Chap. 122.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 3, section 1,
of chapter 5, and sections 1 and 5 of chapter 8 of an act approved March 3,
1898, entitled: An act to provide a new charter for the town of Berryville.

Approved March 3, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of chapter three, section one of chapter five, and sections one and
five of chapter eight of an act approved March third, eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight, entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the town
of Berryville,” be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Chapter III.

§1. Municipal authorities; how elected.—There shall be elected by
the qualified voters of said town on the second Tuesday in June, nine-
teen hundred and eight, and biennially thereafter, one elector who shall
be denominated the mayor, one other elector who shall be denominated
the recorder and four other electors who shall be denominated the coun-
cilmen of said town (the councilmen to reside one in each ward of
said town) and the mayor, recorder and councilmen thus elected shall
constitute the council of said town. They shall enter upon the duties
of their respective offices on the first day of September next succeeding
their election and shall continue in office till their successors are elected
and qualified.

Chapter V.

$1. Duties of recorder—The duty of recorder shall be to keep the
journal of the proceedings of the council and to have charge of and
preserve the records of the town. In the absence from the town, or dis-
qualification, or inability or sickness of the mayor, or during any va-
cancy in the office of mayor, the recorder shall perform the duties of the
mayor and be invested with all his powers.

Chapter VILL.

$1. Presiding ofticer—The council shall be presided over at its meet-
ings by the mayor, or in his absence by the recorder, and in the absence
of both the mayor and recorder, by one of the councilmen selected by
a majority of the councilmen present.

§5. Mayor and recorder entitled to vote; deciding vote—The mayor
and recorder shall be members of the council and entitled to vote, and
in all cases of a tie, the person presiding at the time shall cast the de-
ciding vote.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.