Chap. 364.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 168, 169, 170, 175. and 180
of chapter 13 of the Code of Virginia.

Approved December 10, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
one hundred and sixty-eight, one hundred and sixty-nine, one hundred
and seventy, one hundred and seventy-five, and one hundred and eighty
of chapter thirteen of the Code of Virginia, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 168. Form of general oath—LEvery person before entering upon
the discharge of any function as an officer of this State shall take and
subscribe the following oath: “I, —-———————,, do solemnly swear
(or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States,
and the Constitution of the State of Virginia ordained by the convention
which assembled in the city of Richmond on the twelfth day of June,
nineteen hundred and one, and that I will faithfully and impartially
discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as ——————
according to the best of my ability. So help me God.”

§ 169. Form of oath against duelling where disabilities not re-
moved.—He shall also at the same time, unless his disabilities shall
have been removed by the general assembly, take and subscribe the fol-
lowing oath: “I swear that I have not, while a citizen of this State,
since the tenth day of July, nineteen hundred and two, fought a duel
with a deadly weapon, or sent.or accepted a challenge to fight a duel
with a deadly weapon, either within or beyond the boundaries of this
State, or knowingly conveved such challenge, or aided or assisted in
any manner in fighting such duel: and that [ will not fight a duel with
a deadly weapon, or send or accept a challenge to fight a duel with a
deadly weapon, either within or beyond the boundaries of this State,
or knowingly convey such challenge, or aid or assist in any ‘manner in
fighting such duel during my continuance in office. So help me God.”

$170. To provide a modified oath fpr officers who are unable to take
the oath required by section one hundred and sixty-nine-—When any
petson elected or appointed to any post or office under the laws of this
Commonwealth, including members of the general assembly, be so sit-
uated that he cannot take and subseribe the oath required by the pre-
ceding section, such person may take and subscribe in lieu thereof the
following oath: “I swear (or affirm) that I have not, since the removal
of my disabilities by an act of the general assembly, approved the

day ——————_., nineteen , fought in a duel, the issue of

which was or might have been the death of cither party; nor have I
been knowingly the bearer of any challenge or acceptance to fight a
duel actually fought. nor have T been otherwise engaged or concerned,
directly or indirectly, in a duel actually fought since said time, nore
will I during my continuance in office be so engaged, directly or indi-
rectly. So help me God.”

$175. Where the fact of oaths having been taken is recorded.—When
a person elected or appointed to any office or post takes the oaths re-
quired of him in a court of record, a transcript from the record of the
court, stating the fact of their having been taken, and when he takes
such oaths before a judge, or other person, a certificate of the person
adininistering the same, stating the fact of their having been taken,
shall be obtained by the person taking the same and be by him delivered
for record, as follows—that is to say: When the oaths are taken by the
governor, licutenant-governor, the attorney-general, superintendent of
publie instruction, commissioner of agriculture and immigration, State
assayer and chemist, members of the State corporation commission, libra-
rian, and commissioner of State hospitals for the insane, either of the
officers mentioned in sections two hundred and twenty-three, two hun-
dred and thirty-two, two hundred and thirty-three, or forty-one hun-
dred and sixty, or a commissioner appointed by the governor, the record
shall be on the journal of the executive. When taken by any of the
clerks mentioned in the fourth, fifth, and sixth subdivisions of section
one hundred and cighty-three, it shall be in the office of that officer by
whom the clerk may have been appointed. When taken by a judge, the
record shall be in the first court in which he site. When taken by any
officer appointed by or belonging to a court, it shall be in the said
court, or in such other as is prescribed by law. In the case of a member
or officer of either house of the general assembly, the record shall be on
the journal of the house, or in such other manner as the house may pre-
scribe by its rules.

And in the case of any other officer, unless it be otherwise provided,
the record shall be in the court. of the county or corporation in which
his duties-are to be discharged ; or, if his dutics are not to be discharged

wholly in one eounty or corporation, then in the court of the county 0)
corporation in which such officer resides.

§ 180. How bonds sued on.—Suits, or motions as provided by sectior
thirty-two hundred and ten, may be prosecuted from time to time upor
any bond mentioned in sections one hundred and seventy-seven and oni
hundred and seventy-eight, in the name of the Commonwealth, for th
benefit of the Commonwealth, a county or any person injured by am
breach of the condition of such bond as often as any such breach ma\
be alleged until damages shall be recovered for such breaches equal t
the penalty of the bond.

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