Chap. 1.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3466 of the Code of Virginia
relating to the compensation of judges, as amended by Acts 1922, page 5, an
to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith. [H B 49]

Approved February 1, 1924.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-four hundred and sixty-six of the Code of Virginia, as amended
by an act approved January the thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-
two, be further amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3466. Judges of the circuit courts, corporation courts and
city courts.—The judges of the circuit courts, corporation courts and
city courts shall receive the sum of three thousand six hundred 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 served by said courts
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 twenty-four, and of each year thereafter, to
apportion between the counties and cities served by said courts the
salaries of the judges thereof for the year beginning the first day of
February, of the succeeding year, and transmit a statement of such
apportionment to the clerk of the council of each city and the clerk
of the board of supervisors of each county served by said courts 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 be-
fore 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 pre-
scribed 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.

Those judges whose terms of office, whether elected to fill regular
or unexpired terms, began before the passage of this amendatory act
shall receive the same compensation as now provided by law; provided,
further, that those judges whose terms of office whether elected to fill
regular or unexpired terms begin after the effective date of this amend-
atory act, shall receive the sum of three thousand six hundred dollars
each.

All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this
act are hereby repealed.