Chap. 685.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 193 of an
act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Cape Charles, in
the county of Northampton.

Approved March 2, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four of chapter one hundred and ninety-three of an act approved Feb-
ruary twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, an act to amend the
charter of the town of Cape Charles of the county of Northampton,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

84. The mayor and councilmen shall constitute the council of said
town, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum, to do business, and
all the corporate powers of the said town shall be exercised by the said
council or under its authority, except where otherwise provided for by
law. The mayor shall be president of the council, and shall have all
the rights, powers, and privileges conferred upon such officer by the
general laws of this state for the government of towns of less than five
thousand inhabitants. He and each member of the said council shall
be clothed with all the powers and authority of a justice in civil matters
within the corporate limits of the said town and in criminal matters
within the said limits and one mile beyond the same.

All fines, penalties, or imprisonments for violation of the ordinances
of the said town or laws of the state within the limits aforesaid shall be
recovered before or enforced under the judgment of the said mayor or
a member of the said council, as the case may be, which said fines shall
pass into the treasury and become the property of the said town, and
for that purpose he, or either of them, may issue process in the same
manner and receive the same fees as do justices for like services,
Fhe mayor shall have no vote in council save in case of a tie, when
he shall have the casting vote. Any vacancy occurring in the office of
mayor or councilman, ad interim, shall be filled by said council.

The mayor shall hold office for a term of two years, from the first
day of July next succeeding his election and until his successor is elected
and qualified. Each councilman shall hold office for a term of three
years from the date aforesaid, except as hereinafter provided, and until
his successor is elected and qualified—to wit: At the next election,
conducted hereunder as aforesaid, there shall be chosen, in addition
to the mayor, six councilmen, two of whom shall hold office for a term
of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three
years, the said councilmen and their respective terms to be determined
in the following manner: At the first meeting of the council so elected,
there shall be prepared by the clerk thereof six ballots, two of which to
bear the inscription “one year,” two “two years,” and two “three
years.” The said ballots shall then be deposited in some suitable re-
ceptacle, and their positions therein so shifted and changed as to render
them, as far as practicable, indistinguishable, when each councilman
shall draw one, the inscription on which shall fix the duration and
tenure of office as such. There shall, on the fourth Thursday in May
next thereafter, be elected two councilmen to succeed those whose term
of office expires in one year; on the fourth Thursday in May next fol-
lowing such election there shall be elected a mayor and two other coun-
cilmen to succeed those whose term of office expires in two years, and
annually thereafter there shall likewise be elected two councilmen, and
biennially a mayor, who shall succeed those whose terms expire as afore-
said.

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