Chap. 118.—An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Eastville, North
ampton county, Virginia, approved on the 6th day of February, 1896

(H. B. 28.)
Approved March 17, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section three (3) of an act to provide a charter incorporating the
town of Eastville, Northampton county, Virginia, approved Feb-
ruary sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and re-
enacted to read as follows:

2. The government of said town shall be vested in a mayor
and six councilmen. The first election under this charter for
mayor and councilmen shall be held on the second Tuesday in
June, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and thereafter they shall be
elected bi-annually on the second Tuesday in June, and shall qualify
and enter upon the duties of their respective offices on the first
day of September following. Any person entitled to vote in the
county of Northampton and who has resided within said town for
three months previous to any election, shall be entitled to vote at
all elections under this act of incorporation. The mayor shall ap-
point two electors of said town who with the town clerk shall
hold said election between the hours of one, post meridian, and sun-
set; and they shall decide any contest with reference to the right
ot any person to vote, and shall count the ballots and certify to the
council the names of the persons elected mayor and councilmen.
in case of a tie vote the clerk shall decide in the presence of the
two electors aforesaid, by lot; said clerk shall immediately there-
after make out and deliver to the mayor and each councilman, a
certificate of his election. All officers of the said town shall take
the oath of office before the town clerk or some other officer
authorized to administer oaths. Should any of the officers hereby
appointed, or who may hereafter be elected or appointed, refuse
or tail to accept and qualify within thirty days after such appoint-
ment or election, then it shall be the duty of the mayor or a ma-
jority of such town council as may accept and quality, in the ab-
sence of such mayor, to fill such vacancy by appointment.

The council shall appoint the time when it shall meet.

The council of said town shall, at their first regular meeting
after this act shall go into effect, elect from the duly qualified
citizens of said town one additional member in compliance with the
terms of this act, who shall fill said office of councilman for the
remainder of the term for which the present council has been
eiected.

All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed. _