CHARTER

TOWN OF MARMET

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ARCHIE FERRELL, W. E. WILSON, W. A. PHILLIPS AND HOWARD NEAL FOR THE INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF MARMET.

   This day came Archie Ferrell, W. E. Wilson, W. A. Phillips and Howard Neal, and tendered and asked leave to file their application, duly verified, for the incorporation of the territory hereinafter described into The Town of Marmet; upon consideration whereof the Court doth order that said application be and it is hereby filed.

   And it appearing from said application, and from the survey, map, census, notice of this application and of the election to be held on March 12th, 1921, by the qualified voters residing within the territory proposed to be incorporated into the Town of Marmet upon the question of such incorporation, and from the certificates of the election officers who held said election, all of which are duly verified and filed with said application, that all of the provisions of Chapter 47 of the Code of West Virginia, have been complied with for the incorporation of the following described territory into the Town of Marmet, to-wit: That certain boundary of land situate in Loudon District, Kanawha County, West Virginia, BEGINNING at a rock corner on edge of Kanawha River 667 feet below Lock No. 5, then up the river with the meanders thereof to a stake on the Bradford Line 761 feet above the mouth of Lens Creek, thence S. 72 degrees 30 minutes, W. 3960 feet to a stake on the hill side facing Lens Creek, thence N. 57 degrees W. 8170 feet crossing Lens Creek, Curley Hollow and Brownstown Hollow to a stake on a ridge north of the left fork of Bush Creek, thence N. 72 degrees 30 minutes, E. 3960 feet to the beginning, containing 660 acres, more or less; and that at said election, which was held on the 12th day of March, 1921, a majority of all the qualified voters residing within said territory voted in favor of such incorporation, all of which the Court doth accordingly decree; and it further appearing to the Court that it would be advantageous to the persons living within said territory to incorporate said territory into said Town; the Court doth therefore grant the prayer of said application, and doth incorporate said territory into the Town of Marmet, and the Court doth hereby authorize and direct the Clerk of this Court to issue a certificate of the incorporation of the aforesaid territory into The Town of Marmet pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 of said Chapter 47 of the Code of West Virginia, in the following form, to-wit:

   “A certificate of Archie Ferrell, W. E, Wilson, W. A. Phillips and Howard Neal, under oath was this day filed, showing that a majority of all the qualified voters residing in the following boundary, to-wit:”

   “That certain boundary of land situate in Loudon District, Kanawha County, West Virginia. Beginning at a rock corner on edge of Kanwha River 667 feet below Lock No. 5, then up the river with the meanders thereof to a stake on the Bradford Line 761 feet above the mouth of Lens Creek, thence S. 72 degrees 30 minutes, W. 3960 feet to a stake on the hill side facing Lens Creek, thence N. 57 degrees W. 8170 feet crossing Lens Creek, Curly Hollow and Brownstown Hollow to a stake on a ridge north of the left fork of Rush Creek, thence N. 72 degrees 30 minutes, E. 3960 feet to the beginning, containing 660 acres, more or less; have been given in due form of law in favor of the incorporation of The Town of Marmet, in Loudon District, County of Kanawha, and States of West Virginia, bounded as herein set forth; And it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that all of the provisions of Chapter 47 of the Code of West Virginia have been complied with by the applicants for said incorporation; and said Town is duly authorized within the corporate limits aforesaid to exercise all the corporate powers conferred by the said chapter from and after the date of this Certificate.

   And in accordance with the provisions of Section 10 of said Chapter 47 of the Code, the Court doth hereby appoint J. C. Layden, L. L. Berry, Burley Miller, three legal voters residing within the said territory, who shall act as commissioners of election as the first election of officers of said Town.

(STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,

      At a Circuit Court for Kanawha County held at the Court house thereof on the 16th day of March, 1921.)

CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF MARMET