Chap. 72.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 30 of an act to pro-
vide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or
parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 14, 1908.

Approved February 28, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
six and thirty of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol,
and to repeal all other acts, or parts of acts, in conflict therewith, ap-
proved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§6. There shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city of Bristol,
on the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and ten, six members
of the city council. Three of said members, one from each ward, shall
be elected for one year; three of said members, one from each ward, for
three years, and annually thereafter, on the second Tuesday in June,
there shall be elected three members of said council, one from each ward,
whose term of office shall be three years.

§30. To require and to compel the abatement and removal of nuis-
ances within said city at the expense of the person or persons causing
the same, or the owner or owners of the ground whereon the same may
be, and to collect said expense by a suit or motion; to prevent and regu-
late slaughter houses, soap and candle factories, oil tanks, lumber vards
or other combustible articles within said city, or to restrain the exercise
of any dangerous, offensive, unwholesome business, trade or employment
therein, and to regulate the transportation of coal and other articles, or
live stock, through the streets of said city.

The council may provide by ordinance for a system of meat inspec-
tion, and may appoint meat inspectors, agents or officers to carry the
same into effect; may license, regulate, control and locate slaughter
houses within or without the corporate limits of the city. The city may
acquire by lease or purchase and may hold property for use as a slaughter
house, either within or without the corporate limits of the city; and may
grant an exclusive franchise to any person or corporation to conduct 8
slaughter house within the city for a reasonable length of time, not to
exceed thirty years, subject to the regulations and on the conditions pre-
scribed by the council, and in compliance with the general law of the
State as to the granting and selling of franchises and public property by
cities and towns.

2. As the election provided for in this act will be held within ninety
days after the adjournment of the general assembly, an emergency is
declared to exist, and this act shall be in force from its passage.