Chap. 3.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow the quali-
fied voters of the city of Newport News, Virginia, to nominate candidates
for the council by a primary election, approved March 7, 1922. [H B 17]

Approved February 5, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to allow the qualified voters of the city of Newport
News, Virginia, to nominate candidates for the council by a primary
election, approved March seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. That at the election of councilmen for the city of New-
port News, Virginia, to be held on the second Tuesday in June, nineteen
hundred and twenty-four, and at all elections for councilmen thereafter,
the said councilmen be nominated by a primary election of any political
party desiring to so nominate its candidates, and the nomination and
election shall be held by, under and in pursuance of the general election
laws of the State.

2. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are here-
by repealed. .

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage. .