Chap. 182.—An ACT to validate a certain contract entered into February 15,
1902, by the town of Berryville, Virginia, and Herbert B. Warde for establish-
ing in said town an acetylene gas plant for lighting purposes.

Approved March 14, 1902.

Whereas, the town council of Berryville, acting in its legal capacity
for said town, did on the fifteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and
two, enter into a contract with Herbert B. Warde, a citizen of said town,
for the lighting of said town in manner and form specified in said con
tract, and which contract was duly recorded February seventeenth in th
office of the clerk of the county court of Clarke county; and,

Whereas, a doubt has arisen as to the power of the said council unde
the town charter to enter into such contract with the said Herbert B
Warde:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That said con
tract be made valid and binding upon said corporation of Berryville ant
the said Herbert B. Warde, his successors and assigns, to all intents an
purposes, as though the said town council had full power to make sai
contract on behalf of said town.

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