Chap. 4.—An ACT to aniend and re-enact section 3468 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended. {fH B 97]

Approved January 31, 1922.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-four hundred and sixty-eight of the Code of Virginia, as
amended and re-enacted by an act of said assembly, approved March
twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty, entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section thirty-four hundred and sixty-eight of the Code
of Virginia, be further amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Sec. 3468. Judges of the city courts of the cities of the first class
shall receive for their compensation as such the following salaries,
respectively : .

The judge of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, the judge
of the law and equity court of the city of Richmond, the judge of the
hustings court of the city of Richmond, the judge of the law and
chancery court of the city of Norfolk, and the judge of the corporation
court of the city of Norfolk, the sum of three thousand five hundred
dollars each; the judge of the corporation or hustings court of the
city of Petersburg, the judge of the corporation or hustings court of
the city of Lynchburg, the judge of the corporation or hustings court
of the city of Roanoke, the judge of the corporation or hustings
court of the city of Danville, the judge of the corporation or hustings
court of the city of Newport News, the judge of the corporation or
hustings court of the city of Alexandria, the judge of the corporation
or hustings court of the city of Staunton, and the judge of the corpora-
tion or hustings court of the city of Portsmouth, the sum of two
thousand five hundred dollars each; and the judge of the hustings
court part two, of the city of Richmond, the sum of three thousand
hve hundred dollars and the judge of the court of law and chancery
of the city of Roanoke, the sum of three thousand dollars ; provided,
however, that the judges of the corporation courts of the cities of
Petersburg, Lynchburg, Danville, Newport News, Alexandria, Roa-
noke, Staunton, Portsmouth, Hopewell, and Charlottesville shall re-
ceive the sum of three thousand dollars each, said salaries to begin on
the first day of the terms of such judges, or their successors in office,
following the terms which they are now serving whether the same be
a regular or unexpired term. The whole of the said salaries of said
judges shall be paid out ‘of the State treasury, the State to be reim-
bursed to the extent of one-half thereof by the respective cities; and
it is hereby made the duty of the auditor of public accounts on or
before the first day of June of the year nineteen hundred and three
and of each year thereafter to apportion the salary of each of said
judges, respectively, between the State of Virginia and the cities above
named, respectively, in accordance with the provisions of section one
hundred and three of the Constitution of Virginia; that is to say,
one-half of said salary of each of said judges to be paid by the State
of Virginia, and the other half by the city, and to transmit a state-
ment of such apportionment to the clerks of the councils of said
cities, respectively, and to the treasurers of said cities, respectively.

It shall be the duty of the council of said cities to provide for
the payment of so much of said salary as said statement shows to
have been apportioned to its city; but it is hereby made the duty of
the treasurer of such city to pay the same into the treasury of the
State on or before the first day of December each year, out of any
funds of his city in his hands; and to this end he shall retain of said
funds collected by him a sum sufficient to pay such portion of said
salary, and said apportionment shall be the first and superior charge
against said funds. Any treasurer failing to make such payment
within the time above prescribed therefor shall be liable to the
Commonwealth on his official bond for the part of such salary ap-
portioned to his city as aforesaid and a penalty thereon of ten per
centum. )

2. An emergency existing this act shall be in force from its
passage.