Chap. 110.—An ACT to amend and reenact 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 commissioners, to fix the maximum unmount of the compensation
of said officers, approved March 27, 1914, as amended by an act approved
March 22, 1916. [S B 166]

Approved March 9, 1918.

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, com-
missioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high constables, and city ser-

eants, and until action upon the report of said commissioners to
fix the maximum amount of the compensation of said officers,
approved March twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as
amended by an act approved March twenty-two, nineteen hundred
and sixteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. No court clerk, treasurer, commissioner of the rev-
enue, 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 compensation shall not exceed four
thousand dollars per annum; provided that this act shall not apply
nor be operative as to cities or towns with a population of less than
four thousand; nor shall it apply or be operative as to any office
or officer where the total annual gross compensation of such office
or officer, received from all sources, directly or indirectly, does not
exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars; as of December
thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and provided that in
determining the compensation of such officers hereunder, any addi-
tional compensation allowed city treasurers by the respective citv
councils for the collection and disbursement of city levies and
licenses, or for the discharge of any other duties imposed upon such
treasurers by the councils of such cities, shall be disregarded; and
provided 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 ive hun-
dred 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 population 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 shall not exceed four
thousand dollars per annum.

For the purposes of this act, the population of each county and
city shall be as shown in the United States census report of nine-
teen hundred and ten.

No clerk of the supreme court of appeals shall receive as his
{otal compensation, as aforesaid, an amount in excess of five thou-
sand dollars per annum.

No examiner of records shall receive as his total compensation
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 bonds of himself or clerks, and
as compensation to his deputies and assistants. Provided, how-
ever, that nothing in this act shall affect compensation of examiners
for omitted taxes for years prior to nineteen hundred and fifteen.