Chap. 9.—An ACT to provide for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the
city of Roanoke, Virginia.

Approved February 9, 1910.

Whereas, it is proposed to establish an additional city court for the
city of Roanoke, Virginia, to be known as the “court of law and chancery
of the city of Roanoke” ; and

Whereas, it is desired to ascertain whether the said city of Roanoke has
a population of thirty thousand inhabitants, or more, so as to entitle it to
have the additional court above mentioned; therefore, in order to ascer-
tain the population of said city,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That as soon as
practicable after the passage of this act the mayor of the city of Roanoke
shall name, designate and appoint not exceeding ten enumerators for each
ward in said city, and he may, in his discretion, designate the bounds of
the district of each enumerator. ,

2. The said enumerators shall, as soon as practicable after their ap-
pointment, take the oath of office prescribed by law, enter upon the dis-
charge of their duties and shall enumerate all of the inhabitants of their
respective districts and return duplicate lists thereof to the mayor of said
city, to which lists shal] be attached the oath of the respective enumera-
tors to the effect that said list embraces the names of all the inhabitants
of his district, and none other, as he verily believes, which oath shall also
set forth the number of days the said enumerators shall have been em-
ployed in takjng said lists.

3. When all of said lists shall have been received by said mayor he
shall enumerate the same and file in the clerk’s office of Roanoke city one
copy of said list, and shall forthwith certify and transmit the same to the
secretary of the Commonwealth.

4. The said enumerators shall be allowed the sum of three dollars per
day for each day employed in said work, which shall be paid by the city of
Roanoke out of the treasury on the order of the mayor of the city of Roa-
noke.

5. It being desirable that the enumeration herein provided for shall
be obtained as speedily as practicable, an emergency exists, and this act
shall be in force from its passage.