Chap. 185.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act approved February
28, 1896, entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke,” 50
as to consolidate the offices of city clerk and city auditor, and to prescribe the
duties of the city clerk.

Approved April 27, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
nine of an act approved I*ebruary twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and
ninety-six, entitled “an act to provide a new charter for the city of Raa-
noke,” be, and is hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 9. The council shall elect a city engineer, a city clerk, a police jus-
tice, a collector of city taxes, a city solicitor, and a clerk of the markets,
all of whom shall hold office for two years; and the council shal] elect
such other officers as it may deem expedient for the proper conduct of the
affairs of the city, and in the execution of the powers hereinafter conferred
upon it, and prescribe their duties and term of office; and any office
which the council has the power to create it may, at any time for good
cause, abolish, whether the term of office of the incumbent has expired
or not.

2. Be it further enacted, That the office of auditor of the city of Roa-
noke be, and the same is hereby, abolished, and the duties prescribed for
the auditor as set forth in sections seventy, seventy-one, seventy-two, sev-
enty-three, seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-six, and seventy-seven of
the charter of the city of Roanoke, granted by an act approved February
twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled “an act to pro-
vide a new charter for the city of Roanoke,” are hereby made to devolve
upon the city clerk; and wherever the auditor of the city of Roanoke is
required to perform any duty under the provisions of the charter afore-
said, or any ordinance or resolution of the council of said city, that duty
shall be performed by the city clerk, except, however, that the clerk shall
not countersign the warrants of the city to be issued under the direction
of the council, such countersigning to be done by such officer as the
council shall designate by ordinance.

3. The council shall, by ordinance, define the duties of the city clerk,
fix his salary, and prescribe the amount of bond to be given by him.

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