CHAP. 70.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourth article of section
one hundred -and eighty-three (183) of the Code of Virginia, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved December eighteen (18),
nineteen hundred and three (1908), entitled an act to amend and re-
enact the fourth article of section 183 of the Code of Virginia, as
amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re
enact title 8 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage,
and other allowances, approved February 7, 1903. (H. B. 229.)

Approved February 29, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
rticle four (4) of section one hundred and eighty-three of the
Code as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December
eighteen, nineteen hundred and three, entitled An act to amend
and re-enact the fourth article of section one hundred and
eighty-three of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted
by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact title eight of the
Code of Virginia, in relation to salaries, mileage, and other al-
lowances, approved February seven, nineteen hundred and
three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Fourth: Of auditor of public accounts and his clerks.—The
auditor of public accounts the sum of four thousand five hun-
dred dollars ($4,500) but all fees of office accruing to him shall
be paid into the treasury. He shall have power to appoint such
clerical force as he may deem necessary to the efficiency of his
department and to apportion such salaries among his several
clerks as he may think proper; but the aggregate amounts paid
such clerks shall not exceed the sum provided by law; and he
shall have power to expend for the contingent expenses of his
office such sum as may be provided by law.