Chap. 435.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 161, acts of assembly,
1928, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2, of chapter 180, of
the acts of general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1918, as
amended, relating to the establishment and maintenance of a home for
persons unable to care for themselves, to be known as district homes for
the poor. [IS B 246]

Approved March 26, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two, of chapter one hundred and eighty, of an act of the general assem-
bly of Virginia, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and
eighteen, as amended by an act of the general assembly of Virginia
approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2. ‘That each of these homes shall be erected upon a farm
of suitable size and of soil susceptible of high improvement, and be
controlled by a board to consist of at least one representative from each
county and city composing the district, but where a county or city shall
have more than twenty thousand inhabitants its representative shall
have one vote and an additional vote for every twenty thousand 1n-
habitants or fractional part thereof over ten thousand; provided, that
no city shall have more votes in any district than the combined votes
of the counties composing the districts. The representatives from the
counties shall be elected by the board of supervisors, and from the cities
by the councils thereof, and shall be entitled to necessary expenses in-
curred in attending meetings of the board, and in addition each shall
receive an allowance of five ($5.00) dollars per day for each day that
he shall be in attendance on said board, said allowance, however, not
to exceed in any one year the sum of sixty ($60.00) dollars, to be paid
by the counties and cities, respectively; provided, however, that in the
district composed of Augusta, Albemarle, Alleghany, Bath and Rock-
bridge, and the district composed of Amherst, Campbell, Halifax,
Henry, Patrick and Pittsylvania, the compensation of the representa-
tives on the board shall be seven ($7.00) dollars per day and expenses,
but the maximum allowance in any one year shall not exceed the sum
of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00). The accounts for such
expenses and allowances shall be made out and verified by affidavits
of the representative and attested by the secretary of the board.