Chap. 299.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act enti-

~ tled an act prescribing general provisions in relation to commissioners
of the revenue, and the assessment of taxes on persons, property, in-
come, licenses, &c., approved March 16th, 1874.

Approved April 2, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
there shall be four commissioners of the revenue for each of
the counties of Bed‘ord, Franklin, and Pittsylvania; three
for each of the counties of Carroll, Fauquier, Grayson, Hali-
fux, Hanover, Patrick, Shenandoah, Smyth, Tazewell, and
Lee; two for each of the counties of Accomack, Albemarle,
Amherst, Bath, Botetourt, Brunswick, Buchanan, Bucking-
ham, Campbell, Caroline, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Culpeper,
Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Fairfax, Floyd, Frederick, Giles,
Henrico, Henry, Louisa, Lunenburg, Madison, Mecklenburg,
Montgomery, Nansemond, Nelson, Norfolk, Orange, Prince
William, Russell, Scott, Southampton, Spotsylvania, Sussex,
Washington, Wise, and Wythe; and one for every other
county now existing, or which may be hereafter created;
and one for cach city and town now authorized by law to
elect a commissioner of the revenue; which said commis-
sioners shal! be elected, give bond, and qualify, as prescribed
by law; and in the counties of Augusta, Loudoun, Rock-
bridge, and’ Rockingham, there shall be one commissioner of
the revenue for each magisterial district, to be elected by the
qualified voters of said counties, respectively; which said
commissioners shal] give bond, and qualify as prescribed by
law. Tbe term of office of the commissioners of the revenue
shall commence on the first day of July next after their elec-
tion, and continue for four years trom the day when their
term of office respectively commenced, unless sooner re-
moved. Kach commissioner shall reside in the district for
which he was elected, and his removal therefrom shall vacate
his office: provided that the voters residing within any cor-
poration, who are hereby authorized to elect a commissioner
of the revenue for such corporation, shall not vote for the
commissioners of the revenue for the county within the limits
of which such corporation may lie. In those counties in
which there may be more than one commissioner, each shall
be for a certain district, the bounds whereof shall be laid off
and described by an order of the county court, having regard,
as far as practicable, to the boundaries of the magisterial
distritts within said counties; and it shall be the duty of the
county judge of each of such counties in which he holds his
court, at the April term thereof, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-five, to provide for said districts. Said
court may annually, at the April term in any year, make any
change in said districts which to it shall seem proper.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.