CHAP. 477.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 526 of the Code of
Virginia as amended and re-enacted by act approved March 14, 1908,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 526 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. (H. B. 585.)

Approved March 22, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section five hundred and twenty-six of the Code of Virginia as
amended and re-enacted by act approved March fourteenth, nine-
teen hundred and eight, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section five hundred and twenty-six of the Code of Virginia
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 526. Every commissioner shall be entitled to receive
in consideration of his service, to be paid out of the treasury,
upon the warrant of the auditor of public accounts a commission
of three and one-half per centum on the amount of taxes law-
fully assessed for the current year and for any and all prior
years by him on persons, on real and personal property, income
and salaries, within the preceding twelve months, but when the
taxes assessed in any district exceed ten thousand dollars, the
commission allowed on the excess shall be two and one-half per
centum up to fifteen thousand dollars, and one and one-half per
centum upon the amount in excess of fifteen thousand dollars,
except in the cities, in which the commission on said excess of
fifteen thousand dollars shall be one per centum.

2. To pay commissions not paid because of want of author-
ity to pay the same on taxes assessed by commissioners for prior
years, creates an emergency; therefore, this act shall be in force
from its passage.