Chap. 80.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2250 of the Code of Visio
HB
Approved February 25, 1920. /

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-two hundred and fifty of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read‘as follows:

Sec. 2250. Compensation of asséssors.—Each assessor shall re-
ceive not less than the sum of six 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 boards of supervisors of the
counties or councils or other governing bodies of the cities, and said
court or the judge thereof in vacation shall inspect such affidavit
azd hear any other evidence and certify the correctness of such afh-
davit. When said accounts shall be made out, verified and approved,
three dollars per day of the same shall be paid out of any money in
the treasury of Virginia not otherwise appropriated, and the residue
of the same shall be paid out of the treasuries of the cities and
counties for which the said assessors and assistant assessors were ap-
pointed, provided, however, that the councils of the several cities and
the board of supervisors of the several counties shall have the right
further to increase the per diem salary to the assessors and assistant
assessors of the said several cities and said several counties to be paid
out of the funds of said city and said county.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage, and shall apply to the nineteen hundred and twenty assess-
ment of real estate and until otherwise changed by law.