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CHARTER Ch.,1, § 1 § 2. § 3. Chapter 14. Miscellaneous Adoption' of ordinances in conflict with ABC Act. Existing contracts and obligations. Ordinances and resolutions to remain in force. AN ACT to provide a new Charter for the City of Martinsville, Virginia; and to repeal Chaptero69 of the Acts of Assembly of 1942, approved February 25, 1942; which provided a Charter for such city. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: CHAPTER 1. INCORPORATION, BOUNDARIES AND POWERS Sec. 1. Incorporation, powers generally and boundaries. The inhabitants of the ter~tory comprised within the present limits of the City of Martinsville, as hereinafter described, or as the same may be hereafter altered and estab- lished by law, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate, to be known and designated as the City of Martinsville, and as such shall have and may exercise all powers wkicl~ are hereafter may be conferred upon, or delegated to the city under the C~on~ution anti laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as fully and as coiup{e~e~y as though Said powers were specifically enumerated herein and no enumeration of particular powers by this Charter shall be held to be exclusive; and the said City of Martinsville as such shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, ar~d~may have a corporate seal which it may alter, renew, or amend at its pleasure. The administration and government .of the said city shall be vested in the council of the City of Martinsville as hereinafter constituted, and in such other boards and officers as are hereinafter mentioned, or may be by law or the council otherwise provided. And it shall continue to consist of one ward until such time as it may be subdivided into additional wards in the manner prescribed~y. law. . All contracts and obligations 'of the City of Martinsville heretofore made by the present council and government, while in office, not inconsistent with-this Charter and the general laws and Constitution of the state, shall be and are hereby declared to be valid and legal obligations of the City of Martinsville. The metes and bounds of said city as its limits now are, as follows, to wit: - Beginning at a concrete post with a brass tablet set in top on the North bank of Smith River in J. R. Wray's land; thence N 33° 37' 15" E 12,108.76 feet to a brass tablet set in a concrete post; thence N 56° 29' i5" E 2,153.65 feet to a brass tab~t,~set in a concrete post; thence S 70Q 04' 45" E 11,628.14 feet to a brass tablet set in a concrete post;. thence S 9° 25' 15" W !8~303.77 feet to a brass tablet set in a concr. ete post, said post being located in the North' right-of-way line of Mulberry Road; thence N 63° 30' 05" W 217.99 feet 3