CHAPTER 73

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 3 of Chapter 328 of the Acts of
Assembly of 1946, approved March 27, 1946, which provided a
new charter for the town of Pearisburg, so as to prescribe the
terms of office of the members of the council of such town.

[S 132]

Approved February 28, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
|. That § 3 of Chapter 328 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, ap-
sroved March 27, 1946, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 3. The councilmen and the mayor shall be elected by the
jualified voters of the town on the second Tuesday in June, nine-
een hundred fifty; and the mayor shall be elected every two years
thereafter * . Members of the council shall be elected for terms of
four years, but upon the first assembling of the council elected tn
June, nineteen hundred fifty, the members thereof shall be divided
into two equal classes to be determined by lot and the terms of the
members of the first class shall be two years and that of the mem-
bers of the second class four years. Thereafter the terms of all
the members of each class shall be four years. The present mayor
and councilmen shall continue in office until the expiration of the
terms for which they were respectively elected.

2. An emergency exists, and this act is in force from its passage.