Chap. 724.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 149 of the code of Vir-
ginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 8, 1898, in
reference to the pay of judges of election, so far as it relates to the counties
of Prince William, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Warwick, Prince George,
Surry, Amherst, Greene, Madison, Campbell, Tazewell, Scott, Mecklenburg,
Amelia, Buckingham, Cumberland, Prince Edward, Russell, Culpeper,
Pittsylvania, and Frederick.

Approved March 8, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
ne hundred and forty-nine of the code of Virginia, as amended and
-enacted by an act approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and
inety-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 149. The judges and clerks of any election held under this chapter
1all receive as compensation for their services the sum of one dollar
ich, and the judge carrying the returns from his voting place to the
yunty clerk’s office shall receive for such service the sum of one dollar,
1d in the counties of Accomac and Northampton all necessary traveling
.penses; and in the counties of Fauquier and Prince William, Rap-

vo :
pahannock, Rockingham, Warwick, Prince George, Surry, Amherst,
Greene, Madison, Campbell, Tazewell, Scott, Amelia, Buckingham, Cum-
berland, Prince Edward, Russell, Culpeper, Pittsylvania, and Frederick,
Fairfax and Dinwiddie, the judge conveying the returns to the clerk’s
office shall receive in addition to the sum of one dollar, the same mileage
now allowed to jurors for each mile necessarily traveled in excess of five
miles, and in the county of Mecklenburg, the judge conveying the re-
turns to the clerk’s office shall receive in addition to the sum of one
dollar the necessary ferriage paid by him, to be paid out of the county
treasury.
2. That this act shall be in force from the time of its passage.