Chap. 224.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 136 of an act entitled an act
to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts, or
parts of acts, or charters in conflict therewith, approved March 5, 1900.

Approved May 13, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one hundred and thirty-six of an act entitled an act to provide a new
charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of
acts or charters in conflict therewith, approved March fifth, nineteen
hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

£136. The judge of the corporation court for said city shall receive
an annual salary of not less than fifteen hundred dollars, nor more
than eighteen hundred dollars, to be fixed by the eity council and to be
paid every thirty days as provided by Jaw; and said judge shall qualify
by taking the oath required by law within thirty davs after receiving
his commission, said oath to be taken before a notary publie or any
clerk of court of record, and the same shall be recorded in the common
law and order book of the corporation court and the original filed) by
the clerk with the oaths of other officers as herein provided, And said
judge shall not be permitted to practice law in any of the courts of
thi is x Commonwealth.

This act shall be enforeed from and after the first dav of Feb-
ruary. nineteen hundred and four.