their official bonds.

Passed February 22, 1869.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

The time now provided by law for the county and township officers Time extended

of Hardy, Grant and Pendleton counties to qualify and file their official bonds as such, is hereby extended to and including the first day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

to May 1, 1869.

Boundaries of district.

Council of town to be board of education.

CHAPTER 37.-An ACT creating a school district within the town of Brandonville.

Passed February 22, 1869,

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

1. The town of Brandonville, in the county of Preston, together with the adjacent farms of Thomas Scott, John S. Mitchell, William Kimberly, Isaac McGrew and Jonathan Chorpening; shall constitute one school district, which shall be governed by the council of said town.

2. The council of said town is hereby created a board of education for said school district, of which the mayor shall be ex officio president, and the recorder shall be clerk; and said board shall have all the rights, powers and privileges, and perform the same duties, and be governed Its powers and by the same laws, as township boards of education, so far as they are applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

duties as such.

Erection of school house.

3. The said council shall have power to select a site for a school house, to procure a title therefor, to erect a schoolhouse thereon, and Maintenance of to establish and maintain a school therein, in the same manner that township boards of education may do in their townships.

school.

Meeting of board.

District levy.

Limit to levy.

4. The council of said town shall meet annually on the first Monday of July as a board of education, and ascertain, as near as practicable, the amount of money that will be required for the year commencing on that day, for the purpose of procuring a site, building and furnishing a school house and maintaining a school in said town. And they shall have power to levy a tax on all property within said district which is subject to taxation for state and county purposes, sufficient to raise the amount so found to be necessary for the purpose aforesaid; provided, however, that the amount assessed and levied in any one year shall not exceed fifty cents on the hundred dollars on the taxable property of said district.

Boundaries of town.

CHAPTER 38.-An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of West Union, in the county of Doddridge.

Passed February 22, 1869.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia :

The corporate limits and boundaries of the town of West Union shall be as follows: Beginning at a point on the North-western Virginia Turnpike, west of the said town, where Doe run crosses the same; thence with the meanders of said run to the mouth; thence up Middle Island creek to the railroad bridge, crossing said creek; thence west with the railroad to a drain; thence up said drain to south-east corner of lot owned by L. T. Davis; thence a westerly course so as to embrace the lots owned by F. D. Hickman; thence to the upper and west corner of the orchard of A. C. Holmes; thence a

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straight course to the beginning. And the inhabitants within the said Corporation; its boundaries, shall be a body corporate, by the name of "The Town of West Union," and subject as such to the provisions of chapter forty-seven of the Code of West Virginia.

CHAPTER 39.-An ACT authorizing the trustees of the German Reformed Church, in the town of Shepherdstown, in Jefferson county, to sell and convey their parsonage property.

Passed February 22, 1869.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ance authorized.

The trustees of the German Reformed Church, in Shepherdstown, Sale and conveyJefferson county, are hereby authorized to sell and convey their parsonage property, known as lot numbered three, and part of lot numbered ninety-two, in the plat of said town, together with the tenements thereon.

CHAPTER 40.-An ACT to incorporate the Newark and
Hughes' River Bridge Company.

Passed February 22, 1869.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

1. It shall be lawful to open books for receiving subscriptions to Capital stock. an amount not exceeding six thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, to constitute a joint capital stock for constructing a toll bridge across Hughes' river, at or near the town of Greenville, in Wirt county. The said books shall be opened

under the direction of Thomas Foster, J. W. Hale, Benjamin F. Stew- Commissioners. art and Josephus Roberts, of the town of Newark, in Wirt county, and Isaac L. Enoch and C. S. Manning, of the town of Greenville, in Wirt county, and John Hannaman, of Wood county, or any one or more of them, and at such place or places, and at such times, as a majority of the above named commissioners may appoint; ten days' public notice thereof being previously given.

2. When four thousand dollars of the capital stock shall have been Corporation. subscribed, the subscribers, their executors, administrators and assigns shall be incorporated into a company, by the name and style Its powers. of "The Newark and Hughes' River Bridge Company," subject to the provisions of the Code of Virginia, second edition.

bridge.

3. The company shall locate and construct said bridge at or near Location of the town of Greenville, in Wirt county, and when completed may collect tolls thereon, not exceeding the following rates: For a foot. man, three cents; for a single horse, mare, gelding, mule, jack or Rates of toll. jennet, if the same be not hitched to any vehicle, three cents; for twenty sheep or hogs, ten cents; for twenty cattle, forty cents, and