[This order of the Circuit Court of Southampton County, Virginia,
was entered on December 22, 1961, in C.L.O.B. 20, page 252, in the
office of the Clerk of such Court.]
VIRGINIA: In the Circuit Court of Southampton County, the 22nd
day of December, 1961.
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In the matter of the Application of the Town of Franklin, Virginia,
for transition to a city of the second class
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TRANSITION ORDER
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This matter came on this day to be heard on the papers formerly
read, upon the order entered herein on October 14th, 1961, directing
that a legal enumeration be made of the population of the Town of
Franklin, and upon said order of October 14th, 1961, and the order
entered herein on October 20th, 1961, appointing enumerators to make
such legal enumeration, the reports of the enumerators so appointed,
and was argued by counsel:
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And it appearing to the Court that the enumerators so appointed,
after taking oath for the faithful discharge of their duties, did
proceed to make a legal enumeration of the actual, bona fide inhabitants
of the Town of Franklin and that from their reports and the Court's
tabulation and consolidation thereof, it appears that the Town of
Franklin, Virginia, has a population of more than five thousand, to-wit:
7,366, and therefore that the said Town of Franklin is entitled to
be known as a city of the second class and entitled to all the privileges
and immunities and subject to all of the obligations pertaining to
cities of this Commonwealth:
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UPON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, the Court doth adjudge and order
that the result of its tabulation and consolidation of the reports
of the enumerators heretofore appointed by this Court be entered by
the Clerk of this Court in the permanent records of the Court, to-wit;
that the population of the Town of Franklin, Virginia, is 7,366, and
the Court doth hereby order and decree that the Town of Franklin shall
as of this date be, and the same hereby is, declared to be a city
of the second class and entitled to all of the privileges and immunities
and subject to all obligations pertaining to cities of this Commonwealth.
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It is further ordered and decreed that the governing body of
said city shall be a council which shall consist of five (5) councilmen.
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It being represented to the Court by counsel for said Town that
said Town has paid to each of the enumerators making the aforesaid
enumeration as compensation for their services, a sum in excess of
the minimum amount allowed by law, the Court doth approve and confirm
said payment, and doth order and direct that the costs of this proceeding
be paid out of the Town Treasury of the said Town.
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The Clerk of this Court shall forward a certified copy of this
order to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, by whom it shall be certified
to all proper officers of the State.
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