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Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1897/1898 |
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Law Number | 202 |
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Chap. 202.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 817 of the code of Virginia
providing for oaths to be taken by the deputies of certain city and county
officers.
Approved February 2, 1898.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and seventeen of the code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 817. Appointment of deputies; their powers; how removed.—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 sur-
vevor and the clerk of any county, corporation or hustings court, with
the consent of the court of his county or corporation, and the separate
clerk of any circuit court, and the clerk of the chancery court of the
city of Richmond, with the consent of such circuit or chancery court,
or in any case, with the consent of the judge of the court in vacation
(the said consent in vacation being given in writing), 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 of which by a deputy is expressly forbidden by law. The
order of appointment shall be entered on the minute book of such court
whether madein term time orin vacation. Any such deputy, before entering
wpoon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe the oaths now provided
for county officers, which oaths shall be filed with the clerk of the court by
arhose assent he has been appointed, and such clerk shall properly label and
tile all such oaths in his office for preserration. Any such deputy may be
removed from office either by his principal, or by the court, or by the
judge in vacation.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.