Chap. 171.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to
provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less
that 25,000 and more than twenty thousand inhabitants and in counties, to be
known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their
jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation; and to provide for the main-
tenance of juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties,
approved March 27, 1922, the said section being in relation to the compensation
of such judges. | [H B 2&4]

Approved March 22, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion three of an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment
of special justices of the peace in cities of less than twenty-five thou-
sand inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of juvenile
and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers,
duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of
juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties,
approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3. Every special justice appointed under this act shall
receive the fees prescribed by law for justices of the peace, or in
lieu thereof he shall receive out of the treasury of the city or county
for which he is appointed such salary as the council or other gov-
erning body of the city or the board of supervisors of such county
may prescribe, in which latter event all such fees, when collected,
shall be accounted for and paid by him into the treasury of said city
or county, as the case may be, on or before the tenth day of each
month; provided, however, that every such special justice for a city
having a population of less than twenty-five thousand, and more
than twenty thousand as shown by the last preceding United States
census, shall be entitled to receive the fees prescribed by law for jus-
tices of the peace, and in addition thereto, shall receive out of the
treasury of the city for which he is appointed.such salary as the
council or other governing body may prescribe.