Chap. 636.—An ACT providing for the appointment and removal of coroners,
and for the enacting and re-enacting of section 891 of the code of Vir-
ginia, 1887.

Approved March 8, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion eight hundred and ninety-one of the code of Virginia, eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

§ 891. Coroners, how appointed and removed.—The judge of each
corporation and county court of the state shall, on the first day of
July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and every two years there-
after, appoint for his city or county, as the case may be, one person,
who shall be the coroner of such city or county, who shall qualify
according to law and serve until his successor is appointed and quali-
fies. If the court shall be of opinion that one coroner is not suf-
ficient, he may appoint as many more as to him may seem proper.
Coroners may be removed from office as provided in section eight
hundred and twenty-one of this code for the removal of certain
officers.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.

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