Chap. 322.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3457, 3458, 3459, 3460, 3461,
and 3462 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to compensation of cer-
tain officers and employees of the General Assembly ; and to repeal Chapter 196
of the Acts of Assembly of 1928, approved March 14, 1928, relating to the
same subject. [H 297]

Approved March 29, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That sections thirty-four hundred fifty-seven, thirty-four hundred
fifty-eight, thirty-four hundred fifty-nine, thirty-four hundred sixty,
thirty-four hundred sixty-one, and thirty-four hundred sixty-two of the
Code of Virginia, as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 3457. Assistant clerks, journal and reading clerks.—The
assistant clerks of the Senate and House of Delegates, and the journal
and reading clerks of the Senate and House of Delegates shall receive the
sum of ten dollars per day during the session of the General Assembly.

Section 3458. Enrolling and engrossing clerks.—An enrolling clerk
and an engrossing clerk each to be appointed by the Clerk of the House
of Delegates, ten dollars per day during the session of the General As-
sembly.

Section 3459. Committee clerks and joint committee clerks.—Such
clerks of the several standing committees as may be prescribed by the
rules of the Senate and the House of Delegates respectively, each the sum
of eight dollars per day during the session of the General Assembly and
the joint committee clerks for the Senate and House of Delegates, each
the sum of eight dollars per day during the session of the General As-
sembly, and without any additional compensation, each of said clerks
shall perform the duties of clerks of any other committees in their re-
spective houses, and other services that may be required of them.

Section 3460. Sergeant at arms.—The sergeant at arms of the Senate
and the sergeant at arms of the House of Delegates, each the sum of ten
dollars per day during the session of the General Assembly ; and in addi-
tion thereto for taking any person into custody by order of their respective
houses, two dollars; for each day such person is detained in custody, two
dollars; and for the travel of such sergeant at arms or messenger under
such order, eight cents per mile in going to the place of arrest; but no al-
lowance shall be made for the arrest or custody of members who may be
taken in the city of Richmond under a call of either house.

Section 3461. Doorkeepers.—The first and second doorkeepers of
the two houses, each the sum of ten dollars per day during the session of
the General Assembly, and a gallery doorkeeper each for the Senate and
the House of Delegates at such per diem as may be fixed by the respective
houses.
Section 3462. Pages.—Seven pages to be appointed in the Senate
and fourteen pages in the House of Delegates, each the sum of five dollars
per day during the session of the General Assembly.

2. Chapter one hundred ninety-six of the Acts of Assembly of nine-
teen hundred twenty-eight, approved March fourteen, nineteen hundred
twenty-eight, is repealed.

3. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.