Chap. 492.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2008 and 2022 of the Code of
Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 26, 1890, and to amend and
re-enact sections 2019 and 2023 of the Code of Virginia.

Approved December 24, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
twenty hundred and eight and twenty hundred and twenty-two of the
Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February twenty-six,
eighteen hundred and ninety, and sections twenty hundred and nineteen
and twenty hundred and twenty-three of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2008. Harbor commissioners for Norfolk and Portsmouth.—For the
purpose of preserving and improving the harbors of Norfolk and Ports-
mouth there shall be appointed a board of harbor commissioners, to con-
sist of seven persons, three of whom shall be appointed by the council of
the city of Norfolk, two by the council of the city of Portsmouth, and
two by the judge of the circuit court of Norfolk county.

§ 2019. Annual report.—The board shall publish an annual report of
their proccedings, and furnish a printed copy of the same to the governor,
auditor of public accounts, the judge of the circuit court of Norfolk
county, and to the judges of the corporation courts of the cities of Nor-
folk and Portsmouth.

§ 2022. How other harbor masters appointed; their bonds.—The cir-
euit court of any county or corporation court of any corporation (except
the cities aforesaid and the county of Norfolk) may, at any time, appoint
one or more harbor masters, and shall take from each person so appointed
a bane to the Commonwealth in the penalty of five hundred dollars.

§ 2023. Their terms and jurisdiction—Every harbor master so ap-
pointed shall hold his office at the pleasure of the appointing power. If
appointed by a corporation court, he shall act within its jurisdiction; if
by the circuit court of a county, he shall act in that part of the county
which is without such jurisdiction.

2. This act shall he in force on and after the first day of February,
nineteen hundred and four.