CHAP. 355.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 8 of an act
entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, ap-
proved March 14, 1908, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section 6 of an act to provide a new charter for the
city of Bristol, approved February 28, 1910, and to repeal all other
acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith. (H. B. 431.)

Approved March 20, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections six and eight of an act to provide a new charter for
the city of Bristol, Virginia, as amended by an act approved
February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and ten, and to re-
peal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: .

Sec. 6. There shall be elected on the second Tuesday in
June, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for a term of one year,
three members of the city council, one of whom shall be from
each ward, and thereafter there shall be elected annually, on
the second Tuesday in June, six members of the city council,
two of whom shall be from each ward, one from each ward for
a term of one year, to be designated on the official ballot as
short term, and one from each ward, for a term of two years,
to be designated as long term.

Sec. 8. The council, at its first regular meeting in Septem-
ber, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and at its first regular meet-
ing in September, every year thereafter, shall elect a chief of
police, who shall hold office for one year, and may at the same
time elect a clerk of the council, who shall hold office for one
year, or until their successors qualify ; and may also elect a city
engineer, a city attorney, an auditor, a collector of taxes, a water
commissioner and street commissioner, an inspector of weights.
measures: and buildings, who may be required also to examine
into and report on fire conditions and electric wirings in the
city and to perform such other duties as the council may pre-
scribe. His duties, title and salary shall be such as the coun-
cil may prescribe each for a term of one year, and may elect
such other officers as it may deem expedient for the proper con-
duct of the affairs of the city, and prescribe their salaries, du-
ties and terms of office. Any office which the city council has
power to create, it may at any time abolish, whether the term
of office of the incumbent has expired or not.

2. As the term of office of the three members of the coun-
cil to be elected under the provisions of this act will be affected
thereby, and as said election will be held within ninety days
after the adjournment of the general assembly, an emergency is
declared to exist and this act shall be in force from its passage.