Chap. 211.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 of an Act entitled, “An
- Act to provide for the compensation of attorneys for the Commonwealth in
the counties and cities, county and city treasurers, and county and city
commissioners of the revenue, and officers and employees performing the
duties of such officers in counties which adopt optional forms of county organ-
ization and government; to prescribe the method of fixing and paying their
salaries and the expenses of the operation of their offices; to provide for
the payment of such salaries and expenses; to provide for the disposition
of the fees collected by such officers; to provide for a Compensation Board
to administer this act; to provide for the powers, duties and functions of
such board; to abolish the State Fee Commission; to appropriate funds
for the payment of salaries and expenses and for the administration of this
act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act’,
approved March 29, 1934, in relation to population of counties and cities.

[S B 141]
Approved March 19, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion eight of an act entitled “An act to provide for the compensation
of attorneys for the Commonwealth in the counties and cities, county
and city treasurers, and county and city commissioners of the revenue,
and officers and employees performing the duties of such officers in
counties which adopt optional forms of county organization and govern-
ment; to prescribe the method of fixing and paying their salaries and
the expenses of the operation of their offices; to provide for the pay-
ment of such salaries and expenses; to provide for the disposition of
the fees collected by such officers; to provide for a compensation board
to administer this act; to provide for the powers, duties and functions
of such board; to abolish the State fee commission; to appropriate
funds for the payment of salaries and expenses and for the adminis-
tration of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent
with this act”, approved March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and
thirty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 8. For the purpose of this act, the population of each
county and city shall be according to the last preceding United States
census; provided, however, if the area of any city has, since the
last preceding United States census, been increased by annexation, the
population of such city, for the purpose of this act, shall be the popu-
lation thereof as shown by the last preceding United States census,
plus the increase resulting from such annexation. The maximum
limits of the salaries provided by this act are hereby increased to the
extent of fifteen hundred dollars in the case of officers in counties
adjoining one or more cities of more than twenty-five thousand in-
habitants, whether such cities be within or without this State, and in
case of cities adjoining or within one mile of another city of more than
one hundred thousand inhabitants. Provided, however, that when-
ever it is made to appear to the satisfaction of the compensation board
that the population of any county has, since the last preceding United
States census, increased so as to entitle such county to be placed in a
higher brackets prescribing the minimum and maximum salaries, then
such county shall be considered as being within such higher brackets
in fixing the salaries provided by this act.