Chap. 390.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 of the charter of
the town of Gladeville, in Wise county.

Approved March 28, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section ten
and section eleven of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of
Gladeville, in Wise county, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-four, and as the same was amended by an act ap-
proved March the third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and as the
same was amended by an act approved February twenty-ninth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, and as the same was amended by an act ap-
proved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be, and the same
are hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

§ 10. When for any cause a vacancy may occur in the office of mayor,
recorder, councilmen, sergeant, or any other office that has been, or may
hereafter be, provided by the council of said town pursuant to authority
vested by the charter of said town, the council shall, by a majority vote
of such as remain, fill the vacancy from among the citizens of the town
eligible to the office under this act.

§11. The failure of any person elected or appointed under this act
to qualify or to qualify and give bond (where a bond is required) within
the time prescribed by the ninth section of this act, shall vacate the office
to which he shall have been so elected or appointed; and the failure of
any person elected by the council, under the tenth section, to fill a va-
cancy to qualify within five days after being so elected shall vacate the
said office.

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