Chap. 238.—An ACT to authorize the town of Front Royal to sell electric cur-
rent from its lighting plant to be used for all purposes for which the same
ean be used, and to authorize the council or trustees of said town to make
sale of or lease the lighting plant owned by said town, if in the judgment of
said council or trustees, a sale or lease shall be for the best interests of the
people of said town.

Approved March 12, 1908.

Whereas, the town of Front Royal, by an act of the general assembly
of Virginia, approved’ March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four,
was authorized to provide said town, the inhabitants thereof and the
inhabitants in the vicinity thereof, with light, either gas or electric by the
erection of a new works and plant, and,

Whereas, an electric system of lighting as aforesaid has been installed
and established by said town and is now being operated, and,

Whereas, authority is desired by said town not only to furnish light
to the citizens of said town and in the vicinity thereof, but also to sell
the electric current for any and all purposes for which it may be used;
and also, to lease said electric light plant or make sale of the same if at
any time it should seem judicious to the trustees or council of said town,
now, therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
he lawful for the town of Front Royal, by its council or trustees, to sell
electric current for its lighting plant to any and all persons who may
desire to purchase the same and to be used for such purposes as the
purchasers may desire. It shall also be lawful for the council or trus-
tees of said town to lease or sell said electric light plant as may be de-
termined by said trustees and town council under such terms and con-
ditions as they may deem best for said town: provided, however, that
before a sale or lease of said plant shall become effective, the question
of lease or sale shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said town
and it shall appear by the returns of the votes cast at such election that
a majority of said voters voting at said election are in favor of such
lease or sale as provided in this act. Said election to be held in such
manner as said town council or trustees may prescribe, but notice of
the time, place and object thereof must be given by publication in the
town of Front Royal, Virginia.

The result of such election shall be spread upon the records of said
town and shall constitute a basis for said lease or sale.

In the event of sale of said light plant under this statute, it shall be
lawful for said town to execute a proper deed of conveyance to the
purchaser or purchasers for said light plant and all rights appertaining
thereto, which deed shall be signed by the mayor of said town and at-
tested by its recorder and shall have the effect of conveying to said pur-
chaser or purchasers all the rights of the said town in said electric light
plant.

And in the event of a lease of said light plant, it shall be lawful for
the mayor of said town to execute the same attested by the recorder and
any lease so executed shall be binding on said town.