Chap. 580.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 60, chapter 7, of the charter
of the city of Portsmouth in relation to city officers.

Became a law without the governor's signature January 6, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty, chapter seven, of the charter of the citv of Portsmouth, in relation
to city officers, 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 surveyor, one city auditor, one
keeper of the almshouse: one physician of the almshouse, who shall be
health officer; one city attorney, one physician for the poor; one city
clerk, who shall be clerk of the couneil; one plumbing inspector, one
chief engincer of the fire department, one street inspector, one clerk of
the market; one wood measurer, who shall be weigher of hay and gauger
of liquors and sealer of weights and measures; one keeper of the ceme-
{eries, and one sanitary inspector, all of whom shall be elected by the
qualified voters of the city of Portsmouth in the manner prescribed by
law.

2. The city council of said city shall not recommend to the general
assembly any change, repeal, or amendment of the provisions of this sec-
tion until and except the question of such change, repeal, or amendment
shall have been submitted to the qualified voters of said city at some gen-
eral election and approved by a majority of the voters voting in said
election.

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