Chap. 72.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3518 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to compensation of attorneys appointed to defend poor
persons. [H B 183]

Approved February 28, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section thirty-five hundred eighteen of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 3518. Compensation of attorneys appointed to defend poor
persons.— Where a judge of the circuit court of a county or city or a
corporation or hustings court of a city appoints an attorney to defend a
poor person charged with an offense that may be punishable by death,
or by confinement in the penitentiary for a period of more than ten years,
he may direct that a sum of money not to exceed twenty-five dollars shall
be paid out of the treasury of such county or city to the attorney so ap-
pointed to defend such person as compensation for such defense and
where such person is charged with the commission of a felony other than
those mentioned the court may in its discretion direct the payment of a
sum not to exceed fifteen dollars payable as aforesaid. When such di-
rection is entered upon the order book of the court, the board of super-
visors of the county or council of the city shall provide for the payment
out of its treasury of the sum of money so specified.