Sec. 7. Oaths of office and qualification of officers; failure to
qualify.[4]
The councilmen, and other officers elected by the people
shall each, before entering upon the duties of their offices,
take the oaths prescribed for all other officers by laws of
Virginia, and qualify before the corporation court of said
city, or the judge thereof in vacation, and in the cases of the
mayor and councilmen a certificate of such oaths having been
taken, shall be filed by them, respectively, with the clerk of
the council, who shall enter the same upon the journal thereof;
but if any or either of said officers shall fail to qualify, as
aforesaid, for ten days after the commencement of the term
for which he, or they, were elected, or shall neglect for a
like space of time to give such bond as may be required of
him, his office or their offices shall be deemed vacant.
