Chap. 21.-An ACT to amend and re-enact section one hundred and
twenty-nine of the Code of Virginia, relating to the clerk of the cir-
euit court of the city of Roanoke. [fH B 9]

Approved March 20, 1923. ‘

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one hundred and twenty-nine be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Sec. 129. Providing for officers of cities, their election or
appointment and term of office.—In each city of this Common-
wealth there shall be elected by the qualified voters thereof on
the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and twenty, 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 the Tuesday after the first Mon-
day in November, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and every
four years thereafter, the qualified voters of each of the cities
of this Commonwalth shall elect a city sergeant, an attorney
for the Commonwealth, a city treasurer, and all other city offi-
cers elected by such qualified voters, whose election is not other-
wise provided for by law, whose term of office shall begin on
the first day of January next succeeding their election, and con-
tinue 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 the Tuesday after the first Monday in No-
vember, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, 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 time and for the same terms a clerk of the
chancery court, and a clerk of the law and equity court, and a
clerk of the hustings court, and a clerk of the hustings court,
part two, of the city of Richmond, whose term of office shall be-
gin on the first day of February of the second year after such
election.

In cities having a population of thirty thousand or more,
except the city of Roanoke, there shall be elected by the qualified
voters a separate clerk of the circuit court of such city on the
Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred
and nineteen, and every eight years thereafter, whose terms of
office shall begin on the first day of January, succeeding his
election, and continue thereafter for eight years.

The clerk of the corporation court of the city of Roanoke
shall also be the clerk of the circuit court of said city, and shall
perform all the duties thereof and receive the compensation pro-
vided therefor by law. All acts heretofore performed by the
clerk of the corporation court as acting clerk of the circuit court
of said city are hereby ratified and given the same effect as
though performed by a duly elected and qualified clerk of the
circult court.

In the cities of Radford, Bristol and Buena Vista there shall
be elected by the qualified voters on the Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and every
eight years thereafter, 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.

On the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen
hundred and twenty-one, and every four years thereafter, the
qualified voters of each of 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.