Chap. 143.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing
the judges of the circuit courts in cities of the first-class having over forty
thcusand population and a separate clerk for said circult court to make an
annual allowance for such clerk, payable out of the treasury of said city,
appreved February 27, 1904.

Approved March 10, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled “an act authorizing the judges of the circuit courts in cities of
the first class, having over forty thousand population and a separate
clerk for said circuit court, to make an annual allowance for such clerk,
payable out of the treasury of said city,” approved February twenty-
seventh, nineteen hundred and four, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

It shall be lawful for the judge of the circuit court of any city of the
first class, having over forty thousand population and a separate clerk
for said circuit court, to allow to the clerk of said court such annual
allowance as in the discretion of the judge shall be just and reasonable,
not exceeding the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum, which
allowance shall be certified by the judge of said circuit court to the
council of the said city, and upon the approval of said council shall be
paid out of the treasury of said city.