Chap. 71.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 175 of the Code
ginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to where the fact of oaths
been taken are recorded.

Approved March 3, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sect
of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, be amended :
enacted so as to read as follows:

$175. Where the fact of oaths having been taken is recorded.—
person elected or appointed to any office or posts takes the oaths r
of him in a court of record, a transcript from the record of the
stating the fact of their having been taken. and when he takes suc
before a judge, or other person, a certificate of the person administering
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, lieu-
tenant-governor, attorney-general, secretary of the Commonwealth, State
treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, commission of agricul-
ture and immigration, State assayer and chemist, members of the State
corporation commission, librarian and commission of the State hospitals
for the insane, either of the officers mentioned in sections two hundred
and twenty-three, two hundred and thirty-two, two hundred and thirty-
three, or forty-one hundred 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 sub-
divisions 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
hy a judge, the record shall be in the first court in which he sits. When
taken by any officer appointed by or belonging to a court, it shall be in
the said court or in such other as prescribed by law. In the case of a
member or officer of either house of the general assembly, the record shall
he on the journal of the house, or in such other manner as the house may
prescribe 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 the
duties are to be discharged; or, if his duties are not to be discharged
wholly in one county or corporation, then in the court of the county or
corporation in which such officer resides.

2. And whereas an emergency exists to supply an omission in the
present statute, this act shall be in force from its passage.