Chap. 125.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section
numbered 2773, relating to salaries of clerks of boards of supervisors, and
to repeal Section 2772 of the Code, relating to the same subject. [H 171]

Approved March 5, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new
section numbered twenty-seven hundred seventy-three as follows:

Section 2773. Salary of Clerks.—Such clerk shall receive a
reasonable compensation for his services as clerk of the board not
to exceed in any one year the sum of one hundred fifty dollars, and
the clerks of the boards of the counties of Augusta and Wise may,
in the discretion of the boards, receive a salary not exceeding nine
hundred dollars a year, and the clerks of the boards of the counties
ot Amelia, Amherst, Bath, Caroline, Hanover, King William, High-
land, Dinwiddie, Lee, Gray son, Buchanan, Russell, Prince George,
Surry. Gloucester, Mathews, Middlesex, Orange, Madison, Pulaski,
Southampton, Brunswick, Greensville, Sussex, Nottoway, York,
Charles City, James City and New Kent may, in the discretion of
the boards, receive a salary not to exceed the sum of three hundred
dollars a year, and the clerks of the boards of the counties of Cul-
peper and Giles may, in the discretion of the boards, receive a salary
not to exceed six hundred dollars a year, and the clerk of the board
of supervisors of Fairfax and Rockingham counties may, in the
discretion of the board, receive a salary not in excess of twelve
hundred dollars a year, and the clerk of the board of supervisors
of Alleghany county may, in the discretion of the board, receive
a salary not in excess of seven hundred dollars a year.

2. Section twenty-seven hundred seventy-two of the Code of
‘Virginia, relating to salaries of clerks of boards of supervisors, is
repealed.