Chap. 41.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourth subdivision of section
834, code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved
March 3, 1898.

Approved January Ii, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the fourth
subdivision of section eight hundred and thirty-four, code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March third, eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows: Fourth. Provide temporarv officers when necessary; insure build-
ings; fix allowances to officers. To cause the county buildings to be
insured in the name of the board of supervisors of said county and their
successors in office for the benefit of the county, if they shall deem it
expedient, 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 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 exceed three hundred dollars;
in counties containing ten and less than fifteen thousand, four hundred
dollars; in counties containing fifteen and less than twenty thousand,
five hundred dollars; and in counties of more than twentv thousand, six
hundred dollars; but in the counties of Henrico and Norfolk the annual
allowances for sheriffs may be fixed at a sum not exceeding fifteen hun-
dred dollars; in the county of Chesterfield, a sum not exceeding seven
hundred and fifty dollars; and in the counties of Henrico and Norfolk
the annual allowance for the attornev for the commonwealth, in the
first named county, at a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and in
the last named county at a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred
dollars, and that the council of Norfolk city shall be authorized to
increase the allowance of the commonwealth’s attorney to a sum not
exceeding fifteen hundred dollars.

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