Chap. 78.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 22 of an act approved
January 30, 1888, entitled: An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An
act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, as
amended by an act approved March 3, 1900, entitled: An act to amend and re-
enact section 22 of an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact an act to
incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, approved the
30th day of January, 1888, as further amended by an act approved March 25,
1902, entitled: An act to amend the charter of the town of South Boston, in
Halifax ey Virginia, as further amended by an act approved April 20,
1903, entitled: An act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 22
of the charter of the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, as
further amended by an act approved March 15, 1906, entitled: An act to
amend and re-enact section 22 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled:
An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to incorporate the
town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, as amended and re-enacted
by an act approved March 3, 1900, entitled: An act to amend and re-enact
section 22 of an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact an act to incorpo-
rate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, approved the 30th
day of January, 1888, as further amended by an act approved March 25, 1902,
entitled: An act to amend the charter of the town of South Boston, in
Halifax county, Virginia, as further amended and re-enacted by an act ap-
proved April 20, 1903, entitled: An act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and
22 of the charter of the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax,
authorizing the town council to contract loans and issue bonds therefor, and
providing a method for so doing, prescribing certain officers for said town and
the manner and time of their election, and authorizing the town council to
contract loans and issue bonds therefor for the purpose of constructing, ex-
tending, repairing or improving a sewerage system or systems for said town
and. for the purpose of constructing, extending and adding to other public
utilities and improvements authorized by the charter of said town or by the
general laws of the State of Virginia, and providing a method for so doing.

Approved February 25, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
three and twenty-two of an act approved January thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act
entitled, an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county
of Halifax, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March
third, nineteen hundred, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section
twenty-two of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to
incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, ap-
proved the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,
as further amended by an act approved March twenty-fifth, nineteen
hundred and two, entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of
South Boston, in Halifax county, Virginia, as further amended and re-
enacted by an act approved April twentieth, nineteen hundred and
three, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections three and twenty-
two of the charter of the town of South Boston, in the county of Hali-
fax, as further amended by an act approved March fifteenth, nineteen
hundred and six, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact section
twenty-two of an act approved January thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-eight, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled
an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Hali-
fax, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March third, nine-
teen hundred, entitled, an act to amend and re-enact section twenty-
two of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorpo-
rate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, approved the
thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as
further amended by an act approved March twenty-fifth, nineteen
hundred and two, entitled an act to amend the charter of the town
of South Boston, in Halifax county, Virginia, as further amended and
re-enacted by an act approved April twentieth, nineteen hundred and
three, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections three and twenty-
two of the charter of the town of South Boston, in the county of Hali-
fax, auhorizing the town council to contract loans and issue bonds
therefor, and providing a method for so doing,” be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§3. There shall be elected on the second Tuesday in June, nineteen
hundred and nine, and every two years thereafter, one elector of the said
town who shall be denominated the mayor, and six other electors who
shall be denominated the councilmen of said town. The mayor and
councilmen. shall constitute the council of said town.

§22. For the purpose of constructing, extending, repairing or improv-
ing a sewerage system or systems for said town, and for the purpose of
constructing, extending and adding to other public utilities and im-
provements, authorized by the charter of said town or by the general
laws of the State of Virginia, the council may, in the name of and for
the use of said town, contract loans and issue bonds therefor, bearing
interest at the rate of six per centum or less per annum, payable semi-
annually, and redeemable in thirty-four years or less, which bonds shall
be exempt from taxation by said town; provided, that the council
shall not contract any loan or issue any bonds therefor, unless the
question of such issue be first submitted to the freeholders who may
then be registered voters in said town under the provisions of the pres-
ent Constitution of this State, and who shall at the time reside within
the corporate limits of said town, and a majority of those voting at
any election held hereunder upon such question be in favor thereof; and
provided, further, that in no case shall the aggregate debt of the said
town at any one time exceed eighteen per centum of the assessed valua-
tion of the real estate in the said town subject to taxation, as shown by
the last preceding assessment for taxes; and provided, further, that
the clerk of the circuit court of Halifax county shall ten days before the
date fixed for said election prepare and deliver to one of the judges ap-
pointed for such election a list of all freeholders who are registered
voters in the said town and are under the provisions of this act quali-
fied to vote at said election; and provided, further, that such election
shall be called, conducted and canvassed and the result thereof deter-
mined and returned and the bonds issued, in pursuance to the provisions
of the act approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and three,
entitled an act to provide for holding elections in towns for the pur-
pose of deciding upon the question of bond issue, except in so far as the
provisions of said act may be in conflict with this act. .

2. Inasmuch as the necessities of the town require prompt action, an
emergency exists which renders it necessary that this act shall go into
operation at once, this act shall be in force from its passage.