Chap. 685.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 8, and 9 and to repeal sec-
tion 17 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Belle Haven, in the
county of Accomac, approved December 14, 1895.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
three, eight, and nine of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Belle Haven, in Accomac county, approved December fourteenth, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-five, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 3. The government of said town shall be vested in a mayor, re-
corder, five councilmen, and such other officers as may be provided for
by the mayor and council. The mayor, recorder, and councilmen shall
have and exercise all the powers hereinafter granted to sdid officers, and
shall continue in office until the first day of July, eighteen hundred and
ninety-five, and thercafter until their successors shall be elected and
qualified according to law, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business. The mayor, recorder, and councilmen
shall compose the town council.

§ 8. The mayor of said town shall take care that the ordinances, reso-
lutions, and by-laws of the town council are faithfully executed. He
shall be ex-officio a conservator of the peace within the said town, and
shall within the same exercise all the powers and duties vested by law in
justices of the peace. He shall have power to render judgment and issue
executions in all matters wherein he has jurisdiction by reason of the
authority vested in him under this act, and in all matters where it may
be necessary to carry into effect the purposes of this act, said town au-
thorities shall have the right to use the jail of Accomac county for that
purpose.

§ 9. The mayor, recorder, and any two councilmen, or the mayor or
recorder and any three councilmen, or in the absence of both the mayor
and recorder, any four councilmen shall constitute a quorum to do busi-
ness. The mayor shall preside at the meetings of the council. In his
absence the council shall select one of their number to preside, and the
proceedings shall be signed by the person presiding. If at any meeting the
recorder be absent, the person presiding shall appoint some other person
to discharge the duties of the recorder for that meeting.

2. And be it further enacted, That section seventeen of the same act be,
and the same is hereby, repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.