Chap. 15.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2701 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the appointment, powers, and removal of certain deputies. 61]
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Approved February 24, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-seven hundred and one of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2701. The treasurer of any county or city, the sheriff
of any county, the sheriff or sergeant of any city, any commissioner
of the revenue, any county surveyor, any county clerk and the clerk
of any circuit or city court, may appoint one or more deputies, who
may discharge any of the official duties of their principal during
his continuance in office, unless it be some duty the performance ot
which by a deputy is expressly forbidden by law. The officer making
any such appointment shall certify the same to the court in the clerk’s
office of which the oath of the principal of such deputy is filed, and a
record thereof shall be entered in the order book of such court. Any
such deputy, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take
and prescribe the oath now provided for county officers, which oath
shall be filed with the clerk of the court in whose office the oath of
his principal is filed, and such clerk shall properly label and file all such
oaths in his office for preservation. Any such deputy may be removed
from office by his principal. Such deputy may also be removed by
the court as provided by section twenty-seven hundred and five of
this Code.