Chap. 286.-An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the ap-
pointment of trustees for the town of York, approved March 16. 1918, and

to provide for the clection of the successors of such trustees, [S B 225]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled “an act for the appointment of trustees for the town of
York’’, approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Whereas, under the aforesaid act and previous acts of the general
assembly of Virginia, trustees have been appointed for the town of
York, and on occasions the trustees having died, the remaining trustees
have appointed their successors, and

Whereas, the inhabitants of the town of York have petitioned the
general assembly that an act be passed providing for the election of
trustees for the said town, and that the said trustees be required to
make reports and render accounts of their transactions.

Section 1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, that
C. H. Sheild, W. P. Cooke, Sydney Smith, Halstead M. Clements and
T. W. Crockett, the present trustees of the town of York are hereby
continued as such trustees, with all the rights, powers and duties
conferred on said trustees by acts of the general assembly of Virginia
heretofore passed, not inconsistent with the general laws of the State,
particularly the general laws of the State on the subject of the govern-
ment of towns, until such time as their successors have been appointed
and qualified, as hereinafter provided.

Section 2. On the Tuesday after the first Monday in June, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-six, and on the Tuesday after the first Mon-
day in June every two years thereafter, the successors of the trustees
hereinbefore named, shall be appointed by the circuit court of York
county, for the term of two years.

Section 3. It shall be the duty of the trustees now in office, on
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, to make and file in
the circuit court of York county, Virginia, a report showing their
transactions and that of their predecessors, wherein shall be shown
what monies the said trustees have received, and what disposition
has been made thereof, and what balance is in their hands as such,
and of what property, real and personal, they may be seized and
possessed. It shall be the duty of the trustees elected in pursuance
of this act to make like reports on the first of January and July of each
year to the circuit court of York county, Virginia.

Section 4. Said trustees of the town of York shall not lease or
otherwise dispose of any of the water front property of the said town
until any proposed lease or conveyance thereof has been advertised in
accordance with the provisions of the general law governing leases
made by cities and towns.

Section 5. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from
its passage.