Chap. 100.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 15,
1915, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 446 of the
Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in reference to the compensa-
tion of land assessors and assistant assessors. (S. B. 110)

Approved March 15, 1915.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act ap-
proved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen and entitled an
act to amend and re-enact section four hundred and forty-six of the
Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in reference to the compensation
of land assessors and assistant assessors, be amended and re-enacted to
read as follows:

Section 446. Compensation of assessors. ach assessor shall receive
not less than the sum of four 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 such
per diem is claimed was necessarily employed, and the same shall be
approved by the board of supervisors of the counties or councils or other
governing bodies of the city and said court or the judge thereof in
vacation shall inspect such affidavit and hear any other evidence and
certify the correctness of such affidavit. When said accounts shall be
made out, verified and approved two dollars per day of the same shall
be paid out of any money in the treasury of Virginia not otherwise appro-
priated ; and the other half of the same shall be paid out of the treasuries
of the cities and counties for which the said assessors and assistant asses-
sors were appointed, provided, however, that the councils of the several
cities shall have the right to further increase the per diem salary to the
assessors and assistant assessors of the said several cities to be paid out
of the funds of said city.

It being the intent of this act to apply to the nineteen hundred and
fifteen assessments of real estate and until otherwise changed by law, an
emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall be in force from its
passage.