Chap. 150.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact the fourth sub-division of section 834 of the Code or Virginia
as amended and re-enacted by acts approved March 3, 1898, and January
11, 1900, so as to increase the compensation of the commonwealth’s attor-
ney of Russell county.

Approved February 14, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the fourth
sub-division of section eight hundred and thirty-four of the code of Vir-
ginia, as amended and re-enacted by acts approved March third, cigh-
teen hundred and ninety-cight, and January eleventh, nineteen hundred,
he amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Fourth. Provide temporary offices when necessary, insure buildings :
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 sue-

cessors 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 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 cach 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 twenty 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 fif-
teen hundred dollars; in the county of Chesterfield, a sum not exceeding
seven hundred and fifty dollars; and in the counties of Henrico, Nor-
folk and Russell, the annual allowance for the attorney for the com-
monwealth, in the first-named county, at a sum not exceeding one thou-
sand dollars, and in the second-named county at a sum not exceeding
one thousand five hundred dollars, and in the last-named county at a
sum not exceeding six hundred dollars; and that the council of Nor-
folk city shall be authorized to increase the allowance of the common-
wealth’s attorney to a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.