Chap. 550.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 11, 1896,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 2, 1898, entitled an act
to amend and re-enact section 812 of the code of Virginia, 1887, in regard to the
superintendent of the poor of Lee county, so as to include Hanover county, and
also the county of Northampton.

Approved February 28, 1898,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and twelve of the code of Virginia, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, in regard to the superintendent of the poor of Lee county,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 812. When and how officers qualify.—Every county and district
officer elected by the people, every city officer mentioned in section
eighty-eight, and every county surveyor and superintendent of the poor,
appointed for a term, shall, on or before the first day of July next suc-
ceeding his election and appointment (provided that the superintendent
of the poor of Lee county, and the superintendent of the poor of Hanover
county, and the superintendent of the poor of Northampton county,
shall enter upon the duties of their respectire offices on the first day of
January succeeding their appointment, respectively, and shall hold their
said offices for the term of four years, as now provided by law), qualify
by taking the oath prescribed by section one hundred and sixty-eight,
and the oath prescribed by section one hundred and sixty-nine or sec-
tion one hundred and seventy, as may be proper, and give the bond, if
any, required by law, before the county or corporation or hustings court
of the county or corporation for which he is elected or appointed, or for
the district for which he is elected, or before the judge of the circuit,
county, corporation or hustings court of said county or corporation in
vacation. When the officer qualifies and gives the bond before a judge
in vacation the judge shall certify the fact, and the bond and certificate
shall be returned to the clerk of the said county or corporation or hust-
ings court, and the certificate shall be entered hy him in the order book
of the said court on the law side thereof, and such bond, and also any
bond given before the court, shall be recorded by the clerk: provided,
the clerk of the chancery court of the city of Richmond may qualify
and give bond before the said court, or if he qualify and give bond be-
fore the judge in vacation, as hereinbefore provided, his bond and
certificate of qualification shall be returned to and recorded in the said
court. |

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