Chap. 127.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act to incorporate
the town of Boykins, approved November 24, 1884.

Approved February 14, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Boykins,
approved the twenty-fourth day of November, cighteen hundred and
eighty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 4. 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 said town shall be exercised by said
council or under its authority, except when otherwise provided by law.
The mayor shall preside over the meetings of the council when present
and in his absence the president of the council shall preside, and if
both be absent, some member of said council shall be designated to preside
pro tempore. The mayor shall have all the rights, powers, and privileges
such office confers under the general laws governing towns within this
state, and shall be invested with all powers of a justice of the peace
within the limits of said town and within the limits of the county of
Southampton, in both civil and criminal cases, and all fines, penalties,
or imprisonments for violations of the by-laws or ordinances of said town
shall be recovered before or enforced under the judgment of the mavor,
and he shall be entitled to the same fees as a justice of the peace for
like services; but the mayor shall have no vote in the council, except in
vase of a tie. Any vacancy which may occur in the office of mayor or
councilman shall be filled by the council. ‘The mayor and councilmen
shall hold their respective offices for two years from the first day of
January succeeding their election and until their successors are elected
and qualified.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed
in so far as they would interfere with the operation hereof.

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