CHAP. 14.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an
act to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact chapter 256 of the acts of assembly of 1855-’6, as
amended by chapter 123, acts of assembly of 1883-’4, entitled an act
to incorporate the town of Orange, and to enable said town to borrow
approved January 21, 1896, approved March 16, 1914. [fH B 23]

Approved September 4, 1919.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section three, of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section three of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
chapter two hundred and fifty-six of the acts of assembly of
eighteen hundred and fifty-five to fifty-six, as amended by chap-
ter one hundred and twenty-three, acts of assembly of eighteen
hundred and eighty-three to eighty-four, entitled an act to in-
corporate the town of Orange and to enable said town to borrow, ©
approved January twenty-first; eighteen hundred and ninety-six,
approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3. The said board of trustees shall have power to pass
all by-laws and ordinances for the proper government of said
town, not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of this State
or the Constitution and laws of the United States, and to levy
annually such taxes and prescribe such licenses as it may deem
necessary for the purposes of said town, which said tax levy
shall not exceed for one year two dollars on the one hundred
dollars’ valuation of property as per State assessment. The said
board shall, by vote of a majority of their number, on the first
meeting after their qualification, elect a town sergeant, a re-
corder, and a treasurer of said town, who shall hold office dur-
ing the term of office of said board, unless removed by the mayor
for cause, which said removal shall be ratified or set aside by
the board of trustees at its next regular meeting. Any vacancy
occurring by death, resignation or removal, or any other cause,
in any of the officers or appointees of said town, shall be filled
by the said board of trustees, and the office of mayor, in case
of vacancy, can be filled by said board out of its own number or
by any qualified voter of the town. The compensation of the
mayor shall be fixed by the board of trustees and shall not pre-
clude the collection of legal fees by him.

2. An emergency existing for the immediate enactment of
this amendment, this act shall be in force from its passage.