the qualifications of electors shall be those required by Article Two of this Constitution. Sec. 19. The General Assembly which convened on the first Wednesday in December, nineteen hundred and one, shall be called by the Governor to meet in session at the Capitol at twelve o'clock M., on Tuesday, the fifteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and two. It shall be vested with all the powers, charged with all the duties, and subject to all the limitations prescribed by this Constitution in reference to the General Assembly, except as to the limitation upon the period of its session, qualifications of members, and as to the time at which any of its acts shall take effect; but the ineligibility of the members thereof to be elected to any other office during their terms as members of the General Assembly shall be such as is imposed by this Constitution. The said General Assembly shall elect judges for all of the circuit courts provided for in this Constitution, and also of the corporation courts for Bristol, Radford, and Buena Vista, unless said city courts are sooner abolished. Sec. 20. The said General Assembly shall enact such laws as may be deemed proper, including those necessary to put this Constitution into complete operation; to confirm those officers whose appointment is made by this Constitution subject to confirmation by the General Assembly or either house thereof; and to transact other proper business; and such session shall continue so long as may be necessary. The members shall receive for their services four dollars per day, for the time when the General Assembly is actually in session, including Sundays and recesses of not exceeding five days, and the mileage provided by law; the Speaker of the House of Delegates and President of the Senate shall each receive seven dollars per day for the same period and the mileage provided by law; and the other officers and employees shall receive such compensation for their services as the General Assembly may prescribe. Provision may be made for compensation at said rate of four dollars per day of members of legislative committees which may sit during any recess of said session. Sec. 21. The compensation and duties of the Clerk of the House of Delegates and of the Clerk of the Senate shall continue as now fixed by law until the first of January, nineteen hundred and three, after which date their compensation shall be as prescribed by section Sixty-six of this Constitution. Sec. 22. When the General Assembly convenes on the fifteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and two, its members and officers, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, shall severally take and subscribe the oath or affirmation prescribed by section Thirty-four of the Constitution. And not later than the twentieth day of July, nineteen hundred and two, the Governor and all other executive officers of the State, whose offices are at the seat of government, and all judges of courts of record, shall severally take and subscribe such oath or affirmation; and upon the failure of any such officer, executive or judicial, to take such oath by the day named, his office shall thereby become vacant. Such oaths or affirmations shall be taken and subscribed before any person authorized by existing laws to administer an oath. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause to be printed the necessary blanks for carrying into effect this provision, and the said oaths and affirmations so taken and subscribed, except of the members and officers of the General Assembly, shall be returned to and filed in his office; and those taken by the members and officers of the General Assembly shall be preserved in the records of the respective houses. Sec. 23. The official copy of the Constitution and Schedule, and of any ordinance adopted by the Convention, shall, as soon as they shall be enrolled, be signed by the President and attested by the Secretary of the Convention, and the President will thereupon cause the same to be delivered to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, who will file and preserve the same securely, among the archives of the State in his custody. The Secretary of the Commonwealth will cause the Constitution, Schedule, and said ordinances to be transcribed in a book to be provided for the purpose and safely kept in his office. The Secretary of the Convention will immediately upon the adoption of this Schedule, deliver a certified copy of the Constitution and Schedule, and of said ordinances, to the Governor of the Commonwealth. Sec. 24. The Governor is authorizedand directed to immediately issue his proclamation announcing that this revised and amended Constitution has been ordained by the people of Virginia, assembled in Convention, through their representatives, as the Constitution for the government of the people of the State, and will go into effect as such, subject to the provisions of the Schedule annexed thereto, on the tenth day of July, nineteen hundred and two, at noon, and calling upon all the people of Virginia to render their true and loyal support to the same, as the organic law of the Commonwealth. Sec. 25. This Constitution shall, except as is otherwise provided in the Schedule, go into effect on the tenth day of July, nineteen hundred and two, at noon. This Schedule shall take effect from its passage. Sec. Circuit Court shall appoint electoral board, Shall hear and decide applications to correct list of unpaid polltaxes, How and when judges elected; their qualifications, Number of terms to be prescribed by law; no separate court held for cities of second class, etc., Concurrent jurisdiction with Corporation Court when, Cities and Towns, General Assembly may grant by general law powers of local legislation to council, General Assembly not forbidden to authorize appropriations by, to charitable institutions, Cities, how divided into first and second classes, Sec. Courts of cities of each class, 98 185 65 May make appropriations to manual and industrial schools, 141 Cannot grant its credit to any person or corporation; may, however, perfect subscription to stock of railroad company, City Council, General Assembly may grant by general law powers of local legislation to, Composed of two branches; powers and terms of office; how elected; in cities under 10.000 may consist of one branch; member ineligible to office in gift of council; powers in changing wards and reapportioning representation in council; when mandamus lies, When elected; beginning of term; 121 122 19 116 116 116 117 What ordinances require recorded vote; effect of veto upon, Clerks of election, how appointed, Clerk of Circuit or Corporation Court to keep roll of registered voters, 123 31 Previous charters may be retained, but are amended to conform to constitution, Streets, alleys, or public grounds of, cannot be used by certain corporations without previous consent of city or town authorities, 117 38 38 38 124 Commonwealth's Attorney of, Restrictions on sale of property or rights of, 119 125 125 Restrictions on granting of franchises; method and provisions in grants of same; General Assembly may impose further restrictions, General Assembly shall provide by general law for extension and contraction of corporate limits, 126 Limitation of bonded indebtedness of; what to be excepted in ascertaining bonded indebtedness, 127 Clerk of Circuit Court shall certify and deliver copies of list of unpaid poll-taxes, and record sheriff's return, Shall keep lists for inspection, etc., File and preserve original list, Furnish copy to election judges and Auditor of Public Accounts, 38 Clerk of Corporation Court shall certify and deliver to sheriff copies of lists of unpaid poll-taxes and record sheriff's return, 38 certain fees; penalties for fail- ure, Exercise of eminent domain and 157 158 never be 159 160 abridged as to corporations, or transmission company shall not give free of 163 Right of Commonwealth to con- How property of railroad and canal position of; how appointed; 166 167 176 177 178 179 180 |