Chap. 847.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourth subdivision of section
S34, code of Virginia,

Approved March 3, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the fourth
subdivision of section eight hundred and thirty-four, code of Virginia,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Fourth. Provide temporary offices when necessary, insure buildings,
fix allowances to offices. To cause the county buildings to be insured
in the name of the board of supervisors of said county and their suc-
cesrors in office, for the benefit of the county, if they shall deem it ex-
pedient, and if there are no public buildings to provide temporarily
suitable rooms for county purposes; to determine what annual allow-
ances, payable out of the county treasury, shall be made to the county
attorneys for the commonwealth, clerks, and sheriffs of their respective
counties, so that in counties containing a population of ten thousand
and less the allowance to each of said officers shall not execed three
hundred dollars; in counties containing ten and less than tifteen thousand,
four hundred dollars; in counties containing fifteen and less than twenty
thousand, five hundred dollars, and in counties of more than twenty
thousand, six hundred dollars; but in the counties of Henrico and Nor-
folk the annual allowances for sheriffs may be fixed at a sum not ex-
ceeding fifteen hundred dollars; in the county of Chesterfield a sum not
exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars; and in the counties of IHen-
rico and Norfolk the annual allowance for the attorney for the common-
wealth at a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.