Chap. 387.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3 and 6 of an act of
the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an act to provide a new charter for
the town of Pulaski,” approved February 2, 1898. :

Approved March 14, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
two, three and six of an act to provide a new charter for the town of
Pulaski, approved February second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2. The officers of said town shall consist of a mayor, eight council-
men, sergeant, a treasurer, who shall collect and disburse all revenues
and taxes of said town, and a clerk of council, who shall be elected as
hereinafter provided. The council shall have power and authority to
pass and ordain such by-laws and ordinances for the government of said
town as the council shall deem necessary; provided the same are not in
conflict with the Constitution of this State or of the United States. The
mayor and four members of the council, or, in the absence of the mayor,
five members of the council, one of whom shall act.as chairman, shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

§3. An election for mayor, councilman, sergeant, clerk of council and
treasurer, shall be held on the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred
and eight, and every two years thereafter. The officers so elected shall
begin their terms of office on the first day of September succeeding, and
shall hold their term of office for two years, or until their successors are
elected and qualified. If any vacancy occur in any office the same shall
be filled by the council. But the present incumbents in their respective
offices shall continue in office and exercise all the powers conferred on
them at present, until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
No citizen shall be eligible for membership as a councilman unless he is
a freeholder.

§6. The corporate limits of said town are hereby created and declared
to be a separate and distinct road district of Pulaski county, and no road
tax shall be levied on any person or property within said limits, except
by the council of the town of Pulaski; which tax so levied by the council
shall be expended within the limits of the corporation on the streets and
roads therein, under the direction and supervision of said council. The
said town limits shall be divided into four wards, bounded and described
as follows: The first ward shall begin on Jefferson avenue at center of
bridge across creek, thence along the center of Jefferson avenue to Tenth
street north, thence along center of Tenth street north to Prospect avenue,
thence in a northerly direction to the southwest corner of the cemetery,
thence along the westerly line of the cemetery to the north line of the
corporation of Pulaski, thence with the north and western line of said
corporation to the road leading to Crabtree’s Springs, thence along said
road to a point where the road connects with Water street, prolonged in
said town, thence along the center of Water street to Randolph avenue
bridge, thence along the center of the creek to Jefferson avenue at the
place of beginning. The second ward shall include all that part of the
town east of Jefferson avenue, and the line from Prospect avenue to the
southeast corner of the cemetery and north of Peak creek. The third
ward shall include all that part of the town south of Peak creek, and
east of Valley street. The fourth ward shall include all that part of
the town west of Valey street, south of Water'street and the road leading
to Crabtree’s springs. :

At the general election held hereunder there shall be elected two
councilmen from each of the said wards.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, are hereby
repealed.