Chap. 944.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact section 95 of the code of Virginia, relating to the appointment of sur-
veyors and superintendents of the poor as to the county of James City.

Approved March 4, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
ninety-five of the code of Virginia, be amended and re- -enacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 95, Each county court Judge, upon the recommendation of the

board of supervisors of his county, shall, at the May term of his court,
in the year eighteen hundred and ninety- -one, and every fourth year
thereafter, appoint for each county in which he holds his court one
county surveyor and one superintendent of the poor: provided, that
such judge may, if he think proper, reject the recommendation, and
unless the board of supervisors recommend other persons, suitable, in
his opinion, for said offices, within thirty days after their first recom-
mendation has been rejected, he shall fill the said offices, or either of
them, by his own appointment in term or vacation.

No reecmmendation made by the board of supervisors shall be re-
jected by the judge except for reasons entered of record.

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