Chap. 97.—An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Suffolk.
Approved April 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
3ections two, (as amended by an act approved arch first,
eighteen hundred and seventy-five), six, fifteen, and twenty-
two of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the
town of Suffolk, in force March nineteenth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 2. The municipal authorities of said town shall consist of
a mayor, five councilmen. an assessor, a clerk, an overseer of
the poor, a street commissioner, a town sergeant, and a treas-
urer, who shall be residents of said town, and qualified by
the constitution and laws of the state to hold office. They
shall be elected on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, for a term of one year, and on the
fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and eighty-three,
for a term of two years, and every two years thereafter for a
like time. They shall begin the discharge of their duties as
such authorities, on the first day of July next succeeding
their election. No person shall be competent to hold more
than one of the above offices at the same time, and a qualifi-
cation in one of the said offices shall be a bar to the qualifi-
cation of such person in any of the other said offices.

§ 6. The mayor, councilmen, assessor, clerk, overseer of
the poor, treasurer, town sergeant, and street commissioner,
shall each, before entering upon the duties of their offices,
take the oaths prescribed tor all other officers by the laws of
Virginia; but, if any of them shall fail to do so on or before
the commencement of the term for which they were elected,
their offices shall be deemed vacant; and no person shall be
eligible to the office of mayor for the term next succeeding
that for which he has already been once elected.

§ 15. The mayor and each one of the councilmen of the
said town, for the time being, are declared to be and are
hereby constituted conservators of the peace within said
town, and within one mile from the corporate limits thereof,
and shall have all the power and authority, in civil as well as
criminal cases, including the examination of persons now
suspected of lunacy, now exercised by justices of the peace;
but in every case an appeal shall lie as a matter of right from
the judgment of the said mayor or councilmen to the count
court of Nansemond county, in the same manner and wit
like effect and upon like security as appeals taken under the
law in force at the time of the passage of this act, from the
judgment of a justice of the peace; which said appeal shall

© tried in the same manner by the county court as an appeal
from a justice of the peace.

§ 22. The mayorsshall have power to suspend, and the
council shall have power to remove ali other town officers,
whether they be elected or appointed, for misconduct in office
or neglect of duty, to be specified in the order of suspension
or removal; but no such removal shall be made without rea-
sonable notice to the officer complained of, and an opportu-
nity afforded him to be heard in his defence. The mayor
may be removed from office by the judge of the county court
of Nansemond county for misfeasance, malfeasance, or mis-
conduct in office, or for neglect of official duty; but before
such removal shall be male, the mayor shall have notice
thereof, accompanied by a copy of the causes alleged for his
removal, at least twenty days before the day on which the
said judge shall act thereon.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed.

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

Chap. 97.—An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Suffolk.
Approved April 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
3ections two, (as amended by an act approved arch first,
eighteen hundred and seventy-five), six, fifteen, and twenty-
two of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the
town of Suffolk, in force March nineteenth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 2. The municipal authorities of said town shall consist of
a mayor, five councilmen. an assessor, a clerk, an overseer of
the poor, a street commissioner, a town sergeant, and a treas-
urer, who shall be residents of said town, and qualified by
the constitution and laws of the state to hold office. They
shall be elected on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, for a term of one year, and on the
fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and eighty-three,
for a term of two years, and every two years thereafter for a
like time. They shall begin the discharge of their duties as
such authorities, on the first day of July next succeeding
their election. No person shall be competent to hold more
than one of the above offices at the same time, and a qualifi-
cation in one of the said offices shall be a bar to the qualifi-
cation of such person in any of the other said offices.

§ 6. The mayor, councilmen, assessor, clerk, overseer of
the poor, treasurer, town sergeant, and street commissioner,
shall each, before entering upon the duties of their offices,
take the oaths prescribed tor all other officers by the laws of
Virginia; but, if any of them shall fail to do so on or before
the commencement of the term for which they were elected,
their offices shall be deemed vacant; and no person shall be
eligible to the office of mayor for the term next succeeding
that for which he has already been once elected.

§ 15. The mayor and each one of the councilmen of the
said town, for the time being, are declared to be and are
hereby constituted conservators of the peace within said
town, and within one mile from the corporate limits thereof,
and shall have all the power and authority, in civil as well as
criminal cases, including the examination of persons now
suspected of lunacy, now exercised by justices of the peace;
but in every case an appeal shall lie as a matter of right from
the judgment of the said mayor or councilmen to the count
court of Nansemond county, in the same manner and wit
like effect and upon like security as appeals taken under the
law in force at the time of the passage of this act, from the
judgment of a justice of the peace; which said appeal shall

© tried in the same manner by the county court as an appeal
from a justice of the peace.

§ 22. The mayorsshall have power to suspend, and the
council shall have power to remove ali other town officers,
whether they be elected or appointed, for misconduct in office
or neglect of duty, to be specified in the order of suspension
or removal; but no such removal shall be made without rea-
sonable notice to the officer complained of, and an opportu-
nity afforded him to be heard in his defence. The mayor
may be removed from office by the judge of the county court
of Nansemond county for misfeasance, malfeasance, or mis-
conduct in office, or for neglect of official duty; but before
such removal shall be male, the mayor shall have notice
thereof, accompanied by a copy of the causes alleged for his
removal, at least twenty days before the day on which the
said judge shall act thereon.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed.

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