CHAP. 25.—An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds
to be issued by the town of Ashland, in Hanover county, the ordinance
authorizing the issue and providing for the redemption thereof, and
for the ordering and holding of an election of the qualified voters of
said town to pass upon such issue, and the election ordered and held
in pursuance thereof, for the purpose of raising funds for the erec-
tion of a public high school building in said town. (S. B. 42.)

Approved February 5, 1916.

Whereas, an ordinance entitled, “an ordinance to authorize
the issue and provide for the redemption of ten thousand dol-
lars ($10,000) of five per cent. registered or coupon convertible
bonds to raise funds for the erection of a public high school
building for the uses of the town of Ashland, and to provide for
the ordering and holding of an election of the qualified voters
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of the town to pass upon such issue,” was regularly passed by
the council of said town on the twenty-seventh day of Novem-
ber, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and presented to
and approved by the mayor of said town on the first day of De-
cember, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen; and,

Whereas, in pursuance thereof and of the authority vested
in him by the charter of said town, the clerk of said council, in
obedience to its direction, notified the electoral board of said
county to hold an election in said town on the nineteenth day of
December, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, for the
purposes set out in, and in accordance with the provisions of,
said ordinance; and,

Whereas, at said election, duly called and regularly held pur-
suant to notice and according to law, on the nineteenth day of
December, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, more than
two-thirds of all of the qualified voters in said town voting on
the question of the issuing of said bonds for the purpose of rais-
ing funds for the erection of a public high school building in
said town, voted in favor of the same, and authorized the issu-
ance of such bonds to an amount not exceeding ten thousand
dollars; and,

Whereas, a question arising as to the power of the said town
to issue such bonds under its charter and the general statutes
of Virginia heretofore enacted, now, therefore ;

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the said ordinance, and all of the acts of the said council, and of
the clerk thereof, and of all of the election officers of said county
and town, as well as the said election held in said town on the
nineteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and
fourteen, be and the same are hereby validated, approved, rati-
fied and confirmed; and that the said ten thousand dollars
($10,000) of bonds as authorized by and provided for in said
ordinance, and authorized by said election, be and the same are
hereby validated, ratified, approved, and confirmed, and the said
bonds so authorized to be issued are hereby made and declared
to be valid and binding obligations of the said town of Ashland.

9 An emergency existing in that the school board in the
town of Ashland is in urgent need of the funds to be derived
from the sale of said bonds to pay for the erection of the public
high school building in said town for the uses thereof, this act
shall be in force from its passage.