Chap. 58.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of article 2 of an act
entitled: An act to incorporate the town of Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county,
approved January 22, 1900.

Approved February 20, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
of article two of an act entitled “ an act to incorporate the town of
Phoebus, in Elizabeth City county,” approved January twenty-two, nine-
teen hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Article 2, §1—There shall be elected on the second Tuesday in June,
nineteen hundred and nine, and every two years thereafter, two electors
from each of said wards, who shall be called councilmen of said town,
and there shall also be elected at the same time, a mayor and a treasurer,
who shall also be electors of said town; and each of said officers shall
hold office for two years and until their successors shall have been elected
and have qualified. A majority of the council shall constitute a quo-
rum for the transaction of business, but no ordinance or resolution shall
be adopted having for its purposes the appropriation of money for other
than current expenses, or for the borrowing of money, except by the
concurrent vote of at least seven members of the council and, upon the
demand of one member, the yeas and nays on such ordinance or resolu-
tion shall be taken and entered upon the records of the council. Should
three or more electors from one or more wards receive the same number
of votes at any election for councilmen, or any two or more electors
receive the same number of votes for either the office of mayor or treas-
urer, then in such event, the councilmen who are elected at such election,
shall organize and proceed to determine by lot who shall be declared
elected to the said offices, respectively. The members of the council shall
be vested with all of the rights and powers conferred upon them by the
general laws of this State and by this act.

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hereby repealed.