Chap. 1.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 821 of chapter
35, code of 1887, in relation to the removal from office of county,
city and district officers.

Approved December 16, 1889.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That. section eight hundred and twenty-one of chapter
thirty-five of the code of Virginia, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 821. The county and corporation or hustings court
shall have power to remove from office all county, city,
and district officers elected or appointed for their respec-
tive counties, cities and districta, for malfeasance, mis-
feasance, incompetency or gross neglect of official duty:
provided, however, that such power to remove the separate
clerk of any circuit court, and. the clerk of the chancery
court of the city of Richmond shall be vested only in said
courts, respectively: provided further, that nothing in this
section shall be construed to interfere with any power
vested in the mayor of any city by section twenty of arti-
cle six of the constitution of the state, or to repeal any
provision of the charter of any city or any ordinance in
pursuance of such charter for the removal of any of its
officers. All proceedings under this section shall be by.
order of or on motion before the proper court, upon rea-
sonable notice to the officer to be affected thereby; and
such officers shall have the right to demand a trial by jury,
except in cases where the officer is an appointee.

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