Chap. 60.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
provide for the election and qualification of county officers. Ap-
proved January 18, 1884. :

Approved January 29, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section two of an act entitled an act to provide for the election
and qualification of county officers, approved January eigh-
teenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows :

§ 2. It shall be the duty of each county judge in this state,
upon the recommendation of the board of supervisors of his
county, at the May term of his court, in the year eiglteen
hundred and seventy-five, and every fourth year thereafter, to
appoint for each county in which he holds his court, one
county surveyor, and one superintendent of poor: provided
that the judge may, if he think proper, reject such recommen-
dation ; and shall, unless the said board of supervisors recom-
mend other persons suitable in the opinion of the judge for
said positions within thirty days after their first recommendation
has been rejected, fill said offices, or either of them, by his own
appointment either in term time or in vacation. Said officers
shall enter upon the discharge of their duties on the first day
of July next after their appointment, and their duties, liabilities
and compensation shall in all other respects be the same as
now provided by law relating to the offices of the county sur-
veyor and superintendent of the poor respectively : and pro-
vided further, that such judge may, either in term or in vacation,
by an order entered of record, fill any vacancy occurring in
either of said offices: provided that no recommendation made
by the board of supervisors shall be rejected by the county
judge, except for reasons which shall be entered of record.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.