Chap. 16.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled “an
act to repeal section 2 of an act approved January 28, 1890, entitled an act
to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to provide a new
charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March 28, 1871, and to
amend and re-enact section 7 of said act as amended by an act approved
January 31, 1888; also to amend and re-enact sections 31, 32, and $5 of an
act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville,
approved March 28, 1871; and also to amend and re-enact section 37 of an
act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Charlottesville,
approved March 3, 1892,” approved February 9, 1894.

Approved January UW, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-seven of an act entitled “an act to repeal section two of an act
approved January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled
an act to amend and re-enact section twenty-two of an act entitled an
act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved
March twenty-eighth, eighteen jiundred and seventy-one, and to amend
and re-enact section seven of said act as amended by an act approved
January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty -cight; also to amend
and re-enact section3 thirty- -one, thirty-two, and thirty-five of an act
entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville,
approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one; and
also to amend and re-enact section thirty-seven of an act entitled an act
to amend the charter of the city of Charlottesville, approved March
third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,” approved February ninth,
eighteen hundred and nincty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

37. There shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city of
Charlottesville, on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred
and ninety-four, a mayor, who shall hold his oflice for two vears from
the first of July, eichtcen hundred and ninety-four: one clerk of the
corporation court, who shall hold his office for the term of six years;
one commonwealth’s attorney, one sergeant, and one commissioner of
the revenue, who shall hold their oflices for the term of two years; one
city treasurer, one justice of the peace, and one constable, who shall
hold their offices for the term of three years: provided, how ever, that
the commissioner of the revenue who shall be elected as above provided
on the fourth Thursday in May, nineteen hundred, and thereafter, shall
hold his office for a term of four years. And there shall be established
for the city of Charlottesville a corporation court, to be held by the city
judge of said city at such times as may be designated by law; and the
jurisdiction of said court shall be such as is now prescribed by law, and
the salary of said judge shall be fixéd by the city council at a sum not
exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum; and the city of Charlottes-
ville shall remain a part and parcel of the same legislative and senatorial
district to which it belonged as the town of Charlottesville.
2. ‘This act shall be in force from its passage.