Chap. 296.—An ACT to authorize cities in this Commonwealth of fifty thou-
sand inhabitants or more, according to the last census of the United
States, to increase the salary of the civil justice of said city to an amount
not to exceed four thousand dollars per annum, during the term of office
of said civil justice. {H B 231)

Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
councils of cities of this Commonwealth, containing by the last
census of the United States, fifty thousand inhabitants, or more, be,
and the same are hereby, authorized and empowered to increase the
salary of the civil justice of said cities to an amount not exceeding
thirty-six hundred dollars per annum, notwithstanding any inhi-
bition in the charter of said cities against the increase of salaries
of officers of said cities during their term of office.

2. All acts, parts of acts, or charter provisions in conflict with
this act are hereby repealed.