Chap. 434.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 7, 9, 18 and 87 of an act
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Crewe, in Nottoway county, Vir-
ginia, approved March 20, 1916. [H B 441]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions four, seven, nine, eighteen and eighty-seven of an act entitled
an act to incorporate the town of Crewe, in Nottoway county, Vir-
ginia, approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4. The mayor and councilmen shall be each elected for a
term of two years, and each shall serve until his successor shall have
qualified. They shall be elected on the second Tuesday in June im-
mediately preceding the expiration of the terms of their predecessors,
and shall enter upon their duties on the first day of September next,
succeeding their election.

Section 7. A treasurer, clerk of the council, sergeant and com-
missioner of the revenue shall be appointed by the council at its first
regular meeting in September in every odd numbered year, or as soon
thereafter as may be, and shall assume the duties of their office on the
first day of October next succeeding. But the council shall have
authority, in its discretion, to appoint one duly qualified person to
perform the duties of treasurer, clerk of the council and commissioner
of the revenue. Their term of office shall be for two years from the
time fixed for their assuming the duties of their offices, and they shall
serve until their successors shall have qualified.

Section 9. The duties and compensation of all municipal officers,
and employees, except as are by the general laws of the State defined
or provided for, shall be defined and prescribed by the town council.

Section 18. The mayor.—The mayor shall be elected by the qual-
ified electors of the town for the term of two years. His salary shall
be fixed by the town council and shall not be diminished during his
term of office.

Section 87. Town officers.—The treasurer, sergeant, clerk of the
council and the commissioner of the revenue of the town shall receive
such salary as may be fixed by the council. Before entering upon the
duties of their several offices, the treasurer, sergeant and commissioner
of the revenue shall give bond, with surety to be approved by the town
council, in such sum as the council shall prescribe. The giving of the
bond by said officers shall be entered upon the records of the council
and the original bond shall be filed with the clerk of the council.
Until and unless the amount of the bond required of said officers shall
be otherwise fixed by the council, the bond of the treasurer shall be in
the sum of five thousand dollars, of the sergeant two thousand dollars,
and commissioner of the revenue one thousand dollars.