Chap. 687.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 315 of an
act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Cape Charles, in the county
of Northampton, approved March 1, 1886.
Avproved March 2, 1900.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three of chapter three hundred and fifteen of an act entitled an act to
incorporate the town of Cape Charles, in the county of Northampton,
approved March the first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 3. The government of the said town shall be vested in the mayor
and six councilmen, to be elected on the fourth Thursday in May as
hereinafter provided, from the qualified voters of the said town.
All persons entitled to vote in the county of Northampton, and who
shall have resided in the said town three months next preceding any
election shall be entitled to vote therein. The first election under this
act shall be held on the fourth Thursday in May, anno domini, nineteen
hundred.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.