Chap. 192.—An ACT to amend section 8 of an act to establish a corporation
court for the city of Bristo],in Washington county, as heretofore amended.

Approved January 80, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight of an act entitled an act to establish a corporation court for the
city of Bristol, in Washington county, approved February twelfth,
eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section eight of an act entitled an act to estab-
lish a corporation court for the city of Bristol, in Washington county,
approved February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,

amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§8. The judge of said corporation court shall receive an annual
salary of not less than one thousand and fifty dollars, nor more than
twelve hundred and fifty dollars,to be fixed by the council of the
city of Bristol, and to be paid as provided by law; and said judge
shall be, and is hereby, prohibited from practicing in the profes-
sion of the law in any capacity, in this state or elsewhere, during
his incumbency of said office. Said judge shall qualify by taking the
oath required by law, within thirty days after receiving his commis-
sion; said oath to be taken before any notary public or any clerk of
a court of record.

2. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of Febru-

ary, eighteen handged pads inety-fi ve.