Chap. 65.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 77th section of an act
entilled an act for the Assessment of Taxes on Persons, Property,
Income and Salaries,

Passed April 20, 1807.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the seventy-seventh section of an act entitled an act for the
assessment of taxes on persons, property, income and salaries,
passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“$77. Every commissioner of the revenue shall be entitled
to receive in consideration of his services, to be paid on or
before the first day of September. out of the treasury, upon
the warrant of the auditor of public accounts, a commission
of two and one-half per centum on the amount of taxes law-
fully assessed by him on persons, on real and personal property,
income and salaries, within the preceding twelve months. But
when taxes assessed in any district in a county exceed twenty
thousand dollars, the commission allowed on the excess ahail
only be one and one-half per centum ; and where the said taxes
assessed in any district in a town exceed sixteen thousand
dollars, the commission allowed on the excess shall be only
one © per centum.”

This act shall be in force from its passage.