CHAP. 213.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 95 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact
chapter 9 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the
general assembly of Virginia, approved May 20, 1903, entitled ‘an act to amend
and re-enact chapter 9 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to the elec-
tion of State, county, district, and city officers and the terms of their offices
and filling vacancies,’ approved December 18, 1903.”

Approved March 15, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter nine
of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the
general assembly of Virginia, entitled “an acl to amend and re-enact
chapter nine of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an
act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved May twentieth, nine-
teen hundred and three, entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact chapter
nine of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in
relation to election of State, county, district, and city officers and the
terms of their offices and filling vacancies,’ approved December eigh-
teenth, nineteen hundred and: three,” be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§95. Surveyors and superintendents of the poor; how appointed ; term
of office—LHach circuit court, or judge thereof in vacation, upon the
recommendation of the board of supervisors for each county in which he
holds his court, shall, in the month of November, nineteen hundred and
seven, and every fourth vear thereafter, or at any time before or after
November, nineteen hundred and seven, in case a vacancy exists or shall
occur, appoint for each county in which he holds his court, one county
surveyor and one superintendent of the poor: provided, that such court,
or judge thereof in vacation, may, if he think proper, reject the recom-
mendation ; and, unless the board of supervisors recommend other persons
suitable, in his opinion, for said offices within thirty days after their first
recommendation has been rejected he shall fill the said offices, or either
of them, by his own appointment in term or in vacation.

No recommendation made by the board of supervisors shall be rejected
by the judge, except for reasons entered of record. Said officers shall
enter upon the duties of their offices upon the first day of January next
succeeding their appointment, and shall hold their offices for the term of
four years, except that in case of appointment made to fill any vacancy
existing at the time of the passage of this act, or hereafter occurring, the
term of office shall commence as soon as the officer shall qualify and con-
tinue for the unexpired portion of. the term: of four years hereinbefore
specified.

P°. In view of the fact that the provisions of this act should go into
immediate operation, an emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall
be in force from its passage.