Chap. 516.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 60 of an act approved
January 28, 1884, entitled an act to amend sections 4, 12, 15, 41, 50, 52. 60,
61, and 67 of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth,
and to repeal all laws in conflict therewith, approved March 6, 1882.

Approved February 26, 1900.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virgimia, That section
Linty of an act approved January twenty-eight, cightcen hundred and
eighty-four, entitled “an act to amend sections four, twelve, fifteen,
forty-one, fifty, fifty-two, sixty, sixty-one, and sixty-seven, of an act to
provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, and to repeal all laws
in conflict therewith, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-two,” be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 60. There shall be one city treasurer, one collector of city taxes, one
commissioner of the revenue, one city engineer, one city auditor, one
keeper of the almshouse, one physician of the almshouse, who shall be
health officer, one street inspector, one clerk of the market, one wood
measurer, who shall also be weigher of hay and gauger of liquors and
sealer of weights and measures, one keeper of the cemeteries, and one
sanitary inspector, all of whom shall be elected by the qualified voters
of the city of Portsmouth, at such times as herein provided, and in such
manner as prescribed by law or as may hereafter be prescribed by the
general assembly; and there shall be one city attorney and one city
clerk, who shall be elected by the city council at its first regular meeting
in J uly, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, or as soon therearter as may
be pracheable, and every two years thereafter.

. This act shall take effect from its passage.