Chap. 276.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 11 of an act. entitled
an act to incorporate the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia,
approved May 23, 1887, as amended by an act. entitled an act. to amend and re-
enact sections 3 and 4 of the charter of the town of Hampton, approved March 3,

1898.
Approved May 15, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virgimia, That sections
four, as amended by an act. of the general assembly, approved March
third. eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and eleven of an act. en-
tithed an act to ineorporate the town of Hampton. in Elizabeth City
county, Virginia, approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and
elghty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$4. There shall be elected on the second Tuesday in June, nineteen
hundred and three, and every two vears thereafter, two electors from
each ward, who shall be denominated the councilmen of the said town,
and there shall also at the same time be chosen by the electors of the said
town of Hampton a mayor for the said town, who shall be an elector
thereof.

The mavor and the councilmen shall constitute the council of the said
town; they shall enter upon their duties of their respective offices on the
first day of September next succeeding their elections, and shall continue
in office until their suecessors are elected and qualified.
S11. There shall be elected by the qualified voters of the said town on
the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and three and every two
years thereafter, a town treasurer who shall be an elector of the town, and
who shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first day of September
next succeeding his election, and who shall continue in office until his
successor is elected and qualified, and who shall collect and keep all funds
and other monevs belonging to the town, and pay out the same on the
order of the town council, attested by the town clerk. The said treasurer,
before entering upon the discharge of the dutics of his office, shall give
bond with some guarantee or security company doing business in the
State of Virginia, to be approved by the town council as security in the
sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, payable to the town of Hampton,
Virginia, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties.

He shall receive no salary, but his compensation for the performance
of his duties shall be a commission of five per centum of the moneys
collected from all sources, except on the proceeds of bonds issued by the
town upon which amounts collected as the proceeds from the sale of bonds
issued by the town, he shall receive a commission of two per centum onlv,
and money loaned by the town and subsequently collected, upon which
he shall receive a commission of five per centum on the interest collected
thereupon only.

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