Chap. 2.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3466 of the Code of Virginia,
fixing the salary of the judge of the first judicial circuit. [H B 36]

Approved January 30, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-four hundred and sixty-six of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3466. Judges of the circuit courts.—The judges of the circuit
courts, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars each; provided,
however, that the judge of the circuit court of the city of Richmond
shall receive the sum of four thousand dollars, and the judge of the
first judicial circuit, beginning on the first day of February, nineteer
hundred and twenty-two, shall receive the sum of four thousand
dollars, and provided, further, that all judges (except those two)
whose terms of office, whether elected to fill regular or unexpired
terms, began after January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen,
or begin after the passage of this act, shall receive the sum of three
thousand dollars each, the whole of which said salaries of said judges
shall be paid out of the State treasury, the State to be reimbursed
to the extent of one-half thereof by the respective counties and cities
composing the circuit, according to their respective population, except
that of the salary of the judge of the circuit court of the city of
Richmond, the State shall pay the proportion which would otherwise
fall to the city of Richmond; and it is hereby made the duty of the
auditor of public accounts: On or before the first day of June. of
the year nineteen hundred and three, and of each year thereafter,
to apportion between the counties and cities composing each judicial
circuit the salary of the judge thereof for the year beginning the first
day of February, of the succeeding year, according to the respective
population of said counties and cities as shown by the last preceding
census taken under authority of the United States, and transmit a
statement of such apportionment to the clerk of the council of each
city composing the judicial circuit, and to the treasurer of each of said
counties and cities.

It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of each county
and the council of each city to provide funds for the payment of so
much of said salary as said statement shows to have been apportioned
to its county or city; but it is hereby made the duty of the treasurer
of such county or city to pay the same into the treasury of the State
on or before the first day of December each year, out of the funds of
his county or city in his hands, and to this end he shall retain of said
funds collected by him a sum sufficient to pay such portion of said
salary, and the said apportionment shall be the first and superior
charge against said funds.

Any treasurer failing to make such payment within the time
prescribed therefor shall be liable to the Commonwealth on his
official bond, for the part of such salary apportioned to his county
or city, and a penalty thereon of ten per centum.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are repealed.

3. By reason of the fact that the terms of some of the judges of
the Commonwealth affected by this act begin on the first day of
February, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, an emergency is de-
clard to exist and this act shall be in force from its passage.