Chap. 483.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act
to establish a corporation court for the city of Newport News, approved
January 23, 1896.

Approved February 21, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
nine of an act entitled an act to establish a corporation court for the city
of Newport News, approved January twenty-third, eighteen hundred
and ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 9. The judge of said corporation court shall receive an annual salary
of not less than nine hundred nor more than two thousand dollars, to
be fixed by the council of the city of Newport News, to be paid monthly
out of the treasury of the city of Newport News: provided, that said
judge shall have the same privileges of practicing law as are conferred
by section thirty-one hundred and twenty-nine of the code of eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, on judges of corporation or hustings courts
whose salaries do not exceed one thousand dollars; and the said judge
shall qualify by taking the oath required by law within thirty days after
he receives his commission, said oath to be taken by any notary public
or any clerk of any court of record.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act be, and the same
are hereby, repealed.

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