Chap. 166.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 580 of the acts of the gen-
eral assembly, extra session 1902-’03-’04, entitled “an act to amend and re-
enact section 60, chapter 7, of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, in relation
to city officers.”

Approved March 14, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act en-
titled an act to amend and re-enact section sixty, chapter seven, of the
charter of the city of Portsmouth, in relation to city officers, being chap-
ter five hundred and eiglity, acts ‘of the general assemblv, extra session,
nineteen hundred and iwo-three-four, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:
§ 60. There shall be one citv treasurer, one collector of city taxes, one
commissioner of the revenue, one city engineer, one city auditor, one
keeper of the almshouse, one physician of the almshouse, who shall be
health officer; one citv attorney, one physician for the poor, one city
clerk, who shall be clerk of the council; one plumbing inspector, one
chief engineer of the fire department, one street inspector. one clerk of
the market; one wood measurer who shall be weigher of hay and gauger
of liquors and sealer of weights and measures; one keeper of the ceme-
teries, one sanitary inspector, all of whom shall be elected by the quali-
fied votes of the city of Portsmouth, in the manner prescribed by law.
The city attorney, physician to the poor, city clerk, plumbing inspector
and chief engineer of the fire department shall be elected on Tuesday
after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and five, and
every second year thereafter, and their term of office shall be two years,
and shall begin on the first day of January next succeeding their election ;
and the terms of the other officers mentioned in this section and the time
of their election shall be as heretofore prescribed by law.

2. The city council of said city shall not recommend to the general
assembly any change, repeal, or amendment of the provisions of this sec-
tion until and except the auestion of such change, repeal, or amendment
shall have been submitted to the ~ualified votes of said city at some gen-
eral election and approved by a majority of the votes in said election.