Chap. 45.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 129 of the Code of Virginia, as
amended by an act approved March 20, 1923, relating to the clerk of the cir-
cuit court of the city of Lynchburg. [S B 134]

Approved February 26, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one hundred and twenty-nine of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an
act approved March 20, 1923, be amended and re-enacted so‘as to read
as follows:

Section 129. Providing for officers of cities, their election or ap-
pointment 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 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
Monday in November, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and every four
years thereafter, the qualified voters of each of the cities of this Com-
monwealth shall elect a city sergeant, an attorney for the Common-
wealth, a city treasurer, and all other city officers elected by such quali-
fied 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 qual-
ified voters on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nine-
teen 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 Rich-
mond, 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, except the
cities of Roanoke and Lynchburg, 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 term: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 provided 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 circuit court. ,

At the expiration of the present term of the clerk of the circuit court
of the city of Lynchburg, and at the expiration of the present term of the
clerk of the corporation court for said city, or upon the occurrence of a
vacancy in either of said offices before the expiration of said terms, the
clerk of the corporation court for the city of Lynchburg shall also be the
clerk of the circuit court of said city, and shall perform all the duties
thereof and receive the compensation provided therefor by law.

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 commis-
sioner of the revenue, whose term of office shall begin on the first day of
January next succeeding his election and continue for four years there-
after. ,

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