Chap. 366.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of
New Hope, in Augusta county, approved February 6th, 1890.

Approved February 17, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the second
section of the act entitled an act to incorporate the town of New Hope,
in the county of Augusta, approved February sixth, eighteen hundrec
and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

S$ 2. The government of said town shall be vested in a council of seven,
to be chosen every two years, by ballot, on the fourth Thursday in Mas
in each alternate year. <Any person ‘entitled to vote in the county O!
Augusta, and residing in the corporate limits of the town of New Hope,
shall be entitled to vote at all elections under said act of incorporation.
The mayor shall appoint two members of the council, who with the clerk
of the council, shall hold said election between the hours of one o'clock
and sunset, and they shall decide any contest with reference to the right
of any individual, and shall count the ballots. In case it is impossible
to decide, the seven who have the highest number of votes by reason ot
a tie, the said clerk shall decide in the presence of the two councilmen
aforesaid by lot. Said clerk shall immediately thereafter make out and
deliver to each one of the councilmen elected a certificate of his election.

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