Chap. 353.—An ACT in regard to the duties and salary of the attorney-
general,
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Approved April 4, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section two
of chapter one hundred and sixty-one, Code of eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 2. He shall appear as counsel for the state in all cases in
which the commonwealth is interested, depending in the su-
preme court of appeals, the supreme court of the United
States, the district and circuit courts of the United States,
for the state of Virginia, and the circuit court of the city of
Richmond; and he shall discharge such other duties as may
be imposed by the general assembly; and he shall receive for
his services an annual salary of thirty-five hundred dollars,
but he shall not be entitled to receive any fees, perquisites or
rewards whatever, in addition to the salary aforesaid, for the
performance of any official duty.

2. Sections two and five of chapter one hundred and sixty-
one, rection sixteen of chapter thirteen, and all other acts or
parts of acts in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed.

3. This act sball be in force from the firat day of January,
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.