Chap. 799.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of the charter of the
town of Hampton.

’ Approved March 8, 1898.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
three and four of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, approved May twenty-
third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted to
read as follows:

§ 3. That the said town shall be divided into four wards, as follows:
All that part of the town bounded by a line beginning at the intersection
of the northwest branch of Hampton river with Armistead avenue, at a
point in therear of Marsh market corner about one hundred feet south
of west Queen street; thence along the north shore of the said northwest
branch of Hampton river, following the corporate boundary of said town
to a point where the centre of east (Jueen street at Hampton bridge in-
tersects with the corporate boundary of the said town; thence west along
the centre of (QJueen street to Armistead avenue; thence south about one
hundred feet to the point of beginning, shall be the first ward; all that
part of the town lying east of the centre of King street and north of the
centre of Queen street shall be the second ward; all that portion of the
town lying west of the centre of King street and north of the centre of
(Queen street shall be the third ward; and all that portion of the town
bounded by a line beginning at the intersection of the northwest branch
of Hampton river with Armistead avenue, at a pointin the rearof Marsh
market corner about one hundred feet south of west Queen street; thence
along the south shore of the said northwest branch of Hampton river;
thence following the corporate boundary of the said town to a point
where the centre of west (Jueen street intersects the west boundary line
of the said town; thence east along the centre of west Queen street to
Armistead avenue; thence south about one hundred feet to the point of
beginning, shall be the fourth ward. The present councilmen from the
first ward, or their successors in office, shall continue to represent the
fourth ward hereby created until the election on the fourth Thursday
in M ay, elghteen hundred and ninety-nine.

There shall be elected on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen
hundved and eighty-seven, and every two years thereafter, two electors
from each ward, who sh: all be denominated the councilmen of the said
town, and the said councilmen shall elect from among their own number
or from the citizens of the town a mayor for the said town. The mayor
and the councilmen shall constitute the council of the said town; they
shall enter upon the duties of their office on the first day of July next
succeeding their election, and shall continue in office until their suc-
cessors are elected and qualified.