CHaP. 48.—An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds
heretofore and hereafter issued by the town of Orange, Virginia, and
an election held on the thirty-first day of August, 1915, authorizing
the issuing of the said bonds for water and street improvement of the
said town. (H. B. 257.)

Approved February 17, 1916.

Whereas, at an election held on the thirty-first day of Au-
gust, nineteen hundred and fifteen, in the town of Orange, a
municipal corporation in the county of Orange, State of Vir-
ginia, a majority of the qualified voters of the said town voting
on the question of issuing bonds for the purpose of improving
the water works and streets of the said town, voted in favor of
the same and authorized the issuance of bonds of the said town
to the amount of ten thousand dollars; and,

Whereas, the said town has heretofore issued five thousand
dollars of the bonds so authorized and desires to issue the re-
maining amount of the bond authorized at said election; there-

ore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the said election held in the said town of Orange on the thirty-
first day of August, nineteen hundred and fifteen, be, and the
same is hereby validated, ratified, approved and confirmed ; not-
withstanding any defect or irregularity in the calling or hold-
ing of the said election, or in the printing or form of the ballots
used in said election. And the said bonds of the said town issued
and to be issued, are hereby validated, ratified, approved and
confirmed and declared to be valid and binding obligations of
the said town of Orange.

2. An emergency existing in that the said town of Orange
is in urgent need of funds derived and to be derived from the
sale of the said bonds for the purpose of improving the water
works and streets of the said town, this act shall be in force
from its passage.