Chap. 493.—An ACT to amend and re-enact 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
constables and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of said com-
mission, to fix the maximum amount of the compensation of said officers
approved March 27, 1914, as amended by an act approved March twenty-
second, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and as further amended by an ac
approved March ninth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. [H B 145!

Approved March 25, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion 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 sergeants,
and until action upon the report of said commissioners, to fix the
maximum amount of the compensation of said officers, approved
March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended
by an act approved March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and six-
teen, and as further amended by an act approved March ninth, nine-
teen hundred and eighteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

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 or counties having a population of fifty thousand or more,
said compensation of any such officer shall not exceed the sum of
seventy-five hundred dollars per annum; with a population between
twenty-five thousand and fifty thousand, such compensation shall not
exceed sixty-five hundred dollars per annum; with a population be-
tween fifteen thousand and twenty-five thousand, said compensation
shall not exceed six thousand dollars per annum; with a population
below fifteen thousand, said compensation shall not exceed five thou-
sand dollars per annum, provided that this act shall not apply nor be
operative as to cities, towns or counties 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 ex-
ceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, as of December thirty-
first. nineteen hundred and seventeen, and provided that in determining
the compensation allowed to city or county officers hereunder, any
compensation allowed to such city or county officers by the respective
city councils or county boards of supervisors, other than commis-
sions allowed by State law for collecting, disbursing or in any way
handling taxes or levies or for the discharge of any other duties im-
posed upon such officers by the councils of such cities, boards of super-
visors of the counties, or laws of this State, shall be disregarded, and
such compensation allowed the city or county officers by the respective
city councils or boards of supervisors as is to be disregarded by the
foregoing provisions in determining the compensation of such officers.
may be increased, reduced, or changed by the respective city councils
or boards of supervisors, as and when they deem proper; and pro-
vided, further, that in cities containing more than one hundred and
twenty-five thousand inhabitants, compensation to be paid the city
treasurer shall not exceed the sum of seven thousand five hundred
dollars per annum.

For the purposes of this act, the population of each county and
city shall be as shown from time to time by the last decennial United
States census report and shall be governed thereby.

Each clerk of the supreme court of appeals may receive as his total
compensation an amount not exceeding the amount allowed to the clerk
of the chancery court of the city of Richmond.

No examiner of records shall receive as his total compensation from
fees and commissions allowed by law an amount in excess of five
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 compensa-
tion to his deputies and assistants. Provided, however, that nothing
in this act shall affect the compensation of examiners for omitted
taxes for years prior to nineteen hundred and fifteen.

All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.