Chap. 1.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2, as amended, of an act en-
titled “An act to provide a new charter for the City of Portsmouth.”, ap-
proved March 10, 1908, to provide that the boundaries of the wards of the
city are to be fixed by the council and that provisions of the general law relat-
ing to wards are to be applicable in certain respects, except as to the number
of wards. [H 16}

Approved January 27, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. ‘That section two, as amended, of an act entitled “An act to pro-
vide a new charter for the City of Portsmouth.”, approved March tenth,
nineteen hundred eight, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 2. Wards.—The number of the wards of the city shall be
eight and their boundaries shall be as prescribed by the council by ordi-
nance, and the provisions of general law relating to establishing wards,
redistricting the city into wards, and changing the boundaries of wards,
shall be applicable, except that the number of wards shall be eight.

2. An emergency exists and this act 1s in force from its passage.