CHAP. 490.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled
an act to create a commission to consider the compensation of court
clerks, examiners of records, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue,
sheriffs, high constables and city sergeants, and until action upon the
report of said commissioner to fix the maximum amount of the com-
pensation of said officers, approved March 27, 1914. (S. B. 315.)

Approved March 22, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act entitled an act to create a commission to
consider the compensation of court clerks, examiners of records,
treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high con-
stable, and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of
said commissioner to fix the maximum amount of the compensa-
tion of said officers, approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen
hundred and fourteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Section 1. No court clerk, treasurer, commissioner of the
revenue, sheriff, high constable or city sergeant shall receive,
directly or indirectly, as his total annual compensation for his
services, including all his salaries, allowances, commissions and
fees, whether derived from the State, or any political sub-
division thereof, or from any person or corporation, an amount
in excess of the sums hereinafter named, to-wit:

In cities having a population of sixty thousand or more, said
compensation for any such officer shall not exceed the sum of
sixty-five hundred dollars per annum; with a population between
twenty-five thousand and sixty thousand, such compensation
shall not exceed fifty-five hundred dollars per annum; with a
population between twenty thousand and twenty-five thousand,
said compensation shall not exceed five thousand dollars per
annum; with a population below twenty thousand, said compen-
sation shall not exceed four thousand dollars per annum; pro-
vided that this act shall not apply nor be operative as to cities,
towns with a population of less than four thousand, and pro-
vided that in cities containing more than one hundred and
twenty-five thousand inhabitants, the compensation to be paid
the city treasurer shall not exceed the sum of seven thousand
five hundred dollars per annum

In counties with a population of fifty thousand or more, the
said compensation for any such officer shall not exceed the sum
of five thousand dollars per annum; with a populaticn between
thirty-two thousand and fifty thousand, the said compensation
shall not exceed forty-five hundred dollars per annum; with a
population under thirty-two thousand such compensation shail
not exceed four thousand dollars per annum.

For the purpose of this act the population of each county
and city shall be as shown in the United States census report of
nineteen hundred and ten.

No clerk of the supreme court of appeals shall receive as his
total compensation, as aforesaid, an amount in excess of five
thousand dollars per annum.

No examiner of records shall receive as his total compensa-
tion, from fees and commissions allowed by law, an amount in
excess of four thousand dollars per annum, and the sums actually
paid out by him for necessary office expenses and the amounts
actually paid by him as premiums of the official bond of himself
or clerks, and as compensation to his deputies and assistants.
Provided, however, that nothing in this act shall affect the com-
pensation of examiners for omitted taxes for years prior to
nineteen hundred and fifteen.