Chap. 61.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 446 of the Code of
Virginia as heretofore amended in reference to the compensation of lahd
assessors. (H. B. 62)

Approved February 15, 1915.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section four
hundred and forty-six of the Code of Virginia be, and the same is hereby,
amended so as to read as follows:

Section 446. Compensation of assessors. Hach assessors shall receive
not less than the sum of four dollars for each day he shall be necessarily
employed in the execution of the duties of his office. The accounts shall
be made out and verified by affidavit before the clerk of the circuit or
corporation court in which it shall be stated that the time for which such
per diem is claimed was necessarily employed, and the same shall be
approved by the board of supervisors of the counties or the councils or
other governing bodies of the cities and said court or the judge thereof
in vacation shall inspect such affidavit and hear any other evidence and
certify the correctness of such affidavit. When said accounts shall be
made out, verified and approved two dollars per day of the same shall be
paid out of any money in the treasury of Virginia not otherwise appro-
priated ; and the other half of the same shall be paid out of the treasuries
of the cities and counties for which the said assessors and assistant assesors
were appointed.

It being the intent of this act to apply to the nineteen hundred and
fifteen assessments of real estate and until otherwise changed by law, an
emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall be in force from its
passage.