CHAP. 121.—An ACT to amend section 3 of an act approved Feb-
ruary 25, 1890, entitled an act to establish Boards of commission-
ers of excise and to define their duties and powers.

Approved February 2, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section three of an act approved February twenty-
fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled an act to es-
tablish boards of commissioners of excise, and to define

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their duties and powers, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the state board of commis-
Bioners of excise to elect for each city of the common-
wealth three qualified voters (who shall be residents of the
city for which they are chosen), to be known as the board
of commissioners of excise for that city, who shall go into
office within ten days after their election, having first
taken, subscribed, and filed in the clerk’s office of the cor-
poration or hustings court, as the case may be, the oath
prescribed for county and city officials, said oath to be
taken before any person qualified to administer oaths.
The members of such city boards shall hold their offices
for the term of two years from the date of their appoint-
ment and qualification, and until their successors are ap-
pointed by said state board and qualified.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall
apply to the present boards of commissioners of excise for
the several cities of the commonwealth, elected under the
act of February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and nine-
ty, aforesaid.