Chap. 28.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39, chapter 184, Code
of 1860, in regard to allowances to Clerks, Sheriffs and Sergeants.

r ‘Passed December 20, 1866.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly, That the thirty-
ninth section of chapter one hundred and eighty-four of the
Code of Virginia, (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty),
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: *

-Ҥ 39. There shall be chargeable in every county or cor-
poration such sum as the court thereof may, for services to
the public of the county or town, allow its clerk and the
sheriff or sergeant attending it, not exceeding for one year
two hundred dollars to its clerk, and seventy-five dollars to
its sheriff or sergeant, except that the county courts of Not-
toway, Pittsylvania and Prince Edward may allow such sum
as they shall deem proper to their clerks, not exceeding four
hundred dollars; and the bustings court of any city in the
commonwealth, whether held by a judge or by justice or magis-
trates of said city, may respectively make such allowance, as
it may deem proper, to its clerk and sergeant, for services in
civil or criminal: cases, for which no other compensation is
made by law. And the judge of the hustings court of the
city of Richmond m&y make such allowance to the clerk and
sergeant of said court, for such services rendered since.the
first day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.