CHAP. 264.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9233 of the
code of Virginia, in regard to the appointment of notaries pub-
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Approved February 16, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section nine hundred and twenty-three of the code
of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so ag to read as
follows:

§ 923. The governor shall appoint in and for the sepa-
rate counties and cities of the state as many notaries as
to him shall seem proper, who shall hold office for the
term of four years, and who shall exercise the powers and
functions of conservators of the peace; and he may ap-
point the same person to serve for two or more counties
and cities: provided that notaries in cities and in counties
in which cities or parts thereof are located, shall have au-
thority to act as such in each of said localities, or for one
county and city. Every notary shall give bond in the
county court of the county or the hustings court of the
city for which he 18 appointed, within four months from
the date of his commission, in a penalty of not less than
five hundred dollars; and theclerk of said court shall imme-
diately forward a certified copy of said bond to the secretary
of the commonwealth. The removal of a notary from the
county or corporation in which he resided when appoint-
ed, unless such removal be into another county or city,
for which he may have been also appointed, shall be con-
strued as a vacation of his office, and the clerk of said
county or city shall at once inform the governor of the
fact as well as of all deaths of notaries that may occur.

2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the common-
wealth, when a commission is ordered by the governor, to
send the same to the clerk of the court of the county or
city in which the notary public is required to qualify, to
be delivered by him to the notary public after he has given
bond and taken the oath of office; and the clerk of the
court in which this is done shall be required forthwith to
report the fact to the secretary of the commonwealth, who
shall be required to keep a book stating the names and
number of notaries public, when appointed, and when
qualified. ;

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