Chap. 328.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act ap-
proved March 8, 1875, entitled an act to provide for the election and
qualification of county officers.

Approved March 7, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the eighth section of an act entitled an act for the election
and qualification of county officers, approved March eighth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§8. Writs of elections to fill vacancies in county, corpora-
tion and district offices shall be issued by the judges of the
county or corporation courts of the counties or corporations
in which such vacancies occur, so that vacancies in county,
corporation and district offices shall be filled at the next

eneral election for county officers after such vacancies occur.
he term of offices of all county, corporation and district
officers, elected under this section, shall commence on the
first day of July next succeeding their election: provided,
however, that when a vacancy occurs in any county, corpo-
ration or district office, the county or corporation courts in
which such vacancy occurs, and when a vacancy occurs in
the office of circuit court clerk, when the clerk of the county
court is not clerk of the circuit court, such vacancy shall be
temporarily filled by the judge of the court in which such
vacancy occurs: and provided further, that when a vacancy
occurs in the office of hustings court clerk, or attorney for
the commonwealth for a city or town, such vacancy shall be
temporarily filled by the judge of the bustings court of the
city or town in which such vacancies occur; in the office of
the clerk of the chancery court of the city of Richmond,
such vacancy shall be temporarily filled by the judge thereof;
and all officers so appointed to fill vacancies shall qualify and
give bond (when a bond is required) within thirty days after
their appointment, and shall continue to discharge the duties
of their respective offices until their successors, elected under
this section, shall have qualified.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.