Chap. 670.--An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4, and 5 of an act ap-
proved February 19, 1894, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to in-
corporate the town of Blackstone, Nottoway county, Virginia, approved Febru-
ary 28, 1888.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
three, four, and five of an act approved, February nineteenth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Blackstone, in Nottoway
county, Virginia, approved February twenty-cighth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-cight, be amended and re-enacted so as to re ad as follows:

§ 3. The officers of said town shall consist of a mayor and seven coun-
cilmen, who shall constitute the council of said town, except that the
mayor shall have no vote in said council unless there is a tie, a sergeant,
and such other officers as the council shall deem necessary. The terms
of mayor and councilmen shall commence on the first day of April nev:
succecding their election, except the terms of the mayor and councilmen
elected in nineteen hundred and two shall commence the first of July of
that year and expire on the first of April, nineteen hundred and three.
And thereafter terms of the officers elected by the council shall commence
on the first of April succeeding their election, and shall be for one year.
The council shall have power to fill all vacancies that may occur in their
own body, in the mayoralty, the sergeant, or in any other office it may
have created, and such election shall be for the unexpired term. AJ]
officers elected by the people or the council shall be qualified electors of
the town, and shall continue in office until their successors are clected
and qualified.

S$ 4. An clection for mayor and councilmen shall be held on the fourth
Thursday in March of each vear, exeept the election for nineteen hundred
and two shall be held as now provided by law, and at every such election
after the vear nineteen hundred and two there shall he submitted to the
qualified voters of said town the question whether, during the vear com-
mencing on the first of April next suceceding, the council of said town
should erant license for the sale of aleoholic liquors, wine, malt Hiquors.
or any ‘mixture of them, as provided by an aet of general assembly of
Virginia, approved March the seventh, nineteen hundred, entitled an act
{o amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, en-
titled an act to regulate the granting of licenses to sell wines, ardent
spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in the town of Blackstone,
Nottoway county, Virginia, or in two miles thereof, approved February
twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. And if at said election
a majority of the qualified voters shall vote “For license,” the common
council shall grant licenses under the above mentioned act for the license
year commencing next after said election, and if a majority of the quali-
fied voters shall vote “Against license,” no license shall be granted under
said act during the next license year.

§ 5. It shall be the duty of the county court, at its February term,
nineteen hundred and three, and every three ycars thereafter, to appoint
a qualified voter of said town as registrar to register, according to the
laws of this State, at any time except as herein otherwise provided, in
a special registration book provided for the purpose, all the citizens of said
town entitled to vote who shall apply to him for registration. On the
twelfth and eleventh days preceding any general election under this
charter it shall be his duty to register voters, and from sunrise of the
eleventh day preceding such election to sunrise the day following such
election no name shall be entered upon the registration book unless upon
transfer from some other voting precinct in this State. Such registrar
shall be entitled to a compensation of two dollars for each of the two
days he shall sit, and, in addition, ten cents for each name he shall enter
upon such registration book on any other day than the regular registra-
tion days, which compensation shall be paid out of the town treasury.
It shall be the duty of the registrar to post notice of the time and place
of registration at three or more public places in the corporation at least
ten days before the day fixed for the registration. And five days pre-
vious to every election he shall post at a conspicuous place in said town a
nt of all voters who have registered since the next preceding election.

. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of July next.