Chap. 19.-A\n ACD to aimend and reeenavet section 1 of chapter EE. of an act,
approved Mareh 11, 2875, entitled an act to provide a charter for the
city of Petersburg, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March
17, 1910. {Hi B 1s)

Approved February 6, Tf,

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That. sec-
tion nineteen of chapter three of an act, approved Mareh eleventh,
eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled an act to provide a char-
ter for the city of Petersburg, as amended and re-enacted by an act.
approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 19. On the first day of July, nineteen hundred and six,
or as soon thereafter as practic able. and every four years thereafter.
the council, in joint session, shall elect members of the hoard of over-
seers of the poor, and all city officers not elected by the people (ex-
cept. the members of the police commission and the fire commission
hereinbefore provided for) for the term of four years beginning on
the first day of July in the vear in which they are herein directed
to be elected: provided that the terms of all persons elected or ap-
pointed by the council between the passage of this act and the thir-
ty-first day of August. nineteen hundred and twenty, shall end on
the thirty-first dav of August, nineteen hundred and twenty, unless
sooner terminated. The city officers so elected shall continue in of-
fice until their suceessors are qualitied. Phe council in joint session
shall have power, by the affirmative vote of a majority of all the
members elected to each branch thereof, to remove from office for
malfeasance, misfeasance, gross neglect of duty, or for gross incom-
petency, any officer elected or appointed by it under and by virtue
of the terms of this act. such removal to be deemed a vacation of
office. Where such vacaney occurs or where a vacancy occurs from
anv other cause, in any of said offices, the council, in joint session.
shall fill the same. ,