Chap. 64.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 92 and 98 of the Code of
Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, entitled: An act
to amend and re-enact sections 92 and 98 of the Code of Virginia, as amended
by an act approved December 18, 1903, 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 election of State, county, district and city officers, and the terms of their
offices and filling vacancies.

Approved February 25, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
ninety-two and ninety-eight of the Code of Virginia, as amended by
an act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled
“an act to amend and re-enact sections ninety-two and ninety-eight of the
Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December eighteen,
nineteen hundred and three, entitled ‘an act 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 twenty, 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,” be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§92. Sheriffs, attorneys for the Commonwealth, commissioners and
treasurers; when elected; term of office——Sheriffs, attorneys for the
Commonwealth and county treasurers shall be chosen by the qualified
voters of the respective counties at the general election on the Tuesday
after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and three, and
every fourth year thereafter, and shall hold their offices for the term of
four years from the first day of January next succeeding their election.
The commissioners of the revenue for each county shall be chosen by
the qualified voters of the respective counties at the general election
on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred
and eleven, and every four years thereafter, and shall hold their offices
for the term of four years from the first day of January next succeed-
ing their election. The commissioners of revenue now in office shall
continue to discharge the duties of their respective offices until their
successors shall be elected and qualified.

§98. Providing for officers of cities, their election or appointment
and term of office.—In each city of this Commonwealth there shall be
elected by the qualified voters thereof on the second Tuesday in June,
nineteen hundred and four, and every four years thereafter, a mayor,
who shall be the chief executive officer of such city, whose term of office
shall begin on the first day of September succeeding his election, and
continue for four years thereafter. On Tuesday after the first Monday
in November, nineteen hundred and five, and every four years there-
after, the qualified voters of each of the cities of this Commonwealth
shall elect a city sergeant, an attorney for the Commonwealth, a city
treasurer, and all other city officers elected by such qualified voters,
whose election is not otherwise provided for by law, whose term of
office shall begin on the first day of January next succeeding their
election, and continue for four years thereafter. In each city which
has a court in whose office deeds are admitted to record, except the
cities of Bristol, Radford and Buena Vista there shall be elected by
the qualified voters on Tuesday after the first Monday in November,
nineteen hundred and five, and every eight years thereafter, a clerk
of such court to be called the clerk of the corporation or hustings
court, whose term of office shall begin on the first day of February
of the second year after such election, and shall continue thereafter
for eight years, and in the city of Richmond there shall be elected
also at the same time and for the same terms a clerk of the chancery
court and a clerk of the law and equity court of the city of Richmond,
whose term of office shall begin on the first day of February of the
second year after such election.

In cities having a population of thirty thousand or more there
shall be elected by the qualified voters a separate clerk of the circuit
court of such city on Tuesday after the first Monday in November,
nineteen hundred and three, and every eight years thereafter, whose
term of office shall begin on the first day of January, succeeding his
election, and continue thereafter for eight years: provided, that the
terms of such clerks first elected under this section shall begin on the
first day of February, nineteen hundred and four, and shall expire
on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twelve: provided,
that the present terms of the clerks of city courts not herein other-
wise expressly provided shall continue until the first day of February,
nineteen hundred and four.

In the cities of Radford, Bristol and Buena Vista there shall be
elected by the qualified voters on Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, nineteen hundred and three, and every eight years there-
after, unless such courts are sooner abolished, a clerk of such city
court, to be called the clerk of the corporation court, whose term of
office shall begin on the first day of February following his election,
and continue for eight years thereafter, unless the said court shall be
sooner abolished.

The commissioners of the revenue for each of the cities of this Com-
monwealth shall be appointed by the corporation or hustings court
of their respective cities, or by the judges of such courts in vacation ;
or if there is no such corporation or hustings court, then by the circuit
court having jurisdiction in such city at some time between the first
day of July and the first day of October in the year nineteen hundred
and nine, and shall hold their offices for the term of four years from
the first day of January next succeeding their appointment. On Tues-
day after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and thir-
teen, and every four years thereafter, the qualified voters of each of
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the cities of this Commonwealth shall elect a commissioner of the
revenue, whose term of office shall begin on the first day of January
next succeeding his election and continue for four years thereafter.
The commissioners of revenue now in office shall continue to discharge
the duties of their respective offices until their successors shall be
appointed and qualified.

2. All provisions of any city charter in conflict with this section are
hereby repealed.

3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.