Chap. 32.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 836 of the Code of Virginia as
amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 826, 831. 832. 833
834, 835, 836, 838, 840, 841, 846, 847, 849 and 850, and to repeal section 839 of the
Code of Virginia, approved December 31, 1908.

Approved February 23, 1904

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and thirty-six of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an
act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections eight hundred and
twenty-six, eight hundred and thirty-one, eight hundred and thirty-two,
eight hundred and thirty-three, eight hundred and thirty-four, eight
hundred and thirty-five, eight hundred and thirty-six; eight hundred
and thirty-eight, eight hundred and forty, eight hundred and forty-one,
eight hundred and forty-six, eight hundred and forty-seven, eight hun-
dred and forty-nine, and eight hundred and fifty, and to repeal section
eight hundred and thirty-nine of the Code of Virginia, approved Decem-
ber thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§836. No account shall be allowed by the board of supervisors unless
the same shall be made out in separate items, and) the nature of each item
specifically stated, and! where no specific fees are allowed by law, the time
actually and necessarily devoted to the performance of any service
charged in such account shall be verified by affidavit, to be filed therewith.
The attorney for the Commonwealth shall represent the county before
said board, and: it shall be his duty to resist the allowance of any claim
which is unjust or not before the board in proper form, and upon proper
proof, or which for any other reason ought not to be allowed, and when
any claim has been allowed by said board against the county, which, in
the opinion of said attorney, is improper or unjust, or from which he
shall be required to appeal by any six freeholders of the county, the said
attorney shall appeal from the decision of such board: to the circuit court
of said county, causing a written notice of such appeal to be served on
the clerk of such board and the party in whose favor the said claim is
allowed within thirty days after the making of such decision. The attor-
ney for the Commonwealth shall be present at each and every meeting of
said board, and shall give his legal opinion when required by said board
on all questions arising before said board.