Chap. 52.—An ACT to amend an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled an
act to incorporate the city of Danville by amending and re-enacting section
30 under chapter 6, for the purpose of prescribing the manner of election of
a city constable, a collector of city taxes, a city attorney, and empowering
the city council to prescribe the duties of the aforesaid officers, fix their
salaries, or compensation; and also permit the city council to appoint a clerk
of the market, inspector of buildings, and such other employees as it may
deem necessary and proper and to define their term of office, powers, duties
and compensation, and providing for bonds for said officers and the abolish-
ment of any office appointive by the city council, for good cause, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved March 24, 1914. [H B 132]

Approved February 25, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety,
entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, as amended and
re-enacted by an act approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hun-
dred and fourteen, be amended and re-enacted so that section thirty
under chapter six shall read as follows:

Chapter 6, section 30. There shall be elected by the qualified voters
of the city of Danville, on Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem-
ber, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and every four years there-
after, a city constable, whose term of office shall begin on the first
day of January, succeeding his election, and continue for four years
thereafter, and the city council shall have the power to prescribe his
powers and duties and to fix his salary or compensation which shall
not be increased or diminished during the term of his office. Before
entering upon his duties such constable shall give a bond with good
security, in such amount and penalty as the city council may prescribe.

The election of constable under this section shall be held in the
same manner and by the same officers who conduct general election
in said city. cis

Said constable may have such deputies or assistants as the council
may approve.

The council may appoint a city attorney, and a collector of city
taxes, after the expiration of their existing terms of office, a clerk
of the market, an inspector of buildings, and such other employees
as it may deem necessary, and may define their term of office, powers,
duties and compensation; and any office which the council has power
to create under this section, may, at any time, for good cause, be
abolished by it, whether the term of office of the incumbent has
expired or not. The council may require bond with good security
from any of its employees in such penalty and with such conditions,
as it may deem proper.

2. All acts and parts of acts, in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.