Chap. 302.—An ACT to prescribe the compensation of clerks of courts, attorneys
‘for the Commonwealth, commissioners of the revenue, city sergeants, and city
treasurers in cities of this Commonwealth having a population of over sixty-five
thousand and not exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants, according to the
United States census of 1930; to provide for the payment of such compensation
and the expenses of office of such officers; to impose certain duties on the
State fee commission; to provide for the appointment and compensation of
jailors in such cities; to prescribe the powers and duties of such jailor, and
to confer certain powers on the city manager in such cities in relation to the
jail and jailor. ) [S B 175]
Approved March 24, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in each
city of this Commonwealth having a population of over sixty-five
thousand and not exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants, accord-
ing to the United States census of nineteen hundred and thirty, the clerk
of courts, attorney for the Commonwealth, commissioner of the reve-
nue, city sergeant, and city treasurer shall each be paid a salary at the
rate of seven thousand dollars per annum, provided, however, that
should the amount of the fees and commissions received by the city
through any such officer for any year, plus the amount the city would
have paid any such officer for said year at the rate of compensation
prevailing during the calendar year preceding the passage of this act,
be less in the aggregate than the salary herein fixed for said officer, plus
the expense of operating his office for said year, then said salary for
said year shall be reduced to the extent of such difference.

In computing the net amount of compensation the city would have
paid the city sergeant under this clause for board of prisoners there
shall be deducted from the gross amount he would have received at
such rate from such city for board of such prisoners, the actual cost
of operating the jail which has heretofore been borne by the said
city sergeant.

Said salary shall be in full compensation for services and shall be
in lieu of the retention by any such officer of any and all official fees
and commissions of whatever kind or character, and from whatever
source derived; and the city council of each such city shall provide for
the payment of such salary out of the city treasury in equal monthly
instalments. The expenses of office of each such officer, including the
compensation of deputies and employees, shall be likewise paid to each
such officer out of the city treasury on duly authenticated vouchers,
when and as such expenses are incurred, or may become due and pay-
able, or at least monthly. The maximum amount of such expenses in
the case of each such officer shall be as fixed by the State fee com-
mission, and, except as in this act provided, the State fee commission
shall fix the number and compensation of the deputies and employees
of each such officer. The State fee commission, however, in fixing the
maximum allowance for expenses, including the compensation of
deputies or employees in each case for any year, shall not fix a higher
figure than the average expenditure for such purposes on account of
such office during the last three years preceding the passage of this act.

2. All fees and commissions of every kind or character received
or collected by each of the officers mentioned in the preceding section
of this act, and from whatever source derived, shall be paid into the
city treasury by each of such officers monthly. All fees and com-
missions of every kind and character, whether payable by the State,
the United States, or by private persons, firms or corporations, now
or hereafter made receivable by law or ordinance by any such officer
as is mentioned in the preceding section of this act, shall continue to
be paid to and collected by him, and shall be paid into the city treasury
monthly, except that the city aforesaid shall not be required to pay any
such officer any fees or commissions for services performed for such
city.

3. In every such city as is mentioned in this act, the sergeant of
the city shall have general supervision of the jail, and shall purchase
all food and other suppies and all equipment necessary for the jail, the
cost whereof shall be paid out of the city treasury. The said sergeant
shall be paid by the State and the United States the same fees in con-
nection with prisoners as the city sergeant would receive, had this act
not been passed, which fees shall be paid into the city treasury.

The city manager of such city shall appoint such number of jailors
(not less than three), as may be necessary for the conduct of such jail,
whose salaries shall be fixed by the council of such city, and paid out
of the city treasury. Said jailors shall be employed by, and hold their
positions at the pleasure of the city manager, and the city sergeant
shall not be liable, civilly or criminally for any act of said jailors, either
of omission or commission.

Such jailors shall have the same duties and powers concerning the
custody, care and control of prisoners as are imposed upon or possessed
by sheriffs and sergeants under general law and shall be obedient to
the order of the courts to the same extent as sheriffs and sergeants.

4. The State fee commission is hereby directed, in fixing the
maximum amount of the expenses in the case of each such officer for
the calendar year nineteen hundred and thirty-three, as provided in
section one of this act, to fix the maximum amount of the compensation
which may be paid to each and every regular employee in each and
every one of said officers at an amount not in excess of ninety per
cent of the amount which was paid to such employee, or the person
succeeded by him or her, for the calendar year nineteen hundred and
thirty-one.

5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed to the extent of such inconsistency. _

6. This act shall be in force on and after the first day of January,
nineteen hundred and thirty-three.