Chap. 172.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
how a charter of a town granted by a court may be annulled and repealed,
approved March 4, 1920. [IS B24

Approved March 14, 1922.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act of
the general assembly of Virginia approved March fourth, nineteen
hundred and twenty, entitled an act to provide how a charter of a
town granted by a court may be annulled and repealed be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

1. That whenever a petition signed by one-fourth of the voters
qualified to vote at the preceding November election residing within
the limits of a town incorporated by a court shall be presented to the
circuit court of the county in which such town, or the greater part
thereof, is situated, setting forth in general terms the boundaries of
said town and praying that the charter thereof may be annulled and
repealed, to which the board of supervisors of the county or counties
in which said.town is situated shall be made defendants, accompanied
by satisfactory proof that said petition has been published once a
week for four successive weeks in some newspaper published in said
county or counties, if there be such paper, and a copy posted at the
front door of the courthouse of said county or counties and at three
public places in said town for a like period, the court shall order an
election to be held in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-
eight hundred and eighty-two of the Code of Virginia, and on the
tickets used in said election there shall be printed the words “For
repeal of town charter” and “Against repeal of town charter’ and
each qualified voter voting in said election who wishes the charter
to be repealed shall strike out the words “Against the repeal of town
charter” and each one who desires that the charter be retained shall
strike out the words “For repeal of town charter,” and if a majority
of such voters be against the repeal then the court ordering said
election shall enter an order denying the prayer of the petition and
declaring that the charter of said town shall continue in force; but if
a majority of such votes be for the repeal, then said court shall enter
an order declaring that said charter of said town shall be annulled
and repealed as of some date to be fixed in said order, and the court
shall further make such provision as may seem to be just for the
disposition by sale or otherwise of the property if any, belonging
to said town and for the payment of the debts and obligations, if any,
of said town. And the officers of election are hereby required to
certify the results of said election to the court at its next succeeding
term. ;
2. Any petitioner or defendant or any duly qualified voter in said
town who feels himself aggrieved by the order entered. in pursuance
of this act may, within stxty days from the date of said order, upon
giving the bond required by section sixty-three hundred and thirty-
eight of the Code of Virginia, the amount of which is to be fixed
by said court, apply to the supreme court of appeals of Virginia
for a writ of error and supersedeas in conformity to the general law.
3. An emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act shall
be in force from its passage. :

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