CHAP. 144.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed April 2,
1879, entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors to deter-
mine what amount shall be paid to certain county officers.

Approved March 3, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act approved April second, eighteen hundred
and seventy-nine, entitled an act authorizing the board of
supervisors of the respective counties to determine what allow-
ances shall be made to commonwealth’s attorneys, clerks and
sheriffs of their counties, payable out of their county treasuries,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the board of supervisors of the respective counties shall deter-
mine what annual allowances shall be made to the common-
wealth’s attorneys, clerks and sheriffs.of their counties, pay-
able out of the county treasuries: provided, that such allow-
ances to commonwealth’s attorneys, clerks and sheriffs shall
not exceed in any county to each of said officers the sum of
six hundred dollars: and provided further, that in counties
containing a population of ten thousand and less, the allow-
ance to said officers each shall not exceed three hundred dol-
lars; and in counties containing a population of ten thousand
and less than fifteen thousand, the allowance to said officers
each shall not exceed four hundred dollars; and in counties
containing a population of fifteen thousand and less than
twenty thousand, the compensation shall not exceed five hun-
dred dollars to each of said officers: provided, that in the
county of Henrico that the annual allowance for sheriff may
be fixed at a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.