Chap. 223.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved
November 28, 1903, entitled an act to provide for the contraction of the
corporate limits of cities and towns. {S B 300]

Approved March 14, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act approved November twenty-eighth, nineteen
hundred and three, entitled an act to provide for the contraction of
the corporate limits of cities and towns, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

1. Whenever it is deemed desirable to contract the corporate
limits of any city or town the council thereof may enact an ordinance
defining accurately the boundary of the territory proposed to be
stricken off, and such ordinance shall thereupon be published in at
least ten issues of the daily paper published in and having the
largest circulation in said city or town, if there be such a paper, or
In two successive issues of a weekly newspaper published in such
city or town, if there be such paper, and if there be no daily news-
paper published therein, and shall be conspicuously posted in at
east ten public places in said territory for at least ten days before
the application to the circuit court of the city or town, or to the
judge in vacation provided for in section two of this act. A copy
of said ordinance shall be served by such city or town upon the
board of supervisors of the contiguous county or counties of which
such territory may become a part.

2. Anvemergency existing, this act shall be in force from its

passage.