Chap. 90.—An ACT to change the method of appointment of coroner for the
city of Newport News, and to provide for his election by the council of
said city, and to fix his term of office and compensation. [S B 192]

Approved February 25, 1922.

1. Be it enacted -by the general assembly of Virginia, That
hereafter the coroner for the city of Newport News shall be elected
by the council of said city.
2. That the council of said city shall immediately after this act
takes effect elect some suitable and competent physician of said city to
said office for a term ta end December thirty-first, nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, and thereafter at the same time and in the same
manner as other city officers are elected by the council, elect some
suitable and competent physician of said city to fill the position of
coroner for and during the term of four years, the first of which
said terms shall begin on January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-

ve.

3. That the duties of the coroner shall be those as now prescribed
by general law for coroners, and such other duties as may be imposed
from time to time by the council, and he may or may not, in the discre-
tion of the council, hold some office or employment under the city
government, the duties of which are not in conflict herewith.

4. That the salary of the coroner shall be such amount as is fixed
by the council, and he shall receive no fees or other emoluments for
the performance of the duties of his office as such coroner, except the
salary so fixed.

5. That the fees now allowed him by law shall go into the city
treasury, and he shall notify the city auditor at least once a month of
cases which he investigates or over which he holds an inquest or
autopsy, together with the amount of fees which he would be entitled
to under the general law to receive therefor, and whether same be
chargeable against the estate of the deceased or otherwise, and the
city auditor shall thereupon notify the city treasurer, who shall pro-
ceed to collect the same and turn the same into the city treasury.

6. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.