Chap. 357.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act
approved April 14, 1882, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an
uct passed March 8, 1880, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an
act passed April 2, 1879, authorizing the Board of Supervisors to
determine what amount shall be paid to certain county officers.

Approved March 10, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act approved April fourteen, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-two, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
an act passed March third, eighteen hundred and cighty,
entitled an act to amend and re-cnact an act passed April
two, cighteen hundred and seventy-nine, authorizing the
board of supervisors to determine what amount shall be paid
to certain county officers, be amended and re-enacted 80 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
determine what annual allowances shall be made to the com-
monwealth’s attorneys, clerks, and sheriffs of their counties,
payable out of the county treasurys: provided that such
allowances to commonwealth’s attorneys, clerks, and sberiffs,
shall not exceed in any county to each of said officers, the
sum of six hundred dollars: and provided further, that in
countios containing a population of ten thousand and less,
the allowance to said officers each shall not exceed three
hundred dollars; and in counties containing a population of
ten thousand and less than fifteen thousand, the allowance
to said officers cach, shall not exceed four hundred dollars;
and in counties containing a population of fifteen thousand
and less than twenty thousand, the compensation sball not
exceed five hundred dollars to each of said officers: provided
that in the county of Henrico, the annual allowance for
sheriff may be fixed at a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred
dollars: and provided further, that in the county of Chester-
field, the annual allowance for sheriff may be fixed at a sum
not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars: and provided
further, that in the counties of Henrico and Norfolk, that
such annual allowance for the commonwealth’s attorney may
be fixed at a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.