Chap. 334.—An ACT to amend an Act entitled an Act to Provide a
Charter for the City of Winchester, Approved April 2, 1874,

Approved April 80, 1874. P

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the fifth cha
section of the act entitled an act to provide a charter for the
city of Winchester, approved April the second, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Ҥ 5. The mayor, recorder, clerk of the hustings court, com- Wh
mon councilmen, commonwealth’s attorney, city sergeant, vm
city treasurer, commissioner of the revenue, justices of the che
peace, and constable shall all be elected by a general vote of
the citizens of Winchester, who are qualified to vote tor
member of the general assembly, and who have resided in
said city for at least three months next preceding the elec-
tion. An equal number of members of the council, and one Me:
justice of the peace of said city, shall be resident of each ward. tice
All regular elections for city officers shall be held on the den
fourth Thursday in May, and the officers elected shall enter elec
upon their duties on the first day of July succeeding. All el
officers of the city shall continue in office antil their succes- ent
sors have qualified, except in cases of suspension or removal. ter
They shall be over twenty-one years of age: provided, that Qu
until the election and qualification of the officers herein pro- Pre
vided for to be elected, on the fourth Thursday in May, the %?
several officers of the corporation of Winchester who are in qua
office at the date of the passage of the act of which this is
amendatory, shall continue to hold and perform the duties
of their respective offices as they had theretofore been re-
quired to do by the laws and ordinances then in force, or as
the duties of any of said officers have been or may be law-
fully changed, except that it shall not be lawful for the mayor,
recorder, and aldermen to hold a court within the said city
of Winchester; but the clerk, sergeant, and attorney for the
commonwealth for the late corporation court of Winchester,
shall be the clerk, sergeant, and attorney for the common-
wealth of the corporation or hustings court for said city of
Winchester, established by an act entitled an act tu establish
a corporation court for the cities of Manchester and Win-
chester, approved April the sixteenth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, until their successors are elected and qualified:
and provided further, that all official acts heretofore done by
any of the officers of the corporation of Winchester who are
in office at the date of the passage of the act of which this
section is amendatory, which were otherwise lawful, or which
may be hereafter done by them at any time before their suc-
cessors are elected, or appointed and qualified, are hereby
‘declared as legal and binding as if done by officers duly elected
and qualified, or appointed under the constitution or laws of
this state.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.