Chap. 463.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled an
act to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining one
or more cities having a population of thirty thousand cr more in the aggregate;
to prescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such
trial justices, approved March 24, 1922; and to bring within the terms of the
said act all counties of the Commonwealth having a population of 30,000 or
more. [S B 351]

Approved March 21, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
one and three of an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment
of trial justices in counties adjoining one or more cities having a popu-
lation of thirty thousand or more in the aggregate; to prescribe the terms
of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices,
approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: _

Section 1. In every county of this Commonwealth adjoining one or
more cities having a population of thirty thousand or more in the ag-
gregate, and in every county of this Commonwealth having a population
of thirty thousand or more, as shown by the last preceding United
States census, there shall be appointed, in the manner and for the term
hereinafter prescribed, a trial justice for each of such counties. |

Section 3. The trial Justices appointed hereunder shall hold office
until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-
four, inclusive, and thereafter the terms of office of such trial justices
shall be for four years, commencing on the first day of January, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-five, and the first day of January of every
fourth year thereafter. At the first meeting of the board of super-
visors in counties having a population of over thirty thousand, held
during the month of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and
at the first meeting of the board of supervisors of the counties adjoining
one or more cities having a, population of thirty thousand or more in
the aggregate, held during the month of January, nineteen hundred and
twenty-four, and by all such counties during the month of January,
nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and every fourth year thereafter,
nomination or nominations shall be made hereunder for the next en-
suing term, and the appointment of a trial justice shall be made in the
same manner as provided by the second section of this act. Any va-
cancy occurring in the office of trial justice, after appointment, shall be
filled for the unexpired term by the judge of the circuit court of such
county, without the nominations herein provided.

2. The provisions of this act applicable to counties having a popu-
lation of thirty thousand or more and less than fifty thousand shall not
become effective in any such county except upon the conditions pre-
scribed in section fourteen of the act hereby amended.