CHAPTER 272

AN ACT to prescribe the compensation of clerks of courts in cities
of this Commonwealth having a population of not less than
85,000 inhabitants nor more than 40,000 inhabitants, according
to the United States census of 1940; to provide for the pay-
ment of such compensation and the erpenses of office of such
officers, and to impose certain duties on the State Compensa-
tion Board.

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Approved April 4, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

§ 1. In each city of this Commonwealth having a population
of not less than thirty-five thousand inhabitants nor more than
forty thousand inhabitants, the clerk of the courts of record
shall be paid a salary at the rate of eight thousand dollars per
annum.

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, commissions or compensation 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 installments. The expenses of
Office of each such officer, including the compensation of deputies
and employees, shall be likewise paid out of the city treasury on
duly authenticated vouchers, when and as such expenses are in-
curred, or may become due and payable, or at least twice monthly.
The maximum amount of such expenses in the case of each such of-
ficer shall be fixed by the State Compensation Board, and the State
Compensation Board shall fix the number and compensation of the
deputies and employees of each such officer.

§ 2. All fees and commissions of every kind or charatcer re-
reived or collected by each of the officers mentioned in the pre-
ceding 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 commissions of every kind and character, whether payable
oy the State, the United States, or by private persons, firms or
-orporations, now or hereafter made receivable by law or ordinance
oy 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
iforesaid shall not be required to pay any such Officer any fees or
‘ommissions for services performed for such city.
§ 3. This act shall be in force on and after the first day of
July, nineteen hundred and fifty.