Chap. 50.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 446 of the Code, as here-
tofore amended, in reference to the compensation of land assessors.

Approved February 25, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four hundred and forty-six of the Code, as heretofore amended, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

—§446. Compensation of Assessors—Each assessor and assistant
assessor shall receive the sum of two dollars for each day he shall be
necessarily employed in the execution of the duties of his office. The
accounts shall be made out and verified by affidavit before the clerk of
the circuit or corporation court, in which it shall be stated that the time
for which said per diem is claimed was necessarily employed; and when
said accounts shall be so made out and verified they shall be paid out of
any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: provided, the
board of supervisors of any county may, in its discretion, increase such
per diem to the assessors and assistant assessors by an amount not less
than one dollar, nor more than three dollars, such increased per diem to
be paid out of the funds of such county. But nothing in this act shall
be construed as limiting the right of the councils of the several cities to
Increase such per diem to the assessors or assistant assessors of said cities
out of the funds of said cities.

2. An emergency existing by reason of the date fixed for the assess-
ment of lands, this act shall be in force from its passage.