Chap. 40.—An ACT to provide for signing the records of the board of super-
visors where the chairman of any board shall have died, removed from the
county, completed his term of office, or for any other reason become {ncom-
petent to perform the duties of his office.

Approved February 20, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That where the
chairman of any board of supervisors, who should have signed the records
of the proceedings of any meeting of the board shall have died, removed
from the county, completed his term of office, or for any other reason be-
come incapacitated to perform the duties of his office without such records
being signed, it shall be the duty of the board to have such records read at
a regular meeting, and if no error therein is shown, to direct its chairman
to sign such record, which he shall then do, and it shall enter on its records
the fact of such reading and signing, and a reference to such order shall
be noted at the place where such signing is done.

2. All records so signed shall be as valid as if they had been signed by
the chairman who presided at the time the meeting was held.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.