Chap. 56.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 98, and to re-
enact section 99 of the code of 1887, in relation to the terms of
commissioners of the revenue in the cities of this common-
wealth and the time of their election.

Approved February 10, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section ninety-eight, code of eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows, and that section ninety-nine of the code of eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-seven be, and the same is hereby,
re-enacted :

§98. There shall be chosen by the qualified voters of
each city, at the general election held in May, eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight, andevery six years thereafter, a
elerk of the corporation or hustings court, who shall also
be clerk of the circuit court of such city, but in cities
containing a population of thirty thousand or more there
shall be elected at the same time a separate clerk for
such circuit court, and in the city of Richmond also a
clerk of the chancery court, who shall hold their offices
respectively, for the term of six years; and that the gen.
eral election held in May, in the year eighteen hundrec
and eighty-eight, and every two years thereafter, a mayor
a city sergeant, and a commonwealth’s attorney, whc
shall also be commonwealth’s attorney for the circuit
court of said city, who shall hold their offices, respectively.
for the termof two years; and at the general election held
in May, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
and every three years thereafter, a city treasurer, whc
shall hold his office for the term of three years; and at the
general election held in May, eighteen hundred and ninety, anc
every four years thereafter, there shall be elected a commissioner
of the revenue, who shall hold his office for the term of four
years: provided, that wherever a commissioner of the revenue
for any city of this commonwealth has been elected or appointed
for the term of four years under and by virtue of the charter
of said city the term of such commissioner so clected or ap-
pointed shall be held and deemed to continue for the said four
years, anything in any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

§99. Where the time for electing any of the officers men-
tioned in the preceding section is prescribed by the char-
ter of a city, such officer shall be elected at the time so
prescribed, although the same may be variant from that
mentioned in said section.

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