Chap. 483.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3468 of the Code of Vir-

ginia. [H B 493]

Approved March 25, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-four hundred and sixty-eight of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3468. Judges of the city courts of cities of the first class.—
The judges of the city courts of cities of the first class, the following
sums, respectively: The judge of the chancery court of the city of
Richmond, the judge of the law and equity court of the city of Rich-
mond, 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 corpora-
tion or hustings court of the city of Petdrsburg, the judge of the cor-
poration 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 corporation or hustings court of the city of Ports-
mouth, 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 five hundred dollars; provided, however, that
the judges of the corporation courts of the cities of Petersburg,
Lynchburg, Danville, Newport News, Alexandria, Roanoke, Staunton,
Portsmouth, Hopewell, and Charlottesville shall receive 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 said salaries of said judges shall be
paid out of the State treasury, the State to be reimbursed 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 there-
after 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 salar
of each of said judges to be paid by the State of Virginia, and the
other half by the city, and to transmit a statement of such apportion.
ment to the clerks of the councils of said cities, respectively, and t
the treasurers of said cities, respectively.

It shall be the duty of the council of said cities to provide fund:
for the payment of so much of said salary as said statement show:
to have been apportioned to its city; but it is hereby made the duts
of the treasurer of such city to pay the same into the treasury of the
State dn or before the first day of December each year, out of any
funds of his cfty in his hands; and to this end he shall retain o!
said funds collected by him a sum sufficient to pay such portion 0!
said salary, and said apportionment shall be the first and supeno:
charge against said funds. Any treasurer failing to make such pay-
ment within the time above prescribed therefor shall be liable to the
Commonwealth on his official bond for the part of such salary appor-
tioned to his city as aforesaid and a penalty thereon of ten per centum