Chap. 38.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved January 11,
1877, entitled an act to provide for the appointment and removal of
district school trustees, and to repeal the 4th clause of the 7th section
of the 78th chapter of the Code of 1873, in force February 20, 1884.

In force September 3, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and three of chapter one hundred and thirty-
eight of the acts passed by the general assembly of Virginia
at the session of eighteen hundred and: eighty-three—four, in
force February twenty, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. That the general assembly shall quadrennially, com-
mencing at the session of eighteen hundred and eighty-three-
four, elect three citizens of each county of the common-
wealth, who shall be known as county school commissioncrs,
and shall be and constitute the county school electoral boards
of their respective counties. The members of said boards
shall go into office on the first day of April next succeeding
their election, having first taken and subscribed the oaths of
office prescribed by law to be taken by officers of the com-
monwealth, and shall hold their offices for the term of four
years, until their successors shall be duly elected and shall

ave qualified: provided however, that it shall be lawful for
any of said county school commissioners who were elected
at the regular session of the general assembly of eighteen
hundred and eighty-three-four, to qualify by taking said
oaths of office, and to go into office at any time within sixty
days after the passage of this act: and provided further, that
the qualification and official acts of any of said school com-
missioners who may have taken the oaths of office after the
first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and be-
fore the passage of this. act, shall be, and shall be taken,
deemed and held to be as legal and valid as though said
commissioners had qualified and taken the oaths of office on
or before the first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-
four.

§ 3. The general assembly may elect said county school
commissioners by a joint resolution for that purpose, em-
bracing any or all of the counties of the commonwealth; and
the general assembly may, at any regular or extra session
thereof, in like manner, fill any vacancies which may have
occurred, or may hereafter occur, in any of said offices. Any
county school commissioner so chosen to fill a vacancy, shall
qualify by taking the oaths of office prescribed as aforesaid,
within sixty days after his election, and shall hold his office
for the unexpired term of the office which he was elected to
fill.

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