Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-05-12

of this act. shall appoint commissioners
and officers, with the same powers and
duties as those appointed to superintend
the general elections of said officers and
the said elections shall be held and con-
Quoted, and the returns made, and con-
tests conducted and decided, in the same
manner as in general elections of said OIL
GERS: Provided, If the vacancy be in the
Office of attorney for the commonwealth
in a circuit court held for city or cor
poration or for a county and city together,
the hastings court of the city or corpora
ton in the first case, and in the other case
the county court, shall order the writ OF
election.
Is The officer or officers to whom any
such writ of election is directed, shall give
notice thereof, and of the time of elections,
by advertisement, at two of the most suit
able places in the district, where it is dis
trict election Provided, That when it is
county election the advertisement shall be
made in each district.
16. The removal of clerk of the cir
cult or county court, of a sheriff or sur
Yeyor, from the county in which he was
elected, shall be vacation of his office !;
and the removal of an overseer of the
poor or constable from the district in which
he is elected, shall vacatS the Office to
which he was elected. But the clerk of a
circuit court now residing beyond the
limits of the county in which he holds the
office may be re-eligible, and If elected
may continue to reside out of that county.
IL. The Office of justice of the peace
shall be deemed vacant, not only when he
dies, resigns or is removed from Office, but
also when he fails to qualify within thirty
days after he receives his commission; or
is elected.
IS. The term of Office of the commits
sioners of the revenue shall commence on
the first day of February next succeeding
the election. The term of Office Of the
other officers whose election is provided
for in this act shall commence on the first
day of July next succeeding the election.
And the clerks of the circuit and county
courts and the surveyor shall continue in
Office for the term of six years attorneys
for the commonwealth justices of the peace
and overseers of the poor, for the term OF
four years; sherifEs, commissioners of the
revenue and constables, for two years
from that day, unless sooner removed.
10. The officers aforesaid shall, before
entering upon the discharge of their re-
spective duties, take the oaths of office
prescribed by the Code of Virginia and
give all such official bonds as are now re-
quired of any such officers. The official
bonds and oaths required to be admins
tered and executed in any circuit court
may be taken by or before the Judge of
such court in vacation, who shall cause to
| be entered of record in such court the pro-
per orders evidencing the due qualification
Of any such officer, and shall certify the
official bonds TO the proper officers for re-
cord. Every such officer shall, either in
the proper court or before Judge as
aforesaid, take such oaths and give such
bonds within sixty days after his election,
and if he fail SO to do, his office shall be
deemed vacant but his qualification, I'M
less he be elected to fill vacancy, shall
not be deemed to take effect before the
first day of July next after his election
20. The clerks of the circuit and coun-
ty courts and sheriffs may, as now provid-
ed, appoint deputies, with the same pow
ers, duties, liabilities, and under the same
provisions of law, as deputies are now
appointed.
81. The powers and duties of clerks OF
the circuit and county courts, sherilfs, com
miSsionerS of the revenue, attorneys fol
the commonwealth, surveyors, oyerseers
of the poor and constables, shall be such
as were prescribed for those officers by
the laws in force when the constitution
was adopted, SO far as the same are con
sistent with this act, and such as now are
or may be hereafter prescribed by law
And for misconduct or neglect of duty,
they shall be liable to the penalties now
prescribed by law.
&c. There shall be in each county oil
the commonwealth, in four of the months
of every year, a quarterly term of every
county court, and in every other month
a mouthly term thereof, to be held at the
times and with the jurisdiction, so far as
is consistent with the constitution and
this act, now prescribed by law The
number of justices necessary to constitute
court of oyer and terminer, court oil
examination and courts in all criminal pros
ecutions, shall be the same as now pre-
scrlbed by law. In all civil cases, and in
matters of county police, and in all other
cases, except criminal, the presiding JUS
tice and two other justices of the county,
or in the absence of the presiding justice,
any three justices of the county, may con-
stitute court, except where it is now
provided that more than four shall be ne
cessary to constitute a court, in which
case the number now provided shall be
necessary Provided ALEC, That where a
county levy is to be made, all the justices
shall be summoned: Provided moreover,
That nothing herein contained shall be
construed as repeating any of the laws in