Chap. 2.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 72 gof an act entitled, “An
act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all acts or
parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved) March 19, 1020, as amended
by an act approved March 20, 1924. - ; [Hi Bo]

Approved January 24, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
ction seventy-two of an act entitled, “An act to provide a new
arter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all acts or parts of
ts in conflict therewith,” approved March nineteenth, nineteen
‘ndred and twenty, as amended by an act approved March iwven-
‘th, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, be amended and re-
acted so as to read as follows:

Section 72. The judge of the corporation court for said city
all receive an annual salary of not less than thirty-six hundred
Mars, nor more than five thousand dollars, to be fixed by the
tv council, payable in monthly installments as provided by law;
id judge shall quality by taking the oath required by law within
irty days after receiving his commission, said oath to be taken
‘tore any officer authorized by law to administer oaths, which
ith shall be returned to the clerk of said corporation court and
‘him recorded in the common law order book of said court, and
2 original filed as provided by law. Said judge shall not be per-
itted to practice law in any courts Of this Commonwealth.
2. By reason of the fact that the term of office of the judge
of said court, for the ensuing term of eight years, will commence
on February first, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, an emer-
gency is declared to exist, and this act shall be in force from and
after its passage.