Chap. 323.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 60 of the Code of Virginia, as
amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved April 2, 1902,
entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 59 and 60 of an act of the gen-
eral assembly of Virginia approved December 23, 1891, entitled an act amending
sections 58, 59, and 60 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the reapportion-
ment of representation in the general assembly,” and to amend and re-enact
section 61 of the Code of Virginia.

Approved November 25, 1903. *

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act of the general as-
sembly of Virginia approved April second, nineteen hundred and two,
entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections fifty-nine and sixty of
an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved December twenty-
third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled an act amending sec-
tions fifty-eight, fifty-nine, and sixty of the Code of Virginia, in relation
to the reapportionment of representation in the general assembly,” and
section sixty-one of the Code of Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows: ,

§ 60. The senators shall be elected as follows: In the senatorial dis-
tricts bearing even numbers there shall be elected on Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and three, for the term of
four years, to begin on the second Wednesday in January succeeding
their election, members of the senate to represent such districts; in the
senatorial districts bearing odd numbers, and in the citv of Richmond
to fill the vacancy which will occur on the second Wednesday in January,
nineteen hundred and six, there shall be elected, on Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and five, for a term of two
years, to begin on the second Wednesday in January succeeding their elec-
tion, members of the senate to represent such districts; and on Tuesday
after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and seven, and
every four years thereafter, there shall be elected for the term of four
years, to begin on the second Wednesday in January succeeding their
election, members of the senate to represent each senatorial district in
the State: provided, that the term of the senator now residing in the
city of Richmond, who, by the terms of the reapportionment act approved
April second, nineteen hundred and two, is continued in office as one of
the senators from the thirty-eighth senatorial district thereby created,
be extended, as provided by the schedule to the Constitution, until the
second Wednesday in January, nineteen hundred and six.

§ 61. How vacancies in general assembly filled—When a vacancy oc-
curs during the reeess of the general assembly by the death or resigna-
tion of a member thereof, or when a member-elect to the next general
assembly shall die prior to its meeting, a writ of election to fill such a
vacancy shall be issued by the governor, and when such vacancy hap-
pens during the session of the general assembly, of which the person so
dying or resigning is a member, the writ shall be issued by the speaker
of us house of delegates, or by the president of the senate, as the case
may be.

Such writ shall be directed to the sheriff of the county or sergeant of
the corporation for which the election is to be held, or to the sheriffs and
sergeants of the respective counties and corporations composing the elec-
tion district, or districts, for the clection of senators or delegates, when
the election is for such districts: provided, that whenever any district is
changed after the election of a delegate or senator, and the delegate or
senator shall die, resign, or be removed from office, the election to fill the
vacancy shall be held in the district as constituted when the said dele-
gate or senator was elected.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.