Chap. 447.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act ap-
proved March 10, 1884, entitled an act toamend and re-enact section
1 of an act approved April 14, 1882, entitled an act to amend and
re-enact an act passed March 8, 1880, entitled an act to amend and
re-enact an act passed April 2, 1879, authorizing the board of super-
xo to determine what amount shall be paid to certain county
officers.

Approved March 5, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act approved March tenth, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-four, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section one of an act approved April fourteenth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
an act passed March the third, eighteen hundred and eighty,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act passed April the
second, eighteen 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 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
determine what annual allowance shall be made to the com-
monwealth’s attorneys, clerks, and sheriffs of their counties,
payable out ot the county treasurys: provided, that such al-
lowances 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
allowance to said officers 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 the annual allowance for sheriff may be
fixed at a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars: and
provided further, that in the county of Chesterfield 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 al-
lowance for the commonwealth’s attorney and clerk of the
county court may be fixed at a sum not exceeding one thou-
sand dollars to each of said officers.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.