Chap. 294.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 7, 1. i-
and 53 of an Act to amend and re-enact the Charter of the To.
Leesburg, in the County of Loudoun, passed July 9, 1870.

Approved March 29, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia. T
sections six, seven, ten, twelve, thirty-eight, and “fifty- a
of an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the Te
Leesburg, in the county of, Loudoun, passed July nine. «
teen hundred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted -
to read as follows:

§ 6. There shall bea town sergeant of said town, appr
by the ¢ommon council in the manner provided in the!
section; and his term of office (except when appointed t*
a vacancy for an unexpired term) shall be for one year, |
until his successor shall have been appointed and quali
as hereinafter provided. :

§ 7. The mayor, recorder, and councilmen shall be ele’
by the qualified voters of the said town; and at the i
regular meeting of the newly elected common couneil. t
shall appoint a sergeant for said town.

) An election for mayor, recorder, and councilmen shall
1 annually, on the fourth Thursday in May, in each
nd at such special times as are hereinafter provided.
uch elections shall be held at some convenient place in
own, which shall be appointed and duly published by the
cil. ! :
2, Whenever a vacancy shell oecur, from any cause, in
office of mayor or recorder, the council for the time
r shall, at once, order a special election to be held to fill
"AC ancy, of which election two weeks’ notice shall be
viven “and published by the council.
‘3. The council, upon a concurrence of a majority thereof,
have power to remove the ser geant from office for any
2 which they may deem sufficient, and to declare the
» vacant, whereupon the council may proceed at once
point a sergeant to fill the vacancy for the unexpired
; and whenever, from any cause, the office of sergeant
be vacant, the mayor may appoint a sergeant pro tem-
to fill the vacancy, unti: a sergeant shall have been ap-
ted by the council as herein ‘provided, and shall have
qualified,
)3. Before entering upon the duties of his office, and
in two weeks from the day of his appointment, he shall
: oath or affirmation before the mayor or person who
le time being shall preside at council meeting, that ho
truly, faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of
‘ffice so long as he shall remain therein; and he shall,
iin said period, execute before the council his bond as
inbefore prescribed.
This act shall not be in force until it shall have been
ied by the vote of the electors of said town, at thé next
lar election.