The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-02

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thcreupon become vacant.
2. All official acts heretofore done by any
such officers, and otherwise lawful, are
hereby declared as legal and binding as ii
they had been done by officers duly elected
and qualified under the Constitution of this
State: Provided, That any judgment, de-
cree, or order, rendered or made by the
Court Of Appeals at the term thereof COM
on the 18th day Of January, 1870,
shall be subject to the supervision and con-
troll Of the Supreme Court of Appeals to be
organized under the Constitution upon the
motion or petition of any party to the
cause for rehearinq and such judgment,
decree, or order, shall be set aside and an
pulled or affirmed, as tosaid Supreme Court
may seem right and proper but twenty
DAYS notice of the time of making
said motion or fling said petition
shall be given to the opposite party. And
prorided further, That said motion shall be
made or petition fled within Blk montbs
from and after the organization of the said
Court of Appeals.
8. Be it further enacted, That all va
cancies in the office of justice of the peace
and constable now existing, or which may
hereafter occur before an election for such
officers shall be held under this Constitu-
ton, may, and the same shall be, filled by
appointment of the Governor of this Com
monwealth; and said justices and consta-
blcs so appointed shall, when they have
qualified according to law, exercise all the
rights and powers, perform the duties, and
enjoy the privileges and emoluments, at
present appertaining to their respective Of
fees until their SUCCESSORS have been duly
appointed or elected, and have qualified ac-
cording to law.
i. The offices of circuit and county clerks
shall he vacant at the first term OF the re-
gpectiye courts hereafter held by judges
elected under the present Constitution, and
each one of such judges shall at the first
term Of his court appoint Il clerk for said
court. to continue in Office until his sue
ccsgor shall be regularly elected and quail
fed. In any county where the clerk OF the
county court shall be also clerk of the cir
cult court. then the Judge of the county
court of said county shall as aforesaid ap-
point the clerk for the said courts. The
Offices of attorneys for the Commonwealth
aud of sheriff shall be vacant Mt the first
term of the county court hereafter held by
Judges elected under the present Constitu-
ton in their respective counties; and
such last-named judges shall, at the said
first term Of their respective courts. ap-
point attorneys for the Commonwealth and
sheriffs for their respective counties, to con-
tinuc in Office until their successors shall be
regularly elected and qualified under the
present Constitution. The sheriffs and
clerks appointed under this section of the
act shall not enter upon the discharge of
their respective duties until they shall have
given bonds according to law; and if any
of the officers mentioned in this section
shall fail to give the requisite bond within
thirty days after his appointment, his said
office shall tlereupon become vacant, and
shall be filed al the same or next term Of
the court during or after which such va
cancy may occur. the officer so substituted
to be subject in all other respects to the
provisions of this section; and if such sub
stitutcd officer shall in his turn fail to give
the prescribed Iond in the prescribed time,
then his Office shall become vacant, and be
filed in like manner as last aforesaid such
newly appointed officer being in oil other re-
spec.s subject to the provisions of this Sec
ton.
5. That for the more efficient government
Of the cities and towns of the Commonwealth
the Governor Of this State shall as soon as
practicable appoint for each city and town
as many councilmen'or trustees for each
CITY and town now entitled to trustees or
as are now provided by law.
6. The councilmen and trustees now eXer-
cising the functions of such Offices may con-
tinue in such Offices till the councilmen aud
trustees appointed az provided in the fore
going section shall qualify, and no longer,
and shall fill vacancies in their respective
bodies occurring during their continuance
in Office.
I. In all cities and towna the council
men or trustees appointed by the Governor
AZ hercinbcfore prescribed shall have au-
thority, aud are hereby required, to appoint
all municipal officers except judges and
officers of courts hereinafter provided
for in their respective cities and towns.
who shall have all the power and discharge
all the duties now conferred and required
by law upon such municipal officers.
s. All persons now exercising the func-
tons Of tie aforesaid municipal officers
may continue in such Offices till their sue
cestors are appointed and qualified as here
in provided, and no longer.
.. The officers appointed in pursuance of
this act shall continue in office until their
successors elected under the Constitution of
this State are duly qualified.
10. Every person appointed as herein
prescribed shall take the oaths of Office
required by law, shall give bond in such
penalty and with such security as existing
laws may provide for officers holding like
Offices, aud shall receive such compensa-
tion as existing laws may provide in like
cases.
IL. The Judges Of the corporation and
circuit courts and courts Of probate here
after elected for the said towns and cities Of
the Commonwealth shall appoint the officers
of their respective courts to continue in Of
fee until their successors are elected and
qualified as provided by law. The sherffs,
clerks, and other officers required to give
bond, appointed under this section, shall not
enter upon the discharge Of their respective
duties until they shall have given bond ac-
corling to law, and in the casc of the fail
ure OF any such officer TO give bond within
twenty days after his appointment, the said
shall be vacated, and the
aforesaid court shall proceed to appoint his
successor, with like powers and subject to
like limitations as herein p. divided.
IL. This act shalt not be construed so as
to deprive the General Assembly of the
right to remove any and all officers at
hoIl off Gfofo Io
may be hereafter appointed under the pro-
visions Of this act, or to adopt such other
measures for filing vacancies in Offices
which now exist or may hereafter occur as
to it may seem right and proper.
IL. This act shall be in force from its
passage.