Chap. 245.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of the char-
ter of Suffolk, as amended by the acts approved respectively
March Ist, 1875, April 21st, 1882, and February 8, 1884, and sec-
tion 9 of said charter as amended by the acts approved February
8, 1884, and section 17 of said charter as amended by the acts
approved respectively March Ist, 1875, and February 26, 1886.

Approved February 16, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section two of the charter of Suffolk, as amended by
the acts approved respectively March first, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-five; April twenty-first, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-two, and February eight, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-four; section nine of said charter, as
amended by the act approved February eighth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-four, and section seventeen of the said
charter, as amended by the acts approved respectively
March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and Feb-
ruary twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. Hereafter the municipal authorities of said town
shall consist of a mayor and nine councilmen, who shal]
be residents of said town and qualified by the constitution
and laws of the state of Virginia to vote and hold office
under said constitution and laws. They shall be elected
on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and
ninety-three, for a term of two years, and on the fourth
Thursday in May every two years thereafter for a like
term, and shall enter upon the discharge of their duties as
such authorities on the first day of July next after their
election, and shall continue in office until their successors
are elected and qualified. Such persons as may be elected
to fill the office of mayor or the position of councilman
shall neither hold nor exercise any other office created by
this charter or by the council under the ordinances of
said town during their continuance in office. The council
as now constituted shall elect three additional council-
men,who shall be residents of the said town and qualified by
the constitution and laws of the state of Virginia to vote
and hold office under the said constitution and laws. The
three additional councilmen thus elected shall enter upon
their duties as soon as they have qualified, and shall hold
office until their successors, the councilmen to be elected
on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and
ninety-three, as above provided for, shall have been elected
and qualified.

8 9. The mayor and five councilmen, or, in the absence
of the mayor, 81x councilmen, shall constitute a quorum
of the council for the transaction of any and all business.

§ 17. The council may, in the name and for the use of
the said corporation of Suffolk, borrow money and con-
tract loans and cause certificates of debt or other bonds
to be issued therefor; but the amount of such certificates
or bonds, including the bonds already issued by authority
of the act entitled “an act to authorize the mayor and
council of Suffolk to borrow money, approved April twen-
ty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,” and those
already issued by authority of the act entitled “an act to
empower the council of the town of Suffolk to borrow
money and issue bonds therefor, approved January twen-
ty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety,” shall not at any
time exceed in the aggregate the sum of sixty-five thousand
dollars. The council shall provide for the payment of the
interest on all of such bonds and certificates out of the an-
nual revenues of the said corporation, and may provide a
sinking fund for the redemption of the principal of such
bonds and certificates.

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