The inhabitants of the territory comprised within the present limits of the City of Staunton as hereinafter described or as the same may be hereafter altered and established by law, shall continue to be one body politic in fact and in name under the style and denomination of the City of Staunton, and as such shall have and may exercise all powers which are now or hereafter may be conferred upon or delegated to cities under the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as fully and completely as though said powers were specifically enumerated herein, and no enumeration of particular powers by this Charter shall be held to be exclusive, and shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers and privileges and be subject to all the duties and obligations now appertaining to and incumbent on said city as a municipal corporation, and the said City of Staunton, as such, shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with and may have a corporate seal, which it may alter, renew or mend at its pleasure; the present boundaries of the said city being as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point in the northwest side of the Valley turnpike between the lands of H. L. Lang and the property known as Mary Baldwin College; thence south thirty° forty-five minutes east two thousand feet, to a point at the intersection of Edgewood road and Coalter street extended; thence south fifty-six° fifteen minutes east one thousand feet, to a point in the north side of Catt's road at the southwest side of a bridge over a stream; thence south four° thirty minutes east sixteen hundred and thirty feet to a point in the east side of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad track; thence south twenty-six° fifteen minutes west thirty-six feet to a point in the line of the graveyard of the Western State Hospital, so as not to embrace the property known as Basic Furniture Company (this being the modification hereinbefore mentioned); thence south sixty-eight° thirty minutes west nineteen hundred and twenty feet, to Pritchard's extreme northeastern corner in the west side of the Greenville road; thence with Pritchard's line north eighty-eight° thirty minutes west fifteen hundred and seventy five feet, to Pritchard's corner with the land of A. H. H. Stuart's heirs; then south eighty-seven° west fifteen hundred and eighty-five feet to the mouth of a cave just above and south of the Middlebrook road; thence north thirty-seven° twenty-one minutes west thirty-one hundred and fifty feet to a point in the middle of Peck's lane between Peck's crossing on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad and the bridge over Peyton's Creek; thence north twenty° west three hundred feet, to the northeast corner of a brick storehouse on the south side of the Parkersburg road; thence north fifty° forty-five minutes east fifty-three hundred and fifty feet, to a point in the middle of the Spring Hill or Mount Solon road; thence south eighty-four° east thirty hundred and fifty feet, to the point of beginning (the lines as described to this point being the new corporate line); thence, in order to reach the present corporate line south thirty° forty-five minutes west nine hundred and twenty feet to a point in the Valley turnpike; thence south forty-six° forty-five minutes west one hundred and twenty-five feet to a corner of the old corporate line on the north side of the Valley turnpike, where stands or stood an aspen tree; thence (according to the original survey made by A. D. Trotter, surveyor, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, as set out in Act of Assembly of that year), south forty-one° east two hundred and sixteen poles to a stake; thence south twenty° west one hundred and fifty and four-tenths poles to a post in the south side of Staunton and Richmond turnpike (or National Cemetery road); thence south forty° west fifty-seven and six-tenths poles to the south corner of the wall of the Western State Hospital; thence south seventy and one-fourth° west one hundred and thirty-six and one-fourth poles to a large black oak (now a stump of the same in the street); thence north fifty-seven and one-fourth° west one hundred and forty-four and one-half poles to a walnut tree; thence north thirty-one and one-half° west one hundred and nineteen and seven-tenths poles to a stake on the east side of a road (now Peck's lane); thence along the said road north sixty-five° east twenty-seven and sixteen one-hundredths poles, crossing the Parkersburg road, to a stake on the north edge of the road; thence north thirty-seven and three-fourths° east two hundred and fifty poles to a large white oak on the hill; thence north eighty-seven and three-fourths° east eighty-five and two-tenths poles to the beginning point of the old corporate line.
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Editor's note – For annexation orders extending the corporate limits, see Appendix B of this Code.