Chap. 88.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 1, 3, 16 and 17, of
Chapter 130 of Acts of 1866-7, in Relation to the Charter of the Tuwn
of Jonesville.

In force February 17, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections one,
three, sixteen and seventeen of chapter one hundred and thirty,
acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-six—-seven, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. That the town of Jonesville, in the county of Lee, as
the same has heretofore been laid off into lots, streets and
alleys, and the lots and houses of such persons as adjoin said
town who may apply to the council of said town for such pur.
pose and be accepted by said council, be and the same is hereby
made a town corporate by the name of Jonesville, and by that
name may sue and be sued, and shall have and exercise the
powers conferred upon towns by and be subject to the provisions
of the fifty-fourth chapter of the Code of Virginia, so far as they
are consistent with this act, and shall be subject to and gov-
erned by all laws now in force, or which may hereafter pass,
for the government of towns containing less than five thousand
inhabitants.

§ 3. The said election shall be held at the court-house in
said town on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, and annually thereafter; and the mayor,
recorder, councilmen and sergeant shall continue in office for
one year, and until the first Monday in August next after their
election, except the first officers elected hereunder, who shall
hold till the first Monday in August, eighteen hundred and
seventy-four. ,

§ 16. Marion D. Richmond, John M. Couk, William Sulli-
van, Charles T. Harris, John B. West and C. T. Duncan, or a
majority of them, are hereby authorized to hold an election
agreeable to the provisions of this act, for said officers, on the
fourth Thursday in May, by giving ten days’ notice to the
voters of said town, by duly posting notice of the time and
place at three conspicuous places in said town, the,election to.
be holden at the court-house of Lee county, in said town.

$17. The clerk of the county court of Lee county is autho-
rized to qualify the officers elected under this act to faithfully
and honestly perform the duties of their office. |

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.